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Category Archives: bavacade
RGB: a bava.studio production
This post is long and full of images and text narrating the development of bava.studio over the last six months or so. It’s A LOT, so a quick tour in the video below might work for all you TV babies … Continue reading
Scramble Re-assembled for a Second Time
The game that started the arcade project craze in Italy for me was Scramble. And I took it apart and put it back together for a second time this past weekend after getting it on wheels. Love this cabinet, and … Continue reading
bavacade Repair Log 9-24-2024
It has been a while since a full blown repair log, but that is the upside of having an all but perfect arcade 🙂 But as Chinua Achebe notes, “things fall apart.” So on with the show… When I was … Continue reading
Swapping Matsushita Chassis on Millipede (and a few more bavacade updates)
The big win for the bavacade this week was swapping out the existing Matsushita 19″ chassis in Millipede with a like-new replacement I got from Mike of East Coast Arcade Repair while in Virginia recently. It was kind of a … Continue reading
bavacade Updates: Moving the fleet to bavastudio, Millipede Monitor Woes, a Rogue K4600, and Phoenix Board Weirdness
Nothing gold can stay. Those good old days of arcade perfection are long behind me now, and that became readily apparent as I prepared another 11 games for the move over to bavastudio. The most concerning issue is what seems … Continue reading
bava.studio: Space is the Place
Yesterday was a big moment for this blog: the bava.blog finally moved into a physical storefront of its own: bava.studio (click that link and subscribe now!) 🙂 I’m not sure what exactly bava.studio is, or will be, but I do … Continue reading
The Perfect Gameroom
If you were a New York Yankees baseball fan in 1998, one of the highlights of an all-around amazing year is the unlikely feat of everyman David Wells pitching a perfect game one sunny May afternoon. The excitement was electric, … Continue reading
bavacade repair log 11-12-2023
Well, I think the time has come where all 28 games here in the bavacade are working 100%. There are still some small things to do, but if everything goes as planned in the walk-through today I’ll have 28 games … Continue reading
bavacade repair log 10-25-2023
Things are definitely coming along, this weekend I got the K4600 chassis for Challenger working, which is ostensibly my last big hurdle to perfection…but things might change before I rebuild Elevator Action. For example, the Stargate game started resetting again, … Continue reading
Elevator Action Project Update
I’m pretty excited about how the Elevator Action project is coming along (a harbor during the storm). I’ve only done one other stencil before this, my first real project Scramble, and I must say working with stencils on these machines … Continue reading