Re: Black Widow / Gravitar more confusion

From: Jess Askey (At Work ;-) <jess_at_magenta.com>
Date: Thu Feb 18 1999 - 13:17:52 EST

Don't mean to be nitpicky... but..

>jason Milsom wrote:
>All of them have Dedicated Black widow side art.

There were no dedicated Black Widows. Only Gravitar conversions as you
mention below. This was probably just a typo but I just wanted to point
it out so no one was mislead.

You are correct, Gravitar sold *so* poorly that when other games
completely bombed out on Replay(maybe playmeter) Magazines new games
rating chart, they were given a rating of 'move over gravitar!'.

They all also have Gravitar side art
> underneath. The story I heard was this: Gravitar was somewhat of a flop
> for Atari, sales of the game were very poor. Atari rapidly came up with
> a different vector game Black Widow, but they had already made the
> Gravitar cabinets. So they just stuck stickers on the side over the
> Gravitar artwork and shiped them out that way. I have never seen a BW
> that didn't have Gravitar stickers underneath. Has anyone?
>
> By the way if anyone wants an empty BW cabinet let me know. I live in
> WA near Seattle
>
> Jason Milsom
Received on Thu Feb 18 12:18:38 1999

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