Tag Archives: bavarcade

bavacade Update: 1-5-2025

Posted on January 5, 2025 by Reverend

December was a slow month for arcade repairs given everything else going on, but I did make some progress. In particular, I was able to finally install the Scramble multi-game chip on my spare Scramble board and install it in … 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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Bello Yellow Pac-man

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Reverend

As with the Dig Dug and  Venture post, most of this was originally published as part of the bavacade repair log from February 9, 2023.  But in service of celebrating the greatest video game of all time, a dedicated permalink … 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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