Un Expected Pick Up Today!!

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Got me a nice Black Widow today with the Amplifone Monitor in it!!!!Was just missing the deflection board,no big deal cause i have a spare.All other parts were in there.My cousin managed to find this guy through another arcade deal that he had got a number from.He called him the other day and found out this guy acquired alot of stuff from a vendor that went out of business a while ago and he is looking to just get rid of a bunch of this stuff.We went and visited this guy today and he showed us around at all of his stuff he has.And he has a lot of arcade stuff!!!He had a semi trailer in his yard he took us to_Opened it up and he had quite a few games in there.I went in first,started looking around,and low and behold,there it was!!!!Black Widow!!!!I instantly asked him how much for it because i want it.He said that it was empty and all i have to do is take it out and haul it away and i could have it free!!!I siad ill take it!!!We got it out of the trailer and opened it up to find that it was complete except for the deflection board,the guy said you scored.I asked him out of beeing courtious if he still wanted some cash for it.He said no but i proceeded to give him $50.00 anyway.He accepted and was happy for it.He has many other things there,in time we will be making deals with this guy for other stuff.He also has a Zookeeper that i will be getting from him!!!My cousin scored on some williams boards and gravitar board and a tempest board,The guy just gave them to him because we are going to do some board work for trade deals.This guy is awsome!!!I will test this black widow later and post results.Here are some pics of the Black Widow,It is in real nice shape!!
 

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Here are some pics of inside the trailer,in one pic you can see the black widow in the back.
 

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Very nice score - the side art and the game look fairly pristine. A little clean up, put in the deflection board, and you'll be working on getting the bugs out in no time.

Well done!
 
Damn!!!!

You took the BW and left the Zookeeper!! Heh.. Get your ass back there and scoop that mother up.. Took me 15 years to piece one together.. Now its my all time favorite game.. My 3 year old and I just played our ZK for the last 45mins.. He's really starting to figure out how to play :)

Shoot me a pm once you grab it, as I'd love to see pics and I'll help ya get it up and running.
 
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I read your post just the other day and thought to myself that it could never hapen to me....I guess that sometimes it does. :)

You gotta way better deal than me and you still have more stuff to go back for. I hope you are able to get everything out for a good price. Finds like that are getting harder and less common unless your name is jon exidy.. =)
 
We had a good day and good start for the new year for finding games that would have otherwise been destroyed, either by water damage or would have throw into the landfill.

And if you look close, you might see the highly collectable game 1942 in a Tron cab!!!!!!!!
 

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Missed the best pic of all the games inside the storage.
 

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Damn!!!!

You took the BW and left the Zookeeper!! Heh.. Get your ass back there and scoop that mother up.. Took me 15 years to piece one together.. Now its my all time favorite game.. My 3 year old and I just played our ZK for the last 45mins.. He's really starting to figure out how to play :)

Shoot me a pm once you grab it, as I'd love to see pics and I'll help ya get it up and running.

He is going to hold the zoo keeper for me,it isnt going anywhere,he knows i want it!!

When i do get it,it will definitely need some TLC and i will most likely be PM'ing for tech questions,Thanks for the offer.
 
One more pic.The retrofit sticker on the back of the Black widow.the only serial numbers that are different in this game was the HV board and the deflection board was missing.
 

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