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As soon as I read the title of this video I had an image in my mind of someone playing whack-a-mole furiously trying to catch one elusive mole, becoming more and more furious until the warehouse finally exploded, I was almost laughing too hard to click the video.
I've been to show biz pizza in Jacksonville Florida and it was terrifying as a kid. Those animatronics were bigger than an adult and towered over the kids.
Watching this, the thing that really stands out to me is this guy's attitude. I think it's his positive thinking and even wisdom (spending time vs. wasting it, for example) that have helped him to become what he wanted to be and that will help him to keep inventing awesome stuff. I didn't expect to be inspired by the creator of Whack-a-Mole! lol
I worked at Bob's Space Racers in the late 90's. The work they do is amazing. Each game (you've seen them at carnivals - the water pistol race games and others) is hand crafted. No mass production. The trick to their success is that all the games work with variants of the basic electronics. It's really quite the company.
I love this channel because I'm a massive knowledge junkie, but also because they're so genuine when it comes to advertising. It's kind of refreshing to hear, more like a friend recommending me a product than a company trying to sell it.
I remember going to both those places as a kid. Those animatronics could swing between slightly interesting and utterly terrifying in the blink of soulless plastic eye.
Same here. I think it depended on where you grew up. In some areas, Showbiz Pizza reigned supreme, in others it was Chuck E. Cheese. Then they became the same company. Then the Showbiz Pizza locations started being replaced by Chuck E. Cheese locations. And on and on.
I was just thinking about the King of the hill episode when they're in a whack-a-mole machine and then you mentioned "Cleaner than propane". I think Hank Hill has touched this video
You know Friendly Freddie is probably the main inspiration for Freddy Fazbear. Which is why the leading animatronic of FNAF is a bear not a mouse. I wonder if this will mean something to the game theorists.
NeuroticHobo Freddy seems to be pretty clearly based off of Billy Bob from Showbiz Pizza, a chain similar to Chuck E Cheese that was purchased/merged with CEC back in the day.
showbizpizza.wikia.com/wiki/Friendly_Freddy I am aware. Here is the Showbiz Pizza Wiki where it says that Friend Freddy was most likely the inspiration. So apparently Showbiz Pizza also agrees with me.
Thanks for this video. I really spent a lot of time at Showbiz as a kid. I always just figured that Chuck-E-Cheese bought them out at some point and never really knew all the details because by the time that changeover happened I was too old to care anymore. Great video.
I think if your reason for using the customer service chat was to have a demonstration of how quick and helpful they are, they wouldn't be mad and are probably grateful for the good publicity (kind of like a video review)
What I think a lot of people don't understand about inventors is that most of the things they invent fail to catch on. You only really need one or two solid inventions and you can make a killing. If you make 100 other things that don't pan out, it doesn't matter. You still have your handful of other selling inventions.
Did you just start holding that remote? Is this new? Have I missed it all along? Did it come with the beard? With Squarespace?! I have so many questions!
normally the sponsor push i zone out on but this highly personal story with its semi spontaneous quality stood out. It didn't seem like a pre-scripted Square Space plug that ALL of their promoters use.
I want you to do a video on "Polybius" the arcade game that was supposedly haunted and had "Men in black"...... I like your videos but would love to see one on this... Give it a try.
As a kid, there was a place in south Florida "Mark Twain's Riverboat Playhouse" with an animatronic dixie land dog band and mechanical Mark Twain. Sadly, there are virtually zero pictures, information, or stories about it online. I did gather up this much: www.google.com/search?q=dixie+digger+animatronic+band&rlz=1C1CHNY_enUS731US731&oq=dixie+digger+animatronic+band&aqs=chrome..69i57.16009j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Anyone remember any of this?
Weird, I didn't realize the first Showbiz Pizza I went to was the first one with that show. Granted, I was more concerned with BMX/freestyle and street skating, but it was '85 after all. ;-)
lol, the pic at 4:16 is in Dinoland USA in Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World. It's not called a whac-a-mole. It's called the whac-a-packycephalosaur. (I would have called it the whac-a-dino, but what do I know.)
