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Twin-pad dance arcade machine with 42-inch LED screens and arcade lighting at an exhibition

Arcade Game & Machine Hire

Eighteen arcade machines under one roof — retro cabinets, twin driving simulators, virtual pinball, basketball shootouts, dance machines, prize cranes, jukeboxes and Pong tables. From a single cocktail cabinet at £325 to a linked pair of Sega Rally 2 cockpits at £1,995.

Our Arcade Games

The range

We carry 18 arcade machines and amusement games from our 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham, all of it our own stock — bought outright, PAT tested, maintained in-house and delivered on our own vans. The range starts at £175 for a two-player Double Shot basketball game and runs up to £1,995 for a linked pair of original Sega Rally 2 sit-down racing cockpits, with most machines sitting in the £325—£495 band.

You'll see the same sort of kit listed elsewhere as arcade machine hire, amusement games, video arcade hire or coin-op games — it's the same idea whichever term people use. Every machine is set to free play, so there's no coin box to worry about and nobody's hunting for change on the day.

We've been hiring out exhibition and arcade games from Sheffield since 1999, and we own and maintain 95% of what goes out. The rest — near enough nothing — is specialist kit we bring in from people we've worked with for years.

Types of arcade game we carry

  • Retro arcade cabinets

    Two formats. The sit-down cocktail table at £325 — a coffee-table-height cabinet with the screen set face-up under glass, two players on opposite sides, the picture flipping to whoever's turn it is. And the upright standing cabinet at £325, same price, played face-on. Both run multi-game boards loaded with classics — Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Frogger, Street Fighter II — and we keep two of the cocktail tables so you can have a matched pair on a stand. Two machines from £495 a day.

  • Twin driving simulators

    Three linked two-player racing machines. The original 1998 Sega Rally 2 Championship twin sit-down — two cockpits bolted side by side on Sega's Model 3 board, with Castrol and Michelin rally livery, from £1,995. The Fast and Furious twin by Raw Thrills at £1,495 — street racing with licensed cars and a career mode that saves progress between sessions. And a pair of Playseat racing simulators with Logitech force-feedback wheels at £495 — WRC-branded bucket seats on flightcase bases, staffed for up to three hours.

  • Pinball, Pong and table games

    A Multipin virtual pinball machine at £495 — hundreds of tables in one full-size cabinet, from The Addams Family and Medieval Madness through to modern designs, with a real plunger and flippers. The Atari Pong table at £425 — an officially licensed coffee table where the paddles and ball are physical blocks moved by magnets, not a screen.

  • Basketball shootout games

    A two-player Double Shot at £175 — head-to-head with an LED scoreboard, battery powered so no cables to run, handles up to 60 players an hour. And the UNIS Elite interactive basketball at £495 — a single-hoop machine with a 49-inch LCD backboard, electronic hoop-height adjustment and a fitness mode alongside the standard scoring game.

  • Prize, quiz and novelty machines

    A prize crane grabber at £495 — adjustable claw strength from prize-every-time to 1-in-100, available in white, red or purple/green with built-in LED lighting, fully brandable. A Paragon Pro quiz machine by Games Warehouse at £695 — 19-inch touchscreen kiosk with around 24 games including Deal or No Deal. And a Saloon Bar Shoot-Out quick- draw reaction game at £375, with digital timers and an optional inflatable Wild West facade.

  • Dance machine and jukebox

    A twin-pad dance arcade machine at £495 — two commercial dance pads, 42-inch LG LED screens, built-in PA and arcade lights, with a trained staff member to run it. Four dance games from beginner to expert. And the NSM digital jukebox at £395 — a 32-inch portrait touchscreen with up to 150,000 audio tracks and 7,000 music videos, sat on its own Peavey powered speaker so it arrives as a self-contained unit.

Why arcade machines work on a stand

Arcade games earn their place on an exhibition stand because they do two things a static display can't. People recognise them from across the hall — the glow of a pinball backglass, the commentary from a Sega Rally cabinet, the arcade lights on a dance machine — and a go only takes a minute or two, which means a steady queue and a steady stream of visitors for your team to talk to while they wait.

