Retro History: Showbiz Pizza Place 🍕
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2017
- Update 2024: If you're joining us from John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment about Chuck E Cheese, welcome! This video will share an even deeper look at the history behind Chuck E Cheese, Showbiz Pizza, and more. Enjoy! 🍕
Watch the history of the Showbiz Pizza Place restaurant franchise, a video by Smartyflix. Started in 1977 by Nolan Bushnell and Atari, the Showbiz Pizza Place restaurant was a roller-coaster of success, often following the trends of the larger video game industry. This is their story...
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INFORMATION SOURCES
* Showbiz Pizza on Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShowBiz...
* The History of Chuck E Cheese and Showbiz Pizza (absolutely instrumental in understanding the complicated history of these brands) - www.showbizpizza.com/info/hist...
* Creative Engineering, Inc. Timeline - engineeringcreative.com/about/...
* Chuck E Cheese vs. Billy Bob Awesome Art - www.deviantart.com/art/Chuck-E...
This video was extremely accurate. Almost uncannily accurate considering how many mistakes I have read about this. The only area I think could have been more accurately portrayed is that I, Aaron Fechter, went on to experiment and invent and market dozens of new entertainment and communication devices and am continuing to work on solutions for our world's energy problems as I was doing before I built my first talking rabbit in 1975. Although I have experienced financial ups and downs, I have never declared bankruptcy, or lost my home, or my company building, or even been in debt, and I am now working to bring my Rock-afire Explosion back into mainstream consciousness through many avenues. I have a beautiful and loving lady in my life, 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren and can still do more push ups than most men half my age. I continue to believe Nolan Bushnell is mostly smoke and mirrors and takes credit for things he did not do.
Awesome, thanks for stopping by to give some additional insight! Glad to hear you're still continuing to find ways to innovate and bring positivity to the world. Good luck with the new Rock-afire, it'd be neat to see what a new generation of technological innovations could bring to the space!
@@smartyflix6898 he's not making a new rockafire, he's just trying to put it out there more
Aaron - have you considered making traveling rockafire bands that can pop up easily at a private home or park? Taking the show to the customer may be a worthy evolution to the original concept. Lots of middle aged money would pay for nostalgia.
Mr. Fechter, your creation of Rockafire Explosion made me a very happy kid. There's something so magical about the stage, lights, curtains, and characters coming to life. I cherish the memories and love that there are videos of your work out there. Thank you!!!
Didn’t expect to see the actual creator of the rockslafire explosion here, wow
I think that show biz should come back plz at least get 5 likes
Genius idea. Showbiz was awesome in the eighties when I was a kid
Right
Where a kid can still be a kid
I was born in 82. I miss this place! Being a kid in the 80's was the best!!!
It's a pretty narrow band of people that remember and appreciate Showbiz, born roughly 78 to 82.
I'm 10 rn. When I was like 8 I wanted to research everything I could about showbiz n cec I wish I could of went to the og chuck e cheese pizza time theater or a showbiz pizza but most showbiz restaurants are either cec or abandoned
Back in the 70s/early 80s Chuck E Cheese was also know for the make-your-own-sundae bar. Soft serve vanilla, tons of butterscotch and as many sprinkles as I could fit on it, for me. I couldn't tell you a single other topping they had because I cared not.
Ğäño que no
Thank you I have been trying to find a good video explaining it all perfect
You're welcome, and thanks for watching!
The Rockafire Explosion Remains In some places arround but mostly in bad condition.
One of the only perfect conditions rockafire is the creative engineering one.
Yes, it's fascinating seeing what has happened to the various Rock-afire setups over the years. It'd be neat to see what could be done with animatronics from the ground up using 2017 technology!
Showbiz Pizza Channel yeah
Billy Bob's Wonderland is one place we should visit!
Well, now I know what happened to ShowBiz! I was always getting those 2 places confused.
Great video man!
The last ad I remember for showbiz pizza was in 1990
That was the year the final original ShowBiz Pizza Place store opened, in Richmond, VA.
Don't forget the fact that Aaron Fecther now has a UA-cam channel dedicated to the Rock afire Explosion called "therockafire" where he makes new shows, repairs animatronics, and still sells his animatronics and merch to this day!
He isn't making new animatronics. He's just making crap for the influx of children who discovered RAE via FNAF.
@@zippymufo9765 You do know I made this comment like 3 years ago right? I know now that all this crap I said wasn't correct. And for the record, when I said "new shows" I meant showtapes as in all his videos from the 2000s.
