Lex Lang

Review of Namco Funscape London

I want to love this place. No, I do love this plac...

I want to love this place. No, I do love this place. But it's also fallen a long way (and it was never classy). I've been going there on and off since it opened well over a decade ago and it still offers the same good things: pool tables, bowling and arcade games (and an on-site McDonalds. And beer.). Sadly, the range and type of arcade games has diminished over the years and most of the really interesting novelty ones have gradually been replaced by standard driving and shooting games. Is that terrible? No. But now it's just a bigger version of a little arcade on a beach front.

Where's the 4-platter laser-clay-pigeon-shooting? Where's the foam-sword samurai simulator? The VR anti-aircraft helmet? The boxing games where you have to physically dodge your opponent? All gone.

Sigh. Anyone for another round of Time Crisis 5?

Ok then...