Category Archives: video games

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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Joining the 600K Club on Gyruss

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Reverend

After Pac-man, Gyruss might be my favorite golden age arcade game. I picked one up last Summer for the bavacade, and I have not looked back. I recorded a couple of high scores wherein I finally broke 400K last August, … Continue reading →

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Helping to Save a Donkey Kong Junior

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Reverend

I’m on a bit of a bavacade blog roll to document some of the work done on a few cabinets, namely Condor, Bagman, and finally—for now—Donkey Kong Junior. Funny enough I thought Donkey Kong Junior was the least beat up … Continue reading →

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Bagging the Bagman

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Reverend

Moving on from “Saving the Condor,” the next restoration project was for the 1982 arcade cabinet Bagman. This golden-age game was created by the French arcade company Valadon Automation, and licensed to Stern in the US and Taito in Japan. … Continue reading →

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Save the Condor

Posted on May 14, 2022 by Reverend

Sometimes the blog post titles just write themselves…but on with the show. Over the past month or so I’ve been fixing up several cabinets in the bavacade that have cosmetic issues. I’ve been pushing hard on this because I want … Continue reading →

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An Explorer in “The Bishop of Battle”

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Reverend

I recently welcomed a new game into bavacade, namely Pleiades. The acquisition of which reminded me of a scene from a childhood favorite b-movie horror omnibus called Nightmares (1983). I just posted about this film and its relationship—at least in my … Continue reading →

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From “The Bishop of Battle” to Repo Man: the Bus Journey of an 1980s Film Punk

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Reverend

I recently picked up Scream Factory’s 2015 blu-ray release of Nightmares (1983), a low-budget urban legends/horror omnibus in the vein of Creepshow (1982) and Cat’s Eye (1985)—the latter of which my brother loved. I’ve been watching and re-watching “The Bishop … Continue reading →

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Asterock and Explorer Back in bavacade Action

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Reverend

I’ve been struggling a bit on the arcade repair front for a while now. The Sidam Explorer  (Italian Scramble bootleg) pictured above has not worked right since I got it over the Summer, and the Asterock (Italian Asteroids bootleg) went … 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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