Looking for pop up arcade hire for a corporate event?
Transform your office, event venue, hotel, conference space or exhibition area into a temporary arcade packed with interactive games.
Boutique Party Hire can provide a selection of arcade machines for short-term corporate events, allowing you to create an entire gaming area without needing a permanent installation.
Build your pop up arcade with:
Racing Arcade Machines
Retro Arcade Games
Basketball Games
Boxing Machines
Reaction Games
Air Hockey
Pool Tables
Large-Format Arcade Machines
Competitive Games
Social Games
Ideal for corporate parties, Christmas events, conferences, exhibitions, awards nights, office parties, product launches and brand activations.
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You don’t need a permanent arcade venue to give guests the arcade experience.
We can bring the games to your event.
An empty area can become:
Guests enter the gaming area and choose between different attractions.
They can race colleagues.
Compete for basketball scores.
Challenge each other on retro games.
Test their strength on the boxing machine.
Play air hockey.
Then return to the arcade throughout the event.
Once the event is finished, the equipment can be removed.
A pop up arcade works particularly well for corporate events because guests can participate when they want.
Unlike scheduled entertainment, people don’t necessarily need to arrive at a particular time to take part.
The arcade can remain available throughout suitable parts of the event.
This makes it useful alongside:
Drinks Receptions
Networking
Food
DJs
Live Entertainment
Awards Ceremonies
Christmas Parties
Company Celebrations
Guests can move naturally between the arcade and the rest of the event.
You don’t need a huge venue.
A smaller pop up arcade could contain three carefully selected games.
For example:
Mario Kart DX Twin Arcade Hire
Street Fighter Retro Arcade Machine Hire
This gives guests racing, sports and retro gaming within one compact entertainment area.
For medium-sized corporate events, increase the variety.
A potential setup could include:
Mario Kart DX Twin
Basketball Arcade
Boxing Machine
Street Fighter
Air Hockey
Guests now have several different activities to choose from.
For events with substantial floor space and hundreds of attendees, create multiple gaming zones.
Mario Kart + Overtake.
Basketball + Boxing.
PAC-MAN + Street Fighter.
Air Hockey + Pool.
Interactive reaction challenges.
This creates something much closer to a temporary arcade venue.
Create a complete racing section using several machines.
Potential options include:
Mario Kart DX Twin Arcade Hire
Now multiple guests can compete across different racing experiences.
For suitable events, you could even create:
Want the atmosphere of an old-school arcade?
Build a retro gaming area.
Include machines such as:
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Retro games can create an immediate nostalgia factor while still providing competitive entertainment.
Build a sports and competition zone around:
Basketball
Boxing
Reaction Games
Air Hockey
Guests can compete for individual high scores or represent different teams and departments.
This can work particularly well for company celebrations and informal team-building events.
Turn the entire pop up arcade into a competition.
Guests complete several challenges.
Basketball.
Boxing.
Reaction.
Racing.
Retro Arcade.
Maintain results throughout the event and crown the overall winner.
For larger businesses, create teams based on departments.
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Employees compete across several arcade challenges and earn results for their team.
This turns the pop up arcade into an informal company competition.
Christmas is an ideal opportunity to create a temporary arcade.
Transform an area of your Christmas venue into:
Combine racing, retro and competitive games alongside the rest of the party entertainment.
Guests can visit the arcade between dinner, drinks, dancing and other activities.
For large Christmas events, multiple machines can create a substantial entertainment zone.
Bring the arcade directly to the workplace.
Subject to suitable access and available space, arcade machines can be installed in offices for:
Christmas Parties
Company Anniversaries
Staff Celebrations
Launch Parties
Employee Events
Office Socials
Team Events
This allows companies to create a temporary entertainment area without hiring a separate arcade venue.
Conferences can use pop up arcades within networking and breakout areas.
Install games around:
Networking Zones
Sponsor Areas
Breakout Spaces
Evening Receptions
Conference Parties
Exhibition Areas
The arcade can provide an informal environment where delegates can interact away from presentations and meetings.
Create an arcade lounge alongside your awards ceremony.
Guests can play during:
Arrival Drinks
Networking
Between Event Sections
After the Awards
Evening Entertainment
A mixture of competitive and social games can work particularly well.
