Diane Wilkinson, 42, and Ryan Richardson, 32, who met while working together in social care, have teamed up to create Up A Level – a new gaming lounge located across several floors in 26 Market Street.
Diane explained: “We initially thought of a few different ventures – we looked at buying something established and even put an offer in - but ended up finding this place and we fell in love with the space.
“We always wanted to bring the different elements of gaming together – people tend to just offer one aspect, tabletop or console, but we wanted to combine them all. We don’t know anywhere else in the UK that’s currently offering both.”
Up A Level offers a mixture of tabletop and console style gaming over two floors with the bottom floor offering an open living room style space with sofas and tables.
There are three separate rooms – one with a large table, one with arcade games, and another with two gaming chairs as well as Infinity Tables - machines which operate like a big iPad and allow multiple people to play interactive games - and a food and drink station offering hot and cold food and drinks.
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