Chuck E. Cheese's Origin Story Is Sadder Than You Remember
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Weird History Food is taking you back to relive Chuck E. Cheese - The real-life story of Chuck E. Cheese, the global pizza franchise, is one of hubris, technological advancement, and the shifting entertainment tastes of the United States. What started as the brainchild of a video game guru looking to update the arcade concept became a cheerfully retro fast-food juggernaut that is still seeking to define itself in the internet era.
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I went there a lot when I was a kid. I vividly remember being blown away when some teenagers graciously donated their tickets to me. Ever since, on the occasion I find myself in an arcade that offers tickets, I give it away to kids, or sometimes adult who are collecting. The reaction of the kids are worth everything.
If it was the chuck e cheese in detroit i used to do that! Along with Major Magics
@@Shad0wBoxxer No, it was Wayne, NJ
That's so nice @April & @Slade Darklighter, the kids would be ecstatic over that. Well done u both for giving back to what was given to u as a kid. If only everyone else out there was as kind hearted. Also as an adult ur there to play in the arcade for fun not building ya tickets up for a moustache & comb 🤣❤️
Thanks to growing up on Chuck E Cheese in the 80s, I am a master at skeeball. And because some awesome dude gave me a shit ton of tickets when I was little, I do the same as you whenever I find myself killing it in skeeball at an arcade.
They aint got it in Blighty
I loved Chuck E Cheese......... As a kid you never notice the poor pizza quality, the bored and underpaid staff, or the filthy poorly maintained animatronics.... it was truly magical.
I was once invited to go to my nephews party at chuck e cheese. And omg it was horrifing lol. But i never remembered any of that lol
I always thought the pizza wasn’t too bad. I’ve def had worse.
Yea the demeaning humor of the narrator gets tiresome. Pizza bad!
It was a magical place! As a kid, it was lights, colors, pizza and game tickets!
I don't remember staff or anything negative lol
@@IAmMisterD same here man. I loved that place. Only went maybe 3× & I remember once when I was already older, like maybe 12 and it wasn't what I remembered.. there is just something magical about being a kid that I think every adult forgets. Even myself.
That mouse and his gang scared the crap out of me at 6 years old. I'm 36 and his eyes still creep me out a little.
😂❤️ agreed
My one and only experience of the inside of any one of those places even in my twenties was enough to cut me off from ever going back
Then boy, do you probably hate FNAF…
@@thebestcentaur that doesn't bother it's animation on a screen in a game, but if Chucky and his crew make an odd move on that stage I'm out or they eyes stop blanking im out lol
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I actually worked as the Costume Character at my local Chuck E. Cheese. My senior year of high school. It was a great way to burn fat. Lol! And all I really had to do was take care of the costume, rotate the music video DVD, and prepare birthday cake with sprinkles and names. It was great time!
I’ve been a mascot at a few odd events and I always felt like it was way more fun than it should’ve been. Good for you! Kids still go crazy for those characters
I'm surprised they know what a high schooler looks like. Once went with my dad someplace and had to use the bathroom. It was late and the only place open besides wherever he needed to go to pick up something was Chuck E. He suggested I go there. I got denied entry and was told to come back with my parents. All I needed to do was pee. Dad wasn't happy and the ride back wasn't good.
What is a DVD?
Hi, bud. Were you Rick Rat?
Me too, even my senior year. I lasted 2 weeks. I hated it. Scraping smashed pizza out of that nasty carpet nightly was horrible.
Believe it or not, there was at least one located in Hong Kong back in the early 80’s, when it was still a British colony. As a kid growing up in HK, visiting Chuck E. Cheese was a major event.
That sounds like a fascinating time to come up.
Yeah!
Did your face get happy?
I dunno, maybe it's just being a child of the 80s, but the animatronics never frightened me as a child.
90s kid, me neither. I guess I could see them being part of the “uncanny valley”, definitely not frightening, just strange looking now that I’m older.
Then you didn't see the ones at Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota. 😁
Kudos to them for the ghost kitchen thing. That whole industry did boom once every restaurant realized they could be 5 restaurants. The food probably mostly sucked, but it's still a genius idea.
Not for the workers who had to make all those orders, though....
