The Rise & Fall of Showbiz Pizza Place & Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre 

Video Credit list Continued: Pizza Time Theatre Rare 1980 Footage - CEC Nevada - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JSZ6SJDCuvc.html Showbiz Pizza Place Commercials 1 - sptweb - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wR7bKjo1dSY.html Showbiz Pizza Place Commercials 2 - A is for Awesome! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FqQPZvPYdoY.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tLuivRedaDU.html Rock-afire Beatles Medley footage. - www.showbizpizza.com/videos/archive.html Showbiz Pizza Place Commercial 1983 - pizzaguy2002 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jiN0pYSIeOU.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vkgivnsr9FU.html 2nd Generation Duke footage - Creative Engineering - rockafiremmbb - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hyfGUgWYGs4.html Pizza Time Theatre 1981 Annual Report - www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/ptt/ptt_annualreport1981.pdf Chuck E. Cheese 1991 Demo - CEC Entertainment - pizzacam - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vHTZ9FV-070.html Chuck E. Cheese Foothill College Electronics Museum - Thirty Six Extra - beachbear2002 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JhSTHp46sEo.html 1988 Showbiz Pizza, San Antonio Texas - pizzacam - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aw33-ljguJI.html Pizza Time Theatre Beagles & Beach Bozers footage - ShowbizPizza.com / Video Archive Michael Jackson ‘The King’ footage - Jonathan Sullivan - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B13p11BCe6I.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XuxfdDaOkSs.html Chuck E. Cheese Live Show Training 1989 - Pizzacam3 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qay4Q2qBy_8.html 1982 Showbiz Pizza Place Store Tour - iKnuckles Multimedia - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HEb4YQbBnyg.html 1978 Pizza Planet Commercial - Auto-Generated - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KZKbQrOMdAc.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s3fw3iYJ_TY.html The Pizza Planet 1984 - RetroJunk/Retrontario - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AljsZSY2sPw.html Celebration Station - Brian Morrison - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WmriuXK4R80.html Dimes n’ Critters Pizza commercial - Beta MAX - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ja3EXIaxOoY.html Chuck E Cheese Commercial 1 - Blockbuster Video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sNVl2wSGxb0.html 1980’s Pizza Time Theatre Commercials - CEC Entertainment - Freddy Trap - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XW2G3oGS9YU.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-59JesM8mIFQ.html Video Game History: 1982 High Tech Rec Local News - NBC - duncanfbrown - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7JJywbVZvCI.html Busnnell Snakepit 1984 - TheDotEaters.com Showbiz Pizza Place Classic Television Advertisements - sptweb - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wR7bKjo1dSY.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lOOM73cvYMU.html Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Fancy Parties’ - ShowbizPizza.com - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J2kIpXH-nKU.html Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Couch Kids’ - ShowbizPizza.com - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zFdUXHvSYxE.html Chuck E. Cheese’s Commercial 1984 - MrClassicAds1980s - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-opAko9r-gKQ.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UMz7FSoDCo8.html Hot Fudge & Family Album photos - ShowbizPizza.com Chuck E. Cheese’s University Training 1991 - CEC Entertainment - Munch’s Make Believe Band Archive Archive - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--P03NNGAJ0U.html CEC 1988 Grammy Show-Rocker Stage - pizzacam - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dkp88FHztlk.html CEC Live ’90 Demo - pizzacam - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--HdrkFhaHqc.html Showbiz Pizza 1988 Commercial - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lk4EoCkE2Q4.html Showbiz Pizza ‘Birthday Party’ Commercial - Memory Museum - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sSspI_Nyvh4.html Concept Unification FULL TAPE - CEC Connecticut - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cDNANr64h2c.html SPP Concept Unification Premiere Demo - Pizzacam3 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WgHL-OZ8ybY.html 1994 Chuck E. Cheese commercial - augusttv123 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-285AT-MrR54.html 1996 CEC commercials - Toshi Hirosawa - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dUZuddwQ5wk.html 90s-2000’s CEC commercials - Musical Nostalgia Cat - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gy4Act8QtbI.html CEC show January 1991 - pizzacam - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rGQVd3uHgCE.html Studio C - First Day Cast Member Intro - CEC Entertainment - pizzacam - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D2BmydHXpRk.html Share The Joy - Showbiz Midwest - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ym7iIbUhCRc.html&t Chuck E Cheese show 2018 - CEC Hayward - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kmTIZtzi7ZA.html&t Chuck E Cheese show - Sonicfan ’91 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-etIBoHOdCuY.html&t Chuck E Cheese ‘Follow Me To Fun’ - CEC Entertainment - Chuck E. Perfect! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ryZVa642LrE.html&t Chuck E. Cheese Re-Opening - KOAA 5 - NBC - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3TgzzhdgSzc.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ABhW-as4o30.html AOL Commercial - mycommercials - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1npzZu83AfU.html&t Early 1990’s Internet Commercial - Green Tea Break - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s1_yx_Eg9v4.html Creative Engineering Promo (1994) - Copperhead - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qj8y27-xXNk.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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L7XZhwKTqjo.html Cee Lo Green ft. The Rock-afire Explosion - therockafire - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b-yLxKsPdV8.html WARNING: SCARIEST GAME IN YEARS | Five Nights at Freddy's - Part 1 - Markiplier - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iOztnsBPrAA.html

"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.

