Williams Inferno Duramold - The Story

Well, there is a long story to me acquiring this game, but I will keep it brief. I had a friend working over at Williams in the pinball division (locally here) in 1988. He was always talking about the Swords of Fury machine that was about to be released. I told him pins were okay, but I always had a love for some video games that could never be replaced. He asked what I thought about Inferno, I told him I had only seen the game a handful of times and played it less than 20 times when I had seen it.

He told me he had an original "Duramold" one that had never been released stored over at his parent's house. At the time, I asked what a "Duramold" one was, as I had never seen one or even heard of one. He told me it was a molded plastic cabinet that Williams saw as a great means for delivering games and having them last for years. He took me over the next week to see the game, I immediately fell in love with the game, I couldn't believe it. I did not know about the rarity or such, but I knew the game had to be mine. Years went by, I kept in touch with him, always asking about that Inferno, but he mentioned that he wasn't ready to part with it. He also told me at the same time, if he ever did sell it, he would ask me first.

Fast-forward to 1995, after seeing him again at my wedding, I asked again about the Inferno, he mentioned it stopped working and if I wanted it, to just pick it up from his parent's house before they moved to Arizona. The first day of my honeymoon was spent bringing the Duramold into our new apartment. I replaced the original power supply and presto, it was going again. Since that point in time, it has always been with us, it moved into our house with us in 1996. It is a permanent part of our collection and most (but not all) that have been over have seen and/or played it (usually non-stop for hours). Thanks for reading, there has just been so much recent interest, I felt compelled to let the truth be known...

Sincerely,
Brad Czernik

And finally, here it is...