The Rise & Fall of Showbiz Pizza Place & Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre
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- Explore the history, origins and ultimate downfall of Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre & Showbiz Pizza Place: The Animatronic Pizza Parlor Icons of the 80's & 90's.
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I want to give a very special thanks to ShowbizPizza.com, as although no one from the website was involved in the making of this episode, it was a fantastic source for information, articles, newsletters & footage. The proper copyright holders are listed below, but the vast majority of the materials used in the video come from ShowbizPizza.com. Please check them out & show them your support!
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Also, make sure to check out their Video Archive & CZcams Page where many of the clips in this episode are sourced:
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Finally, here is a link to their ‘University Page’, where many of the documents relating to both Chuck E. Cheese & Showbiz Pizza Place were sourced:
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All Chuck E. Cheese and/or Showbiz Pizza Place footage, images & documents are the copyright of CEC Entertainment Holdings, LLC.
Primary Sources:
Rock-afire Explosion Documentary - Window Pictures, LLC.
ShowbizPizza.com
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engineeringcreative.com
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Video Fever - ABC - Steven Hertz - • VIDEO FEVER - Games Pe...
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Organ Power Pizza - Auto-Generated - • Video
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Real People PTT 1979 Footage - CEC Nevada - Telepictures Corporation / SFM Entertainment - • Pizza Time Theatre 197...
Four Corners: New Eatery - ShowbizPizza.com - ABC - www.dailymotion.com/video/x7i...
PTT Corporate Promo - ShowbizPizza.com - www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t...
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Video Credit list Continued:
Pizza Time Theatre Rare 1980 Footage - CEC Nevada - czcams.com/video/JSZ6SJDCuvc/video.html
Showbiz Pizza Place Commercials 1 - sptweb - czcams.com/video/wR7bKjo1dSY/video.html
Showbiz Pizza Place Commercials 2 - A is for Awesome! - czcams.com/video/FqQPZvPYdoY/video.html
Showbiz Pizza Place Original Wolfpack 5 - www.showbizpizza.com/videos/archive.html
Showbiz Pizza Place Franchise Promo - www.showbizpizza.com/info/promo/spp/spp_80franchise-wp5.pdf
www.showbizpizza.com/info/promo/spp/spp_81franchise.pdf
Showbiz Pizza / Creative Engineering 1981 Altamonte Springs FL News Package - showbizpizzacom - czcams.com/video/tLuivRedaDU/video.html
Rock-afire Beatles Medley footage. - www.showbizpizza.com/videos/archive.html
Showbiz Pizza Place Commercial 1983 - pizzaguy2002 - czcams.com/video/jiN0pYSIeOU/video.html
Brock Hotel Corporation 1981 Annual Report - www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/spp/spp_bhc1981annualreport.pdf
Creative Engineering ‘On The Go’ - www.showbizpizza.com/videos/archive.html
Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Uncle Klunk’ BTS & Promo - ShowbizPizza.com
2nd Generation Mitzi footage - Creative Engineering - sptweb - czcams.com/video/vkgivnsr9FU/video.html
2nd Generation Duke footage - Creative Engineering - rockafiremmbb - czcams.com/video/hyfGUgWYGs4/video.html
Pizza Time Theatre 1981 Annual Report - www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/ptt/ptt_annualreport1981.pdf
Chuck E. Cheese 1991 Demo - CEC Entertainment - pizzacam - czcams.com/video/vHTZ9FV-070/video.html
Chuck E. Cheese Foothill College Electronics Museum - Thirty Six Extra - beachbear2002 - czcams.com/video/JhSTHp46sEo/video.html
1988 Showbiz Pizza, San Antonio Texas - pizzacam - czcams.com/video/aw33-ljguJI/video.html
Pizza Time Theatre Beagles & Beach Bozers footage - ShowbizPizza.com / Video Archive
Michael Jackson ‘The King’ footage - Jonathan Sullivan - czcams.com/video/B13p11BCe6I/video.html
Cheese E. Street concept - Games Examiner - www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/ptt/ptt_gamesexaminer-street.pdf
Chuck E. Cheese 1989 Store Tour - Shiny Happy Jenn - czcams.com/video/XuxfdDaOkSs/video.html
Chuck E. Cheese Live Show Training 1989 - Pizzacam3 - czcams.com/video/Qay4Q2qBy_8/video.html
1982 Showbiz Pizza Place Store Tour - iKnuckles Multimedia - czcams.com/video/HEb4YQbBnyg/video.html
1978 Pizza Planet Commercial - Auto-Generated - czcams.com/video/KZKbQrOMdAc/video.html
Gadgets Restaurant Promo - WPIX Archives - facebook.com/wpixarchives/videos/1878180612426435
The Magic Pizza - Artwork by Grady Lyda - alifedigitized.blogspot.com/2014/11/wizards-pizzas-02.html
The Country Critters - CavitySam - czcams.com/video/s3fw3iYJ_TY/video.html
The Pizza Planet 1984 - RetroJunk/Retrontario - czcams.com/video/AljsZSY2sPw/video.html
Celebration Station - Brian Morrison - czcams.com/video/WmriuXK4R80/video.html
Dimes n’ Critters Pizza commercial - Beta MAX - czcams.com/video/Ja3EXIaxOoY/video.html
