Planning a large birthday celebration and looking for birthday party games for large groups in London?
Boutique Party Hire provides arcade machines, racing games, reaction challenges, basketball games and multiplayer entertainment for birthday parties with larger guest numbers.
Whether you’re organising an 18th, 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th or major private birthday celebration, we can create a gaming package designed to keep multiple guests entertained at the same time.
Choose several high-capacity attractions or create a complete large birthday gaming zone featuring racing, sports, reaction, retro and social games.
Browse our full Arcade & Amusement Game Hire range.
For larger guest numbers, variety is important.
Instead of relying on one attraction, combine several games so multiple groups can play simultaneously.
Popular options include:
The final selection can be planned around your guest numbers and available floor space.
Transform part of your venue into a temporary arcade.
Multiple full-size machines can be grouped together to create a dedicated entertainment area.
Your arcade could include:
Head-to-head racing machines.
Basketball and high-score challenges.
Fast competitive games.
Classic-style arcade entertainment.
Guitar Hero and music gaming.
Pool and table football.
This gives guests multiple entertainment choices throughout the celebration.
When you’re entertaining a large number of guests, games with quick rounds can help keep people moving.
Reaction games, basketball and racing challenges can allow guests to compete before rotating onto another attraction.
For larger celebrations, we recommend combining several different types of games rather than relying on one machine.
Add Mario Kart DX Twin for direct head-to-head competition.
Guests can race throughout the evening or take part in a structured tournament.
Create:
Birthday Person vs Friends
Friend vs Friend
Couples vs Couples
Friends vs Family
Team vs Team
For larger groups, run qualifying rounds before progressing into a knockout competition.
Add Pac-Man Basketball for quick high-score competition.
Guests can attempt to beat the leading score before moving onto another attraction.
Create categories such as:
Highest Overall Score
Birthday Champion
Friends Champion
Family Champion
Basketball Champion
Keep the leaderboard running throughout the event.
Reaction games are particularly useful for larger birthday parties because attempts can be quick.
Options can include:
For larger events, combine multiple reaction games to create a dedicated challenge area.
Add World’s Largest Pac-Man as part of your arcade area.
Create a Pac-Man leaderboard and let guests attempt to beat the leading score throughout the party.
Classic arcade entertainment can also work well for mixed-age guest lists.
Add Guitar Hero Arcade for music-based gaming.
Guitar Hero can complement your:
This gives guests another interactive activity within the wider party.
Add a Commercial Pool Table to create a social gaming area.
Pool can work particularly well near:
Guests can play casually or enter a birthday pool tournament.
Add Table Football for quick multiplayer matches.
Create:
One vs One
Two vs Two
Couples vs Couples
Friends vs Family
Team vs Team
Table football can remain available throughout the party for casual competition.
For large groups, multiplayer entertainment can be particularly useful.
Games where two or more guests can participate together encourage social interaction and help create competition.
Combine multiplayer attractions with individual high-score games to create variety.
For substantial birthday celebrations, create a dedicated gaming zone featuring multiple attractions.
A strong setup could include:
Several games operating simultaneously can create a much stronger entertainment area for larger guest numbers.
For larger venues, you don’t need to keep every machine in one location.
Create several gaming zones throughout the venue.
Head-to-head racing.
Basketball challenges.
Batak and reaction games.
Pac-Man and other arcade machines.
Pool and table football.
This encourages guests to move around the event.
For a birthday with more than 50 guests, consider using multiple attractions rather than one feature game.
A mixture of racing, basketball, reaction games and social entertainment allows different groups to participate at the same time.
The exact number of games required will depend on the venue, event duration and how central gaming is to the celebration.
For larger birthday events with 100 or more guests, a substantial gaming area can become one of the main entertainment features.
Consider combining:
Multiple Arcade Machines
Racing Games
Basketball
Multiple Reaction Games
Pool
Table Football
Music Games
Guests can rotate between the attractions throughout the event.
Large-scale birthday celebrations can use multiple gaming areas rather than one small arcade corner.
Create different entertainment zones around the venue so several groups can participate simultaneously.
This can work particularly well in large hotel ballrooms and substantial private event venues.
Planning a large adult birthday celebration?
Gaming can operate alongside your traditional evening entertainment.
Guests can move between:
Arcade
DJ
Dance Floor
Bar
Food
Photo Entertainment
Lounge Areas
throughout the evening.
This gives guests more choice and reduces reliance on one entertainment area.
For a large 18th birthday, focus on fast competitive entertainment.
