Though generally targeted more towards families and tourist groups, it has also been a site of numerous official and unofficial esports tournaments for arcade video games as well as location tests.

[3] The company opened one of its largest sites, the Wonder Eggs theme park, in February 1992, containing early attractions developed in-house such as Galaxian 3 and Sim Road.

[4] At the same point in time, Namco and Sega in particular sought to establish a stronger amusement presence in other parts of the world, building on earlier distribution work carried out.

[1] Designed by London-based architectural firm Proun[7] and initially ran as a sister location to the aforementioned Wonderpark in Soho, mainstream coverage came from newspapers such as The Independent[8] and The Guardian; the latter conducted interviews with Namco Europe directors John Bollom and Derrick Lynch, playtesting the Pinpoint Shot and Ridge Racer Full Scale attractions based on previous examples found at Wonder Eggs.

[18] At the end of July 2021, arcade-focused news website Arcade Heroes and industry specialist Kevin Williams reported Namco Funscape County Hall was to close permanently in August.

A small number of arcade machines were located in the centre's entrance at ground level, with the majority being accessed through two adjacent escalators to the basement floor.

As well as additional bowling lanes, the facilities enabled Funscape to offer corporate entertainment packages for parties, as well as over 18s areas for fruit machines.