That was my favorite arcade games a kid. Mostly because me and a friend could easily cheat at it. Then it became my favorite game again about 3 years again. I was living with cousins and we had a litter of kittens, which I still have two of, so instead of whac'a'mole it was whack a cat at dinner time. Every time a kitten tried to swipe my food I'd 'whack' them on their head. Of course I didn't hurt them. I just tapped them on top of their head and they'd pull back. My Micah and Harlequin still try to do it every once in a while even now. But now that there's only two they're more patient because they know they will get some. I pretty much let them have bites of whatever I'm eating if they want it. Just really tiny bites in case it doesn't agree with them.
I grew up with chuck-e-cheese and a showbiz in the same town. I just remember that your parents had to make you sit down and eat a few slices of the worst pizza ever before you could go off and play the arcade games. Then when you left you bought one of those balloons out of the machine that inflated them. Those were fun days.
The animatronics were scary, I remember being horrified as a kid, as an adult my much younger sibling introduced me to the F. N. A. F video game and I in turn revealed via Google that it was based on real animatronics... The nightmare continues, lol
An extremely thorough video about the invention of creepy animatronic creatures at chain restaurants, and *NO* mention of Five Nights at Freddy's??!!??
Because 4 x 4 = 16, and everyone loves the sound of a 16 wheeler. So naturally, naming a four-wheeled vehicle the 4x4 would sell more vehicles than if it just called it the 4x1 or the 2x2. Science.
So what happened the original time this was uploaded like 2 days ago? You took it down, then made the video private. Why'd you take it down? Not angry or anything, just curious.
Surely this is irrelevant but if "worddress" has automatic updates for the core. Plugins and themes may still require logging in but depending how many writers you have you really just need one of those to look and click an update button (provided you don't use a paid plugin which requires manual install). If you can't handle building a "worddress" site you might be a little incompetent. Side note: there's a command line tool so if any "worddress" developers out there see this, stop calling yourself a developer until you learn the command line tool. Then you can call yourself a developer again. Write your customers some cron jobs to update their plugins and themes. It's pretty easy to do.
Aec22 mucus is waste material not processed by the gastrointestinal tract, therefore when sick, all them germs and stuff are coming outta your nose when your immune system us killing it off. Think about that kids the next time you pick it and eat it!
Had a friend who encountered Nolan Bushnell in a bar one day, and wound up getting a job at Atari when it was still a start-up. She retired at 34 thanks to stock options; like a lot of people at the time her main factor in doing this was just pure luck. She did, however, say he was a bit of a dick and sometimes hard to work with. Based on her stories, I kind of feel for this guy, although he probably would have had more financial success personally if he'd taken Bushnell up on his offer. I remember well the original "Pizza Time Theater", and was kind of sad when they demolished it along with the rest of the mall it was in (this was many years post-bankruptcy, and the place at the time of demolition was a Chinese restaurant, but it was still kind of a Silicon Valley landmark). I still have a few original tokens from there in my "memorabilia" collection.
Nah..Bushnell takes other people's ideas..calls them his own, and I knew it in 1977. He admitted to that under oath in the depositions taken regarding our law suit. Think he invented Pong? Nope..Just took the credit. Some other poor shlep probably died broke who invented it.
"Booth 13" was made up by a writer. When I asked him where he got that, he said, "That's what you told me". But he was mistaken. Just another mistake that ends up becoming folklore "fact". Who knows what the booth number actually was?
He should of went down to the place under the pretense of showing them how to work it with a bucket of hydrochloric acid, and dumped it out on the game.
Wait Friendly Freddy the Bear by Aaron Fechter Fechter. Fech. Faz Friendly Freddy "Faz" the Bear Freddy Fazbear Ok was that intentional or just a massive coincidence?
Why do we shake hands? Why are two drum hits and a cymbal hit (badum-tssh!) associated with comedy? Is there an optimal level of eye contact during conversation?
