We make new games for the arcade machines already on the floor, and keep them fresh with updates and seasonal specials. Five games are in build.
Meet the crew
RUNAWAY's cast. Pick a rider, rob the Baron, lose the cops. Tap any picture to see it bigger.
The problem
A new twin bike racer costs £12,000 to £16,500. Operators buy one or two a year at most.
Super Bikes 2 was designed around 2010 and is still sold new. Players see the same games every summer.
A bare twin bike cabinet lists at about $1,600. The games inside did not get better.
A small team with AI tools can build what used to need a studio, on a £250 PC.
Old cabinet in. New game out.
A cabinet is a screen, some controls and a small PC. The game is a file. Change the file and the machine is new again.
The idea
Every game earns in our own seaside arcade first, next to the machine it replaces.
A PC, an input adapter, new artwork and the game, for operators who own the same old cabinet.
Shells built in Guangzhou with our games inside, once a game has takings to show.
Runaway · the worlds
Concept art for the routes. Swipe or scroll sideways.
The games
| Game | What it is | Cabinet | Stage | Next |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runaway | Bike getaway: rob the bank, outrun the police | Super Bikes 2 twin, ours | Ready for cabinet test | Bench test on a Windows PC, then the cabinet |
| Crackpot Grand Prix | Cartoon kart racer: eight cars, eight tracks, two cups | Kart racing cabinet, ours | Full game, title to trophy | First hands-on play, then the cabinet PC |
| Hollow Manor: Last Stand | Free-roam zombie survival: open doors, buy guns, hold the barricades | 55-inch screen, controls to choose | Early build, look agreed | Dress the rooms to match the concept art |
| Torchbound | Gauntlet-style dungeon crawler for one to four players | Two- or four-player stick cabinet | Playable, coin mode in | First hands-on play, pick the cabinet |
| Shatterbelt | Asteroids-style space shooter with new tricks | Classic five-button cabinet | Playable prototype | First hands-on play |
| Seafront Sevens | Classic slot that twists into a modern one | Our £100 jackpot slot cabinet | Prototype, adults only | Parked. Artwork, then licence and testing |
| Apex GT | Proper racing on real-world circuit layouts | Sit-down driving cabinet, to choose | Parked | Kept for later |
| Kids Zombie Attack | Truck ride with a mounted gun, zombie hordes | Tall kids' gun cabinet | Parked | Kept for later |
| Run-and-gun cops | On-foot police shoot-out, always moving | Gun cabinet | On hold | Last Stand first |
| Quick four | Piano, runner, stacker, shooting gallery | Small one-button cabinets | Tried | None chosen yet |
Each job opens with the heist, then the gang rides off with the police behind them. Two bikes side by side, so friends race each other.
Cabinet artwork
Our real cabinet redrawn with new decals. Black and gold is the pick for now.
A cartoon kart race for families. Eight ridiculous cars, each with its own special, on eight tracks in two cups. Built to plug into the kart cabinet already in our arcade.
Zombie survival in a haunted manor, and you can walk anywhere. Open doors, buy guns off the wall, board up the windows and hold out round after round.
Old-school remakes
The games people already know how to play, made new. They run in a web browser, so they are quick to build and will run on almost any cabinet PC. We copy the kind of game, never the names, characters, art or music.
A Gauntlet-style dungeon crawler for one to four players. Four heroes, 18 floors in six worlds, a boss every third floor, and a power-up to pick after each one.
An Asteroids-style space shooter for one or two players. The same five buttons as the 1979 cabinet, plus a recharging shield, a warp, a blast that clears the screen, five kinds of rock and a boss every third sector.
What else can be remade
Ideas only. None of these is built yet.
Bomberman style. Two to four players against each other, rounds of two or three minutes.
Small build · reuses TorchboundGalaga and Space Invaders style. One or two players on the same five buttons.
Small build · reuses ShatterbeltBubble Bobble style. Two players clearing one screen at a time. Good for young children.
Medium buildThe four-player brawlers of the early nineties. The classic crowd-puller.
Large buildWindjammers style. Two players, matches of about a minute.
Small buildRampage style. One to three players knocking a city down.
Medium buildPac-Man style, but two players working together.
Small buildTrack and Field style button-mashing, or a Frogger-style road crossing.
Small buildThe rest of the slate
Built far enough to judge, then set aside while the main games finish. The small pictures are in-game.
The serious racer. Eight road cars of our own on eight real-world circuit layouts, no boosts or cartoon effects, kept light enough for a cheap cabinet PC.
An old-fashioned fruit machine until three BONUS symbols land. Then the lights cut, the music changes and it turns modern: five free spins with a multiplier climbing x1, x2, x3, x5, and the cabinet gets wilder every gear.
A three-minute truck ride with a mounted gun, up to about 145 zombies at once. Kept for a tall kids' cabinet.
In-gameTrying an idea is cheap now, so we build a playable version first and decide after. Nothing is thrown away.
How we build
Each game is played overnight by a computer player at different skill levels. A person only plays a build once the bot has finished it without errors.
Runaway runs overnight on our test laptop, no errors.
Crackpot Grand Prix races, cups and singles, all finished.
Torchbound dungeon floors checked, plus seven full runs won.
Simulated Seafront Sevens games, matching the exact maths.
The company
Builds the games.
The shared foundation every game runs on.
Refurbishes old machines and sources new shells.
Slot games, kept separate with their own licence.
Our own floor, where every game is proven first.
The road
Our target: something new taking coins on our own floor by February half-term, and more by Easter 2027.
Runaway takes as much as the old game in the same cabinet.
A second game, likely Crackpot Grand Prix, reaches the floor faster and cheaper.
A game is swapped or updated on a live cabinet in under an hour.
Another arcade pays for a kit or a machine.
Today
The hardware is already here. Now the games.