Leisure Exchange
From Sega Retro
Leisure Exchange PLC was a company who operated Video Game Arcades and Gambling Venues in the United Kingdom.
On March 31, 2000, Sega Amusements Europe sold all the remaining Sega Park Venues they owned to the company as well as a five-year deal. With this, Leisure Exchange were able to open new venues under the Sega Park name and open areas dedicated to Gambling Machines under the Sega name, known as Sega Casino.
After a while, Leisure Exchange began to convert some of the Sega Parks into their own branding or close them down. The company has since been defunct, and it's unknown when they officially ceased operations. The only former Leisure Exchange venue that remains open as an arcade is the Bournemouth venue, which currently trades independently as Fun Central.
Venues
- Sega Park & Casino Colindale
- Sega Park Basildon
- Leisure Exchange and Quasar Elite Bournemouth
- Leisure Exchange Brighton
- Sega Park Harlow
- The Leisure Exchange Harrow
- The Leisure Exchange Holborn
- Sega Park Southampton
- Leisure Exchange Tower Hill
- Sega Park Wood Green
- Sega Park Tamworth
Website
Leisure Exchange had a Sega Park website with a message board, where users could post about the arcades.
However, Leisure Exchange rarely ever updated the site, and the message board would later be full of vulgar and offensive material. An employee of Leisure Exchange would later post on the message board in March of 2004 saying:
"Leisure Exchange PLC is seeking legal action against those responsible for posting offensive material on this website. It is unfortunate that we’ve been forced to take this action but due to the extreme nature of some postings we have no other option. We have a duty to our customers and shareholders to uphold the company image and WE WILL NOT allow a small minority to tarnish it! By ‘offensive material’ we mean abusive language, threating behavior and unjustified attacks against members of staff or the company. In the time coming, we will be approaching the ISP of any poster who has carried out such an activity WITH THE VIEW TO PROSECUTE! You have been warned!"
Leisure Exchange updated the site in October of 2004 to remove the offensive and vulgar material from the message board. The website went offline in Mid 2006.