{"id":102747,"date":"2016-09-19T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T07:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102747"},"modified":"2016-09-19T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T07:02:08","slug":"the-awesome-photos-of-what-arcades-looked-like-before-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/102747-the-awesome-photos-of-what-arcades-looked-like-before-video-games","title":{"rendered":"The awesome photos of what arcades looked like before video games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaming arcades existed long before video games ever entered the mainstream.<\/p>\n

“In the days before video games, amusement arcades like Wonderland were filled with a panoply of analog entertainment, from shooting galleries to skee-ball to mechanical fortune tellers to endless varieties of pinball,” reports Mashable<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

One such place was Wonderland Arcade,\u00a0 located near a major bus transfer point at the corner of 12th and Grand in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n

Check out the awesome photos below:<\/p>\n

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Did you play arcade games growing up? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yes, arcades actually used to exist before video games – this is what they looked like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":104361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8585],"tags":[21603,721,19996,2501],"class_list":["post-102747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-gadgets","tag-analog","tag-arcade","tag-photo","tag-pinball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}