Black Widow - Videogame by Atari

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Black Widow

Name: Black Widow
Manufacturer: Atari
Year: 1982
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Vector
CRT: Color
19-inch Wells-Gardner 6100

Conversion Class: Atari Color Vector
Game Specific: Black Widow Pinout
Settings: Black Widow Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way [Move]
Joystick: 8-way [Fire]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Black Widow Description

Black Widow was produced by Atari in 1982.

Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Black Widow was produced include Akka Arrh, Atari Force Liberator, Gravitar, Dig Dug, Fast Freddie, Neutron Star, Tempest Tubes, Tempest, Triangle, and Pipeline.

As a spider in the center of the web, you must defend it and yourself from invading bugs. These foes will try to run into you, blow you up if shoot them, or fire rockets at you if you do not kill the other enemies!

Black Widow - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.49 (11 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.76

     Overall 'Like': 3.80
     Fun (Social): 3.20
     Fun (Solo): 3.90
     Collector Desire: 4.10

Technical Impressions Score: 3.47

     Gameplay: 3.45
     Graphics: 3.40
     Originality: 3.90
     Sound/Music: 3.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

Has been accurately described as a cross between Robotron: 2084 due to the left joystick being used for movement and the right joystick for firing and any color vector game. Does not have as many objects on the screen but gets VERY INTENSE!

Game Play

The game involves a dual joystick control effort. The left joystick moves the black widow around its web while the right joystick is used for directional firing. The premise is that the player must move the spider around the web while shooting and/or avoiding various deadly bugs and collecting bonuses after they are shot.

The key to playing this game is based upon the various enemy bugs' powers and characteristics plus the value of the bonuses that are collected:

Mosquito - If shot, becomes ''.
Beetle - Eats '', but if shot, becomes ''.
Hornet - Lays an egg on '', but if shot, becomes ''.
Egg - Grows to become hornet or spoiler. Must be pushed off the web to score 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, or even 2500 points.
'' Grub Steak - Tag for 500, 250, 100, or 50 points -- the sooner the better.
Spoiler - Invulnerable. Can only be destroyed by a grenade, bug slayer or rocket bug.
Grenade - Explodes if shot. Bugs and eggs within the kill zone score 500 points each.
Rocket Bug - Invulnerable. Launches "rockettes" at black widow from the other bugs it tags. Shoot rockettes to score 100 points each.
Thunderbug - If shot, it breaks formation and attacks. Shoot again to explode all T-bugs for 5000 points. Keep away from all T-bugs to earn 10000 points
Bug Slayer-harmless to you, invulnerable, competes with you for food. Beat it to it's flashing prey for points.

Miscellaneous

Black Widow is available on the iPad and iPhone via Atari's Greatest Hits application.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Black Widow Census

There are 12,082 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,497 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 158,928 machines (6,671 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 208 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 91 of these machines are owned by our active Black Widow collectors. And of these, 72 are original dedicated machines, 9 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 10 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Black Widow machine for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 23 active VAPS members currently looking for Black Widow.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 54 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 55 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Trivia

The dedicated models were actually Gravitar cabs with a factory conversion kit installed.

Manuals

Operator''s Manual with illustrated parts lists 74 Pages, 7.5 MB File.

Video Clips

Atari Black Widow Arcade Game Review - Gravitar Conversion

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eBay Listings

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