Wonderville Adds Two New Arcade Cabinets

Wonderville installs two new cabinets at a launch party on Saturday, Oct. 24, the Brooklyn arcade bar announced. The first is The Indomitable Rocket Dog by Andy Wallace, a fast, physics-based platformer time trial about a dog that rocket-jumps through what its Steam page calls "a psychedelic club," with N++, Neon White, and Sonic the Hedgehog cited as reference points. A demo with the full level editor is playable on itch.io, and a Steam release is planned for 2026.

The party, billed as Dogs & Penguins, runs from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Wonderville, the Brooklyn bar and event space built around independently made arcade games. In the evening, the room turns over to SHELLRAISER, the October algorave from the live-coding collective livecode.nyc.

The second cabinet is Waddle Throttle by Jason Corace, a local-multiplayer mashup of figure skating and sumo wrestling in which penguins fight to be the last one standing. It began as a 2024 Wondercab residency cabinet at Wonderville, logged more than 1,800 plays at Super MAGFest 2025, and gets a home release on Steam and itch.io in 2026.

Wallace is a professor of game design at Long Island University whose work has shown at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, SFMoMA and the Museum of the Moving Image.

For more reading, see Killscreen on Wonderville's Step Right Up! cabinet, the Wondercab Residency open call and a night when nine games replaced the gamepad at Wonderville.