Mighty Arcade: A Custom Kids Arcade for Your Waiting Room | Mighty Pedia
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The Mighty Arcade

Give patients your own branded arcade.

Kids scan the poster at your front desk and your arcade opens on the phone already in their hand. Original games, your logo, your real team. No kiosk to buy, nothing to sanitize between patients, and it keeps playing after they go home.

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Try our sample practice on your own phone!

Dr. Sarah, a friendly dentist character
How it works

Live in weeks,
not months.

1

We build your arcade

Send us your logo, colors, and team. We build, brand, and host the whole arcade, custom Team Cards included.

2

You set out the kit

Your standee, poster, and postcards arrive printed and branded. Set them out, add the link to your site, and you're live.

3

It goes home with them

The same arcade opens on the couch that night. New games appear in it on their own, with nothing to install.

What's in the arcade

A library of original dental games.

Not the stock titles that ship on every kiosk. These are ours, made for young dental patients, and every screen carries your branding. There is a set of printables in there too, from brushing charts to mazes.

Riley's First Visit, the pre-visit storybook Memory Game Jigsaw Game Sugar Bug Pop Tooth Run Coloring Pages
More on the way

New games are added to your arcade automatically. Nothing to install, nothing for you to do.

Team Cards for your whole team.

Every provider and staff member gets a collectible card, with a signature move and a fun fact on the back. Kids meet your faces before they ever sit in the chair.

A page of Riley's First Visit: Riley sits on a couch holding Ollie the otter.

See and hear before arriving.

Riley's First Visit walks a child through the appointment in order, and three of the moments are hands-on. They drive the chair up and back. They hold Mr. Thirsty, the saliva ejector, over the puddle until it drains. They run the polisher across Riley's teeth until the last stain lifts. Each one is theirs to control, and each one plays real sound effects.

Send it with your appointment reminder. By the time they arrive, the room is somewhere they've already been.

Why pre-visit prep works

The fun is how you get them to open it.

The AAPD's 2023 behavior guidance review rates two things as having a large effect for preventive visits: modeling, where a child sees the visit before it happens to them, and mobile applications. Riley's First Visit is built as modeling. The games are what make a kid come back to it.

1 in 3 children ages 2 to 6 show dental anxiety Sun et al., Journal of Dentistry, 2024. Meta-analysis of 25 studies.
50% of dentally fearful adults say it started in childhood Locker et al., 1999.
Lower heart rates in children who used a dental-themed app before treatment Elicherla et al., 2019. Aziz & Jafar, 2023.

In a 2022 randomized trial, children whose parents got a simple preparation booklet before a first visit were measurably more cooperative in the chair and reported less pain. Preparation that happens at home doesn't cost you chair time.

The kiosk alternative

Thinking about a waiting room kiosk?

Most waiting room entertainment means one shared touchscreen on the wall. It works, but it costs thousands, it's one more surface to sanitize, and it plays the same stock games as every other office. The Mighty Arcade takes a different path.

A typical game kiosk Mighty Arcade
Where kids play One shared touchscreen Each family's own phone or tablet
Hardware Purchase, mounting, repairs None. Scan a QR code and play
Content Stock games, the same in every office Original games with your brand and your real team
The vibe Hyperactive, twitchy games Calm, curious play that settles pre-visit nerves
After the visit Stays bolted to your wall Comes home with them
Winning new families Only seen inside your office A star on your website and social channels
Over time Same games, aging hardware A growing library of games and stories

Play the demo arcade and see for yourself →

Try it yourself

Get the demo arcade.

Tell us about your practice and we'll send you a link to a live demo arcade. Play the games, read the storybook, flip through the Team Cards. It works on any phone or tablet browser.

No payment, no account to create. We'll email you a link that just works, plus occasional updates about the Mighty Arcade. Unsubscribe anytime.

Questions, answered

Is it safe for kids? What about privacy?

Yes, by design. The arcade collects nothing: no accounts, no logins, no personal information. Your patient's name and character live only on their own device, and the certificate prints right from their browser. Fully COPPA-conscious from the ground up.

How long does setup take?

About two weeks for most practices. Send us your logo, colors, and team, and we build, brand, and host everything, including your custom Team Cards. Your counter standee, poster, and postcards ship to you printed and branded. Set them out, add one link to your website, and you're live.

How many games are there, and does that grow?

Four activities today: the Riley's First Visit storybook, a memory game, jigsaw puzzles, and a coloring book, plus a set of printables. New titles are added on an ongoing basis and appear in your arcade automatically, with nothing to install and nothing for you to do.

How is this different from a waiting room game kiosk?

Kiosks put generic games on one shared touchscreen that you buy, mount, and maintain. The Mighty Arcade is software: kids play on their own family's devices, every screen carries your brand and your real team, and the arcade follows them home after the visit. There's no hardware to purchase and nothing to sanitize between patients.

Is there evidence any of this actually works?

The AAPD's 2023 behavior guidance guidelines rate two things as having a large effect for preventive visits: modeling, where a child sees the visit before it happens to them, and mobile applications. Filmed modeling has tested as effective as running Tell-Show-Do in the chair (Paryab & Arab). In two randomized trials, children who used a dental-themed app before treatment showed measurably lower heart rates (Elicherla et al., 2019; Aziz & Jafar, 2023).

That's the specification Riley's First Visit was built to: the procedure, in order, with its real sounds, days before the appointment.

We already have a kids page on our site.

Perfect, you already have the spot for it. Point your kids page at your arcade instead of sending families off to third-party game sites.

Do we need to install anything?

No. The arcade is hosted by us and lives at its own link. It works on any phone, tablet, or computer, and there's nothing for your website company to maintain.

What ages is it for?

Built for roughly ages 3 to 9, the first-visit and early-visit years where a little preparation goes the longest way.

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