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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everyone has a plan until Big Box Game Boy Tetris shows up.

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The Bard's Tale II cover looks like EA invented QR codes decades ago and only Nicolas Cage will notice it at exactly the right time to solve the case

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First person in 15 years to carry a CRT on a bike (it was curbside free day in my town). Last person to do it was probably stealing it.

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

modern political compass

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Latest arcade PCB repair - full video! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989), the four player masterpiece. My wife made me a turtle glove for the thumbnail (love you) youtu.be/4n8wIbG2jqA

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This G.O.A.T. arcade game literally burned me. Let's fix Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's a dang ol Mushroom Kingdom in my backyard today

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ok MAYBE I'll buy animatronic Halloween decorations this year.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What sums up 2005 more than a Yahoo! branded DivX and Kodak PictureCD compatible DVD player with an analog VU meter for (digital) bitrate?

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 31/08/2026

Back in May, I helped dump seven prototype game cartridges that represent some of the earliest steps toward home video games as we know them today. I've published my findings on a new Archive Annex video: meet the FRED III. youtu.be/180erQryZFw

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FRED III: RCA's Original Prototype Game Console - Archive Annex 6

YouTube video by Atari Archive

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This shirt at Canada's Wonderland looks like the menu for a PC Gamer demo disk in the 90s

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today's repair.. My own dang Centipede! The monitor chassis died they other day. One minute it was fine, the next minute, no high voltage. It was one of those cheapy AliExpress specials, so I just replaced it.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Recently got an old Pachinko machine and decided to try out GB Pachiokun which features a medieval court, spaceships, and normal-ass Pachinko parlors. Great tunes though.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The feeling of relief when you're outbid on a CRT from Japan you really, really didn't need

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Speaking of FDS, my copy of Legend of Zelda is quite odd. It's a blue disk, with a generic label. But the case has a possibly-legit spine with "ファミコン通信" at the bottom, a legit sticker on the back, and a US style hand drawn cover on the front, which is glued on. Can't tell what's under it.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Listening to @jparish.bsky.social on Retronauts talking about the Famicom Disk System. Reminded me that I have a Roland MT-32 compatible synth (the MT-100) that has a QuickDisk drive. Very cool to see how Nintendo adapted them.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The menacing aura of a New Astro City that went to sleep in Tokyo and woke up near Toronto (as we all do from time to time).

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The answer to the mystery marquee is... Flower! A vertical shooter (but on a horizontal monitor) by Komax, 1986.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Realized I had maybe one of the rarest arcade marquees around, and it's unused. The layer on the front was cemented on and I'm getting it off now with some water and heat. Can anyone guess what it is?

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For some reason I was looking up the Beavis and Butthead point-and-click games and was surprised to find they weren't all made by the same dev. The Illusions Gaming Company might have had the most esoteric cross section of games I can think of:

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today's repair Super Sprint is a massive two board set and requires a second power supply for the video board. It's also a 24kHz game so I use the capture card to work on it.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One more repair to round out the evening. Konami's blades of steel. Bet you didn't know it was an arcade game? Well I'm counting on that for my next big video. This one had no sound due to a good ol' fashion bad Fujitsu logic chip. When we see the 'F' we say "Ffff..."

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today's repair - Rally X. This one had only basic blocky shapes and messed up color. The graphics ROM on the CPU board (go figure) was dead, no output. One PROM had one dead output giving weird colors. A good chance to use one of my FLAP adapters, which lets you use a cheap flash chip in its place.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This back to the 90s candy features a bootleg 7-in-1 Famicom cartridge?? Zoom in top left

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Little viddy showing an Atari Video Pinball repair outcome: youtube.com/shorts/tZcQu...

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Fixing an Atari Video Pinball from 1978

YouTube video by 74XX Arcade Repair

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another quick repair! Bubble Bobble is one bootleg I'll repair, because the real one is so expensive. Graphics were all squished to one. Some missing signals led me to a 74LS377 (IC59). Piggybacking brought the screen back, glitchy though. Removed the 377, it tested bad, and replaced!

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Fixed up a "Gingateikoku no Gyukushuu" board today for a customer. The game is a Japanese version of UniWar S according to KLOV. The board is clearly not Irem's style, but it's a very nice PCB, reminiscent of Atari PCBs. Clearly a near clone of Galaxian with expanded ROMs.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Ocarina of Time is mostly about the differences between childhood and manhood, which mainly that boils down to having three pairs of shoes that you have to cycle through regularly instead of one.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A lovely neglected CRT in the laundry room of the airbnb I'm staying at.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My Wild Gunman video did a lot for my channel, growing it from 1K to 7K in a few months. I've got tons of content brewing! More arcade repairs and arcade mysteries being filmed and edited now.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I want my electronic ambient song to be the theme to your Souls-like Metroidbrainia cooking game youtu.be/gTCkDwtrFFA

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Lanthanum Electronic Ambience - Syllabic Hearsay

YouTube video by Lanthanum

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@lucasmthomas.bsky.social surprised me with a copy of Nintendo Force No. 83 with an article about my Wild Gunman project!! So amazing to have a physical publication covering it. #liretro

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@ianferguson.bsky.social was gracious enough to host the Watara Supervision summit at his table from 4:15-4:17 today. His review of Block Buster was "hey, that does sound like Super Mario Land."

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I set up an impromptu table at #lirge #liretro Long Island Retro Game Expo after my panel to let other people play the game and check out the little museum of Wild Gunman oddities. @frankcifaldi.bsky.social and @ianferguson.bsky.social both gave it a shot.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today was my panel on Wild Gunman 1974 at #lirge Long Island Retro Game Expo. The room was packed, the questions were great. My special surprise was a miniature Raspberry Pi-powered Wild Gunman for people to play.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

So excited to have shown my Wild Gunman 1974 work to @frankcifaldi.bsky.social. Frank took the gameplay more seriously than just about anyone who saddled up. What a day!

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Well my prize for trying to get to #liretro early was a canceled flight after an hour on the runway. Trying again tomorrow morning.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So excited to be invited to speak at Long Island Retro Gaming Expo 2026! Unfortunately I can't bring the entire Wild Gunman (1974) re-creation that brought the expo's attention to me. But you don't think I'd show up empty handed did you? @liretro.bsky.social

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Word on the street is that Suzo Happ is closing / has already closed. Website looks normal except for some products delisted such as the PowerPro power supplies I personally used. Hopefully we get some clarity. Hopefully other arcade shops can pick up the more exclusive items Happ had.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

#neogeo and #snk experts, what's up with the spare serial number stickers in my Magician Lord kit? They match the box and the SNK warranty sticker.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Today's oddly useful yard sale find: an Eico high voltage probe, perfect for checking CRT high voltage ($1).

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

IMPORTANT: The end of the Moana song "How Far I'll Go" sounds exactly like the Amiga CD32 intro tune and it's in the same key and tempo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozid...

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Amiga CD32 Startup

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

My Wild Gunman (1974) recreation is part of the discussion on @thisweekinretro.bsky.social!

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I showed this shelf of my collection in my Wild Gunman (1974) resurrection video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfq...). What ties all these items together? Nobody's mentioned it in the comments on YouTube.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

One of my favourite magazine clippings that didn't make the video. Wild Gunman (1974) can be seen near the bottom right, most likely the plastic molded cabinet. Scan from Game Machine November 1975 (archive.org). Watch the video on my "resurrection" of Wild Gunman if you haven't seen it!

A cartoonish illustration of the 13th Amusement Machine Show showing various amusement devices.

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Hi folks! Last year I came into possession of some film reels from Wild Gunman (1974) by Nintendo, and felt it was my destiny to play the game. youtube.com/watch?v=TOfq...

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WILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo's First Coin-Op on its 50th Anniversary

YouTube video by 74XX Arcade Repair

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74XX Arcade Repair @74xx.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Had a #Severance watch party for the season finale. Went hard.

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