This site has previously featured games popping around the centre of Manchester and also at one of Greater Manchester’s southern extremes, Altrincham. Here is news, courtesy of two of this site’s most appreciated contacts, of a site at the other end of Greater Manchester. While it doesn’t even have a Manchester postcode, it’s at the end of the Metrolink, so that only adds to the Manchester feel of the place.

Trapped In opened at the end of October with two sixty-minute rooms for teams of two to six, with more rooms promised soon. The easier of the two rooms has a theme, Air Traffic Control, that is unique and welcome as a result. “Terrorists have attacked the air traffic control tower, kidnapping the air traffic controllers and damaging vital computer systems. You and your team have been called from a nearby airport to come in to get the place back online. You must act quickly as there are planes circling above and they only have enough fuel left to fly for one hour. You must succeed to prevent a massive mid-air disaster. Find the clues to gain access to the control tower and get everything back online before time runs out.”

A slightly stiffer challenge is promised by the Time Machine game. “Mad professor Elias Ivarsson from Sweden has been creatin the world’s first inter dimensional time machine, capable of travelling to any place or time in a matter of seconds, and now he thinks he’s had a breakthrough and created a working prototype. You and your team are responding to a newspaper advert recruiting guinea pigs to test his creation. The risks are clear, but Elias assures you that everything is safe as long as you’re not away for more than 60 minutes as power reserves are limited. Climb aboard his marvellous creation and prepare to become a part of history as you are the first humans to travel in space and time. Choose your time and place and go explore, but make sure you’re back before the power is exhausted.” – for, if you don’t, perhaps you will find yourself trapped in the wrong era altogther.

The Ela Mill site has one other very distinctive offering; upstairs from Trapped In is Arcade Club, a massive collection of old arcade games, pinball tables, consoles and computers. Pay once and you can spend six hours on Friday, twelve hours on Saturday or six hours on Sunday exploring the whole works, set to free play. Ooh. Ooooooooooh.