Cool Video! You've got all your facts straight, luckily. Fundamentally, ShowBiz never stopped existing - they just took the CEC assets and started using those instead..In Fact, the CECE Corporate Headquarters in Irving, TX was originally Brock Hotel Management's until CECE moved to a different facility last year. There is several RAE sets still in operation, but they're mostly in bad shape and you can still visit Aaron in Orlando, FL for CEI's Warehouse tours and the "Behind The Scenes" channel - a $6/Month premium subscription where you can see new products, ideas, and archival videos from Aaron.
Very cool! And yeah, it took a lot of digging and sorting to untangle what everything looked like. Glad I got it pretty close!
I've only been to Showbiz Pizza once. Literally the best pizza ever, and I still remember how it smells and tastes! The guy in the bear costume walked around the place and I was really young, probably 4 or 5 years old, and the bear scared me so much I started crying lol!
I have been chasing a pizza taste comparable to Showbiz Pizza Place for over 30 years. Nothing comes close. 😃
I love it.
The showbiz gang were pretty nice
This video was uploaded on my birthday
showbiz pizza place is good
That was a amazing about what happened in the past of showbiz pizza and chuck e cheese 👌👍🥰❤💖✨.
LOL I love it 😎🤘👌👍🥰💖
Arron Fechter does tours still nobody mentions that on any of these amazing history videos
Aaron charges $300 to take a tour smh
@@kikimusha777 He's a rip off artist. Selling those "starter animatronic kits" for $3,000 when before they were $200 on his website.
Nice one
2:08 my worst nightmare
Nice
I wish they mirge again
Great video! Mostly factual. When the Rock-a-fire Explosion was still in development, they used The Wolf Pack 5 in their first location. It was similar to the RAFE though.
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Showbiz was a true experience. Especially because of the animatronics. Nowadays, Chuck E Cheese's is a boring place with only games. There is no show or theme like they had at the Showbiz themed restaurants. It was a much better atmosphere and experience.
well, some cchuck e. cheese locations still have animatronics
The chuck E cheese placed I've been too still had a chuck e robot
But no one else
I don't want to reveal to much but when I'm older I'm creating my own chuck e cheese like restaurants
You still planning on it?
@@idrinkrawmilk554 yup!
Until this video (which I'm watching in 2023) I had always believed that Showbiz Pizza was the original #astounding 😯❗
It's a really complicated development, between the two restaurants.
Bob Brock was supposed to have adhered to Nolan Bushnell's agreement to establish up to 300 stores in 16 eastern and mid-western states by 1984, and this original plan was derailed after Brock ran into Aaron Fechter, whose Creative Engineering had (in Brock's view) better animatronics than what Chuck E. Cheese's was using, hence the birth of ShowBiz Pizza Place.
My mom and aunt went to showbiz when they were kids so, this is my aunt's email
Showbiz pizza is better then Chuck r cheese like if you agree
Agreed
i saw 'Rock-a-fire Explosion' at Odyssey Fun World
right, but Odyssey Fun World's Rock afire Explosion is in a uh....questionable condition.
I'd pay for that pizza recipe now......!!!
We had two showbiz pizza locations here in Buffalo ny some of my best childhood memories were spent inside these one closed down and the other became this place called major magics horrible !!!!
i heard rock-a-fire-explosion exsited before chuck e.cheese
It's complicated. Watch the video, the timeline is a bit muddy at first. :)
sierra the cupcake overlord it did
Showbiz Fun palace no i know chuck e cheese was first
sierra the cupcake overlord same isn't that the real thing, because showbiz pizza first invented the idea
sierra the cupcake overlord
Creative engineering passed near the concept that Chuck e Cheese started a short time after them.
Them creative engineering and bob brock sign and form showbiz copying and juncting Creative engineering robots with the chuck.e.cheese concept
2:07 that's too many
the bite of 1987
Aka Billy Bob's Pizza Circus
Needs more Pong
And im going to go see one of the ones still remaining in a while :)
ALL IN in West Virginia
Mountain Mama
good ending Bushnell made a comeback after losing it all
Showbiz Pizza was cool.
Yeah it was! Thanks for watching!
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3:33 NOOOOO
lol
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Back ground music
Chucky cheese is always my favorite. :) may the force be will all.☺
It is certainly always an experience!
I like showbiz pizza better than Cec because there's no more pizza time thearte
I didn’t know that driving force behind Atari manned a pizza joint.
Wasn’t he responsible for this thing called Pong?
Showbiz was the bomb!! All the fun and entertainment. Now reduced to Chuck E Cheese and no full band and horrible arcade games. Showbiz should have been and always be the Kid's Place to go not Chuck E. Cheese's
Where a kid stopped being a kid
Chuck E. Cheese is fun to Why you think showbiz came out with their own place
Whyy!!!!! 😭😭😭💔
I Know Bro What The Heck Dude 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
2:51 WE WERE SO CLOSE
jasper t. jowls animatronic channel yeah
Will you ever talk more about uncle klunk because I can’t find accurate info
I honestly have no idea who that is...
