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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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!
“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!
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@@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.
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.
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
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.
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
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!
@@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.
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.
Chuck E Cheese and Showbiz Pizza also got me into FNaF and I easily got obsessed over all animatronic stuff. Then I found out I had Autism (specifically Asperger’s Syndrome) which now looking back on it explained why I took one look at Chuck E Cheese and became obsessed easily.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
@@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
@Future Pants Please don't get sucked into the Qanon terrorist organization. Some guy with a gun went there threatening to see a basement they don't even have. It's literally just a pizza restaurant. Now stop with the politics, I came to to watch a video about Chuck E cheese, not fucking insane conspiracy theories.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Have they stopped continuing on making improvements? Ultimately, I believe these places have potential to coming back again. The chuck E. Cheese places around me mainly focuses on the arcade games than anything else.
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 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
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.
Oh my god the Ripplys mirror maze gave me some sort of minor trauma as a kid. And I say trauma because every time I walk into a mirror room I get a shock of fear because of that maze.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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
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 😂
After the surge in popularity of fnaf back in 2015, a significant amount of fnaf fans migrated to being fans of showbiz pizza and cec ptt, I know this because I was one of them. What made them so popular after fnaf was just what they were. They were just... Cool to look at, as weird as it sounds. These robots reflect on a real bygone Era in kid entertainment, really. And I liked the just because of how old school they were, you wouldn't see this much time and effort put into robots like these in this day and age, and I feel that the passion that someone put into them is what made them sudden so popular.
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.
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.
@@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
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 never knew the commercials were practically identical, I always thought (and I only had a Chuck E. Cheese by me, there isn’t a Showbiz by me) that the “Where a kid can be a kid,” was always a Chuck E. Cheese thing solely
I did, because while I live in Portland, Oregon, where we have Chuck E. Cheese's, I did have access to the WGN and TBS stations that represented Chicago and Atlanta, respectively, which is where I saw the ShowBiz Pizza ads (these two cities did have ShowBiz Pizza stores at the time).
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.
For an european who's never been to the States, this is such a strangely foreign vid / theme. Not only in the most basic sense of the word, but like, you're talking about a whole different world. The very concept of diners/restaurants with animatronic shows is such a strange thing to me - like something that only exists in games and television. And then you make analogies to Reese's - another thing that I always hear about on youtube, but that I've never seen in my life.
I think there were a few in the Netherlands during the 80's and 90's though not these things. I have never been to one before but I think there were restaurants with animatronic shows but usually of theme parks I think. Although I swear that Hennie van der Most( famous Dutch business man) also had a chain of animatronic show restaurants.
i remember going to chuck e. cheese as a child - once you're 5 and hearing about all of these heavenly sights inside of a restaurant, especially a pizza one, it's not hard to wish for. growing up in a smaller area and the anamotronics not truly having a huge place up here, my parents managed to bring me to the restaurant which conveniently held the chuck e. cheese gang that day. i remember hearing kids scream and cheer for chuck e. then leave after the party was over. my grandpa was pushing for me to go see chuck, and i kept refusing. i don't know if it was the dark stage area or just the eree clicking of his movements but i refused entirely. i know they managed to get a picture of me with him, but in the end my real take away from the memory is the feeling of being watched as we filed out. it wasn't by the workers or the few small families left, i know it was by the animotronics because i looked behind me and just made eye contact back. the first and last time i'll ever go there. i have maybe two more animatronic experiences but nothing like that has happened sense.
Ouuuu this could be a good book you are very good. Something similar hapoened to me except i dont really blame the animatronics but when i was younger that was all i could blame, age 7 it was my little brother birthday so we decided to go to chuck E cheese for his 2nd birthday, i ran around everywhere the tunnels, stared at the animatronics but only for a sec, the more i got close the more creepy they looked when they moved and opened their eyes so i decided to just take a seat with my family. I looked out the window eating that disgusting pizza then a sudden boom sound alarmed everyone bur we ignored it, later on that day when we left we seen a car completely upside down and no way they did it themselves so i always blamed the robots.
Just to make you feel better, these are lifeless machines that are programmed very primitively for chuck e cheese at least. Showbiz actually had a primitive form of ai during the late 80s that would watch over the programming of the movements.
i can understand that. their maneuvers are just so janky but yet are so linguistically advanced. cant help but think about them like ai characters today: what if they had other thoughts?
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)
I was a lucky kid that had a Chuck E. Cheese in our city with an Elvis lion, and now being older I was always curious what the background was. This was such an exciting documentary for me.
Due to the still growing FNAF craze, I have a sneaking suspicion that once the pandemic is fully over animatronic themed restaurants will make a decent comeback to capitalize on the trend although who knows how long they'll stay
@Jonathan Armstrong I feel like an escape room would lend itself better to a horror theme then a restaurant does. Escape rooms give the customer a goal to work towards, pushing them to experience the scares and getting them more immersed in the setting.