The variety matters. A cocktail retro cabinet draws a different crowd from a twin driving simulator, and a prize crane filled with branded merchandise pulls people in who wouldn't stop for either. We've delivered to most of the major UK exhibition venues — NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London, Manchester Central, Olympia London, ACC Liverpool, Harrogate Convention Centre and SEC Glasgow — and we know the loading bays, the stand build-up times and the stewarding arrangements at each of them.

Anais, who books for Amazon's events, put it like this: "The team are amazing, attentive and quick to get things up and running. We have the best time at our events with some of the games and it makes planning events so much easier. We have used them for years here at Amazon events."

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Multipin virtual pinball cabinet with The Addams Family artwork, digital playfield and backglass screens

What's included

  • Delivery, setup and collection

    Delivered in our own vehicles by our own team. Every machine is set up, configured to free play and tested on site before your event starts.

  • £5M public liability insurance

    Full £5 million public liability insurance as standard, with indemnity to principal cover when we supply staff. Risk assessments and method statements emailed to you or your venue before the event.

  • Trained attendants

    Optional trained event attendants to run each machine hands-free. The dance machine and racing simulators include staffing as standard, and every other game can be staffed if you'd rather your team focused on visitors.

  • Power sorted

    Most machines run from a standard 13A socket — the Double Shot basketball runs off its own battery, so it needs no power at all. Generators supplied where there's no mains on site.

  • In-house branding

    Custom branding on cabinets, screens and wraps, handled by our own team. Printed, applied before the event and removed afterwards. Branding starts from £29 for a scoreboard top and goes up to £179 for full machine sides and header on the pinball.

  • Corporate invoicing

    PAT tested machines with full documentation. Corporate invoicing with payment terms available — we've been supplying exhibition games to trade shows for 25 years, so we know how procurement works.

Arcade machines in stock
18
Price range
£175—1,995
Years trading since 1999
25+
Equipment owned in-house
95%
Public liability insurance
£5M
Google reviews, 5/5 rating
209+

How the machines get used

Most bookings are for exhibition stands and trade shows — a twin driving simulator pulling a crowd at the NEC, a branded prize crane giving away merchandise at ExCeL, a dance machine drawing attention from three aisles away at Manchester Central. But they go out to a fair spread of other events too.

Corporate fun days and Christmas parties are the second-biggest category — four or five machines in a games corner, a jukebox setting the tone, a leaderboard running across the day. Freshers fairs and university events book the basketball and dance machines most often because the throughput keeps a long queue short. Race nights use the Home Stretch bounce-a-ball game at £699 and the Gold Cup hobby-horse racing at £395, usually with a PA and a magnetic leaderboard alongside. Private parties, weddings, pub entertainment and after-dinner hospitality make up the rest.

We've run the same dance machine for a full week at Manchester Arena and then moved it to the Bull Ring in Birmingham for another week — same client, same kit, just a change of postcode. Multi-venue logistics like that are something we do without much fuss because the machines are ours and the vans are ours and there's no third party in the middle.

Branding machines for exhibitions

Branded arcade machines earn their keep differently from hire kit with no logo on it. A prize crane wrapped in your company colours with your own merchandise inside doesn't just pull footfall — it reads as part of the stand build, not a piece of entertainment dropped in the corner.

We branded an interactive basketball machine end to end for Rundles at one of their exhibition stands — full front wrap, matching leaderboard signage, the works. We've wrapped racing simulators for Densura at a trade show, branded prize cranes for Amazon, Bishops Printers, DPS and PEAK Wonderland, and put Amazon's livery on the jukebox and virtual pinball cabinets.

All of it is done in-house — artwork, print, application and removal — so there's no back-and-forth with a third-party printer when a deadline's coming up. A bottom board starts at £95 (we keep it for repeat hires at no extra charge), a scoreboard or header from £29, a full front wrap from £69, and full machine sides and header on the pinball at £179.