Chuck E Cheese Commercial 1 - Blockbuster Video - czcams.com/video/sNVl2wSGxb0/video.html
1980’s Pizza Time Theatre Commercials - CEC Entertainment - Freddy Trap - czcams.com/video/XW2G3oGS9YU/video.html
Pizza Time Theatre Annual 1982 Report - www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/ptt/ptt_annualreport1982.pdf
Nintendo’s Revival of the Video Game Industry, December 1988 - PBS - Saving The Video Game - czcams.com/video/59JesM8mIFQ/video.html
Video Game History: 1982 High Tech Rec Local News - NBC - duncanfbrown - czcams.com/video/7JJywbVZvCI/video.html
Busnnell Snakepit 1984 - TheDotEaters.com
Showbiz Pizza Place Classic Television Advertisements - sptweb - czcams.com/video/wR7bKjo1dSY/video.html
Creative Engineering 90’s promo - Creative Engineering - ShowbizPizza.com / Video Archive
Creative Engineering Inc. 1983 Promo - www.showbizpizza.com/info/promo/cei/cei_1983promo.pdf
Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Ultimate Pizza’ - tvmattkc - czcams.com/video/lOOM73cvYMU/video.html
Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Fancy Parties’ - ShowbizPizza.com - czcams.com/video/J2kIpXH-nKU/video.html
Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Couch Kids’ - ShowbizPizza.com - czcams.com/video/zFdUXHvSYxE/video.html
Chuck E. Cheese’s Commercial 1984 - MrClassicAds1980s - czcams.com/video/opAko9r-gKQ/video.html
Creative Engineering 1987 Promo - Creative Engineering Inc. - www.showbizpizza.com/info/promo/cei/cei_87promo.pdf
Creative Engineering ‘Moon Rockers’ - facebook.com/showbizpizzacom/posts/10162350046460554
Showbiz/Chuck E. Cheese Attraction Development Program - www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/spt/spt_adp-binder.pdf
1985 Chuck E. Cheese commercial - The Media Hoarder - czcams.com/video/UMz7FSoDCo8/video.html
Hot Fudge & Family Album photos - ShowbizPizza.com
Chuck E. Cheese’s University Training 1991 - CEC Entertainment - Munch’s Make Believe Band Archive Archive - czcams.com/video/-P03NNGAJ0U/video.html
CEC 1988 Grammy Show-Rocker Stage - pizzacam - czcams.com/video/Dkp88FHztlk/video.html
CEC Live ’90 Demo - pizzacam - czcams.com/video/-HdrkFhaHqc/video.html
Showbiz Pizza 1988 Commercial - czcams.com/video/Lk4EoCkE2Q4/video.html
Showbiz Pizza ‘Birthday Party’ Commercial - Memory Museum - czcams.com/video/sSspI_Nyvh4/video.html
Concept Unification FULL TAPE - CEC Connecticut - czcams.com/video/cDNANr64h2c/video.html
SPP Concept Unification Premiere Demo - Pizzacam3 - czcams.com/video/WgHL-OZ8ybY/video.html
1994 Chuck E. Cheese commercial - augusttv123 - czcams.com/video/285AT-MrR54/video.html
1996 CEC commercials - Toshi Hirosawa - czcams.com/video/dUZuddwQ5wk/video.html
90s-2000’s CEC commercials - Musical Nostalgia Cat - czcams.com/video/Gy4Act8QtbI/video.html
CEC show January 1991 - pizzacam - czcams.com/video/rGQVd3uHgCE/video.html
Studio C - First Day Cast Member Intro - CEC Entertainment - pizzacam - czcams.com/video/D2BmydHXpRk/video.html
Share The Joy - Showbiz Midwest - czcams.com/video/Ym7iIbUhCRc/video.html&t
Chuck E Cheese show 2018 - CEC Hayward - czcams.com/video/kmTIZtzi7ZA/video.html&t
Chuck E Cheese show - Sonicfan ’91 - czcams.com/video/etIBoHOdCuY/video.html&t
Chuck E Cheese ‘Follow Me To Fun’ - CEC Entertainment - Chuck E. Perfect! - czcams.com/video/ryZVa642LrE/video.html&t
Chuck E. Cheese Re-Opening - KOAA 5 - NBC - czcams.com/video/3TgzzhdgSzc/video.html
Creative Engineering 1992 Promo - Creative Engineering - ShowbizPizza.com
Creative Engineering 1983 News Story - Creative Engineering - ShowbizPizza.com
Aaron Fechters Anti Gravity Freedom Machine 1996 - therockafire - Creative Engineering - czcams.com/video/ABhW-as4o30/video.html
AOL Commercial - mycommercials - czcams.com/video/1npzZu83AfU/video.html&t
Early 1990’s Internet Commercial - Green Tea Break - czcams.com/video/s1_yx_Eg9v4/video.html
Creative Engineering Promo (1994) - Copperhead - czcams.com/video/Qj8y27-xXNk/video.html&t
Duke 2.0 News Segment - Charter Communications - www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/entertainment/2020/05/25/animatronic-from-cult-fave-showbiz-pizza-palace-gets-upgrade-
The Art of Video Games: Interview with Nolan Bushnell - Smithsonian American Art Museum - czcams.com/video/L7XZhwKTqjo/video.html
Cee Lo Green ft. The Rock-afire Explosion - therockafire - czcams.com/video/b-yLxKsPdV8/video.html
WARNING: SCARIEST GAME IN YEARS | Five Nights at Freddy's - Part 1 - Markiplier - czcams.com/video/iOztnsBPrAA/video.html
1:02 ... Uhh, that's not the University of Utah (aka in downtown Salt Lake City), but rather the totally unrelated & Bushnell unaffiliated Utah State University in the small farming city of Logan a few hours north of SLC near the Idaho border.
@@Cooe. Whoops, must have mixed up the two
@@Cooe. I went to the comments to see if anyone else noticed!
There's 2 of you talking over each other at 30:37
Hey Yesterworld Entertainment, I did a video about Chuck E Cheese and touched on about this subject about the evolution of chuck e cheese. Are you going to check it out? My channel is ggamemaster16.
