Updated: March 17th with some clarifying statements
We are about a week away from Amusement Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, NV, and while there will be our usual big preview for the show, we do have a few smaller previews for you in advance that can help you know what’s going to be there. These early glimpses are meant to focus more on new-new titles, as opposed to games that were already seen at previous tradeshows (or are already shipping right now).
Let’s start them today with UNIS; also keep in mind that there will be some news from both Blue Motion Games and exA-Arcadia that cannot be posted until the first day of the show (March 18th). In case you can’t make it to that expo, stay tuned to the site as well as YouTube, and we’ll have the news to share there.
Cyberpunk 2077 Chrome Rush
What will certainly receive the most attention among UNIS’ new titles is the second Cyberpunk 2077 arcade game that will grace the business. Unlike LAI Games’ Turf Wars, this one instead focuses on the vehicles of the game – with some combat thrown in for good measure.
Cyberpunk 2077 Chrome Rush comes in this twin cabinet model, each with a detailed swivel bike controller that sits atop a motion base and in front of a 65″ 4K screen. There is also an LED matrix marquee, although we don’t know if this will show any information from the game like some of these second screen games do. I don’t see a camera in this render either, however, this may not be the “final” version of the game. I reached out to UNIS for comment and they did say that what would be at the show is a prototype; they also stated that it may begin shipping in early May (Replay Magazine had said late April, but that has since changed).
For an update on this, UNIS have now released a new render of the cabinet and a trailer that shows the game in action. It very much reminds me of the old Road Rash game for the Genesis/Mega Drive/3DO – or one could think of Sega’s Motor Raid – crossed over with Cyberpunk and UNIS’ own Neon Rush. They also added this information about it:
- 7 characters
- 8 futuristic bikes
- 4 intense tracks
- Unique combat racing gameplay
This will be available in North America & Europe through UNIS’ extensive distributor network; as it has been asked, the UK has Instance Automatics carrying their equipment.
Ski Hero
When this next game showed up on one or two distributor previews ahead of IAAPA, we thought it would be at that show, but it didn’t appear there and we’ve heard little to nothing about it since besides a couple of videos from UNIS. Granted, they brought a lot of games to IAAPA, to the point that I’m not sure where they might have fit this one had they brought it. Now they are using AEI to launch Ski Hero, where we’ll have our first skiing arcade game to enjoy since Super Alpine Racer came along almost a decade ago.
As there is no detailed product page up for this one yet, we aren’t entirely sure of the specs, although this video does help fill in the blanks. I would guess it has a 65″ screen, and you can see the swivel base in action here; the graphics also appear to use cel-shading, which we haven’t seen much of lately. Not sure how many units can link together, although from the image above, it’s at least two.
Pickleball Rivals
We’ve been hearing about pickleball’s rise out there for a few years now, with the expectation that someone would create something for arcades in this space, and it looks like UNIS is the first to do so outside of TouchMagix’s current redemption piece with Pickleball Rivals. Using another twin design, but with a bit more space in-between the players, you appear to have a motion-sensing (probably gyroscope-based) pickelball paddle and use that to play a virtual game of the popular sport, or at least something with its basic characteristics. This looks like it may have another LED matrix marquee too:
UNIS will certainly have more than this to show off at their booth from the redemption side of things, although this does cover much of what is most likely in video games. Besides that, it’s probable they will have other recent titles like Turbo Nova, Jump Master and Monster Kart/Jet Riders as well.
Once again, stay tuned to the site and its social media pages for our other previews and reveals from Amusement Expo 2026, which are coming both in advance of the show and on day one; until then, of UNIS’ new titles here (e.g. Cyberpunk 2077 Chrome Rush) interests you the most?
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I’m a lifelong fan of video games and I have been operating my own arcade, Arcade Galactic in West Valley City, Utah since 2008. Soft spots in my heart for Atari, Sega, and Nintendo.
