Incredible Technologies

Biochemist Elaine Hodgson and Richard Ditton, who had written software for NASA, started the company in July 1985 under the name Free Radical Software, working out of their own home. It took on contract programming and built pinball hardware before it became Incredible Technologies. Its first coin-operated video game came out in 1988, and in 1989 it launched a golf game played with a trackball that grew into its best-known product. The company is privately owned, has its headquarters in Vernon Hills, Illinois, and still makes arcade games through a separate division.

Falling coin-op sales pushed the company toward gambling machines. In 2008 it released its first casino games, video slots, video poker and keno, and they went into play on a cruise ship before any U.S. casino had them. Its slots reached American casino floors in 2011. It now makes Class II, Class III and historical horse racing machines, and a 2025 trade report counted licenses in 250 jurisdictions, covering most U.S. states plus Canada, Mexico, France, the Netherlands and the Caribbean.

Its casino hardware comes in two families. The Infinity line started with the U23 cabinet around 2014. The Infinity Skybox of 2015 stacked a tall 55-inch vertical screen on a U23, and the Infinity V55 of 2017 used one 55-inch 4K vertical touchscreen. Later Infinity models added side screens or an overhead monitor, and 4K Edge displays could sit between the machines in a bank. The Prism family followed: the Prism VXP (2021), whose 55-inch rear screen rises on a motor, the single-screen Prism Element (2023) and the Prism Skybox, with two 43-inch screens, released in 2025.