Can confirm: getting lost in the Chuck E. Cheese jungle gym as a child is truly traumatizing 😭
I'm glad you made it out 😅 I got lost in a Discovery Zone maze and I'm still traumatized! I made the workers come get me as I sat there and cried 🤣
@@claireeebee My poor parents had to ask a random older kid in the jungle gym to help me find the slide 😅 I remember that older kid was super nice tho so that worked out lol. Def avoided that jungle gym for a lonnnnnnng time.
@@TheMaddness22 Aww! Haha! I'm glad that kid helped you!
someone needs to make a video game that is about getting lost in a infinite resturant play place
@@majamystic256 They should! Haha!
"Poor conditions inside the tunnels" is one of the most hilariously terrifying things I've heard in a while. Its like a corporate way of saying kids bones in the mazes or something.
I've heard that some of the kids developed cheese lung, others were trapped after cave-ins, and no one knows what happened to Timothy after his two friends were rescued.
@@otaking3582 ew ive never heard of cheesenlung nefore
@@itssoulfr836 Obviously it's where you inhale too much cheese dust.
It was probably some kid took a dump or left moldy pizza in there and another kid ate it.
@@jimmyrustler9980 Totally. "Poor conditions" was corporate speak for kids pissing and pooping in the tunnels.
“Don’t worry, Dolly Dimple and her bouncy bosom was left in a few restaurants. Which no doubt, led to some poor child to grow up with a strange and unexplainable hippo fetish”
One of the funniest thing’s I’ve heard in awhile!
And I’m pretty sure Peter Jackson was one of those kids XD
@@sollato0293 I see that you're a person of culture, as well
@@sollato0293 Hey, I understood that reference!
...and God, I wish I didn't...
@@sollato0293 that is such a weird film poster.... I don't know if I should watch it.
@@alt0248 It's definitely not a film for everyone, but it has its charm.
The knowledge bombs that this guy was born in my hometown, went to a local school, worked at Lagoon, and founded Atari and Chuck-E-Cheese blew me off my feet
*"You're laughing. A man dressed in purple committed a series of murders and hid the bodies in animatronic suits, and you're laughing?"*
Fredd E. Fazbears
Haha man behind slaughter go stabby stab
I'm only laughing because I looked so good in purple
Yes I am.
Mr. Munch is purple...
*(I shouldn't have said that. I seriously shouldn't have said that.)*
Ironically, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has less unsettling animatronics than ACTUAL animatronic pizza places in real life
Yeah, just ask everybody who makes Roxanne Wolf
Fanart LOL.
@@Gungelion XD
Honestly
Then again, the original places (fnaf 1 2 and sl, fredbears too) are wayy ahead of their time, the new pirate cove pre show vhs tape to show what they would probably look like.
Feddy
My first job ever was being a gameroom attendant at Chuck E. Cheese in the early 2000’s. While looking through piles and piles of tokens, it was always really cool and pretty rare to find an old school Chuck e cheese token where he’s wearing his old attire. A few times I even found really old showbiz pizza tokens! I still have them in a jar at home. Great video! Thanks for the memories.
I know others have mentioned it, but I'm surprised at how much the Walten Files drew inspiration from this real life pizzeria war. It was a good choice to use that as a base.
first time hearing of this "walten files" fnaf rip off
@@themechbuilder6171 bruh, it's not a ripoff. it's just another animatronics horror based thing, and its objectively better then fnaf.
*the animatronics do tend to get a bit “quirky” at night*
But do I blame them? No...
Oh no.
If I were force to sing...those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too.
So remember: these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children.
You need to show them a little respect. Right? Ok.
Guy- *makes an incredible video game ahead of its time
The public- ThAtS tOo CoMpLiCaTeD
Guy- *puts out a video game that is literally two lines and a ball
Oh boy, their heads would explode if they ever saw modern video games hahah
Yeah, if anything he made it even more complicated
(This is a joke btw)
@@orangeismyfavoritecolor just show them hollow knight and dark souls and they would go ballistic lol
@@FaultyMega Don't forget to give them a little touhou
It absolutely wasn't ahead of its time. It was pretty *of its time*.
It's really surreal to look back upon the history of this franchise and how it rised, fell, and well, went in all kinds of directions, and eventually led up to what it created in modern times. It inspired a few creepy rumors here and there, and most impactfully, ended up causing inspiration for video game history's massive impact of a horror franchise, FNAF.
As a kid, walking into our local Showbiz Pizza and seeing Dragon's Lair for the first time... I still remember it clearly. Showbiz was such a vastly superior place over the trashy Chucky Cheese that has plagued America. Showbiz was a lot bigger, had a lot more stuff and newer games at the time, and was just a few levels up on the quality meter, and that covers everything from food to just being cleaner. I recall Showbiz being quite lit up and bright, but again in a clean way, where as Chucky Cheese just always felt like a mold infested dump.
I always found the animatronic characters at these restaurants somewhat unsettling. I remember as a kid peeking behind the curtain between shows, and seeing the lifeless character just standing there, unaware of my presence, was rather creepy, although I suppose it would have been even more creepy if it _was_ aware of my presence!
nothinga controlled shock can't fix!
@@sarafontanini7051 YES
Then can get quite "quirky" at night some times if you will
Run up and hug it if you ever get the chance in the future, trust me
*message sponsored by fazbear entertainment*
Yeah, I did that once as a kid. It was so scary. 😓
Hearing “ShowBiz Pizza: Where a Kid can Be a Kid!” makes me feel like I stumbled into an alternate dimension
Agreed.
Feels like a very good made ARG
It’s like the Mandela effect
I don't know how many times I've heard that as a kid. I heard in the voice reading your sentence
as caddicarus once said: What kind of wet and soggy dimension did I slip into here?
I grew up with a showbiz pizza and had no idea Chuck E Cheese actually came first. When they rebranded when I was around ten years old, I thought he was a new character and someone’s really bad decision because I loved the showbiz characters and was upset they were gone. It is so nostalgic to see them again.
