Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre, 4K Portrait Animatronics (1st Store) San Jose, California 1979 

I know I'm so upset over that and they're losing complete touch with what started Chucky's in the first place and also the animatronics were to entertain the adults that's why some of the skits had some of that humor and everything in it because the adults couldn't go play in the ball pits while I suppose you could but most probably wouldn't so they needed something to occupy them while the kids were doing stuff it was a place that was intended for something to do for everyone and a place to relax and get to do something and see that you didn't get to see anywhere else

Not even a dance floor, A WALL WITH A TV ON IT.

give me my chuck back

Does anyone actually watch them though? I hardly see anyone interested, I would care less if they just sold them on instead of destroying them. They did it in 1984, so I don't see the issue

My niece had her birthday party there. They had a blast, but it definitely has changed from what i remember

Well actually considering today's prices and how much things have certainly increased that's not really that bad because I just went to Chuck e cheese's on my birthday a week ago and got a pizza and it was $24 but I didn't think that that was bad with today's prices and that's pretty much what you would pay just about anywhere else and the pizza was really good and then I come to find out that it's not going to be too much longer and then it's going to be Chuck e cheese's anniversary coming up so I'm glad really glad now that I went I just wish the Chucky's that I had gone to would have had the animatronic show still cuz I would have loved to watch them all perform again

hi!!❤

you should do true nightmare all challenges it would be really funny i think

I Agree as a fan id rather eat it like this then today's like dont get me wrong i actually like cec's today's pizza i just wish they didn't look so lazyish especially the stupid rat poison rumors they did on our boy

@@TSMASB they would be sued if there was rat poison in there

@@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514 true

According to a few people who were close to Nolan Bushnell, the pizza at that store was not very good. In 1978, Ted Dabney (whom co-founded Atari in 1972 and left in early 1973) went to the first Pizza Time Theatre and afterwards gave Nolan a less than stellar review saying "It was dirty and loud. There was children screaming and when there wasn't, the video arcade machines threatened to drown the kids out. I had no idea when my pizza was ready until I went to the counter and finally got it. I took it to my table to try and it was not very good." Nolan said he could take care of the cleanliness part, but the noise was a major part of the place and was just kids having fun. As for the pizza, Nolan didn't care how good or bad it was. He wasn't in it for the pizza. He wanted kids pumping quarters into the video game machines. In the footage, there seems to be people downing the pizza okay so maybe it wasn't as bad. Who knows?

I'd go there just for the animatronics​@@AutisticJoker88

That and they also took off of how hounds and all looked in that time. Because I grew up in the 70s so I remember very well people walking around wearing flannel shirts having corn cob pipes and hats like Jasper head and even people with the bushy eyebrows 😎

They still were, but the fabric and the homemade design gave it that feel.

*Freddy & Chuck E Cheese Laugh From Your Window*

Dude fnaf ruined this franchise get outta here

@@emagenevanhorn1543it did not ruin Chuck e cheese Stoopid

@@emagenevanhorn1543stfu if ur so immature u believe a indie game took down a whole company than you need to leave.

​@@emagenevanhorn1543yeah but on the flip side, fnaf got me interested in animatronics. When fnaf first came out, I was scared of animatronics but that made me want to see them even more.

Mhmm!!?

Yeah I know that reminds me of a saying that McCoy said in Star Trek once he says well that's the problem where do you go from up? So what CEC should have done was had a retro redo of their animatronics and have them be like this again instead of trying to see how many stores you can build and I can understand that point it's like well we got a good thing going let's make more of it put more effort into what you've already got make the ideas good stick with a classic and what works because if they like the old saying goes if it ain't broke don't fix it and that's how you do it yeah of course some changes inevitable and you have to change a little bit to keep going but just don't go overboard with it

He knows his line

same

Me too!! I’ll be 14 in September and I would love to experience this in person. It’s just so fascinating to me and I love hearing about the old mechanics of these bots.

we all do and I will say this now young one... take my advice wait until around the point you would be in college (18 to 21) Plans are already underway >:) and they have been for a year now i am 15 now and plans are already underway for a New restrauant with jungle characters Just a few more years child just a few more years

@@tobysgamingworld1550 *I shall take your advice*

This would exist around the time your parents were kids/teens back in the day. I know my mom did.

@@SuperFlashDriver My parents were born in the 50s so they got to see this version of Pizza Time Theatre AKA Chuck E Cheese

@@archangelrapheal5231 That's awesome, lucky for your parents to experience something I sadly never experienced back in the 70s and 80s.