A large exhibition stand can potentially become its own mini arcade.
Create several attractions around the stand:
Head-to-head driving.
Fast challenge.
Basketball.
Classic arcade gaming.
Interactive giveaway.
This can provide multiple interaction points for exhibition visitors.
Turn the concept into:
For suitable campaigns, arcade games can become part of the wider brand experience.
Potential concepts include:
Beat the Brand
Branded Racing Challenge
Retro Brand Arcade
High Score Challenge
Play to Win
Brand Gaming Zone
Discuss your campaign and branding requirements when requesting a quotation.
A temporary arcade can provide additional entertainment around a product launch.
Choose machines that suit the audience.
Racing Games.
Reaction + Retro.
Basketball + Competitive Games.
Retro + Social Games.
Full Pop Up Arcade.
This allows the entertainment to complement the wider event.
Create an arcade inside your workplace or event venue for an employee engagement day.
Employees can play casually or participate in organised challenges.
Create:
Employee vs Employee
Team vs Team
Department vs Department
Office vs Office
Employee vs Management
The arcade provides a flexible activity that can run alongside the rest of the day.
Not every team-building event needs a complicated activity programme.
Arcade games can provide informal competition.
Divide employees into teams and rotate them around different stations.
Each team competes across:
Racing
Basketball
Boxing
Reaction
Retro Gaming
The organiser can decide how results contribute to the overall competition.
Create an arcade zone at your corporate summer party.
This can provide an indoor entertainment option alongside outdoor activities.
Games can continue throughout suitable parts of the event and provide something for guests who prefer competitive or social entertainment.
Arcade games can help create a more informal networking environment.
Instead of guests simply standing around with drinks, provide shared activities such as:
Pool
Air Hockey
Retro Arcade
Racing
These games can give people a natural conversation starter.
If you want something less competition-focused, create a corporate games lounge.
Combine:
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with retro arcade and racing machines.
This can create a relaxed entertainment area for networking, hospitality and corporate parties.
Boutique Party Hire can provide suitable pop up arcade hire in London for corporate events.
Areas can include:
Central London
City of London
Canary Wharf
Westminster
Mayfair
Shoreditch
Covent Garden
Kensington
Chelsea
South Bank
and Greater London.
For Central London events, loading and venue access information is particularly important.
Suitable corporate pop up arcade bookings can also be discussed throughout the UK, including:
Birmingham
Manchester
Leeds
Liverpool
Bristol
Cardiff
Nottingham
Coventry
Leicester
Sheffield
and other UK locations.
The right number depends on:
Guest Numbers
Event Duration
Venue Size
Available Floor Space
Other Entertainment
Game Selection
Expected Participation
A smaller event may only require three or four attractions.
A major corporate event may benefit from a much larger arcade so multiple guests can participate simultaneously.
Arcade machines can be substantial pieces of equipment, so venue access matters.
When enquiring, provide:
Venue Name
Postcode
Event Date
Guest Numbers
Delivery Window
Collection Window
Loading Bay Information
Door Widths
Lift Dimensions
Stairs
Available Floor Space
Power Availability
Venue Restrictions
This helps determine which machines are suitable for the location.
A pop up arcade is a temporary collection of arcade and interactive games installed for an event rather than a permanent arcade venue.
Yes. Multiple suitable machines can be combined to create a temporary corporate arcade.
This depends on your available space, guest numbers, venue access and requirements.
Yes. A smaller selection of carefully chosen machines can still create a strong gaming area.
Yes. Larger suitable events can combine multiple arcade machines and entertainment zones.
Yes. Racing machines can form a dedicated racing area within the arcade.
Yes. Retro-style machines can be combined into a dedicated gaming zone.
Yes. Suitable games can be incorporated into high-score and head-to-head challenges.
Yes. Corporate Christmas parties are particularly well suited to temporary arcade entertainment.
Suitable bookings can be discussed throughout London.
Suitable bookings can be discussed throughout the UK.
Transform your venue into a temporary gaming experience with racing machines, retro arcades, sports games, reaction challenges and social games.
Start with:
Mario Kart DX Twin Arcade Hire
Commercial Air Hockey Table Hire
or browse the complete Arcade Machine Hire London & UK Nationwide range.