A strong setup could include:
Create competitions throughout the celebration.
Create a dedicated gaming area alongside the bar, DJ and dance floor.
Racing, basketball, reaction games and arcade machines can provide entertainment for groups of friends throughout the evening.
Combine modern competitive games with nostalgic entertainment.
A large 30th birthday gaming zone could feature:
Mario Kart
Pac-Man
Guitar Hero
Basketball
Reaction Games
Pool
Table Football
Create a mixture of retro arcade entertainment and modern competitive attractions.
Pac-Man, Guitar Hero, racing, basketball, pool and reaction games can provide variety for a large guest list.
For a large 50th birthday, create games suitable for different generations.
Combine classic arcade entertainment with modern competitive games and social attractions.
Friends and family can compete against each other throughout the event.
Create an entertainment area combining retro, racing and social games.
Pac-Man, pool, table football, basketball and racing can provide activities for guests across different age groups.
Large groups of adults can be divided into teams and rotated through different gaming challenges.
Create:
Team A vs Team B
Friends vs Family
Couples vs Couples
Birthday Person’s Team vs Everyone Else
This can turn a collection of games into a structured entertainment experience.
Create a tournament across multiple attractions.
Mario Kart.
Highest score.
Fastest reactions.
Pac-Man.
Pool or table football.
Guests collect points throughout the event before an overall champion is announced.
For very large guest lists, divide guests into several teams.
Each team can rotate between different challenge stations.
For example:
Racing.
Basketball.
Reaction Game.
Arcade Challenge.
Table Football.
Award points at every station and total the results at the end.
Create a central leaderboard showing the leading scores from each attraction.
Track:
Racing Champion
Basketball Champion
Reaction Champion
Pac-Man Champion
Pool Champion
Table Football Champion
This encourages guests to return to the gaming area throughout the party.
Large birthday celebrations can bring together guests from different friendship groups, families and workplaces.
Interactive games provide a natural activity around which guests can socialise.
Racing, pool, table football and reaction challenges can help create interaction between guests who may not already know each other.
The gaming area can complement your main party entertainment.
Guests can move between:
Gaming Zone
Dance Floor
DJ
Bar
Food
Live Entertainment
Photo Entertainment
throughout the event.
For larger venues, these areas can be positioned separately.
Hotels can be particularly suitable for large gaming installations.
Suitable equipment can be installed in:
Hotel service lifts, loading access and setup times should be considered when planning the equipment.
Private event venues can provide enough floor space to create several gaming areas.
Depending on the venue, machines can be grouped into one large temporary arcade or distributed around different entertainment zones.
Planning a large high-end birthday celebration?
Create a substantial arcade installation featuring multiple full-size machines.
The gaming area can form part of a wider event production featuring:
This can turn gaming into one of the main features of the event.
Planning a large birthday in Central London?
We can provide suitable arcade and interactive games to hotels, private venues and event spaces subject to access.
For larger installations, provide:
This helps determine which machines are suitable.
Suitable large-group birthday game hire can be provided throughout:
Suitable surrounding areas can also be covered subject to availability.
A focused selection of competitive attractions.
Head-to-head racing with fast reaction challenges.
Multiple games designed around high scores and team competition.
Several full-size arcade machines grouped together.
Separate racing, arcade, reaction and social gaming areas.
A substantial combination of racing, sports, reaction, retro, music and multiplayer entertainment.
Racing games, basketball, reaction challenges, Pac-Man, Guitar Hero, pool, table football and additional arcade machines can all be combined.
This depends on your guest numbers, event duration, available space and how central gaming is to the party.
Yes. Larger packages can include several attractions operating simultaneously.
Yes. A multi-game setup can be created for suitable larger events, subject to availability and venue access.
Larger venues can use multiple gaming areas to increase entertainment capacity.
Yes. Guests can rotate between gaming stations and collect points for their teams.
Yes. Suitable games can be used for ongoing high-score competitions.
Yes. The gaming area can complement your dance floor and other entertainment.
Yes. Multiple full-size machines can be grouped together to create a dedicated arcade area.
Suitable venues can be covered throughout London.
Planning a large celebration and looking for birthday party games for large groups in London?
Boutique Party Hire can provide anything from several competitive attractions to a substantial temporary arcade featuring Mario Kart, Pac-Man, basketball, reaction games, Guitar Hero, pool, table football and additional arcade machines.
Browse our full Arcade & Amusement Game Hire range or contact us with your:
