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Two Rooms of Cabinets & Pinball
The garage arcade with four uprights and the pinball row, plus the inside game room with the candy cab and cocktail — six cabinets and four pins in all.
Sony PVM · BVM · LMD
A working museum of Sony professional video — thirteen units across eight models, documented in the Trinitron Fleet magazine.
Nintendo · Sega · NEC · Sony
From front-loader NES to the PC Engine Duo-R and Turbo Express — the home hardware that feeds the CRTs, much of it RGB-modded or restored.
Toppers, Cards & Retail Neon
Nineteen original PlayChoice-10 arcade toppers, eighteen NOS VS. instruction cards, and the Nintendo retail signage that told a shop floor what was inside.
Twenty-One Player’s Guides
Nintendo’s official strategy guides, photographed cover by cover — the SNES years, from A Link to the Past to Chrono Trigger.
Photos & Video from the Arcade
The growing photo and video log — new shots from the garage land here as they happen.
Current & Completed Projects
Repairs, rebuilds, and restorations — from pinball board swaps to arcade PSU rebuilds and CRT calibration.
Duplicates & Departures
The collection consolidates over time. Monitors and hardware currently listed for sale live here.
The Hunt List
Actively searching: BKM input cards, specific consumer CRTs, and a few white whales. Have one? Get in touch.
The reading room
The Sony AMS-100 Has No Written History
The primary literature on Sony’s modular audio confidence monitor — the frame, the board system, a registry of documented units, and the market record.
Trinitron Fleet, Vol. 1
The interactive magazine on the monitor fleet — every model with its full spec sheet, the battle of the twenties, and how to speak broadcast.
What to Check Before You Buy a PVM-20L5
The geometry grid, judging a tube with no hours counter, what to pay — and why you should drive to it rather than ship it.
Latest from the arcade
The PlayChoice-10 cart wall
The whole PlayChoice-10 library, board by board, plus ten conversions and custom builds with the story of each — and what the bare green PCB and its two-letter code actually tell you. See the cart wall →
Every monitor gets its own page
The PVM-2950Q, PVM-20L5, BVM-20E1U, BVM-A14F5U and the LMD wall each get a full profile — the feature, the inputs and cards, and the work log. Start at the roster →
Forty years on one line
Every machine, console and monitor plotted by the year it was released — scroll sideways from the 1981 Donkey Kong to the 2020 Rick and Morty. See the timeline →
Captain Skyhawk comes off the hunt list
An original 1989 PlayChoice-10 topper — Rare’s jet shooter, printed for Milton Bradley and licensed by Nintendo. See it on the topper wall →
The Orlandu 100
A hundred favorite films ranked by head-to-head duel — no CRTs, no coin doors, just the same instinct pointed somewhere else. Read the issue →
Spotting professional glass in the wild
How to tell a Sony professional monitor from a heavy old TV at a thrift store or estate sale — and what to check before you haul it home. Read the field guide →
The signage wall gets its own page
Lit marquees, the PlayChoice-10 topper wall, and the NOS VS. instruction cards — the paper-and-plexi side of the arcade, all in one place. See the signage →
Rad Racer comes off the hunt list
An original 1988 PlayChoice-10 topper — the first item the hunt list has ever produced. Twenty-three PC-10 toppers still out there. See it on the topper wall →
The AMS-100 monograph
Sony's modular broadcast confidence monitor had no written history anywhere. Now it has one — seven documented frames, the board system, the service internals. Read it →