The Batak Pro is a reaction game with twelve lit targets around a central frame. When a target lights up you hit it as fast as you can, the hit registers on two central LED displays, and the next one lights somewhere else. A round lasts about 30 seconds, your score is the number of targets you catch before the clock runs out, and a voice in the machine walks you through it with prompts like "Get Ready" and "Go". It comes from sports training - the point of the original was to sharpen reactions and hand-eye coordination under pressure - which is why it feels like a proper test.
How a round plays out
The targets light in random patterns controlled by the machine's own microcomputer, and there are different programmes you can run: some steady, some punishing. Hits and misses are both timed and scored, so two players can compare properly afterwards. That 30-second round is the quiet reason the game works so well at busy events - dozens of players get through an hour, the queue keeps shuffling forward, and people who've just played stand at the front talking the next one into having a go. We've run Batak units at exhibitions, corporate parties and fun days for well over a decade; it's one of the fixtures of our exhibition game hire range, and it suits magnetic leader boards if you want the day's top scores on display.
Who books it
Exhibition stands use it as a queue-builder with a leader board running all day. Corporate events use it as a competition with a prize for the highest score. Schools and sports clubs use it for the training angle, and we've supplied it to a professional rugby squad for hand-eye work as well as to parties where it's simply the game everyone queues for. Universities take it at freshers fairs for the same reason exhibition stands do: it needs no explaining and nothing setting up on the player's side, so the line keeps moving without anybody marshalling it. One client in Nottinghamshire took it with a foot-operated sanitiser station and tensa barriers around the play area, then added the magnetic leader board so players could see what they had to beat - we wrote some of the all-time great scores from sport onto the board for them, and the competitive edge it created outlasted the hire.
Branding and practicalities
The back panel and the twelve target buttons can both carry your artwork - £99 for the panel, £49 for the buttons, £125 for both - produced by our in-house branding team as transfers for the hire period, then off again. The unit itself is 2080mm wide, 950mm deep and 1950mm tall, needs a floor space of around 8ft by 5ft once the player is accounted for, and works indoors or out on grass or hard standing. If the venue has no mains supply we can sort a generator, and every hire comes with delivery, setup and collection by our own crew, £5 million public liability insurance and the risk assessments sent to your venue beforehand. Worth knowing before you book: it's a physical game. Fine for children and adults, but a full day of competition play leaves forearms aching, which the leader board tends to make worse.
It pairs naturally with the other reaction and arcade kit on the same booking - the Strike a Light, Virtual Bowling and The Vault all draw the same kind of crowd - and multi-item hires go out on one delivery with one invoice. Add the Batak Pro to a quote with the green button on its page, or call the office on 0114 345 0135 and we'll price it for your date.
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