Category Archives: bavarcade

bava.studio: Space is the Place

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Reverend

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 →

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The Perfect Gameroom

Posted on November 12, 2023 by Reverend

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 →

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bavacade repair log 11-12-2023

Posted on November 12, 2023 by Reverend

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 →

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bavacade repair log 10-25-2023

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Reverend

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 →

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Elevator Action Project Update

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Reverend

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 →

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Cheyenne Rides Again!

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Reverend

In my last bavacade repair log I was all but certain Cheyenne was going to be on the bench indefinitely given power issues. But as it happens, Cheyenne rides again in the bavacade thanks to a fairly simple fix of … Continue reading →

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bavacade Repair Log 10-04-2023

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Reverend

Last month was almost as busy on the bavacade front as it was on the hosting front. I’ve been using the arcade projects to balance my inclination to become totally consumed by the day-to-day at Reclaim, but then I become … Continue reading →

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Yie-Ar Kung-Fu Art!

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Reverend

One of the things I love about the bava blog is that it contains multitudes, I’m realizing I’ve posted well over 40 times about the bavacade in the last two years, and that’s a beautiful thing! So, let’s put another … Continue reading →

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Making Trax in the bavacade

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Reverend

I’ve been traveling in both Rome, Italy and New Orleans, Louisianna over the last week—I like my summer destinations hot!—so I’ve been a bit remiss on the dear old bava blog. But today is a travel day back to Italy, … Continue reading →

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The G07 Kid

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Reverend

I spent much of this weekend digging in on  some Electrohome G07 monitor chassis repair. I have a bunch of games in the bavacade that use this monitor chassis to power the glorious CRT tubes for these 1980s miracles. All … Continue reading →

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