*the animatronics do tend to get a bit “quirky” at night*

“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!

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.

*"You're laughing. A man dressed in purple committed a series of murders and hid the bodies in animatronic suits, and you're laughing?"*

Can confirm: getting lost in the Chuck E. Cheese jungle gym as a child is truly traumatizing 😭

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Ironically, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has less unsettling animatronics than ACTUAL animatronic pizza places in real life

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.

"Sometimes a man has to steal an animatronic badger to stay in this crazy game called life"- Grunkle Stan

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

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.

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.

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.

"A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese" -that other theme park channel I mix with this one often.

"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.

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.

Hearing “ShowBiz Pizza: Where a Kid can Be a Kid!” makes me feel like I stumbled into an alternate dimension

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

13:28 I love how you included Rich Evans laugh 😂

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!

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.

“Which no doubt lead to some poor child to grow up with a strange and unexplainable hippo fetish” Hmm rather specific there pal

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!

These stories are absolutely fascinating. A combination of nostalgia and business decisions we never knew about as kids.

“I don’t understand why so many people hate mascots. They seem fine to me..” *Watches this video* “I now understand..”

Between Atari and Chuck E Cheese, Nolan Bushnell was truly an innovator.

I really do wish that a animatronic museum would be created showing the evolution of animatronic characters, from the simple designs all the way to when the designs got complicated as well as animatronic characters like Chucky and Showbiz

This mini documentary should be an Academy Award winner! I love this SO SO much! I'm glad you made this!

A Chuck E Cheese without animatronics doesn't feel like a Chuck E Cheese

I feel bad for the kids that will never get the chance to experience Showbiz Pizza. It was amazing!

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.

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.

Glad to see Dick the Birthday Boy having fun at Showbiz!

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.

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 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.”

"Bob: you know what would really make the decorating pop? Steve: what? Bob: confederate flags!"

My son cried when they closed the Rain Forest cafe. That place was great.

is it just me or would being jumpscared by uncle klunk be infinitely more scary then freddy fazbear

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

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

Animatronics: *starts losing popularity* Fnaf: Got ya fam

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)

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.

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.

Ill never understand how kids never found that shit terrorfying

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.

Nostalgic obscurity, so much of it from then....until now. Thanks for the great vid!

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!

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.

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.

This was a lot of work. Great job!

Honestly probably the best video covering this topic. Wonderful job, as always!

if scott were to make an actual pizzaria with animatronics specifically FNAF-themed... it be bonkers and be internationally popular if done right.

Im seeing lots of comments about FNAF and could I just say how baffling it is that the plot of the series is about a pizzeria franchise that apart from spending money on technology, it faced lawsuits since day 1 of opening, obviously forced themselves to refurbish stuff to hide bodies n evidence, countless times have had to install security measures and yet they still managed to scrape enough cash to invest in not only a mega pizza plex but also high tech animatronics that were not only able designed to move smoothly and freely but are also advanced AIs???!!!

This video is excellent. Super interesting and thorough. Thank you

As a 2000s kid. We never ever watched the theater lol. We went straight to the arcade to play star wars and games. Lol

*i’d hate to be the person to run around in those sweaty mascot costumes.*

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.

Very in depth and informative video. Thanks!

Seeing this, the fact that the modern redesign of Chuck E Cheese doesn't have him vaping during the commercials deeply offends me.

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.

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.

That brought back some memories. Thank you!

Animatronics are truly a lost art in mediums other than Theme Parks.

"Pizza is hard to screw up." Well, congratulations guys, you managed to do that.

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!!

This whole subject of Animatronics and other mechanical wonders is really intriguing to me, it’s like my personal thing that I will and have ranted about to people

"It's amazing how the human can live without the frontal lobe."

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

Dude what a Piece of a Video i have seen, Great Work

A restaurant where you could see animatronics seems amazing to me. So futuristic.

13:28 I'm both scared of the whole scene and yet amused by that shirt.

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.

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!

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!

30:38 i thought i was losing it for a second

That Rich Evans photo with Billy Bob is just so cursed to the max.

Bravo 👏🏾 That was highly insightful and entertaining. Thanks 😊

Would love to see a museum of every Animatronic from the History of both Showbiz and Chuck.

Elkton John is the best thing I've ever heard.

There's something deeply troubling about 70s and 80s commercials.

Oh man, I grew up with Celebration Station in northwest Indiana. I'm glad it wasn't just a massive childhood fever dream.

24:04 noticed this be rewinding and pausing a few times but they filmed both commercials at the same showbiz, evidenced by how in the showbiz version the rockafire explosion is playing in the background normally, but in the same shots of the chuck e cheese version, the curtains at seemingly the same showbiz are closed and someone in a chuck e cheese costume is on stage aimlessly strumming the billy bob animatronic's guitar as if its a normal day at chuck e cheese

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!

Yogi Bear is a surprisingly great-looking animatronic. Also, 27:08 is legitimate nightmare fuel I expected to have a jumpscare.

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.

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.

Really sad to see chuck e cheese bite the dust, was so much fun as a kid

That rotting Chuck E. in the desert is a mood

Whenever one of those “instructional” moments comes up, I can’t help but expect it to transition into a Squimpus McGrimpus or a Battington video. It’s truly unsettling.