Category Archives: bavarcade

bavacade: New Chassis for Stargate and Phoenix

Posted on December 20, 2021 by Reverend

I seem to be procrastinating the Gyruss multi-game high score save kit project given all the soldering required, but that is proving productive in other ways. For example, yesterday I decided to swap out monitor chassis* for both Stargate and … Continue reading →

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Phoenix High Score Save Kit and then some…Redemption!

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Reverend

A replacement CPU for the one I cracked on the Phoenix game board arrived on Monday. I was thrilled to take another “crack” at getting the high score save kit  working on Phoenix so I could have both free play … Continue reading →

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Exidy 440 Dev Kit on Cheyenne

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Reverend

On Saturday I spent much of the afternoon installing the Exidy 440 Dev Kit that adds another 9 games to an existing game board, so basically all the Exidy shooting gallery games can be played on my Cheyenne cabinet, such … Continue reading →

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Multipede: 4-in-1 Cabinet fun!

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Reverend

A “cosa speciale” arrived today for the bavacade pic.twitter.com/zbGCdG0BPG — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) October 15, 2021 I’m not sure I wrote about it here yet, but back in October I picked up another arcade cabinet here in Italy, namely Millipede … Continue reading →

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Phoenix Bug or Easter Egg?

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Reverend

Last night I had a moment, and it was awesome! 227,455 – turns out the Phoenix Easter egg wherein you shoot four or five ascending birds to get 200k points + a free guy is true! #yeah! pic.twitter.com/IKwOSrqcTH — Jim … Continue reading →

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Phoenix Freeplay and Scramble High Score Save Kit

Posted on September 19, 2021 by Reverend

This week I mustered up the courage to try replacing chips on game boards and soldering sockets. This was fairly new territory for me, but I’ve been watching Tim work (as well as many Youtube videos) and taking notes, so … Continue reading →

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A Couple of High Scores for Gyruss and Phoenix

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Reverend

I’ve been trying to deal with ongoing separation anxiety from the magic that is Reclaim Arcade by building a mini-replica here in my basement in Trento. I currently have 10 machines, and hopefully by late Fall it will be twice … Continue reading →

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Building bavacade: Double Digits!

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Reverend

I ‘m going to have to do a series of posts to try and wrap-up July because somehow the entire month got away from me in terms of blogging. I had the best intentions early on, but between a steady … Continue reading →

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Scramble Project Update: Reassembly

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Reverend

After getting the water damage from the cabinet cleaned up, the entire cabinet stripped (which was inspired by the K4600 chassis needing a cap kit), an extra board fixed with the added bonus of a high score save kit,  the … Continue reading →

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Scramble Project Update: Stenciling the Side Art

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Reverend

I finally have a bit of time to provide an update on the Scramble project, which was officially finished this past weekend! In order to compartmentalize, I’ll just cover the stenciling of the side art in this post, which was … Continue reading →

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