Retro Blasters! (Black Widow, Atari Arcade, 1983)

Welcome to another episode of Retro Blasters! This time, we are back at the local pizza joint fighting for high-score on the 1983 arcade game, Black Widow, from Atari. After dusting the scores of the other pretenders, we take a quick look at the Atari 50 software package.
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[@sdamon]

Fun watch again! Black Widow was criminally overlooked in the arcades, but there was tough competition in 1983 for your quarter! Enjoyed your musings on arcade economics. Neat how games like this one would offer points for time … start at a harder level, earn bonus points. Win-win for the arcade owner and the player!

[@kingcraun]

Thanks SD. I did some looking around and can't find anything about game length vs expected return. I am damn sure I heard that one time though. Surely expected return is something the sellers of arcade games would tout in marketing. I am old, so maybe my brain just made it up. I know when I was young, I always liked to play the games that I could play for a longer time on my quarters.