For anyone still freaked out by mazes: Most mazes can be solved by simply following the right hand facing wall. Wasn't a pizza place but I remember being stuck in a MIRROR MAZE when I was a littlun' and that sucked.
@@lukes8719 find one that dont
I remember Chuck e cheese had a crawl space that went under the stage, that was kind of like a mini maze. There were flashing strobes and black lights. I'd turn a corner and inevitably run into another started kid. Very strange.
At least it wasn't a finished kid.
@@RCGshakenbake fuck, that’s funny.
thats nightmare fuel
The cheese holes. Said space was no "maze", just a small "cubby" kind of space
I remember crawling in the dark where the black lights and strobes didn't reach till I'd hit a dead end...or sometimes a terrified toddler. So yeah, to me it was a maze and it was designed for kids to get lost in, but I used it to escape and hide. Maybe your chuck e. cheese was less sinister.This waa around 1982 in San Diego. It was the era of the latch key kid and half assed parental supervision . It seemed like every kid at my school had to have their birthday party there, so i visited the restaurant frequently.. The reason I always hid in the maze was to escape the (I now presume) high school dude walking around in the chuck e. suit. He would start following and pestering the kids when they were playing away from their parents table. I would say he was supposed to be kinda babysitting while the parents chatted and smoked their cigarettes, but he was more like a bully who amused himself by picking on younger kids. Obviously, he never spoke , only gestured nonsense or copied our movements like a shadow. One time he tripped a kid, who fell and was crying. Instead of helping the poor kid back to his table, he did a mock crying tantrum by throwing himself to the ground, rubbing his eyes with his paws and kicking his legs wildly in the air. The parent table did witness what happened. They cheered and laughed their asses off.
"Bob: you know what would really make the decorating pop?
Steve: what?
Bob: confederate flags!"
OKAY SO I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED LMAO
Damn straight
Literally seeing chucky cheese next to confederate flags at least 5 times was so off putting
Hell yeah
They were supposed to be a Southern band. Confederate flags are quite common in the South and have nothing to do with racism or other unscrupulous things, despite what the media would like you to believe. It's just part of Southern culture to have those flags everywhere as somewhere along the way it became shorthand for Southern heritage.
13:28 I love how you included Rich Evans laugh 😂
So many things killed chuck e cheeses the ones in my area closed down due to parents fist fighting, dropping their kids off and ditching them and just being all around dicks in general. I felt sorry for the kids because the adults just couldn't handle being civil around anyone else. One instance was claimed to be due to gang related rivalry. It just kept going downhill fast.
Same in my area. I wouldn't go to one unless I was packin.
“Which no doubt lead to some poor child to grow up with a strange and unexplainable hippo fetish”
Hmm rather specific there pal
No kidding when he said that I was like 😳
That is why Dolli Dimples has no chance of seeing the light of the stage EVER again
that's kinda...
*sussy*
Be gone among us fan!
Not to mention the fact that Billy Bob looks like he would eat your soul in your sleep
Scott cawthon really was inspired not only by the animatronics themselves but also the behind the scenes business rivalry, even down to the two companies going head to head, only with a little child murder to spice things up.
William Afton went “We do a little child murder”
*"with a little child murder to spice things up"*
Everyone gangsta until man behind the slaughter comes
@@birsthemango1524 he did a little trolling
We need a fnaf pizzeria
A friend of mine worked at Chuck e cheese's in highschool. I remember stopping in with a bunch of friends. We sat up close, and hearing the animatronics, which were beat to hell and falling apart, made me laugh harder than I ever had.
Hi🎉
Omg I KNEW it! There were tunnels! And yes they were scary AF. I remember listening to the sounds of the animatronics through the ceiling and being creeped out wondering where their legs were, and what would happen if someone climbed into some underneath area with all the underparts. So scary!
"Sometimes a man has to steal an animatronic badger to stay in this crazy game called life"- Grunkle Stan
WHO WANTS TO GET BADGERRRRRED?!
Did Alex Hirsch get inspired by FNAF?
*illuminati music*
Pff no that’s stupid.
Preach
AHA I've been waiting for this quote ✋😭
@@waggieentertainment9387 they made the episode before fnaf
Ill never understand how kids never found that shit terrorfying
Given how it was a new concept, I think the kids were more curious and amazed.
lmao i had my fnaf phase when i was like 8/9 and chuck e cheese was so creepy to me 😃
I mean, let's just say that I was a little, tiny bit afraid when they wanted me to get close to Chuck E for a picture.
Went to Showbiz as a kid. Every time the curtain opened and the gorilla started singing and playing the keyboard I would scream until the show was over and the curtain closed. I still have vivid memories of that gorilla and very little else so it was traumatic AF.
kids used to be born with a spine, you'd be surprises how much they used to shrug off unsettling stuff
"The Cheese factory... ...inside was basically a funhouse. However, this was a bit of an unintentional nightmare for kids, as many wound up getting lost in the maze, which led to an urban legend of missing children." Wow, I seriously doubt MatPat hasn't seen this, but if he hasn't, someone please let him know... also the pictures of the exoskeletons are JUST as terrifying as I thought they would be in real life and FNAF is WAAAAAAAAY to accurate. We had ShowBiz Pizza in Texas when I was a kid in the early 80's and those animatronics were always unsettling, especially if you peeked behind the curtain in between shows.
Matpat's gone...
Im so happy you went over the history of these two restaurant chains!!!!! I learned about the history awhile ago but I'm still so happy to see people that like learning about this still.
Since animatronics have gone out of style I really feel like everyone who is known for their animatronics can seriously make their own little scary story about how the animatronics went wild after all these years and can make like a haunted house sort of thing that’d be pretty cool
Esentially just making fnaf in an actraction
Ever heard of FNAF?
that is literally the plot of fnaf 3
When you isnt a fnaf fan and you explain the plot of one of the games
@@ShrimpExpert y’all are getting wooooshed fuckin hard
"A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese" -that other theme park channel I mix with this one often.
