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Bowl Master virtual bowling lane and screen with a green ball

Virtual Bowling

Hire From £445.

What the Virtual Bowling Game Is

It's a compact arcade bowling lane where you roll a real ball down a short wooden lane and the pins fall on a screen at the far end. Ours is the UNIS Bowl Master, made by Universal Space, and you'll see the same sort of machine listed elsewhere as video bowling, arcade bowling, digital bowling or an alley bowler. Sensors built into the lane read the speed and line of your ball and play it out on the upright display, so it scores like ten-pin bowling without needing the length of a real alley.

The lane is light wood with the aiming arrows marked on it the way a proper lane has them, metal side rails to keep the ball in, and a return that brings the balls back to you along the side. Each turn gives you two rolls to knock down as many pins as you can, and the screen keeps the frames and the score. It's set to free play, so nobody's feeding in coins to have a go.

We've been hiring out exhibition and arcade games from Sheffield since 1999, and we own and maintain 95% of what we send out from our 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham, five minutes from the M1. Every hire comes with £5 million public liability insurance, and risk assessments and method statements emailed to you or your venue before the event.

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Side view of the Bowl Master lane, ball return and screen cabinet
Players per game
Up to 6
No coins needed
Free play
Years hiring since 1999
25+
Insurance cover
£5M

Where It Works Well

  • Exhibition Stands and Trade Shows

  • Corporate Events and Fun Days

  • Office and Work Parties

  • Family and Colleague Competition Days

  • Birthday and Private Parties

  • Freshers Fairs and Student Events

Why It Holds Up on a Stand

Bowling is a game people already know how to play, so a passer-by can pick up a ball and have a go without anyone explaining the rules. Put a scoreboard on it and the competition keeps them at your stand long enough for your team to start a conversation, which is the whole point of having a game there in the first place. In Liverpool we ran it on an exhibition stand to pull footfall in, added the scoreboard to find the highest scorer of the day, and the feedback was good. In Sheffield it went out to a private corporate party at Bramall Lane.

It pairs up well with our other reaction and arcade games, so we've sent it out alongside the Batak Pro reaction game, the Atari Pong table and Strike a Light. If you want more than the one game on a stand, we carry over 600 products across 68 categories, so it's one booking, one invoice and one point of contact.

Lane roped off with a hygiene station alongside in an indoor venue

  • Balls

    Real balls, on-screen pins

  • Players

    Up to 6, with high scores

  • Scoring

    Sensors read speed and line

  • Play

    Set to free play

  • Footprint

    3.8ft x 2.3ft, 6.2ft high

  • Insurance

    £5M PLI

Size

Floor Space Height
Unit Size: 3.8ft x 2.3ft 6.2ft
Required Space: 5ft x 3ft 6.6ft

It's a compact lane on its own frame, so it fits on most exhibition stands or in a function room without eating into your space.

What's Included

  • Delivery, setup and collection by our own team
  • The lane set up and tested on site
  • A full operational tutorial and instructions for your staff
  • 24hr telephone support throughout your event
  • £5 million public liability insurance as standard
  • Risk assessments and method statements emailed to you or your venue before the event
  • Optional in-house branding on the header

We own and maintain the lane in-house rather than subbing it out, so if something needs sorting on the day there's no third party to chase. Delivery charges and minimum order values may apply depending on hire duration and location, and putting it on the same delivery as other items keeps the per-item cost down - contact us for a quote.

Suitability

  • Indoors on Artificial Grass
  • Indoors on Hard Surface
  • Outdoors on Grass (under cover)
  • Outdoors on Hard Surface (under cover)

Suitable for adults and children. It runs on a screen and electronics, so outdoors it needs to be under cover.

Why Not Add?

The bowling sits well in a games corner with our other kit:

Branding

The header above the screen can be wrapped with your own design, printed and applied by our in-house team and taken off after the event. Header branding starts from £69, and there's more on how it works on our branding page.

See Virtual Bowling in action, and for more of our hires head over to our YouTube channel.

Common Questions

Do you bowl with a real ball, or is it all on screen?

You roll a real ball down a real wooden lane - the same arrows and side rails you'd get on a proper lane, just shorter. Sensors in the lane read the ball's speed and line, and the pins fall on the upright screen at the far end. So it's a physical roll with the alley and the scoring handled on the display, which is what lets it fit where a full lane never could.

How many people can play, and can we run a competition?

Up to six players can play through together, and the machine keeps a high-score ranking. Add our scoreboard and you can run a leaderboard for the highest scorer of the day, which is how we set it up for an exhibition stand in Liverpool to keep people coming back to the stand.

Can it go outside?

It can, but only under cover - a marquee, a gazebo or a doorway out of the weather. It's a screen and electronics rather than a plastic novelty, so it can't sit out in the rain. Indoors on hard floor or artificial grass it's no trouble at all.

Gallery

  • Product shot of the Bowl Master lane and screen with a green ball

  • Set up indoors in a hall, orange balls in the return tray

  • Lane roped off with a hygiene station alongside in an arcade

  • At an event beside a King of the Hammer high striker

  • Lane on grey carpet against a black event backdrop

  • Side view showing the ball return and the screen cabinet

  • Front view of the lane next to an air hockey table

A Repeat Supplier for Corporate Events

The bowling goes out to corporate events, exhibition stands and works parties all over the UK. We hold a 5/5 rating across more than 200 Google reviews, and we own and maintain 95% of what we hire out, so there's no third-party supplier between you and the kit when something needs sorting on the day.

Related Products

Virtual Bowling brings a ten-pin alley to spaces that couldn't fit a real one. Pair it with our other arcade and sports games below for a competitive games corner. Want a hand putting it together? Drop us a line and we'll suggest a setup.

Venues We Deliver To

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 ACC Liverpool, where we've run the bowling on a stand, as well as NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London and Manchester Central. The same lane works just as well at a freshers fair, an office Christmas do or a private games room. For a full exhibition games, sports games or arcade games package, we can put delivery, branding and any other kit into one quote.

Hire Virtual Bowling

Tell us your dates, venue and audience size and we'll send a quote. Want a wider sports-and-arcade games corner, or the header branded for a stand? Mention it in your message and we'll work out the details.

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