There's a Black Widow in the Garage!

fatherpain

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Just got one of my last remaining "Grail" games, from my friend Francis aka nash. I'd been pestering him (ok begging) off and on for the last few years to sell it to me and he finally did. It was a beautiful condition Black Widow when I first began to inquire about it, but Francis went all out and had the sides redone and NOS sideart applied before it was delivered. There is now no Gravitar sideart underneath.

He did such a fantastic job restoring this Black Widow, I thought I'd better post some pix, before the game gets packed in tight, with the rest of my games. The condition of this game is typical of all games in his collection and was certainly worth the wait.

Poor BW. Leaving the Ataricade for my garage is definitely a downgrade in terms of accomodations and space ;)

Please enjoy the pix and hope some of you SoCal Klovers will get to play it first hand, next time I host a game night.

Thanks again, Francis!


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Amazing shape! I just picked up one locally as well but not nearly as nice as yours. This motivate me to start restoring mine. :)
 
Looks amazing. I recently fell in love with this game at the NW show.
 
BORING?!! He's grounded!

damn right. but who cares, as long as you like it, father pain. i'm jealous. this is one of my big wants right now. i am satisfying the need by playing the shit out of it on my iphone in the meantime, but an upright will be had one of these days.
 
Thanks osver. You have very good tast in games my friend. I think BW is really underrated and gets overshadowed by Robotron, though I've noticed the interest in this game seems to be increasing. It's a little slower paced but gets super, super intense on the higher levels...My high score is in the 450k range. I love the exploding proximity bugs or whatever they are called as well as the rocket bugs. That's cool there was one at the the NW show, was that the first time you had a chance to play it?

Tom

Looks amazing. I recently fell in love with this game at the NW show.
 
very nice pickup.. Black widow is one of my favorites. I finally snagged one 6 months ago in similiar condition to yours.. my side art is over gravitar art and it has a couple creaes:( Oh well.. Its a really great game.

I'll have to checkout that Iphone app.
 
Hey Tom thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it. Logan will dig it soon enough, give him time. ;) He just needs to figure out the dynamics of it. Yes the Grenade bugs (exploding proximity ones) are cool and there are actually Grenade bug-only waves as well.

I was really happy with how it turned out. That NOS side art held up so nicely over the years (all 29 of them!). It was awesome to see how pristine it still was after pulling off the premask.

Oh, and good luck trying to break that high score! :)
 
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