@@smartyflix6898 he was an animatronic in showbiz pizza who was only around for a few months before a lot of complaints about him glitching started to show eventually they had to scrap him but again idk as I can’t find accurate information on it
What year was the smile america advert. Was that after or before showbiz pizza and cec because one company?
Not sure on that one, sorry! Check showbizpizza.com as they are a massive resource for all things Showbiz Pizza.
Sid3300 before because it said pizza time thearte
1982-84
It's really bad that they did concept unification to a really such good show it is not fair to The Rock afire explosion I believe Chuck-E-Cheese would do way better if they gave their animatronics an upgrade and completely changed Chuck-E-Cheese characters to all rock afire explosion characters and also the stage needs to have curtains and it can't have video screens also the animatronics shows should be seen without the lights on and also their animatronics need to get an upgrade and it needs to have a show selector in the animatronics need to be interactive with the technology we have now they can put microphones into the animatronics and even the animatronics can respond to kids
Great idea, definitely could be done better today!
I agree with the technology they have today they can make their show way better
I know you like the RAE, but the CEC characters are cool too [except for the Rockstar era versions], and people have nostalgia for the CEC characters too. There can be room for both CEC and RAE.
@@muppetsretrofan8873 the pizza time players are the best show stage that they made and it was really awesome that you could crawl under the stage and there was also a black light room under the stage look up Smitty's super service station on UA-cam and if the rock afire explosion had that then the characters would have to be high up for room for the more advanced air valves for the more advanced animatronic characters the only thing I did not like about the Pizza Time Players was there was no curtains and they just sat Dead In Plain Sight waiting to be operated
Or how about they can just have All showbiz or Billy bob wonderlands up the street from Chuck E. Cheese and yea they should have upgraded the animatronics and have them doing the segments/show sicomes thingy they use to do
I hate how you showed a side by side picture of what the stage looked like when it was a Rockafire... You used the wrong photo. Those were cyberamics, which were PTT's Animatronic designs
Well your kinda wrong the only reason that showbiz isn't around cuase Aron fechter didn't wanna give them the copyrights to use and change the Rae so Cei and Brock went separate ways. Also I'm going on a tour of cei this month so I'll tell you the real truth even if you think I'm incorrect
Cool, thanks for sharing!
This video was extremely accurate. Almost uncannily accurate considering how many mistakes I have read about this. The only area I think could have been more accurately portrayed is that I, Aaron Fechter went on to experiment and invent and market dozens of new entertainment and communication devices and am continuing to work on solutions for our world's energy problems as I was doing before I built my first talking rabbit in 1975. Although I have experienced financial ups and downs, I have never declared bankruptcy, or lost my home, or my company building, or even been in debt, and I am now working to bring my Rock-afire Explosion back into mainstream consciousness through many avenues. I have a beautiful and loving lady in my life, 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren and can still do more pushups than most men half my age. I continue to believe Nolan Bushnell is mostly smoke and mirrors and takes credit for things he did not do.
You’re Awesome Dude 😎
@@therockafire The video wasn't about the history of you and your CE company, it was about Showbiz.
Why did the pizza recipe change though.....???? Showbiz was so much better.....
i would prefer showbiz reason:all the animtronics are cool while chuck-e-cheese... they dont even have a band for chuck-e-cheese anymore i still go to chuck-e-cheese though i dont want to be rude just saying :I
To sum it up fnaf happened
SHOWBIZ PIZZA PLACE IS MORE BETTER THAN CHUCK.E.CHEESE
ok learn grammar lol
SORRY
Why does Robert Brock look like Willem Dafoe
I've never heard Willem Defoe before. Sometimes people would ask if he was game show host Bob Barker.
Did you watch Sam Ramis Spider-Man
@@curlypop No, I did not see it. Robert Brock was my dad so I'm just used to seeing the family resemblance.
ShowBiz was always better CEC sucks period.
CEC sucks now since they gave away the animatronics but they didn’t suck then Ngl showbiz was better but they was no different from Chuck E. Cheese except they did the same thing 😂
Fnaf
I don't like Chuck cheese now
Why
everybody gansta til 6 kids go missing
Bankrupt now
I fucking hate Chuck E. Cheese
Damn
Chuck E. Cheese
I loved Showbiz pizza place better than Yuck E Cheese
Suck E Cheese F$#k E Cheese
CEC KILL BILLY BOB
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