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Ever wonder how escape rooms started?

16/04/2018 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

Ever wonder how escape rooms started? Well we have created a short summary telling you all about
it!


In 2004 a video game of escape rooms was created called ‘Crimson room’, Takoa Kato who is
founder of the Japanese company SCARP created a live version created in Kyoto in 2007 after being
inspired by a girl playing an online escape room. It became a popular tourist attraction and
suggested to be the start of them spreading throughout Japan and into Southeast Asia.
Parapark in Budapest, Hungary was the first city in Europe to create a live escape game by the owner
of the Hungarian company Attila Gyurkovics, from this they then operated in 20 locations
throughout Europe and Australia.


Breakout Manchester opened its doors in May 2014 across from the Town Hall with our one room
‘John Monroe Detective Office’. Shortly after in June 2014 we opened our second room Virus, since
Virus we then expanded to having 5 rooms!


In January 2015 we opened a temporary second Breakout Centre in Manchester’s Great Northern
with the twin rooms in which the players need to pass an exam to complete their final stages of
secret agent training.


In November 2015 we opened our High street location with brand new rooms Facility X, Vacancy and
Monroe’s Detective Office which was identical to the one at our Town Hall location. From here we
now have 9 rooms at our High street location from solving a murder to becoming a spy!
With our 14 rooms in total across the two Manchester centres you now have a wide variety of rooms
to choose from, please take a look on www.breakoutmanchester.com/rooms to decide which one
you fancy tackling!

Don't worry if you don't live in the Manchester area, we now have a number of rooms available at our other locations in Liverpool, Chester and Cardiff. 

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