An orphan just wanting to give kids the best birthday ever because he never had a a birthday celebration of his own is surprisingly wholesome
I agree and I think they should've leaned into, maybe even did some donations to charities, might have been some good PR
When my friend’s daughter was only about 3 years old, she couldn’t say Chuck E. Cheese. So when she would want to go to Chuck E. Cheese, she would ask her dad, “daddy, can we please go to Chunky Jesus?“ It was WAY TOO funny!
🤣🤣🤣omg this made me laugh so hard! Hahaa👍🏻
To be fair, Chunky Jesus sounds amazing compared to the actual name lol
JoJo reference
@@TheFos88 just need to go to any church in the south and you will get yourself a big helping of chunky jesus
Now I want to start a band. You know what I want to name it.
I had some of the best and fun memories as a kid there during the 1990s. Chuck E Cheese has a special place in my heart next to Toys R Us!
Do you remember Adventure Zone
Me too! 🙋🏼♀️
The animatronics were always “broken” when I went. As an adult, I realize that was a smart choice on their part hahaha
"Charles was an orphan"
The absolute savagery.
As an adult I know it's only the nostalgia that makes me love that place. It's pizza was bland, the games would break, and the band only half worked at the branch I went to. But considering the shit childhood I had, where the only time I saw my moms side of the family was at chuck e cheese, that place was a God send. Literally some of my happiest shild hood memories are there.
Growing up in trashy envoirments makes for a pleasently low standard. Carried me well through life. Very little is disappointing when you grow up poor. Breaks from a deeply and truly awful household seemed wonderful no matter how cheap
My dad was a district manager for Chuck E Cheese and I used to get to go to work with him. Handfuls of tokens. Got to make my own pizzas and sundaes. It was awesome!
I recall a couple of early 80s birthdays here, mine and other kids. The video games were definitely the best part, although to my single digit age palate the pizza was pretty good too. And the animatronics would sing happy birthday which was hella exciting when you were 7. Organ Piper had better pizza but was already too old school by 1985.
I went a few times as a teenager there to both the San Jose, and Modesto locations but I did not know that the San Jose location was the original. For me was usually overwhelming. Not the chaotic atmosphere of those places but because of how it overstimulated my parents lol.
I used to go to the Fairfield one as a kid back in the early 2000s, and I never really started to think about the origins of this until that one Five Nights At Freddy’s fad came up, for me it was definitely easy to get lost in the whole novelty of it all as a kid, lol
@@kitcutting ☺️🍕
A teenager...?
@@brettjohnson536 Sure Brett. They had bigger arcades than my home town ever did.
We had a Showbiz Pizza where I lived as a kid and I used to love it. Playing all those awesome Atari arcade games was a lot of fun. =)
I wish they kept with Showbiz cause I'm not gonna lie their band didn't look as creep as Chuck e cheese
I remember seeing ads for Showbiz Pizza 🍕 as a kid but I never had the chance to go as it was about 60 miles away. 🙄
I grew up in a military family. My father was a no nonsense SF guy and a Vietnam vet. Hard as a coffin nail. My mom roped him into taking me and my sisters to Chuckie cheese. He'd seen some shit in Nam, but the look on his face by the time we left made me think it broke him. We all gave him a hug and promised we wouldn't ever go back. Too funny 🤣
I collected quite a few Showbiz Pizza tokens during the 80s. I always put one in my back pocket and brought it home each time I was there for my birthday or some other kid's birthday or some after summertime activity get-together. I got a lot of tokens still to this day.
Go play some ski-ball.
We got Showbiz Pizza tokens from Chuck E Cheese. I've never even seen a Showbiz Pizza!
@@promontorium The tokens all work at either.
So glad I found this channel (or I guess found Weird History and subsequently found this sister channel) because I was so crazy about DidYouKnowGaming's sister channel DidYouKnowFood but they made like 5 videos then stopped abruptly. This is great!!
Do you watch Food Theory ?
@@notbomba never heard of it but I'm going to look into it now
Homosexual alert ⚠
As a child I found him creepy…
As an adult, I find Chuck E Cheese terrifying
It’s a tie between Chuck and Ronald McDonald for me.
@@rosiey172 I think making that giant rat tiny makes him even more haunting lol
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Five Nights at Freddy's did not help either
How are you scared of a rat ?
I remember going to one as a young 7 year old. One of the animatronics sparked and caused a small fire. Needless to say, that was the highlight of the party.
Don't worry. The employee put it right out.
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This never happened...but ok
@@samholdsworth420 If you went in 1990. It was badly needed for an upgrade, but the company didn't do it.
