With the keys to the family laundromat, Ashley decides to transform the business and give the sleepy town of Grindstone something to get excited about! Stay one step ahead of your father, manage and invest profits, and build your very own Arcade Paradise!
Take the laundromat business made up of dull chores from washing clothes to throwing out the trash, and turn it into a booming arcade with the coolest games in town raking in all the money!
Over 35 arcade games, each fully realized with its own gameplay, stories, missions and high scores to set! Inspired by 3 decades of gaming, from early vector games right up to the 32-bit era. Arcade Paradise will feature newly created ‘classics’ such as Knuckles and Knees, Zombat 2, Woodgals Adventure, Vostok 2093, Gravichase and the bodacious Racer Chaser in FULL 3D and many more.
Insert a second coin and play against a friend in a number of co-operative & competitive arcade games up to 4 players locally.
It’s almost time to enter the virtual realm in Arcade Paradise VR, transporting you back to 1993 for an all-new immersive experience oozing with retro-fuelled gaming nostalgia! Taking you on an empowering journey from rags to riches, Arcade Paradise is an adventure and light-management sim combo game where you transform the decrepit King Wash laundromat into a thriving business.
Rebuilt from the ground-up for VR and oozing with retro-fueled gaming nostalgia, Arcade Paradise VR will take players on an empowering journey from virtual rags to arcade riches.
Set in the rundown town of Grindstone, you play as Ashley, a rebel teenager going against your father’s wishes to continue the family business. Get hands-on managing the fully gamified day-to-day tasks, from manually picking up gum, doing the laundry, and scrubbing a toilet perfectly clean - to throwing out the trash in a basketball style mini game. Then, take your hard-earned money from completing these tasks to unlock your real objective… buying more arcade units!
In an empowering journey taking players from virtual rags to arcade riches, Arcade Paradise VR brings the title to Meta Quest, featuring 39 playable arcade cabinets alongside multiple fully gamified tasks that come with running a laundromat. With 12 fully realized VR arcade cabinets, alongside 27 traditionally controlled games brought over from the original version - Arcade Paradise VR transports players back to 1993 for an immersive and nostalgic gaming experience.
Currently available for Meta Quest headsets, Arcade Paradise VR is coming to PC VR and PS VR2 on August 8, 2024.
- 12 brand-new fully realized VR arcade cabinets alongside 27, 90’s inspired, traditional controller games from the original release
- KO Champ - Before the time runs out, punch the targets as many times as you can in a test of strength, dexterity, and endurance - to become the Knockout Champion.
- Basketball Blast - Aim, Shoot, Basket. Put your basketball skills to the test as you shoot hoops against the clock before the timer runs out. Oh, and don’t forget to have a blast, a basketball blast.
- Istvan Speaks - Step right up ladies and gentlemen and allow Istvan to see into your future. Yes… It’s all becoming clear now… it’s time to make the ordinary become extraordinary.
- Smash ‘Em - Test your speed and reflexes in Smash 'Em, a quick reflex shooter. Take your light-gun, loaded with 30 bullets, to get through 5 rounds of targets. Each round progressively gets more difficult, think and shoot fast to be top of the leaderboards.
- Balloon Jack 3D - Step into VR and perfect your aim for that all-important high score! Gold balloons are worth 15 points, red is worth 5, and blue extends the timer. But watch out - hitting a skull means it’s GAME OVER!
- Plus Future Home: Enter Reality, with more details to be revealed very soon…
- A wide range of gameplay from laundry mini-games to managing a full arcade with fully playable games cabinets.
- Set high scores across each game in competitive online leaderboards.
- Soundtrack composed by former The Prodigy live show member Kieron Pepper in collaboration with Black Razor Records.
- Coming of age storytelling featuring award winning voice actor Doug Cockle playing your belligerent father, Gerald.
- Bring the 90’s to the future with Mixed Reality, place cabinets in your living room for a whole new level of immersion.
Prove yourself across each game, set your initials, make your favorite arcade game more popular and upload to the online leaderboards!
From the individual games to choosing what song to put on the jukebox inspired by some of the great records of the early 90s, the soundtrack captures the heart of a bygone era.
Hello 90’s. If you could smell this game, it would smell like memories. Everything from the look and feel of the arcades, to using the latest PC connected to the mind-blowing dial-up connection, all has been recreated with pure love.
Doug Cockle (famous for his voice acting in Victor Vran and The Witcher series) plays the role of Ashley’s berating father. Being too busy in the Riviera to see King Wash for himself, you will receive many phone calls from Gerald sharing his wise words of advice and constant reminders to fix the toilet.
Currently available for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam), as well as Meta Quest, Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3, Arcade Paradise is coming to PC VR and PS VR2 on August 8, 2024.
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