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what's your story?
I chased the machine I now own for almost 8 months before I finally got it. In the past, I had let a few Black
Widows go to other bidders at auctions for, at the time, there were other wants more important on my list. Then
came the day, at a smaller local auction, that I saw her. See stood off to the side, with very nice side art and
a crisp monitor. The control panel would need some work, as someone thought that putting gobs of clear coat spray
on it, would make it look better. But in the end, it only ran all over the place making it look worse.
Well long story short, the seller bought back the machine that day, because he wanted more then the 550 bid offered
for it, and no one wanted to pay more for it.
A month or so later it was back and another auction, but again, same story, the seller bough it back when the selling
tiered off. This went on 2 more times, but by now it was sort of a joke… Just how many times it this thing going
to be bought back? Well I don't know why It happened, but the day came where the sell must have grown tired of
moving it form show to show, and I was high bidder when the dust cleared at this machines final auction appearance.
I don't really remember what I paid for it, I think about 400 bucks
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The
Restoration
Well this is going to be a short lesson. Restoration was minimal at best. I knew that a fellow collector
was working on some reproduction Black Widow overlays, so I put the machine in storage awaiting the release of
the replacement art. A few months later, the overlays were ready. I pulled the machine out and installed my new
overlay, added some new trim, vacuumed out the inside and recapped the monitor for a preventive maintenance measure.
(Don't you love the easy projects)? Time to go blast some bugs!
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Do you have a Black Widow arcade game and need
some of it's technical information? Visit the library for the full manual. Click Here for the Pin-out wiring page.
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Looking for Black Widow sounds? Click below
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My interest is strictly on full size arcade machines.
But if you would like to take a shot at Emulating Black Widow, or any other vector arcade game on your computer,
I do offer a link page on emulation.
Visit http://www.basementarcade.com/arcade/mame/mame.html
Visit the pages there, download the software for your machine and the ROM's for the games you want to play from
the linked provided. Please redirect any further questions to the owners of these emulation pages as they are the
experts!.
-=Mark=-
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