@@samholdsworth420 You say that like you legitimately know the person...were you there?
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Never been.-Was beyond happy to go to the "Hut".
And lucky to get 50c to
battle Space Invaders😣
The K-Mart K-Cafe would be great to see.
I remember one of the characters singing “she works hard for the money,” by Donna Summers in the nineties
lol
This whole video is just hilarious. Thanks so much 😁
Had my first birthday here in ‘88, and still have a VHS of that day somewhere at my parents house lol 😊
They sang Good Day Sunshine haha 😆
My favorite thing about chuck e cheese was the overnight stay event that I got to attend.
Staying the night at chuck e cheeses. playing AS MANY games as you want, free tokens, so much pizza. AND doughnuts for breakfast.
Looking back at it now, I question the sanity of whoever thought of it, props to the adults stuck with all of us, and sad that something like this will NEVER happen again.
I actually went to a birthday party of one of my nephews at the San Jose Chuck E. Cheese's in the early 80s. Kind of like an additional babysitter for his party with food and game benefits! Haha! It was a decent fun time and I remember the pizza wasn't horrible but not really that memorable either!
All these years living in San Jose, and seeing that 30 ft mouse in the building, and I never knew it was the first Chuck E Cheese
I didn't know it was the first one they tried to have one in Milpitas but it didn't survive
I'm so sorry you live in San Jose
@@horacegentleman3296 hey its lovely here....don't be a hater unless you live in Paradise... Even then your pity is not accepted
@@rogerdogger6969 yes it is lovely there, I'm from Santa Cruz myself. The problem isn't the place itself, it's the laws, the people, the taxes, the cops, etc. Beautiful place, sadly infested with modern civilization.
@@horacegentleman3296 okay let's just take this and make it strange I live in Horace Mann District of downtown. Santa Cruz used to be my Escape Plan until the earthquake once the Catalyst burn down and then they did all that renovation to Ocean and a few other areas it lost the old-timey feel down there so I stopped going.
One of my earliest memories is being completely terrified underneath a Chuck E. Cheese table while those freaky things ‘performed’.
These old videos of showbiz pizza feels like something out of a dystopian nightmare lol...and as a kid growing up in the 80s, i always wanted to go.
The stomp spider arcade game was my favorite part of chuck E. cheese.
Pinball was mine
I was so scared of the animatronics! I remember going to chuck e cheese when I was really young in the early 00s, I went up to chuck e cheese between sets and he was just standing there, head down eyes open. terrifying...but now it's an iconic memory for me. I'm glad I got to experience seeing them.
OMG ... Our daycare used to take us to Chuck E. Cheese on outing days circa early 90s. I actually loved the robotics and was constantly trying to figure out how they work. Fast forward to today and I sometimes work with robots or the same algorithms that run robots.
Back during the covid lockdowns Chuck e cheese was offering $5 to go pizzas. I've only been there once in my life and didn't have fond memories of the pizza but it was the only thing around. I stopped and got one and it was actually a damn good pizza. I've ordered from there a couple of times since.
I knew a college guy named daniel who used to work for them and had company connections i.e knew serious dirt so when he assured me the pizza wasn’t crap I was surprised tasting it😏
Chuck E. Cheese will always be a memory in my heart! Had one of my birthday parties there, good times! We all had a fun time! ❤😂🐭🍕
I love this place! Loved Chuck as Friar's Club reject, loved him as a 90's dude, love him how as sanitized symbol. I am so happy that the chain survived the pandemic. Chuck E. Cheese forever!!!!
I remember when I was 10 I was living in a foster care group home. It was my friends birthday, he got to choose 2 other kids to take to chuck e cheese.
Right as we were getting ready to walk out to the van, the tornado siren went off. It started to pour and hail. We went back inside to hear a tornado warning playing on the TV. We went to the basement and waited. I remember getting upset because I thought the tornado was going to stop us from going.
An hour felt like forever, but we got to go anyway.
I interviewed with Alan Bushnell once. Came across as more of a shuckster than a real inventor.
Is it me or does Chuck E Cheese smell funky?