I’m so glad someone commented this here and on Disney dans video today 😹👍🏽
A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese.
TPMvids?
@@Anthony_Smith365 defunctland
666th like ;)
These stories are absolutely fascinating. A combination of nostalgia and business decisions we never knew about as kids.
We didn't have a Chuck E. Cheese in my small town in WV, but we did have a Show Biz Pizza. I barely remember it, but according to my mom, I was so scared of the animatronics, all animal costumes and puppets freaked me out afterwards, which does explain why I was terrified of movies like The Dark Crystal and anything from Sesame Street and Eureka's Castle up until my late teens.
Between Atari and Chuck E Cheese, Nolan Bushnell was truly an innovator.
I'm here before you get 3k likes
Agreed comrade
Didn't expect to see you here
He's the Walt Disney of Video Games
Surprised he’s still alive today
Animatronics: *starts losing popularity*
Fnaf: Got ya fam
@je cardxd same
It’s a robot pizzeria video, what would you expect
Fnaf will die soon thanks to Twitter making scott retire.
@@NobaraGamezzz a side step to that: don’t take what people say on Twitter seriously
@@NobaraGamezzz I second Retro Smith. Have you heard how many times JShlatt get "cancelled"? They can say whatever the fuck they want. Their opinions arent as important as they think they are
I was afraid of these animatronic nightmares when I was a kid. My nightmares after a visit to ShowBiz, were more horrifying than anything Scott Cawthon could have ever come up with!
2:09 DUDE!! THAT MR WALTEN FILES MAN (I didn't realise that it was based of really ppl I thought the images they used where edited police sketches but that's actually kinda cool reference)
It's a really, really, really cool reference!
This helped me realize Charles Entertainment Cheese's voice, which as a kid I heard as a bad Sonic impersonation, was meant to sound like a stereotypical gangster all along
"Youze spend enough dough in tha arcade or youze sleeps with tha fishes."
You are the only other person I've ever heard, call him Charles Entertainment Cheese and use his full name! Whenever I say it my wife and kids just roll their eyes!
Too many rings in one pizza
@@Sparty-pi3jq You are a great dad keep using Charles Entertainment Cheese
Magireco sucks
I worked at a Chuck E. Cheese’s in the late 2000s. By then, the animatronics had gotten so cheap, that one time our Chuck E. had a problem moving his head from side to side. The servo motor had become mis-aligned (iirc) and would move to the left, much easier than moving to the right. This meant that, eventually, his head would begin to face completely backwards. So, every so often, when no kids were looking, I had to give Chuck E. the Heimlich maneuver and twist his head back in place.
Oh wow 😅
Wow
🤣🤣🤣👍
@Olivia 757 The blue screen thing? Yeah! Now that I work in TV/video, I'm actually surprised how well that worked, and kept working without much re-calibration.
Growing up we would spend the summer in the Midwest. I always looked forward to visiting Gigglebees to see Wilbur the Coyote in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Wilbur would ride around the restaurant on a tricycle which was on a track and deliver the pizza as well as some commentary. One summer while visiting there was tornado so we had to take shelter in the basement with the broken or not currently in use animatronics. Great memories.
i toured aaron's headquarters a few years back. i was really into showbiz's history and used to chat to him from time to time. really cool experience! i'll never forget seeing those animatronics up close. super interesting stuff
“I don’t understand why so many people hate mascots. They seem fine to me..”
*Watches this video*
“I now understand..”
It really depends on who designs them.
They look creepy as hell
That, and five nights at freddy’s exist now
I didn't even get to a part that I assume is about the nightmare fuel suits of showbiz pizza. Idk tho.
I remember it till this day
Glad to see Dick the Birthday Boy having fun at Showbiz!
How embarrassing
@IG DJZyzk I posted a link to the video three times but it keeps getting removed LOL
Good thing they went to Showbiz instead of Comet Ping Pong.
@@timewave02012 I thought that was just a meme until I read the owner's facebook posts... dude was totally doing illegal things with some shady people.
What a hack fraud
I never thought I would actually be proud that Chuck E Cheese's was apart of my childhood I mean I grew up in the 2000's yes but hearing that they may go bankrupt soon im actually happy I got to experience the creepy animatronic's and getting stuck in the jungle gym and the fun arcade and the weirdly sliced pizza.
I certainly enjoyed going to Chuck E Cheese when I was younger. It’s fascinating to hear about the history of both restaurants. The amatronic characters certainly have an interesting backstory. This video was very informative and well researched. Yesterworld is always such an amazing resource for cool theme park and other attractions stories.
A Chuck E Cheese without animatronics doesn't feel like a Chuck E Cheese
Someone is about to get their disc removed.
it feels like chuck e cheese with no cheese
@@ItsEv If I want to be murdered by a talking doll I'd rather go with Tiffany over Chucky :P
@@MetalPharoah I would go with Tiffany rather than chucky
@Garbage Guy love that movie
I feel bad for the kids that will never get the chance to experience Showbiz Pizza. It was amazing!
I never even got to go to Chuck E. Cheese
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario because u live in Canada Canada has no chucky cheese but since I'm from USA they usa has chuck cheese
@@tommygres3066 I actually live in Florida
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario I've been to Showbiz Pizza and Chuck E. Cheese's. I remember going to the former pizza place in the fall of 1984 and hearing the Peter Gunn theme coming from Spy Hunter
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario tons of chuck e cheeses in Florida
Celebration Station was so far beyond a lot of these. The one we had here had a mini-golf course, a go kart racing track, two stories of arcade games, and most impressive, all-you-can-eat soft serve decorate it yourself icecream.
But for the animatronics, I only remember Showbiz Pizza. They had the best.