De Jure Claims we shake hands because way back then it was used to show we were unarmed (a handshake would shake any hidden weapons out of sleeves). I'm not sure about the drum one, and optimal eye contact is enough time to look them in the eyes, and then identify what color their eyes are. Then look at their nose for the rest of the conversation
Three drum hits and then a cymbal hit, usually. ba-dum-bum... tssh. That third beat is necessary! ;D It's often called a rimshot and apparently started in the Catskills due to clubs that had a combo of music and comedy going on. Read the bottom part of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot
At least those douche bags who stole his inventions didn't put him off trying again. I rather like this Fechter chap, even if I do wish he had stuck up for himself a bit better. I'm glad it kind of worked out and I am going to adopt his view on "spending", not "wasting". What a great bloke :)
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For more fun facts check out this video and find out the answer to the question- Who Invented the Shopping Cart?:
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As soon as I read the title of this video I had an image in my mind of someone playing whack-a-mole furiously trying to catch one elusive mole, becoming more and more furious until the warehouse finally exploded, I was almost laughing too hard to click the video.
You're crazy, but that made me chuckle.
Me too!
I feel like there's a movie there somewhere...lol
Sadly, "whack-a-detonator" just doesn't have the same ring to it! LOL!
I truly enjoyed Simon's add spot at the end. I don't need to use Squarespace myself, but that was a solid plug and not even annoying one bit.
I've been to show biz pizza in Jacksonville Florida and it was terrifying as a kid. Those animatronics were bigger than an adult and towered over the kids.
Watching this, the thing that really stands out to me is this guy's attitude. I think it's his positive thinking and even wisdom (spending time vs. wasting it, for example) that have helped him to become what he wanted to be and that will help him to keep inventing awesome stuff. I didn't expect to be inspired by the creator of Whack-a-Mole! lol
I worked at Bob's Space Racers in the late 90's. The work they do is amazing. Each game (you've seen them at carnivals - the water pistol race games and others) is hand crafted. No mass production. The trick to their success is that all the games work with variants of the basic electronics. It's really quite the company.
That last quote from Fechter is brilliant.
I love this channel because I'm a massive knowledge junkie, but also because they're so genuine when it comes to advertising. It's kind of refreshing to hear, more like a friend recommending me a product than a company trying to sell it.
We only accept advertisers we actually like. :-)
I remember going to both those places as a kid. Those animatronics could swing between slightly interesting and utterly terrifying in the blink of soulless plastic eye.
Love the variety of topics in these videos.
I think it was the MOLES getting revenge on him.... for all the whacking...
How come I find you as a top comment in many of the vdeos I'm watching. This is the 5th time now...
minecrafter0505 reaching top comment is just one of my life missions...
HOW!?!
Dr.StickFigure I eventually subscribed to you, because of that
Dr.StickFigure bud you are insane
As a kid, I'd heard of Showbiz Pizza long before I'd heard of Chuck E. Cheese.
Same here. I think it depended on where you grew up. In some areas, Showbiz Pizza reigned supreme, in others it was Chuck E. Cheese. Then they became the same company. Then the Showbiz Pizza locations started being replaced by Chuck E. Cheese locations. And on and on.
Out on the west coast, I only ever saw Chuck E. Cheese and never heard of Showbiz until the movie about Rock-Afire.
I was just thinking about the King of the hill episode when they're in a whack-a-mole machine and then you mentioned "Cleaner than propane". I think Hank Hill has touched this video
We had a Showbiz Pizza in Monterrey México when I was growing up. It was one of my favorite places to go. I loved watching The Rocketfire Explosion!
You know Friendly Freddie is probably the main inspiration for Freddy Fazbear. Which is why the leading animatronic of FNAF is a bear not a mouse. I wonder if this will mean something to the game theorists.
NeuroticHobo I thought that was obvious and wasn't a secret that they based FNAF on Chuck E Cheese.
Zytran L showbiz pizza really.
David Castleberry Sorry, I'm not from America but I've heard of Chuck E Cheese but never of Showbiz Pizza(Until this video)
NeuroticHobo Freddy seems to be pretty clearly based off of Billy Bob from Showbiz Pizza, a chain similar to Chuck E Cheese that was purchased/merged with CEC back in the day.
showbizpizza.wikia.com/wiki/Friendly_Freddy I am aware. Here is the Showbiz Pizza Wiki where it says that Friend Freddy was most likely the inspiration. So apparently Showbiz Pizza also agrees with me.
