PURPOSE: To eliminate interruption of a game caused when a lower receiving pan is filled with winning balls, and slowly perform work to carry a ball box to a game player by an employee or work to pull out the winning balls in the lower receiving pan by the game player.

CONSTITUTION: A pachinko machine has a first microswitch to detect that winning balls are fully stored in an upper receiving pan 9, and has a second microswitch to detect that winning balls are fully stored in a lower receiving pan 14, and is controlled so as to stop discharge of winning balls only when the fact that the winning balls are fully stored in both the upper receiving pan 9 and the lower receiving pan 14 is detected. The balls are controlled so as to be shootable even when the fact that the winning balls are fully stored in the upper receiving pan 9 and the lower receiving pan 14 is detected.