@@SuperFlashDriver I like that name "Super Flash Driver", sounds like a name of a action packed movie that involves Nascar racing

@@archangelrapheal5231 Well Fun Fact: The name "SuperFlashDriver" was actually inspired by three different things and ideas I had in my house back in 2009/2010. The word "Super" being the "Super Nintendo" or "Superhero" anything related to something better than before. "Flash" and "Driver" were insipred by Flash Drives, aka USB flash Drives as well as the educational K-6 book series called "FlashKids Math/Reading" books that we used to ue back in 5th to 8th grade and such. And "Driver" referncing the video game "Driver I and II" and something you plug into the computer. So if you take the first letter of each name is "SFD' and that acronym can also mean "Special Forces Division/Department" or anything related to department divisions or organizations related to S.F.D. It also has the same three letter acronym as F.B.I, C.I.A, N.S.A, T.S.A., and D.H.S. to name a few. So it was inspired by governmental bodies, computers and electronics, video games, and home video/movie/tv media that is related to solving crime or basically talk about anything on the channel. However, since 2018 I haven't uploaded a video because I don't have ideas at the moment of what I wanted to upload next, so it's been on the backburner for 5 years in favor of real life personal/family assistance, work, and events/appointments that occurs outside of RU-vid. So while I do have the time to make videos, I'd rather watch other people's videos than my own videos, but that's just me. Also, considering the landscape of RU-vid today compared to 14 years ago, it's not quite the same as it once was when I joined on January 1st, 2010, with my other accounts occuring in 2012 and 2014.

Well you figure you have a lot of employees doing things you have your equipment that you're running you have supplies that you have to get and even if you do buy supplies that perhaps a restaurant supply store and get a discount because you're buying in bulk you still have quite a bit of stuff you have to maintain so that's why stuff would cost more but look at it this way where else are you going to get to see and do an experience things like this? And it has a lot to do with prices of time change too just like Kings Island I can remember back in 1984 you could take 20 or $40 to go to Kings Island with it only cost $12.95 to get in the park now it cost you around $50

Until about 1980

Jasper: OH YEAH! *chaotic laugter*

Some people say they're destroyed but i don't believe that. The earlier ones survived so why wouldn't the later ones.

Why does the? Righteous I mean the kitchen people looks like they're finites at freddy's employees

I always wondered how the standard cyberamics (Because the portrait bots are also considered to be cybers as well) looked in Winchester. Especially with the store's unique layout, I wonder if they put the bots in the exact same place as before. Or if they remodeled the store to have a shelf setup

If we could find any info whatsoever we would love to share it. Honestly all we have in the archives is the auction notice from the newspaper when it closed. When we licensed this footage we got it sight-unseen and I had a sinking feeling it was going to be footage of regular cybers and not the latex/fiberglass ones. Thankfully they hadn’t swapped them out yet when this was filmed.

Would this mean there was a cyberamic Crusty? In my opinion, probably not, because when they got the cyberamics they would have also gotten Munch in place of him. But it depends, especially if you look at how long they would’ve wanted to have Crusty there before giving him the boot and making way for Munch.

It’s in the description - and it’s notable that the end segment with Dolli was actually across town at the Kooser location.

We’ve known about this footage for around 10 years now, as it was listed in an old company newsletter that we obtained in 2012. CEC Master did a lot of the footwork in contacting ABC to secure this clip (other fans had tried previously but ABC had not digitized their archives that far back at the time). But once he discovered they had it available in digital form he sent the info to us and we paid for the public license for the clip - sight unseen as all we had was a vague transcript with time stamps. Could have been a hundreds of dollars bust because there was no solid indication it included portrait footage. Thankfully it paid off! 😅

Oh you were here!

Possibly! We don’t have the original video file but it’s something we can try to upscale. 😊

​@@showbizpizzacomYaya!!?

yes

It was Topaz Video AI, and a combination of a few different models cut together. Some models looked better on the portraits and background footage (while the close-ups of Gene looked a little overly textured in an unnatural way), so we just cut together the best views from a couple of upscales.

Nice!! Topaz is generally the best I've found, but that's really cool you cut a few different models together! It looks phenomenal.

That would be fun. And I'm sure that day is probably coming sooner than later. :(

We already got It, not so good but we had chIcO cheese, yeah, sad

Yeah thanks for sharing this and finding it and bring back some great memories because this is really cool because I grew up with it and later experienced it later in the 80s too and on so it makes it really special

@@richardvg7670 it really does

It was upscaled with Topaz Video AI (using multiple models) and then cut together with the best parts from each using Adobe Premiere.

ur late rainbow dash we basically celebrated the finding of this bout 4 years ago (saying 4 years ago because i belive the non-hd version was found then)

@@tobysgamingworld1550 woopsie 😔😔

@@jessiebishop6643 its fine

That’s not something we have unfortunately 🥲

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-1_(arcade_game) I belive this is it I might be wrong tho

I think after the conversion rates it was about $560 US. It was a pretty big gamble since all we got from ABC was a time-coded outline with very vague descriptions before we paid. Thankfully it had some amazing footage (and portrait bots)!

The first one did open in San Jose in Winchester Blvd but sadly got demolished

@@Un1uckyLim Ahem... I would go MORE accurate The First one Was Located on 370 S. Winchester BLVD San Jose CA The Second one was Located on 1371 Kooser RD San Jose CA