Idaho Garagecade

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Here be the ramblings of an arcade game addict.

OCTOBER 28, 2021: It has been a long time since I’ve updated this blog. A very long time indeed. The last “official” update I made was way back on July 6th… of 2019. That is 2 year, 3 months and just over 3 weeks ago. Holy cow does the time fly. I’d like to point to our recent world-wide health crisis as to the reason WHY it’s been so long since the last update, but that would be pretty much a load of crap. Sure… it may have prolonged things a bit, but it’s just as possible it didn’t or wouldn’t have. The reality is that I just got A LITTLE (note… I said a little) burnt out. For a long time there… including a good long time when you’d think I would be in the garagecade playing games, etc… the games out in the garagecade sat pretty much idle aside from the games of Golden Tee or Silver Strike that I played with my son. Heck, for a good few months there you couldn’t GET to many of the games due to the clutter that had built up. As to why I felt the way I felt… well… there were a number of reasons … cost of “projects” … lack of anything promising popping up in a long time … etc… but I think the biggest part was the desire to try new things… leaving little time for the old. For example, while I wasn’t workign on projects or really using the garagecade… I discovered that I enjoy playing the drums (had never played before January of this year). I think my interest sort of has an ebb and flow. Just because I am not working on a project “right now”… or haven’t played a game in while… doesn’t mean I love the hobby any less than I did before. I just seems to mean I have other things going on … and I’ll be back.

During this down time I wasn’t 100% out of commission, however. There were a few things I did manage to get accomplished over the time. For one, I did pick up a Cinevectron and installed it in my Asteroids Deluxe cabinet. I plan on a write-up (I know… I know… a little late, eh?) sometime soon. There is a lot to like… I also picked up a Bitkit and have been playing around with it. Also a nice little multigame board that deserves some individual attention as well… as does the FPGA Exidy 440 multigame project that I picked up! I also sold a few games during the last 2.25 years. The Gyruss was the first to go a while back… probably toward the end of 2019 from my recollection. After that I need to make some room to fit a e-drum kit… which meant some games had to go. Arctic Thunder and Rush:2049 now call the Dutch Bros. Coffee headquarters break-room their home… the next game to go was Point Blank 2. Since that “low” I did add one more (Konami) cabinet and swapped one other. It’s been pretty slow overall though… certainly not like the days of yesteryear. Anyway, am I back? Perhaps…. 🙂

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