Flash Back, Melbourne

[PinPal]

Here is a couple of picks taken from a magazine I have on how to beat Space Invaders, it has a couple of picks of Flash Back that was on Bourke st Melbourne around late 70s to the early 80s. I went to this place in my younger days and still have a token from there when I playd the machines.

[pinballheaven]

I used to go there as well great place and so many memories, late 70s early 80s in those days there were quite a few pinny places around in the city!

Boy I miss those great simple days....where did they go???

[ddstoys]

Looks cool but I don't miss them days at all....  Early 80s all I wanted was out of dads ball bag lol.

[pinballheaven]

What Daniel you were still jumping from ball to ball in the 70s/80s.......mmmmm now we know how you got so interested in toys with balls eh!!??

[GORGAR 1]

Great pictures thanks I spent many a days playing there and all the other city hang outs 

Peter

[zl296]

how remembers
leisure centre...
southern cross bowl...
chaddie bowl...
oakleigh wog shops...
great times in the 70,s

[The pinballist formally known as Dean Morgan]

I to used to hang around here a lot, I remember they had an Atari Hurcules

[Olivia_jason]

Looks cool but I don't miss them days at all....  Early 80s all I wanted was out of dads ball bag lol.

when were you born?? i didnt get out of the ball bag till 81 i guess as i came along in 82 lol ahaha

[Pinballesquire]

I went into a TimeZone or maybe was an intensity the other day and there was no pinnies to be seen. A sad sight indeed. Guess I missed the golden age of pinball halls.

[studley67]

I went into a TimeZone or maybe was an intensity the other day and there was no pinnies to be seen. A sad sight indeed. Guess I missed the golden age of pinball halls.

i was there i think .i now have my own "pinball hall" /parlour,like many others here.
you could have one,one day,josh.and welcome

[rustalan]

Oh the joy.... used to go their  and play on a Friday night. 2 floors of nothing but pinball's.

[mildflame]

Oh the joy.... used to go their  and play on a Friday night. 2 floors of nothing but pinball's.

that'd be nice to one day be able to do that again.

[outbreak]

Wish I grew up back then. I had playtimes and timezones when I was younger that had a few pins, some good shooting games but mainly redemption crap. The timezone near me currently has a lotr limited edition and a deceptions transformers limited. The transformers is out of order and the lotr has a dodgy plunger but is playable. Sad they don't get more seeing as they get played a fair bit compared to most of the crap in that place.

[wonder]

Love looking at the old photos of the arcade places. ^^^I still have the same first four arcade machines in the second photo in the shed.

[Strangeways]

I remember them like yesterday. Wall to wall pinballs and no video crap. Those were the days.

Flashback in Elizabeth St had the infamous "out of order" on the SYSY80 machines - Black Hole, Spirit and Haunted House. I used to catch a train into the city in the early 80's to play these games, as Dad's Business NEVER sited any Gottliebs after the issues with SYS1 machines. Just Ballys and Sterns. So I used to travel into the city to play the "other" games.

I went to the movies over the school holidays. The arcade at Epping Plaza was a ghost town. Full of redeption rubbish and dedicated video machines. The cinema is full of kids, and the arcade was a ghost town. One pinball - big Buck Hunter. How bloody stupid to site a game like that in an arcade ?

The "good old days", you had to line up your 20 cent piece and wait your turn. Videos killed arcades. Now we have a generation of kids stuck to computer screens !