THE ORIGINS
This website's visitor statistics and our System 80 serial number databases clearly show which System 80 game is the top dog (forgive the pun): Black Hole. But would you believe that this revolutionary game was not Gottlieb's own creation, but that of a few friends having a go at making their own game?  On the following pages you will read the claims of Joe Cicak in correspondence with Stork's Nest Pins in January 2001. Joe stated that the original idea for what became Black Hole was in fact his.
That was just Joe's side of the story though and when we posted it, Jerry Yingst was driven to write and tell his version of the story. It's fascinating stuff, so read on to find out where the thing pictured right came from and how it became Gottlieb's Black Hole!
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