I remember going to Show Biz Pizza as a kid, and found the animatronics to be scary as fuck, but also, mesmerizing.
I guess you could say, the mole whacked him... Wait, wait, wait! That came out wrong!
The founder of Atari created Chuck E. Cheese? My brain is still stuck on that. I had no idea.
I've been on a tour at his warehouse. It's pretty cool and I recommend it.
I grew up going to the Kansas City Show Biz Pizza, I have been totally rocked by this video!
Thanks, Simon. Your videos are always interesting and well produced.
Thanks for this video. I really spent a lot of time at Showbiz as a kid. I always just figured that Chuck-E-Cheese bought them out at some point and never really knew all the details because by the time that changeover happened I was too old to care anymore. Great video.
I think if your reason for using the customer service chat was to have a demonstration of how quick and helpful they are, they wouldn't be mad and are probably grateful for the good publicity (kind of like a video review)
0:35 Hey! I think that might be one of my local ambulance service, since my county paramedics run the exact same livery and ELS
What I think a lot of people don't understand about inventors is that most of the things they invent fail to catch on. You only really need one or two solid inventions and you can make a killing. If you make 100 other things that don't pan out, it doesn't matter. You still have your handful of other selling inventions.
Thank you, for going back to the old ad format.
only a person that high on whimsy could shrug off their money basically exploding like a grenade in a toilet. this Fechter guy is chill as hell.
it's kind of funny how if anyone else promoted squarespace for so long I'd get annoyed but our man Simon made me feel like I learned something
there still is an arcade with one of those rock afire explosion bands running where i live. probably one of the most creepy things i have ever seen.
rock-a-fire "explosion" lol
The title cracked me up. Simon's as always strait face delivery dido.
Did you just start holding that remote? Is this new? Have I missed it all along? Did it come with the beard? With Squarespace?! I have so many questions!
Ohhhh!! So interesting! I always assumed Showbiz lost the animatronic pizza joint war. They won! Amazing.
That's actually the ironic takeaway that is true.
normally the sponsor push i zone out on but this highly personal story with its semi spontaneous quality stood out. It didn't seem like a pre-scripted Square Space plug that ALL of their promoters use.
I want you to do a video on "Polybius" the arcade game that was supposedly haunted and had "Men in black"...... I like your videos but would love to see one on this... Give it a try.
VolksyWorld Toys Me too
Both of you should look up and watch a video named POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist by Ahoy. It is a great documentary type video.
Chucky Cheese was created in San Jose?! I grew up there and remember going to that place as a kid, it was fun :D
As a kid, there was a place in south Florida "Mark Twain's Riverboat Playhouse" with an animatronic dixie land dog band and mechanical Mark Twain. Sadly, there are virtually zero pictures, information, or stories about it online. I did gather up this much:
www.google.com/search?q=dixie+digger+animatronic+band&rlz=1C1CHNY_enUS731US731&oq=dixie+digger+animatronic+band&aqs=chrome..69i57.16009j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Anyone remember any of this?
'Occasionally' Simon? Yeah sure. FNAF is a good visual example of what children really thought of those things 😱
Weird, I didn't realize the first Showbiz Pizza I went to was the first one with that show. Granted, I was more concerned with BMX/freestyle and street skating, but it was '85 after all. ;-)
This guy made a singing bear whos name is Freddie . #FNAF
That picture of the animatronics was nostalgic.
If you block the holes so moles can’t pop up you get free tickets . Hence no more whack a mole
This Exists interviewed him. He goes more in depth. He's a funny guy.
Sounds like a remarkably self-aware guy... now if only he had that same awareness of others. :D
With names like Friendly Freddie and Willy Wabbit, do you really think the random guy's name was Denny Denton?!
lol, the pic at 4:16 is in Dinoland USA in Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World. It's not called a whac-a-mole. It's called the whac-a-packycephalosaur. (I would have called it the whac-a-dino, but what do I know.)
Are you certain that it wasn't a live performance of the play "The Rocky Horror Show"? "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is a film based on the play.
Today I learned that the chuck e cheeze I used to go to as a child was one of the first that's so cool.
