King Kong of Skull Island II Arcade Game

King Kong of Skull Island II is an expansion kit rather than a cabinet. Raw Thrills supplies a software update drive, a security dongle carrying Chapters 4 and 5, and a complete cabinet artwork package, and those three parts take an existing King Kong of Skull Island VR game from three chapters to five. Chapter 4, "Tir Trouble," runs the vehicle deeper into the island forests past Triceratops, Death Runners, and a herd of stampeding Brachiosaurus. Chapter 5, "Into the Deep," moves into the water for evolved sharks, flesh-eating fish, and poisonous starfish before an attempted shoreline rescue of the captured Kong. Interactive VR slingshot combat comes with the update.

The cabinet the kit updates is a two-player VR motion ride. Both riders see Skull Island from the vehicle driver's position through an HP Reverb headset in 360-degree 3-D while a motion seat platform driven by air compression works underneath them. Motion sensors read arm movement during the slow-motion interactive scenes, and each of those scenes resolves differently depending on whether the player succeeds. A 55-inch LED monitor and a 43-inch LED monitor sit above and behind the seat, one running attract video and the other carrying the game marquee. Assembled, Raw Thrills lists the game at 115 inches tall, 50 inches wide, 123 inches deep, and 1,694 pounds.

Read the product name before you buy. King Kong of Skull Island II is a sequel expansion kit, and its contents are a software update drive, a security dongle, and an artwork package. There is no cabinet, seat, headset, or monitor in it. If your location does not already run King Kong of Skull Island VR, the kit has nothing to install into. Operators who do own the base game go from three chapters to five and get the slingshot combat scenes, and Raw Thrills lists increased earning potential among the reasons to take the update.

Electrically, the cabinet has two inlets. At 120V/60Hz each inlet draws 10A, for 20A total; at 230V/50Hz each draws 5A, for 10A total. Raw Thrills also calls for a dedicated 20A/120V receptacle, which means the game expects a circuit of its own rather than one shared with a change machine or the cabinet beside it. If you are quoting an electrician, the two-inlet arrangement is the detail to hand over, since a single duplex outlet at the wrong end of the room turns into a cord-management problem on a ride people walk up to.

Raw Thrills publishes the assembled figures under the heading "Specs Subject to Change," so treat them as the current published numbers and verify against the game in front of you before you commit a floor layout. As published, the cabinet is 115 inches tall, 50 inches wide, and 123 inches deep. That height is 9 feet 7 inches, which rules out an 8-foot ceiling outright and calls for genuine 10-foot clear height once lighting and sprinkler heads are accounted for. Depth is the number most buyers underestimate: 123 inches is 10 feet 3 inches of floor, and a rider wearing a headset cannot see what is behind the seat, so clearance behind the ride is worth more than a tight wall.

The base cabinet ships on three pallets rather than one crate. The main cabinet pallet is 90 by 52 by 40 inches at 811 pounds, the seat pallet is 60 by 36 by 57 inches at 478 pounds, and a miscellaneous pallet is 49 by 45 by 52 inches at 405 pounds. Those three add to 1,694 pounds, the same figure published as the assembled weight. Measure your route against the pallets, not the finished cabinet: at 90 inches tall and 52 inches wide, the main pallet will not clear a standard 80-inch interior doorway upright, and three separate pallets means three separate pieces to move and stage rather than one.