{"id":35204,"date":"2019-12-05T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=35204"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:00:39","slug":"inside-londons-hidden-arcades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/inside-londons-hidden-arcades\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside London&#8217;s hidden arcades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arcades have been around as early as the 1930s and reached a golden age between the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The industry then declined in the west due to the rise of home video game consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. Today in the UK, arcades are in a niche market with only a select group of people going to them I met up with 20-year-old James Hayward who has been into the arcade world for five years now. He took me to some of London&#8217;s hidden arcades and explained to me what they have done for him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside London&#039;s Hidden Aracdes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1k6hPBzYco?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Picks: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/ballon-dor-awards-2019-messi-bags-record-6th-award-with-rapinoe-de-ligt-and-alisson-winning-as-well\/\">Ballon d\u2019Or Awards 2019: Messi bags record 6th award, with Rapinoe, De Ligt and Alisson winning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/south-western-railway-27-day-strike-to-disrupt-christmas-travel\/\">South Western Railway 27-day strike to disrupt Christmas travel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/video-the-war-on-fur\/\">Canada Goose and the war on fur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/which-sporting-moment-has-defined-the-decade\/\">Which sporting moment has defined the decade?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Words and Video: Ashleigh Swan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcades have been around as early as the 1930s and reached a golden age between the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. The industry then declined in the west due to the rise of home video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":35205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,139,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-video","category-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}