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

DerekJohnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6L65O4YC08

Purple_Pills

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis...

dnc

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

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

RaceBannon said:

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

i see a lot of fights at chuck e cheese on worldstar, probably doesnt help getting people in the door.

CuntWaffle

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

CuntWaffle said:

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™.

chuck

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.

DerekJohnson

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

Chuck E. Cheese is what edibles were invented for.

RoadDawg55

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

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

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

Never been. Proudly.

YellowSnow

MikeDamone said:

Never been. Proudly.

OK Boomer or old fuck Gen Xer.

Purple_Pills

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.

MikeDamone

YellowSnow said:

MikeDamone said:

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

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

MikeDamone said:

YellowSnow said:

MikeDamone said:

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

Never been to one. The commercials always looked super corny to me.