13:27 "Dick the birthday boy" That's... unfortunate. Those days left us some severely cursed and deep-fried imagery. EDIT: Also, loved the video! Very informative and fascinating. 10/10 would get nightmares again.
Lmao that's Right Evans from Red Letter Media. He even used his laugh when the picture showed up. For some reason that picture also ended up being shown on Ellen's show.
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.”
I haven’t seen anyone say this, but at 2:10 the faces of the two men in the middle look IDENTICAL to the men in The Walten Files. Just seeing that photo sent chills down my spine…
"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.
at 27:08 where its showing the disassembly process of the animatronic parts reminded me so much of those vhs tapes of fnaf anamatronics from squimpus grimpus. That is so unsettling
@@jenadams9904 For sure, he has the voice of an angel :) And how amazing/creepy was it when the Showbiz Pizza bear then showed up on the same episode, appearing in some random horror movie? That still gets me!
This really brought back memories of my childhood. I remember both restaurants and had my first few birthday parties at ShowBiz and then later at chuck e. cheeze's. They were fun, creepy, and yet totally a products of their time.
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.
God I remember my dad taking me to Chuck. E Cheese so much when I was little. I always loved going. They recently closed the one near me because covid. Sad. Memories will always be great though.
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!
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.
Yes, when the first location opened in San Jose, California on May 17, 1977, Atari actually owned the chain, but when corporate parent Warner Communications refused to finance more locations, Nolan Bushnell bought back Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, but Warner Communications also made him sign a five-year non-compete clause to stay out of the video game industry, and Bushnell used this away time to help him grow Pizza Time Theatre.
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
In the late 90's and early 2000's, I went to a Chuck E. Cheese in my hometown several times as a kid for birthdays. But when this video went over the "concept unification" of Showbiz, it dawned on me that the characters on stage were set up in the same band configuration. I wonder how long that place in my hometown was Showbiz until the name change.
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.
It really was SO much fun. The pizza was meh, but the animatronics were entertaining enough while you hurried and ate so you could go back to the arcade games.
@@PixelDough Ask any African American who's lived in the South during the Jim Crow era what they think of the Confederate flag, and their answers will prove you wrong.
@@jlev1028 tell that to the African Americans who used to wave that flag during the time of this video’s subject matter as proud southerners who know that here in the south their race no longer defines them and they are able to stand alongside people of any color or place of origin as proud Americans.
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!!
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
@@fullweezy3553 Yeah, it’s really interesting how each era has a different idea of what’s creepy. There’s things I liked as a kid, like Ren & Stimpy, that would probably disturb a kid today.
Chuck E. Cheese should open at night (for adults) and turn into a haunted house/bar scenario with the animatronics turning nightmarish and maybe add Escape Room elements to it, ala FNAF. Or at least do this for the Halloween season.
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Showbiz Pizza Place Commercials 2 - A is for Awesome! - th-cam.com/video/FqQPZvPYdoY/w-d-xo.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
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Showbiz Pizza / Creative Engineering 1981 Altamonte Springs FL News Package - showbizpizzacom - th-cam.com/video/tLuivRedaDU/w-d-xo.html
Rock-afire Beatles Medley footage. - www.showbizpizza.com/videos/archive.html
Showbiz Pizza Place Commercial 1983 - pizzaguy2002 - th-cam.com/video/jiN0pYSIeOU/w-d-xo.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 - th-cam.com/video/vkgivnsr9FU/w-d-xo.html
2nd Generation Duke footage - Creative Engineering - rockafiremmbb - th-cam.com/video/hyfGUgWYGs4/w-d-xo.html
Pizza Time Theatre 1981 Annual Report - www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/ptt/ptt_annualreport1981.pdf
Chuck E. Cheese 1991 Demo - CEC Entertainment - pizzacam - th-cam.com/video/vHTZ9FV-070/w-d-xo.html
Chuck E. Cheese Foothill College Electronics Museum - Thirty Six Extra - beachbear2002 - th-cam.com/video/JhSTHp46sEo/w-d-xo.html
1988 Showbiz Pizza, San Antonio Texas - pizzacam - th-cam.com/video/aw33-ljguJI/w-d-xo.html
Pizza Time Theatre Beagles & Beach Bozers footage - ShowbizPizza.com / Video Archive
Michael Jackson ‘The King’ footage - Jonathan Sullivan - th-cam.com/video/B13p11BCe6I/w-d-xo.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 - th-cam.com/video/XuxfdDaOkSs/w-d-xo.html
Chuck E. Cheese Live Show Training 1989 - Pizzacam3 - th-cam.com/video/Qay4Q2qBy_8/w-d-xo.html
1982 Showbiz Pizza Place Store Tour - iKnuckles Multimedia - th-cam.com/video/HEb4YQbBnyg/w-d-xo.html
1978 Pizza Planet Commercial - Auto-Generated - th-cam.com/video/KZKbQrOMdAc/w-d-xo.html
Gadgets Restaurant Promo - WPIX Archives - facebook.com/wpixarchives/videos/1878180612426435
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Creative Engineering 90’s promo - Creative Engineering - ShowbizPizza.com / Video Archive
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Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Ultimate Pizza’ - tvmattkc - th-cam.com/video/lOOM73cvYMU/w-d-xo.html
Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Fancy Parties’ - ShowbizPizza.com - th-cam.com/video/J2kIpXH-nKU/w-d-xo.html
Showbiz Pizza Place ‘Couch Kids’ - ShowbizPizza.com - th-cam.com/video/zFdUXHvSYxE/w-d-xo.html
Chuck E. Cheese’s Commercial 1984 - MrClassicAds1980s - th-cam.com/video/opAko9r-gKQ/w-d-xo.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
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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.