I have many memories from the mid-late 80s at the Show Biz location in Greensboro, NC. For me, the best parts were playing in the ball pits and the TMNT arcade game. I never really cared much for the animatronics. Does anyone else recall redone movie posters with Show Biz characters? I specifically remember one for “Crocodile Dundee” and “Gone With the Wind.”
0:43 I never realised how similar Scott made the animatronic endoskeletons in fnaf look to real endoskeletons, this looks almost identical to the game
They’re actually called mechs
Never knew he was a fan and also had nightmares…
@@ikea_meatballs_6952 i thought mechs was just maunally controled robots
@@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 no some mechs have ai
@@Adolf_rizzler1 oh i didnt know that
If I wear a shirt that says "Dick The Birthday Boy" to a Chuck E. Cheese's these days I'd be arrested.
Man, how times have changed.
it'd probably be fine if the shirt is being worn by the birthday boy whomst is like 7, it could also just be changed to Richard the birthday boy i suppose
The bear: don't mind if I do
i luv how none of us is even askin 4 a timestamp cuz we all saw it
@@King_Dan_Man Ha! I was about to say that.
@@virginityclan304 uhh.. Time.. Stampp??
Nostalgic obscurity, so much of it from then....until now. Thanks for the great vid!
I didn’t get to go to Chucky Cheese often but when I did, it was awesome. Interestingly, I never found the animatronics creepy and liked watching them perform. The last time I’ve been inside one was back in 2010, so I’m curious to see how it’s changed.
Honestly probably the best video covering this topic. Wonderful job, as always!
Eey the atamatone man! Also first but forget I said that
Ok
Didn't expect to see you here
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I didn't expect you to be here
Someone should definitely make an 80s style animatronic pizza place made for adults who want to experience it again or show their kids what they did when they were kids. That would be sick.
only relying on adults' nostalgia results in a very limited demographic they can appeal to, and is not a sustainable business model as the feelings of nostalgia will wear off.
That'd be expensive and probably wouldn't last. :')
@Polar they say fnaf is based off a Chuck E. Cheese🤣 😅
The closest place I know that does that is Dave and Busters.
Only way to do it is by hoping onto the Fnaf craze but I feel this is 10 years too late
This mini documentary should be an Academy Award winner! I love this SO SO much! I'm glad you made this!
This was a lot of work. Great job!
My son cried when they closed the Rain Forest cafe. That place was great.
@@michellestehman2984 The one in Long Island did.
I grew up going to the rainforest cafe in Seattle. I still have a tie dye tiger shirt with their logo.
I went there once after it first opened at Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe. Neat place, impressive aquarium -- I even purchased a big orange coffee mug.
But my food was terrible.
@@bricaaron3978 I had the Chocolate Lava cake it was 🤩!
@@beasaroseco5840 I have to admit that I got a lot of mileage out of that awesome huge coffee mug, though. Until my dad stole it.
This is nuts. I never knew that Chuck E. Cheese came first!! We always went to the local Showbiz Pizza when I was a kid, and I have always been bitter about the fact that it changed to CEC. Thanks for putting this together!
How made were you when Rock afire turned into Munich’s Make Believe Band? Lol I wish I got to experience showbiz…
@@larryistall 😂😂 So mad! More upset than I should have been. I still have an old home video of my birthday parties at Showbiz with the Billy Bob animatronic saying my name and asking how old I was and all that. Pretty creepy in retrospect. Lol
@@PR0L0 The Rock afire Explosion is superior in every way. While Munch's Make Believe Band is great and all, it really doesn't hold a candle to what the Rock afire offers. Rock afire Explosion has better movements, better song covers, characters have more depth and are more entertaining, as well is more interactive. In my opinion, Rock afire Explosion is the best animatronic band of all time. You're lucky you went to Showbiz Pizza in its heyday.
@@retrofan4963 I do not take it for granted! 😁
@@PR0L0 That's good! :) Really cool you enjoy the Showbiz Pizza experience overall.
Went there yesterday for a party in
Orange Park Florida
Pizza was awesome
Kids had a blast
This video is excellent. Super interesting and thorough. Thank you
I was an assistant manager in Northridge throughout the 80's. It was a fantastic experience as a young up and coming professional manager. The competition was a great driver, The food was 100% fresh and hand made daily and throughout the day. Dough, fresh gradded top quality cheese, sauce, toppings, salads and everything else was 100% fantastic and anything less was unacceptable. I visited a couple years ago and was completely disappointed and disgusted how it became complete microwaved garbage. The atmosphere was ghetto and a sad shadow of what it once was.
*"The atmosphere was ghetto and a sad shadow of what it once was."*
Such is the United States of America.
😮😮😮😮😮😮
It is sad to see something that was an important part of your life decline.
the price of being driven more by profit margins than in capturing the days of yesteryear
mans is still advertising
if scott were to make an actual pizzaria with animatronics specifically FNAF-themed... it be bonkers and be internationally popular if done right.
it would (probably) be much better than most other animatronic pizzarias due to the much more advanced technology we have today and would make possibly millions due to the fanbase
@@Xyearo Just make the whole ass pizzaplex
Then some deranged fan becomes the real William Afton
Its all fun and games until a guy in a purple security clothes wants to show you a "Secret"
@@normalleaf you mean a golden rabbit?
is it just me or would being jumpscared by uncle klunk be infinitely more scary then freddy fazbear
Bravo 👏🏾 That was highly insightful and entertaining. Thanks 😊
Animatronics are truly a lost art in mediums other than Theme Parks.
Its fascinating to see the increased interest in the last five or so years but it’s not nearly enough to fully resuscitate it
@@ao9688 Because it's mainly in Z grade horror flicks written by dumbasses who think animatronics are androids.
@@n0m4nic Androids, fool! Ain't no flesh on none of em in the movies! They are free roaming costumed androids.
