Flash Gordon (pinball)
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Flash Gordon is a pinball
machine produced by Bally. It was the first split-level pinball machine from Bally, as well as the first game to use the "Squawk and Talk" sound board. It was also the second production Bally game with speech. (Bally's 1980 "Xenon" was the first, utilizing a crude 'vocalizer' board set.) The game is based on the perennially popular "Flash Gordon
" character and stories of comics, film and television.
Pinball
Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible...
machine produced by Bally. It was the first split-level pinball machine from Bally, as well as the first game to use the "Squawk and Talk" sound board. It was also the second production Bally game with speech. (Bally's 1980 "Xenon" was the first, utilizing a crude 'vocalizer' board set.) The game is based on the perennially popular "Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. Also inspired by these series were comics such as Dash...
" character and stories of comics, film and television.