From one cabinet to forty

Bonus Stage began in 2020 with a single Street Fighter cabinet in the corner of a café on Call Lane and a shelf of board games from our own homes.

The cabinet never had a free minute, so we found a second, then a warehouse to put them in. Today there are forty-two cabinets, six pinball tables, six hundred games and a workshop where old machines come back to life.

We are still the same idea: a warm place to play with other people, where nobody needs to be good at anything.

A red joystick and six round buttons on an arcade control panel

The crew

Jess Okafor

Founder and head guru

Has taught more than four thousand people to play Catan and still enjoys it.

Danny Clarke

Arcade technician

Restores the cabinets on the bench by the bar. Ask him about capacitors.

Amira Haddad

Events and tournaments

Runs every bracket and has never once lost her clipboard.

Owen Price

Kitchen

Invented the toastie that is named after the final boss.

The workshop by the bar

Every cabinet on the floor has been through our workshop: new screens where the old ones had burnt in, new buttons, cleaned boards and the original artwork kept wherever it survived.

The bench stands in full view of the bar, so you can watch a machine come back to life while you wait for your toastie.

The open back of an arcade cabinet on the workshop bench

Come and say hello

Open from noon every day. The first game is on us if you mention the website.

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