That was my favorite arcade games a kid. Mostly because me and a friend could easily cheat at it.
Then it became my favorite game again about 3 years again. I was living with cousins and we had a litter of kittens, which I still have two of, so instead of whac'a'mole it was whack a cat at dinner time. Every time a kitten tried to swipe my food I'd 'whack' them on their head. Of course I didn't hurt them. I just tapped them on top of their head and they'd pull back.
My Micah and Harlequin still try to do it every once in a while even now. But now that there's only two they're more patient because they know they will get some. I pretty much let them have bites of whatever I'm eating if they want it. Just really tiny bites in case it doesn't agree with them.
Fishing isn't necessarily about catching fish. Fishing is about being there.
0:19 - Also, don't forget to: BUILD IT BEAUTIFUL.
10:44 - MAKE IT SUPER EASY TO BUILD IT BEAUTIFUL.
Someone will clue in what I'm on about...
I use to love Whac-A-Mole on my PC.😂😂
I grew up with chuck-e-cheese and a showbiz in the same town. I just remember that your parents had to make you sit down and eat a few slices of the worst pizza ever before you could go off and play the arcade games. Then when you left you bought one of those balloons out of the machine that inflated them. Those were fun days.
The animatronics were scary, I remember being horrified as a kid, as an adult my much younger sibling introduced me to the F. N. A. F video game and I in turn revealed via Google that it was based on real animatronics... The nightmare continues, lol
An extremely thorough video about the invention of creepy animatronic creatures at chain restaurants, and *NO* mention of Five Nights at Freddy's??!!??
how did the 4x4 pick up truck get started being called that? and who made the first 4x4 ever?
Jake Gallow cause all 4 wheels are driven.
Because 4 x 4 = 16, and everyone loves the sound of a 16 wheeler. So naturally, naming a four-wheeled vehicle the 4x4 would sell more vehicles than if it just called it the 4x1 or the 2x2. Science.
Jake Gallows says "How did 2x4 wood planks start being called that?"
So what happened the original time this was uploaded like 2 days ago? You took it down, then made the video private. Why'd you take it down? Not angry or anything, just curious.
BetaLeaf yeah he did fuck this video. If he doesn't want me watching it then I won't.
People complained on the last video about having a big ad in the middle. Maybe they re-edited the video to move the ad.
Accidental post. It wasn't supposed to be on the schedule until now. :-)
I'd welcome ads if they removed Simon
Surely this is irrelevant but if "worddress" has automatic updates for the core. Plugins and themes may still require logging in but depending how many writers you have you really just need one of those to look and click an update button (provided you don't use a paid plugin which requires manual install).
If you can't handle building a "worddress" site you might be a little incompetent.
Side note: there's a command line tool so if any "worddress" developers out there see this, stop calling yourself a developer until you learn the command line tool. Then you can call yourself a developer again. Write your customers some cron jobs to update their plugins and themes. It's pretty easy to do.
Side note: He also had a meth lab in his warehouse
source
Joe can't tell he is joking?
yes .
twopartpersons /bellap it's a "breaking bad" reference joke
Idea for a video : Why your body produces so much snot when you are sick
Aec22 mucus is waste material not processed by the gastrointestinal tract, therefore when sick, all them germs and stuff are coming outta your nose when your immune system us killing it off. Think about that kids the next time you pick it and eat it!
Well said, spent not wasted.
Tim Roth is a very multitalented actor.
The real difference between Gen X and Millennials is who remembers Showbiz Pizza and who only knows Chuck E Cheese
Friendly Freddie... Now I know where the name of the game came from!
Much more interesting post than I first thought it would be.
lol "word dress"
Had a friend who encountered Nolan Bushnell in a bar one day, and wound up getting a job at Atari when it was still a start-up. She retired at 34 thanks to stock options; like a lot of people at the time her main factor in doing this was just pure luck. She did, however, say he was a bit of a dick and sometimes hard to work with. Based on her stories, I kind of feel for this guy, although he probably would have had more financial success personally if he'd taken Bushnell up on his offer. I remember well the original "Pizza Time Theater", and was kind of sad when they demolished it along with the rest of the mall it was in (this was many years post-bankruptcy, and the place at the time of demolition was a Chinese restaurant, but it was still kind of a Silicon Valley landmark). I still have a few original tokens from there in my "memorabilia" collection.
