Brand activations

Put your brand in their hands.

We bring prize, retro and modern games to events around New York. Your product goes inside the prize games. Guests play, win it and take it home. You get the photos and footage.

Book a free callSee the 3 tiers

From $250 per event. Start with a free 15-min call: we plan it together, then you pay to lock the date.

  • Prize games
  • Retro games
  • Modern consoles
  • Photos and footage
Partner with Budcade

3 ways to show up.

Priced per event. Start with a free call so we can plan your night. When you're ready, pay here to lock the date.

For a single shop

Featured Brand

$250 per event

  • Your signage on our table
  • Prize games stocked with your product and small prizes
  • Budcade-branded games and merch
  • 10+ event photos, reshared to our 1,000+ followers
About the prize games
Pay $250

For regional brands

Game Sponsor

$500 per event

  • Everything in Featured Brand
  • 3 games you pick: prize, modern, retro, tabletop, crafts or toys
  • More branded prize games
  • 30+ photos, a promo video and event footage
  • Guest follows and contacts collected
Pick your 3 games
Pay $500

For exclusivity

Headline Partner

$750 per event

  • Everything in Game Sponsor
  • Your branding on every table
  • The full game floor, run as your brand
  • Branded prizes and games throughout
  • 50+ photos, a promo video and full event footage
  • An internal recap for your team
  • Category exclusivity
See the full game floor
Pay $750

Every game is stocked with small prizes. Add-on for any tier: gift bags filled with small prizes and your inserts, $15 a bag. Ask on the call and we'll add them to your invoice. Book a free call

Recent work

Haunted Sesh, Brooklyn.

The Mycelia Group booked Budcade for The Haunted Sesh in October 2026, a night for over a hundred cannabis founders and execs. We brought Mario Kart on an N64 and a tube TV, a mini Zoltar fortune teller and a play counter of mini arcades and prize toys. The client said we “nailed the vibe.”

Guests racing Mario Kart on an N64 and a tube TV at Haunted Sesh, Brooklyn

Mario Kart on the N64

Racing on the couch, a tube TV and a crowd watching.

Budcade play counter: tablet game, lava lamp, two small prize games and a mini arcade cabinet under a Linkin Park poster

The play counter

Mini arcades, prize toys and Puff Puff Crash, Joe's own game.

Retro basement lounge with couches, a foosball table and a tube TV at Haunted Sesh

The basement lounge

Couches, foosball and a tube TV, set for the night.

The Haunted Sesh by The Mycelia Group, event backdrop in a Brooklyn warehouse

The Haunted Sesh

Hosted by The Mycelia Group in a Brooklyn warehouse.

Make it yours

What you can customize.

Every activation is built around your brand. Tell us what you want on the free call and we'll put it together.

Mini Zoltar fortune teller beside a tube TV playing a late-night psychic ad, themed for Haunted Sesh

Your theme

Holiday, brand launch, retro, spooky. We set the games up to match. At Haunted Sesh: a mini Zoltar next to a tube TV.

Nintendo 64 running Mario Kart on a tube TV

Which games

Retro consoles on tube TVs, an N64 with almost every game, an Atari with preloaded games, digital pinball tables, all-in-one arcades and modern consoles.

A guest turning the handle on the Budcade gacha machine

Prize games with your product

Claw, gacha and fishing games stocked with your brand's product, or with our prizes.

A Budcade host updates a tournament bracket while players race and friends cheer at a game night

Tournaments and leaderboards

Turn any game into a bracket or a high-score chase, with a prize for the winner. Tournament mode is $50.

Wide room with guests and game screens, Budcade at Trends LIC

Decor

Table covers, lights, lava lamps and props to fit the room and your colors.

Budcade prize bag and swag kit laid out

Gift bags

Small prizes, stickers and merch, with your inserts. $15 a bag.

Sampling, done right

Want guests to try your product?

Consumables can't just be handed out. Our nonprofit project, Budcade Collective, can run on-site sampling as a private 21+ event, with safe-consumption practices and every serving logged. It's arranged separately from your Budcade tier and never paid through Budcade's checkout.

About Budcade Collective

Budcade LLC is a for-profit company. Budcade Collective is a fiscally sponsored project of Do Good Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 85-4368754). Contributions are payable to Do Good Foundation, earmarked Budcade Collective.

Who you're working with

Where Budcade is today.

8+ game nights and pop-ups run across NYCSee the photos5★ from our guestsRead what guests said1,000+ Instagram followers at @budcade_officialFollow along15 years of Joe building gamesMeet Joe

“Awesome! Chill vibe and great toys!” Olga P., Homegrown NYC

We launched at Trends LIC, one of NYC's largest dispensaries. Budcade is run by Joe Leybovich, a game developer for 15 years (Wheel of Fortune Free Play, Meta's Voice SDK for Unreal, Twister Air, Starbucks VR) and a Certified Steward and Server of Cannabis through CashoM.

How it works

3 steps to your night.

  1. Book a free call

    15 minutes with Joe. Tell us your date, your crowd and your product. We suggest a tier and what to customize.

  2. Pay to lock the date

    Pay for your tier online, then send product and art. We build the co-branded table and prize games around your brand.

  3. We run the night

    Full setup and teardown. You show up and watch your product go home with people.

Questions first? Talk to Joe.

Book a free 15-min call, or call or text (917) 328-8764. We'll pick the right option together.

Book a free callCall (917) 328-8764

joe@budcade.com · @budcade_official · New York metro