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White prize crane arcade grabber with Amazon branding, red capsule prizes and internal LED lighting

The machines

  • Cocktail retro arcade table with Space Invaders and Pac-Man artwork under the glass top

  • Original Sega Rally 2 Championship twin sit-down cabinet — two linked racing cockpits with Castrol and Michelin livery

  • Multipin virtual pinball cabinet running The Addams Family, with digital playfield and backglass screens

  • UNIS Elite interactive basketball machine with a 49-inch LCD backboard, fully branded for the Rundles exhibition stand

  • Twin Playseat WRC racing simulators with Logitech force-feedback wheels and Samsung screens on flightcase bases

  • Twin-pad dance arcade machine with 42-inch LED screens, built-in PA and arcade lighting

  • Two-player Double Shot basketball game — twin hoops, LED scoreboard, battery powered

  • Prize crane with adjustable claw strength, red capsule prizes and fully brandable body panels

  • NSM digital jukebox with 32-inch touchscreen, LED perimeter lighting and integrated Peavey speaker

  • Officially licensed Atari Pong table — physical magnetic paddles and ball on a lit playfield

A repeat supplier for brands and venues

We're a repeat supplier for Amazon — we've run arcade games at their Prime Day events and delivered to their sites across the UK on an ongoing basis. We work with Specsavers on their schools careers events, where Lucy, their Early Careers Manager, said: "The DB team have been absolutely fantastic at our recent schools careers events. Katie, Dean and Becky have been efficient, friendly and very helpful. I thoroughly recommend them."

Beyond the corporate clients, we supply arcade games to local councils, schools, charities and community groups who need vetted suppliers with proper documentation. All of our machines are PAT tested and we hold a 5/5 rating after more than 200 Google reviews, which covers a fair spread of arcade game hires among the rest of the catalogue.

If you're putting together a wider event — an exhibition games package, a sports games corner, a carnival-themed setup or a full corporate fun day — we carry over 600 products across 68 categories, so the whole thing goes on one booking with one invoice and one point of contact. Staging, PA, generators and branding all come from us too.

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Original Sega Rally 2 Championship twin sit-down arcade cabinet with two linked racing cockpits

Where we deliver

From our warehouse in Rotherham we're five minutes from the A1, M1 and M18, which puts the major exhibition venues within reach without much lead time. We deliver regularly to NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London, Manchester Central, Olympia London, Harrogate Convention Centre, ACC Liverpool, Leeds First Direct Arena, SEC Glasgow and Telford International Centre, as well as across South and West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and the East Midlands. Europe-wide delivery is available for larger packages.

The same machines work just as well at a freshers fair, an office Christmas do or a private party closer to home. If you're not sure which games suit your space or your crowd, tell us about the event and we'll suggest a combination that fits — we've been doing this since 1999 and most setups are variations on something we've put together before.

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Retro cocktail arcade table set up on an exhibition stand in front of a National Grid display board

Common questions

What's the difference between the sit-down cocktail arcade table and the standing upright cabinet?

The cocktail table is a low coffee-table-height cabinet you sit at — two players on opposite sides, the screen set face-up under glass that flips to face whoever's playing. It suits spaces where you want people to stop and stay, and it draws less of a crowd around it than a standing cabinet because it reads as furniture. The upright is a traditional standing cabinet you play face-on, the kind you'd have found in an eighties arcade. Both run the same sort of multi-game boards — Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter II — so it comes down to whether you want people sitting or standing on your stand. We keep two cocktail tables, so you can have a matched pair if your space suits it.

Do the twin driving simulators link together for head-to-head racing?

The Sega Rally 2 and Fast and Furious are linked twin cabinets — two players race the same course head-to-head on screens side by side. The Playseat racing simulators link when our staff are running them, so both drivers see each other on track; on a longer unstaffed hire they run independently, and a leaderboard for lap times is the usual way to keep the competition going. The Sega Rally 2 runs four stages — Desert, Mountain, Snowy and Riviera — and the Fast and Furious has a career mode where players can save their progress with a code and come back later.

Can you run a tournament or leaderboard across the machines during an event?

Yes — it's the simplest way to get visitors coming back to the stand across a full day. A magnetic leaderboard between two machines, fastest lap times or highest scores written up as they come in, and people return to knock someone off the top. We've run it this way with the bowling at ACC Liverpool, with the basketball at freshers fairs and with the racing simulators on exhibition stands. The Double Shot basketball and the interactive basketball both show scores on screen, so the leaderboard slots in naturally.