Nah..Bushnell takes other people's ideas..calls them his own, and I knew it in 1977. He admitted to that under oath in the depositions taken regarding our law suit. Think he invented Pong? Nope..Just took the credit. Some other poor shlep probably died broke who invented it.
You have great videos, but they are very long... maybe create a short and long version as a idea :)
Keep up the good work.
oh no, not the electronic amusements! OH THE HUMANITY
therockafire is Aaron factors Channel, it's kind of a weird coincidence I'm subscribed both of these channels :)
Tim Roth the actor?
hunnybunny
I'd like to suggest "why windmills are shaped and sized the way they are"
You call him Fechter, Fetcher and Fletcher within about 2 minutes of each other.
I have found memories of Show Biz in Paramus New Jersey.
So who was at "Booth 13" at IAAPA?? There must be a program around or something
"Booth 13" was made up by a writer. When I asked him where he got that, he said, "That's what you told me". But he was mistaken. Just another mistake that ends up becoming folklore "fact". Who knows what the booth number actually was?
just an fyi, IAAPA is usually pronounced as an acronym over as an intialism :) (i-app-uh)
That last quote is great
growing up we had Rocky & Bullwinkles
He should of went down to the place under the pretense of showing them how to work it with a bucket of hydrochloric acid, and dumped it out on the game.
00:22 What exactly does "muggy" mean in this context?
TiagoTiago Unpleasantly warm and humid
Wait wait wait. You're telling me the showtime pizza bear...was originally called friendly freddy..? Creepy.
Could you please make a Today I Found Out video about the origins of your family's last name (Whistler)
Wait, wasn't this video posted briefly yesterday?
thats why you dont put a wack a mole game right beside your blinking self destruct button
Nooooooooooooooooooo those poor arcade games :(
You move your arms around more then a rapper does.
Serio _0 i like it. keep flailing my bald brother
Moving your arms is a good thing to express emotion/intensity/other stuff.
Serio _0 It helps in delivering the message or this video when your reading.
....wow....
golddie8 he is like me and talks with his hands. This is very useful for interpret pion of the vid.
Oh dear, when Simon was riffing about the sponsor his accent was slipping badly.
Do the story behind the Rx symbol for prescriptions
He sounds like a stand up guy.
Nice teleprompter. I can see the remote in your hand.
so "atari" or at least one of the founders made chuck e cheeses? neat
Wait
Friendly Freddy the Bear by Aaron Fechter
Fechter. Fech. Faz
Friendly Freddy "Faz" the Bear
Freddy Fazbear
Ok was that intentional or just a massive coincidence?
You didn't waste Wilson's time, you(collective) spent it.
Why do we shake hands? Why are two drum hits and a cymbal hit (badum-tssh!) associated with comedy? Is there an optimal level of eye contact during conversation?
De Jure Claims we shake hands because way back then it was used to show we were unarmed (a handshake would shake any hidden weapons out of sleeves). I'm not sure about the drum one, and optimal eye contact is enough time to look them in the eyes, and then identify what color their eyes are. Then look at their nose for the rest of the conversation
Three drum hits and then a cymbal hit, usually. ba-dum-bum... tssh. That third beat is necessary! ;D
It's often called a rimshot and apparently started in the Catskills due to clubs that had a combo of music and comedy going on. Read the bottom part of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot
Today I Found out that Dick Cheney was President for 4 hours 20 minutes. Seriously I found that out today.
Hey, British Vsauce! Moicheal here!
At least those douche bags who stole his inventions didn't put him off trying again. I rather like this Fechter chap, even if I do wish he had stuck up for himself a bit better. I'm glad it kind of worked out and I am going to adopt his view on "spending", not "wasting". What a great bloke :)
Once upon a time...
Please continue
As soon as the word "Animatronics" is in a video, everyone starts talking 'Five Nights at Freddies' -___-
NooB Auto Parts Noobs
I concur.
Could you investigate the origin of pinky swears?