No they smell funky
I loved this place! Not the show because it kind of scared me. But I loved the tube structures to climb in. And the last time I went I was maybe 11 and it was my baby brother’s birthday and I felt too old to be there anymore. I was in such a mood and I got in a little fight with whoever was wearing the chuckee costume haha
I forgot about the tube structures there. I only remember those at McDonalds/BurgerKing back in the day
@@Hawtload ah yes!! I remember my mother sighing as whenever us kids went to McDonald’s we just played rather than eat anything 😂
Honestly, I never understood the hate about those animatronic animals. I guess I'm too much of a geek. I loved them as a kid, along with the rows of video games. I don't remember anything about the pizza, but I was too much into the games to notice.
I never hated them
Same, like yeah they’re admittedly pretty weird looking but the work that goes into maintaining and designing them totally outweighs it in my eyes.
There’s so much talent that goes into these animatronic shows that go unnoticed, and that’s kinda lame.
Pizza and vidya games are still a staple of my household lol
I would love to create a horror themed Chuck E. Cheese style arcade place. Like with bloody animatronic characters holding medieval battle axes, in a dark and gloomy horror cabin type place.
And you could call it Feudal Nights at Freddy's.
@@jmal I was thinking the same thing!😜
Noooooo
The animatronics are still imbedded in my brain 25 years later
The arcade and ball pit were everything. Broken up by running over to free soda refills and asking parents for more money.
This video doesn't mention what my dad pointed out why parents loved the place too, it had one entrance/exit. For a few dollars you could send your kids off and not have to worry about them for a couple hours while they get all their energy out. The adults could have a couple beers and chill. They go home the kids are burned out and ready for bed. Quiet stress free evening for the parents.
"POGGERS!"
- Chuck E. Cheese
I got scared by Chuck E Cheese when I was 3. We never went back 😂😂 Dave and Busters is a lot more fun!! Would love a video on them!
ahhh yes, the deep lore
The history of "Wimpy" burger restaurant, and "Happy Eater" restaurants in the UK would be wonderful. They are awesome childhood-memory places, wonderfully British, and very old.
Wait... is the Popeye character who so often eats burgers named after the "Wimpy" restaurant chain?
Considering wimpy burger is not at all British!
It was founded in the United States and went to Britain!
Wait, isn't Wimpy South African?
@@mwilkins1644 because it's not!
I've never been there, but when I was a young teen, I remember some of my classmates and/or friends talking about how great this place was. I was jealous.
I grew up in San Jose and went to the big Chuck E Cheese there in the late 90s early 2000s. That place shaped what I thought it meant to be an adult. The posters of the characters looking tough in an alley way, some of them looking like they’re in a jazz band. It’s a huge place too. It was like going to Carnegie Hall for a 5 year old
And.... the nightmares return.
So don’t have these in the U.K., but I think they look so cool. Like they are kinda creepy as a adult, but as a kid - I think I’d have love them!
As a kid, I used to have every birthday at Chuck E. Cheese's. It really is one of those only when you are a kid will you enjoy this experiences.
@@SeraphinaPZ It look a lot better nowadays. Before 1980, it seems a bit creepy.
Maybe I am weird but I would have been scared witless if taken there when a child. Come to think of it I'd be pretty unsettled even now.
What?? What do you guys have instead? Or is there just a void where Chucky Cheese should be?
@@west-coast-willy The void is a deep and mouse-less. We used to have a thing called Franky’s and Benny’s, which was Italian-American themed. It was kinda like a old 20’s gangster bar. There was a mouse character for kids, who dressed up like a 20s gangster with a fedora and pin striped suit. But I think probably saw him one time! in the many years I’ve been there. They got rid of his character completely.
In-N-Out has such a crazy cult following in America, and I think it would be really cool to see a video on their origins, why they are stuck in the West, etc
Plenty of those here & I have never heard of this cult
@@msatxgault560 do you know what colloquialisms are lmao?
Chuck E Cheese was pretty cool when I was a kid. In S.C., it took over this place called Showbiz Pizza where Billy Bob was the mascot. Good times😄
My favorite thing about Chuck E. Cheese was that someone in my Girl Scout troop's adult advisors knew one of the 'big cheese' folks at Chuck E. Cheese's corporate, so my Juniors troop got to tour their Research and Development facility. We heard about all kinds of exciting potential games and ideas, including a variation on human pinball/pachinko, which to my kid brain sounded like the most amazing thing ever.
"And as you'd expect from a kid whose middle name stood for Entertainment, Charles was an orphan."
For a related bit of creepiness, I would recommend viewing, without context, and preferably with friends, the video floating around named Concept Unification, distributed internally by restaurants who were transforming from Showbiz branding to Chuck E Cheese branding.
