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The Decline of Chuck E. Cheese's...What Happened?

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  • Purple_Pills
    Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,110
    Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis...
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    I had never heard of the video game crash of 1983 (I was two years old), so thank you for sending me down that wiki hole.

    Fascinating stuff.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club
    dnc said:

    I had never heard of the video game crash of 1983 (I was two years old), so thank you for sending me down that wiki hole.

    Fascinating stuff.

    I saw a show where they found the Atari burial ground
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839

    dnc said:

    I had never heard of the video game crash of 1983 (I was two years old), so thank you for sending me down that wiki hole.

    Fascinating stuff.

    I saw a show where they found the Atari burial ground
    Chincredible that's a true story
  • rodmansrage
    rodmansrage Member Posts: 6,376
    i see a lot of fights at chuck e cheese on worldstar, probably doesnt help getting people in the door.
  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,499
    Kids can play video games at home. Plus punching the mascot dude in the nose or stomping on their large shoes gets old once you are past the age of 5.
  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,921 Swaye's Wigwam

    Kids can play video games at home. Plus punching the mascot dude in the nose or stomping on their large shoes gets old once you are past the age of 5.

    This is ignorant of the furry sadomasochist's who attend the Hardcore Husky Orgies™.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,248 Founders Club
    chuck said:

    I did one kid birthday at that shithole. Shit games on a timer instead of a certain number of lives. Shit noise. Shit pizza would be a compliment. The kids all stood in line for over an hour to turn in the mile long strings of tickets and came away with some Chinese plastic thing from the dollar store.

    The topper was that both of the floor urinals had been vomited in and overflowed onto the floor. It was that way when we got there, and still there when we left almost three hours later.

    Wasn't it great?
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,015
    Chuck E. Cheese is what edibles were invented for.

  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123
    I went to a couple of birthday parties there as a kid. I got a pizza from there right before the lockdowns. It’s actually pretty good.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club
    When I first met my wife to be there was a joint on Capital Hill (cue the gay jokes) that had a bar on one side for the adults and games on the other side for the kids. Back in the 80's when arcades still were a thing
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    edited January 2022
    Uhh it's fucking terrifying as an adult?

    It's like when you see those creepy dolls that kids used to have back in the early 20th century.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Never been. Proudly.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,215 Founders Club

    Never been. Proudly.

    OK Boomer or old fuck Gen Xer.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    Never been. Proudly.

    OK Boomer or old fuck Gen Xer.
    Except Gen X took their kids there. Not me. I’m above that pedestrian shit. My kids were at Izzys.
  • Fenderbender123
    Fenderbender123 Member Posts: 2,989
    The cartoony looking mouse logo probably doesn't resonate with children as much these days, judging by how other modern things are designed to be marketed to children. These days, it's all about minimalism. If they change their logo from a cartoon mouse to a plain black square with nothing on it, kids will probably go nuts for it.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,015
    edited January 2022

    Never been. Proudly.

    OK Boomer or old fuck Gen Xer.
    Except Gen X took their kids there. Not me. I’m above that pedestrian shit. My kids were at Izzys.
    Lazy kids. Mine cooked their own damned pizza.

    And walked to the store to buy the ingredients. With their own money earned by delivering newspapers and collecting bottles.

    Oh wait, that was my generation. My generation....

    People try to put us d- d-down
  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,162 Standard Supporter
    Never been to one. The commercials always looked super corny to me.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,248 Founders Club

    I grew up during it’s prime, back in the 80’s. When I was young / small enough to play in the whatever you call it with the tower, tubes, nets, etc. (giant indoor big toy), it was pretty sweet. Once I was too big, then it was video games, which was a slight plus from the local mall arcade as you got 5 tokens per dollar, thus one more game play on single token/quarter games.

    By the time I was in 5th grade, I had an NES, so even the video games were getting tiresome. While there at a birthday party, one of the amusement rides for toddlers/ youngsters (a space ship that basically went up and down) was closed for repairs, and the coin slot panel was loose. A friend and I looted every token out of the sucker. We then posted up by the token vending machines offering folks 6 tokens for a dollar, as opposed to the usual 5. Half the people ignored our sweet offer, which was an interesting lesson to me. I ended up walking away that night with enough cash to buy the sweet Contra sequel.

    Oh my God, I used to play Contra for endless hours. God I loved that game. Forgot all about it.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,215 Founders Club

    Never been. Proudly.

    OK Boomer or old fuck Gen Xer.
    Except Gen X took their kids there. Not me. I’m above that pedestrian shit. My kids were at Izzys.
    I’ve never rented a party space for my kids parties. Fuck that.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,671 Swaye's Wigwam

    Never been. Proudly.

    OK Boomer or old fuck Gen Xer.
    I think I'm an old fuck Gen Xer. I took my son there for his birthday. I'm neither proud nor ashamed, but I do still kick myself for stuff like that. I pissed away more money on shitty birthdays than just about any other wasteful thing I can think of from raising a kid. We tried some surprisingly expensive things that just weren't a lot of fun for the kids or adults. Should've saved all of that and put it toward his first car and everyone would've benefitted. Fucking birthdays.
  • USMChawk
    USMChawk Member Posts: 1,800
    chuck said:

    Never been. Proudly.

    OK Boomer or old fuck Gen Xer.
    I think I'm an old fuck Gen Xer. I took my son there for his birthday. I'm neither proud nor ashamed, but I do still kick myself for stuff like that. I pissed away more money on shitty birthdays than just about any other wasteful thing I can think of from raising a kid. We tried some surprisingly expensive things that just weren't a lot of fun for the kids or adults. Should've saved all of that and put it toward his first car and everyone would've benefitted. Fucking birthdays.
    My wife is very artsy so our girls had at home themed parties. Did a Hunger Games with water balloons and squirt guns and a Walking Dead one that had a scavenger hunt with zombies. Don’t think I’ve ever been in a Chuck E Cheese.
  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,162 Standard Supporter

    I grew up during it’s prime, back in the 80’s. When I was young / small enough to play in the whatever you call it with the tower, tubes, nets, etc. (giant indoor big toy), it was pretty sweet. Once I was too big, then it was video games, which was a slight plus from the local mall arcade as you got 5 tokens per dollar, thus one more game play on single token/quarter games.

    By the time I was in 5th grade, I had an NES, so even the video games were getting tiresome. While there at a birthday party, one of the amusement rides for toddlers/ youngsters (a space ship that basically went up and down) was closed for repairs, and the coin slot panel was loose. A friend and I looted every token out of the sucker. We then posted up by the token vending machines offering folks 6 tokens for a dollar, as opposed to the usual 5. Half the people ignored our sweet offer, which was an interesting lesson to me. I ended up walking away that night with enough cash to buy the sweet Contra sequel.

    Oh my God, I used to play Contra for endless hours. God I loved that game. Forgot all about it.
    Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start.
  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,486 Swaye's Wigwam
    In high school in the 80s we would skip school and jam up to the Chuck E Cheese in Lynnwood to ply that hockey game under a bubble with rods. Never ate the pizza ever.
  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    Never went. My wife took the kids there a time or two for birthday parties and whatnot - but she knew that wasn't a place to take me. We have an understanding.