Category Archives: bavarcade

bavacade repair log 10-3-2022

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Reverend

I have been hard at work on the bavacade this weekend going through part 1 of the to-do list. I would like to make each game’s repairs a post of its own, but if I don’t capture this stuff in … Continue reading →

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bavacade To-Do List, Part 1

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Reverend

It’s been about 3 weeks since the container arrived and my basement is starting to get back into livable shape. I’m gonna need to get some perimeter shelving for the walls to manage all the VHS tapes, laserdiscs, excess vinyl … Continue reading →

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And then there were 29…

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Reverend

The container came in…. Everything arrived safe and sound, but I have spent much of the last week unpacking, playing with retro game consoles, and doing repairs like I still run an arcade 🙂 Elevator Action‘s working fine but the … Continue reading →

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Bavacade Update: G07 Capkit, Condor PCB, and Cheyenne Audio

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Reverend

I have been working on and off on the bavacade, and I am pretty close to having every game working perfectly, that said actual perfection continues to allude me. But we need lofty goals and standards, right? -so the hunt … Continue reading →

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bavaweekly 4-3-2022

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Reverend

I think it is fair to call this episode the bava-bi-weekly, but I knew that would be the case given I was back in the US to close up the Reclaim Hosting offices and sort through the remnants of our … Continue reading →

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Robotron, Bagman, and Condor Join the bavacade

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Reverend

The bavaweekly was delayed a bit last week because I was busy adding a few more games to the home arcade, the post title says it all! I’ve been pretty restrained the last few months, but that couldn’t last. I’ve … Continue reading →

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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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