At the same time, toy robots are basically home animatronics. You can go out and buy a dancing Santa that has as nearly many routines and articulations as the 80s pizza robots.
And even now, thene parks are relying more and more on interactive screens.
*i’d hate to be the person to run around in those sweaty mascot costumes.*
and have one that would kill in an instant if any drop of water touched the locks that keeps animatronic parts from entering every part of your body
Some of them had battery-operated fans in the head, but on a Friday or Saturday night during the Summer, you'd roast in the damned thing, not to mention the smell, or the stickiness.
It was cool to wear the suit for about 5 minutes...and then the children see you.
It goes downhill rapidly from there.
My mom's friend was a Chuck E. Cheese employee in the 80s and he did wear the costume on occasion. The description was pretty miserable, especially anytime little kids tried bear-attack hugs and older kids tried more violent activities. Of course his friends would also show up to mess with him.
@Kal McCahan @Marie *jesus, now i feel even worse for the suit workers.*
@@skelebratz There were two cardinal rules: Never speak, and never pick up a child.
One night, I had a kid grab the tail and jerk it so hard he pulled it out of the costume.
I broke both rules--picked the kid up and told him I was about to tell his parents to beat his behind if he didn't go away. I was extremely lucky I didn't get fired over that one. Lol
I remember the rare times when we would go to Chuckie Cheese when I was younger, there was a little birthday party area (I think) and there was a animatronic Chuckie that just....stood there. He never moved, the only thing that moved were his eyes. You would walk right past the area and if you happened to look up at Chuckie, you would see his eyes following you until you were out of sight. Just a mouse with glowing eyes in a pretty shadowed area with his classic smile always on his face just gave me an uneasy feeling.
Although the last time we went there years back, Chuckie was gone. I was all to happy.
Dude what a Piece of a Video i have seen, Great Work
As a kid in the mid 1980s that loved pizza and arcade games, my dad getting a technician job at a Showbiz Pizza place was like knowing a celebrity. Us kids got to go regularly and played lots of games for free because of my dad. I also got to see behind the scenes as he showed me the computers and other bits that ran it all. Showbiz was a magical wonderland then.
Nice
As a kid in the mid-80's, my brother and I would get escorted out of Chuck E. Cheeses regularly since they required an accompanying adult and we usually went without one. Fortunately my parents loved going there.
That's so cool
Was your father named William by any chance?
@@vanny8512 no, must be a different guy
Seeing this, the fact that the modern redesign of Chuck E Cheese doesn't have him vaping during the commercials deeply offends me.
He'll say POG-GERRRS, though.
@@CocoHutzpah I really want that Chuck puppet to say “Don’t be a fuul, juuling in schuul ain’t cuul”
Always amazed me that Chuck E. had a 90's style X-TREEEEEEEEME redesign in the very late 90's and kept it up until like maybe 2011 or so and NOW he seems like he's an out of touch "Hello fellow kids" cynical figure.
@@mightyfilm
Yeah, I mean, the nineties redesign made him look like a chunky kid trying to look cool in skater gear. It's very relatible.
It's not so much the 90's redesign that bugs me so much as the having it for THAT long. I doubt we ever could have gone back to flophouse stage show New York accented rat Chuck E, but it was downright embarrassing they kept him so Rocket Power-y through the 00's and early 10's. They didn't update him to be like some sort of mid-00's style DJ (which would have made sense), and it took them until a couple years after the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie to give them inspiration.
That brought back some memories. Thank you!
Chuckie Cheese was amazing as a kid. I can still remember vividly the insane animatronic animals singing songs and pure chaos ensuing all around. Gone are the days of fun and adventure.
As a 2000s kid. We never ever watched the theater lol. We went straight to the arcade to play star wars and games. Lol
Yup, as a kid I always only saw chuck e cheese as an arcade sorta thing and never fully realized there was food
As an 80's kid I only watched the theater when we ran out of tokens. As a 2010/2020 dad I'm sad there is no theater now.
little me actually ran to the fun house scared that that hideous moster you call chuck e cheese was going to come out and try to hug me💀💀
The first time I went to Chuck E Cheese I was 6 and they had the guy in the suit come out and played with the kids. Well he terrified me so I ran out of the place,into the street and almost got hit by a car 😂
2000s were when everyone just realized it was an awful idea and decided to get straight to what the kids actually came for
"Pizza is hard to screw up." Well, congratulations guys, you managed to do that.
Worst pizza I ever ate, bar none.
I loved Show Biz pizza as a kid and as an adult Chuck E Cheese pizza wasn’t all that bad. Don’t know what you guys are talking about.
@@myoptik3x103 stop lying to yourself
Stop lying to yourself
Eh, it's really not that bad. It's about Little Caesar's quality. I've actually had it recently because the one near me has been selling food for takeout to stay afloat this past year.
Cici's is really the only pizza that's so bad I wouldn't eat it if it was offered to me.
Showbiz pizza was my first job in 1986. Many times I was in the Billy Bob mascot suit for birthday parties. As a teen it was a fun place to work.
New to your channel, showed up in my feed. You did a really great job. Really relate to Chuck E Cheese. Had many birthdays there.
Welcome, and thanks for the kind words!
13:28 I'm both scared of the whole scene and yet amused by that shirt.
That kid grew up to be none other than world famous internet celebrity & guest on the Ellen show Rich Evans. He loves the juicy Shaq meat.
@@jsmpsnn can't tell the Showbiz story without mentioning Rich Evans
Yeah that shirt is hilarious. "Dick the birthday boy". Please don't.
Have you seen “The Hug”
@@hotdogretard1309 That cursed Hulu thing?
"It's amazing how the human can live without the frontal lobe."
