Category Archives: video games

bavacade Repair Log 9-24-2024

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Reverend

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 →

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RetroPie Fun on Reclaim TV

Posted on August 23, 2024 by Reverend

After a month of on-again, off-again attempts to get my RetroPie upgraded to the latest version—which included not only changing the Raspbian OS from Raspbian Stretch to Buster, but also migrating hardware from Raspberry Pi 3B to 4B—I’m now running … Continue reading →

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Swapping Matsushita Chassis on Millipede (and a few more bavacade updates)

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Reverend

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 →

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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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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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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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bavacade Repair Log 6-29-2023

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Reverend

This is just a quick update to document some of the work happening recently in the bavacade. It has a been a bit of catch as catch can given how busy the last month has been with the Reclaim open … Continue reading →

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Dig Dug on Wheels!

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Reverend

Like the Venture post before it, most of this was originally published as part of the bavacade repair log from February 9, 2023.  But in service of searchability and documenting these cabinet overhauls more individually, I’m breaking this out into … Continue reading →

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