Nothing intentionally disturbing, it's mostly boring actually, but that's just upping the background creepiness factor. The worst you'll see is animatronics internals.
By 1977 I had enough of truck driving (25 years) and decided to slow down despite a pay cut… I started working at Chuck E Cheese’s as a prep cook. Enjoyed it, re the job. I worked their till 2005
Really? Because the first location opened in 1977 and was the only location opened in 1977. It closed in 1985. Then was torn down later.. did you work at another location?
I can't be the only person that's never even stepped foot inside of a Chuck E. Cheese at all in my 23 years of life. I am familiar with the resturant but I have no never been inside of one.
I wasn't in a Chuck-E-Cheese until I was in my early thirties. wait till you have kids and their friends have Chuck e cheese birthday parties you have to go with them to. 😂
@@SpearFisher85 Oh god. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I used to love them as a kid. They were much better back in the 80's
They are horrible noise chambers now. They removed the theater part and it's all just a big arcade
I’ve never stepped foot inside one and I’m 43. It was my generation that was targeted and I sure as hell always wanted to go. But my parents probably didn’t think to take me and I never thought to ask them lol.
You’d be a richer man if you had! 🤣
I remember when an employee left a roll of tickets behind and I took it,had about 3,000 tickets 😂
I always went to Showbiz Pizza as a kid because Chuck E.Cheese was way across town. Then Showbiz closed down and Chuck moved into the building and I worked there all through college.
My local Chuck-E-Cheese was awesome. They had teen night for teens only twice a month in the mid 80’s, no child or parents. It was a lot of fun. They has lip syncing contests, different types of music, free pizza and all the games we wanted to play.
Chuck's back story has gone through more reboots than Pete Parker's or Bruce Wayne's.
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Why is that?
Youth memories. And adult memories. Kicking back on a hot day. Pitcher of beer and good pizza that doesn't taste like cardboard w/ tomato sauce.🤩👍❤❤🤠🤓😝😁
My favorite thing about Chuck E Cheese was that one time when he randomly turned to the camera and shouted "PAWGERZ" at me.
oh man, my childhood... Weird History you are my favorite channel(s)
The one I used to go to was in Tacoma, WA. They had a big window with a rotating statue of Chuck E. Cheese. They just recently replaced the statue with a lame neon sign with "Cool Chuck", which is weird because that version was one redesign behind the current one.
When I was a kid, we went to Shakey’s and Piece ‘O Pizza for pizza. We were entertained by actual human people playing old timey tunes on a piano or a banjo. I have to say, I think I was a lot less traumatized than the kids who went to Chuck E Cheese for pizza and robots, especially since the food we ate was actually pretty good.
I remember Shakey's but we never had piece o Pizza out here
I am a 90's kid. I had a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese and Discovery Zone (DZ).
I grew up with ShowBiz Pizza Place actually. I can still remember my church youth group taking a trip there each year (as the closest was over an hour from our homes) and it being a huge deal every single time! It was like a indoor Six Flags to my child self.
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“Like a shotgun wedding, a child of compromise.” That’s a great line!
This is the best story I never knew I needed to be told.
I'll never forget Chuck E Cheese because this was the first time I ever experienced the zone. Accidentally. While playing video games.
When I was a teenager, the local Chuck E Cheese was next to the theater. After a movie, my chum and I tried to go in to play some games but they wouldn't allow entry by anyone under eighteen without an adult.
May a pox be upon Chuck E Cheese and his cardboard mockery of pizza!
Also, the Chuck E Cheese near my childhood home burned when I was seven and never rebuilt.
Such cherished memories.
that very first chuck e cheese in sj the two story one at 2:18, I used to go there all the time as a kid, it spoiled me on all other chuck e cheeses, 2 stories wall to wall arcade games, huge play area, lots of rooms to hang out, it was like an indoor theme park... years later I went to a b day party of a cousin's of mine across town and it was this sad little one story chuck e cheese, I felt bad for all those kids, they had no idea what they were missing out on
I was deathly afraid of Luigi, the pizza guy. I would hide under the table until he passed by. He was super creepy in the 1990’s.
I was that way with the dog with the cowboy hat
I actually liked the pizza, and the games. Then again, I was just a kid. The animatronics creeped me out, though.