-phone guy,1993
Just add pizza, im sure it will work
Hey who can relate woo
yes it is very amazung. Though i could do without the spelling dissability
I knew there was gonna be a FNAF related comment in this video
wow! this animatronics thing seems super cool! they should add a feature with springs and they will lock into place so that employees can get inside of the suits and serve pizza! nothing can go wrong wit that!!
Very in depth and informative video. Thanks!
That Rich Evans photo with Billy Bob is just so cursed to the max.
Not to mention that piercing, echoing Rich Evan’s laugh ringing in the background during the shot.
Here's my theory: they set up aecades like casinos where There's chips instead of real money things you can exchange with tickets, and no Windows so you don't know how long you spent there. Arcades are Kid casinos and you know it. Thats why they are popular
Interesting way of thinking🤔 you're onto something 💯
And instead of booze and smoking there’s pizza (salt) and endless soda (sugar). Basically your run of the mill drugs, you know, for kids!
Some of the video game type games actually have a non failing win condition but the other “cheeky” games fail or win randomly so your into something
That’s how some are my local one was like that
Yeah. I thought that was the point of them being so difficult and having to pay to play again once you lost?
I remember the Chuck E. Cheese commercials when I was a kid in the early 2000s and how much I wanted to go there. Unfortunately, the nearest one was over an hour and a half away, and I lived in a relatively poor area, so no chances of going for dinner OR for someone's birthday. I now want to go as an adult. I know it isn't the same, but child me would still be jumping for joy at the idea.
I never knew Bushnell went to U of U or that he worked at Lagoon Amusement Park. Interesting.
That said, I remember going to a Showbiz Pizza in Des Moines, IA as a kid for a friend's birthday party. I don't remember much about it, but it is one of my earliest memories.
The part of skinning the Rock-Afire Animatronics is sort of like how the idea of fnaf VHS tapes came to be, thus inspiring the Walten Files.
was it just me who saw the og picture used for felix kranken?? 2:07
the man behind the slaughter
@@lxcky_. lol
@@raccoonwithamullet dude.................
@@raccoonwithamullet OK SO IT WASNT JUST ME?
30:38
i thought i was losing it for a second
Same.
What was even said?
Yeah...what was that?
It was probably an editing error. It sounds like he accidentally layered the same audio.
No mental fortitude
The massive grocery store Jungle Jim's in Cincinnati has one of the King animatronics set up in the store. Or at least they did, it's been several years since I've been there.
Southern California in the 80's, we had Bullwinkle's. Featured animatronic Bullwinkle and Rocky, Natasha and Boris. Pizza, arcade, mini golf and bumper cars and boats. I loved it!
Yogi Bear is a surprisingly great-looking animatronic. Also, 27:08 is legitimate nightmare fuel I expected to have a jumpscare.
So this is where the fnaf tape music is
WHO DIDN'T?
**instead fnaf 2 jumpscare sound**
I saw this comment before getting to that point, so I was anxiously awaiting this moment in the video.
Well, I wasn’t disappointed. Won’t spoil the surprise for other viewers though lmao
I nearly had a heart attack seeing the actual endoskeleton. I never realized how much actual research went into FNAF, that really is what and endo looks like, huh?
I'm surprised no one has done anything with that deconstruction footage before, the pauses between each part being taken off revealing more of the creepy bones honestly made me think there was gonna be a jumpscare or something!
exactly. squimpus mcgrimpus definitely based one of his VHS tapes after it.
It’s not all that surprising or something that requires research. They obviously have to be held up by something after all, just like your bones. Calm yo tits.
I literally thought that part was an inspired horror video, like those Mandela stuff.
It reminds me of the fnaf vhs series
Tho, the irl endoskeleton never really had it's mouth sticking out inside the suit's snout, especially the random teeth implemented in the endo...
I had a celebration station near me when i was little but i only remember it being there for a few yrs before it was turned into a chuck e cheese. It actually still remains there to this day!! Celebration station was my fave for the few short yrs i got to go! There was akso a place called circus towne which i remember being really cool!
Remember moving to Oklahoma and they didn't have Chuckie E Cheese at the time but did have a Showbiz Pizza and we went there a few times when I was a kid.
There's something deeply troubling about 70s and 80s commercials.
The fascist flags on the walls?
@@McGillicuddy849 what
@@cfiber_inc They put confederate flags on the walls in their early locations.
@@McGillicuddy849 well that was a different time and was probably in the south
@@McGillicuddy849 cringe
After a tough day, horrific animatronics and failed business is exactly what I need.
omg. I honestly thought I had dreamed up most of what I remembered from my 2nd birthday at Chuck E. Cheese, including the Elvis lion and the maze under the stage. I cannot believe these memories are actually real!
I'm impressed that you know about the first video game! Too many seem to think it was Pong, but no, it was - well you already said it ☺ And did these places fall? There's an open Chuck-E-Cheese in SC, and we also have a Showbiz Pizza. That one looks like it's still operational, but barely. I remember seeing the animatronics at someone's birthday as a child.
"Don't worry; I'll keep the pizza puns to a bare minimum."
He says, a half dozen pizza puns in.
more like bear minimum... because.... billy bob... is a....
Maybe half a dozen *is* a bare minimum.
(To him.)
@@memethyst *WE GET IT!*
Half dozen = 10 keystrokes
Six = 3 keystrokes
I get that "half dozen" is supposed to make 6 sound like a lot but why even bother with all those extra keystrokes
@@user-gs6wt5op7p
You're not wrong. But I have big dumb fingers, So I use voice to text, mostly.
Elkton John is the best thing I've ever heard.
And Michael Catson ISN'T...?
@@devinpaul9026 Both are just as good
I hope had a Duet with Pita Gabriel.
No Freda Mercury?
@@pierceelyhibionada342 or Mick Jaguar?
A restaurant where you could see animatronics seems amazing to me. So futuristic.