Black Widow (video game)

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Black Widow
Manual cover
Developer(s)	Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)	Atari, Inc.
Designer(s)	Bruce Merritt[1]
Programmer(s)	Bruce Merritt
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release	1982
Genre(s)	Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Black Widow is a multidirectional shooter developed by Atari, Inc. and released in arcades in 1982. The game uses color vector graphics. The player controls a black widow spider via two joysticks, one to move and one to fire, defending the web from insects.

Black Widow was offered as a conversion kit for Gravitar (1982), a game which was not commercially successful.^{[citation needed]} The kit uses the original Gravitar PCB with a few modifications and a new set of ROM chips. Many factory-built Black Widow machines were produced using unsold Gravitar cabinets with Black Widow side-art applied over the Gravitar sideart.^{[citation needed]}