I’m from the San Jose area, the original Chuck E. Cheese building is still there. I drive past it everyday off the 101.
Cigar smoking and rebel flags at a kid's restaurant -the 70's were quite the time!
My god I'm glad I was raised in the UK, I would have had nightmares if I ever went there!
I never got to experience going to a Chuck E. Cheese. I'm 40 years old but in my part of the world (Northeastern Ontario, Canada) there weren't any of these restaurants in my area. I'd see the commercials on TV (since most channels were American ones) and see the references to this place in movies but unfortunately I never got to go to one to experience it for myself.
Had a good five year run of bdays at Chuck E. Cheese when I was young. Magical time
I remember a few years ago when there just seemed to be fights breaking out at Chuck E Cheeses all over the country, so you go pizza, a show, games and a fight.
I grew up in this era and had one of these within easy driving distance, but never set foot in the place. Even as a kid I couldn't imagine wanting to go there. It looked tacky and condescending from the outside, the commercials were even more off-putting, and horror stories about what a terrible birthday they'd had from school friends put the last nails in the coffin. Dimly remember a clueless uncle asking if I wanted to go their for his son's birthday and refusing - that whole side of the family and my grandparents got food poisoning that night.
Didn't even know the chain was still afloat anywhere. Died here in the late 80s.
Ah, Chuck E Cheese’s, where a kid can be a kid…and parents can get pitchers of cheap beer and start drunken brawls.
Don't recall that... but maybe that was in California. In Texas I never once saw any beer sold. I have seen alot of crappy behavior from spoiled children while in attendance. Went more during the showbiz pizza reign than the chucky cheese days. One thing I think didn't sit well for me was that it was "chucky" cheese and made me think of chucky the psycho murdering doll horror franchise.
3:06 Tight 10/10. I love ChuckE.Cheese now!!
My first job at 15 was a Birthday party hostess at Chuck E. Cheese.
However, in IL it was Showbiz Pizza when I was a little girl. That’s when the lead piano player was a terrifying gorilla in a gold blazer!
It was nice to take the kids too. Reminded me of showbiz pizza.the kids loved that too. Good times , good memories for my kids. They are adults now but still remember when I took them to chucky cheese.
The ball pit was a classic for me and the best place to catch everyone else's germs! I spent my first birthday at Chuck E. Cheese with my family and there's a picture of my grandpa holding me next to the rat himself. Grandpa and I had the same birthday.
A kid I went to school with’s dad worked at Atari and was one of the founders. We would have school pizza parties there in San Jose when it was new. Great memories.
I use to work at Chuck E cheese's a few years ago and I loved being Chuck E, some of the most fun I had was getting to interact with the kids for sure. Other aspects were left to be desired, but the brand has done a fine job cleaning things up especially during covid. The location I worked at served beer, a salad bar to draw in a lunch crowd, would allow anyone in regardless if they had kids or not, and they're pizza tastes like hungry howies now, but more distinct. All in all the pizza was good ( Cause I got it 50% off )
Was sad I started working there right when they ripped out the last animatronic, which was ChuckE for the new touch dance floor for the Easy dance/ ticket splash.
I went to Showbiz Pizza as a kid in the early/mid-80’s. Loved it!
I remember as a kid in the 90's being amazed by the animatronics. When I'd go there for a party I would drop whatever I was doing and run to the stage when it was announced the next show was starting. I went back to a Check E. Cheese in my early 30s for the nostalgia and quickly realized that the pizza sucked. Actually it tasted exactly the same, I just had almost 20 more years of experiencing better pizza to compare too. The animatronics were still weird but didn't creep me out, however they lost some of their magic, as now being an adult I understood how everything worked.
I've only ever been to Chuck E Cheese twice in my life. I only vaguely remember my second visit, when I was invited to one of my little cousins' birthday party. The only thing I remember from that day was me being enamored by the Studio C Chuck animatronic.
I really liked Showbiz as a kid. I never went to a Chuck E Cheese. They didn't appear in my area until I was too old to go.
Used to go there w/ my Step Daughter and her girls. I thought the stage show was creepy, however the girls loved playing video games with me, and I always gave the tickets to them. At the location we would go to, if the place was slow, the staff would go around and stash tickets in the games for the kids to find. Loved the reaction from the girls when they found the tickets.
Weird History Food: _What was your favorite part of Chuck E. Cheese?_
Me: *Leaving*