"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.
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.
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
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Yeah, I did that once as a kid. It was so scary. 😓
“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.
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*.
*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.
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!
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.
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
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
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
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
"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 ;)
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
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.
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.
Chuck E Cheese and Showbiz Pizza also got me into FNaF and I easily got obsessed over all animatronic stuff. Then I found out I had Autism (specifically Asperger’s Syndrome) which now looking back on it explained why I took one look at Chuck E Cheese and became obsessed easily.
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
"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
*"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.)*
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.
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?
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
“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
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 one picture with Nolan Bushnell next to an arcade cabinet with someone else was used for a picture of Jack Walten and Felix Kracken.
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.
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
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.
What a hack fraud
@Future Pants Please don't get sucked into the Qanon terrorist organization. Some guy with a gun went there threatening to see a basement they don't even have. It's literally just a pizza restaurant. Now stop with the politics, I came to to watch a video about Chuck E cheese, not fucking insane conspiracy theories.
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.
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.
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
“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
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
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
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
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
13:28 I love how you included Rich Evans laugh 😂
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??
"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.
Have they stopped continuing on making improvements? Ultimately, I believe these places have potential to coming back again. The chuck E. Cheese places around me mainly focuses on the arcade games than anything else.
Kinda like early animation developed into cgi, maybe the comeback would involve advanced robotics and AI software? Could be amazing if done right
So I was 19 that was 2009
I think fnaf killed any prospect of animatronic characters
@@kontrabanned Pretty much,just look at this comment section
@@kontrabanned neh the animatronics from chuck and showbiz where scary fromthe start, just like how clowns became more of a horror monster these days
These stories are absolutely fascinating. A combination of nostalgia and business decisions we never knew about as kids.
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
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
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”
@@FUUL100 That cursed Hulu thing?
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
Oh my god the Ripplys mirror maze gave me some sort of minor trauma as a kid.
And I say trauma because every time I walk into a mirror room I get a shock of fear because of that maze.
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 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
I’m surprise endos are even real lmao
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.
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!
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.
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
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
This mini documentary should be an Academy Award winner! I love this SO SO much! I'm glad you made this!
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.
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
After the surge in popularity of fnaf back in 2015, a significant amount of fnaf fans migrated to being fans of showbiz pizza and cec ptt, I know this because I was one of them. What made them so popular after fnaf was just what they were. They were just... Cool to look at, as weird as it sounds. These robots reflect on a real bygone Era in kid entertainment, really. And I liked the just because of how old school they were, you wouldn't see this much time and effort put into robots like these in this day and age, and I feel that the passion that someone put into them is what made them sudden so popular.
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.
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?
The Cap'n Andy show was purchased by the theme park Thorpe Park in the UK and turned into a fully fledged house show attraction.
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*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
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 never knew the commercials were practically identical, I always thought (and I only had a Chuck E. Cheese by me, there isn’t a Showbiz by me) that the “Where a kid can be a kid,” was always a Chuck E. Cheese thing solely
Yeah me to being that we were never near a showbiz I thought it was a cec thing
I did, because while I live in Portland, Oregon, where we have Chuck E. Cheese's, I did have access to the WGN and TBS stations that represented Chicago and Atlanta, respectively, which is where I saw the ShowBiz Pizza ads (these two cities did have ShowBiz Pizza stores at the time).
Really sad to see chuck e cheese bite the dust, was so much fun as a kid
omg,i just saw a woman exploding,just not her hands
@@TheShape45 ..wait what?
Who will PBS kids be sponsored by now?
@@TheShape45 iS tHAt a jOJo rEFerEnCE?!?!!11!?
Sup Brimstone
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
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.
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For an european who's never been to the States, this is such a strangely foreign vid / theme. Not only in the most basic sense of the word, but like, you're talking about a whole different world. The very concept of diners/restaurants with animatronic shows is such a strange thing to me - like something that only exists in games and television. And then you make analogies to Reese's - another thing that I always hear about on youtube, but that I've never seen in my life.
Living in the States, it’s a really weird trend looking back.
I think there were a few in the Netherlands during the 80's and 90's though not these things. I have never been to one before but I think there were restaurants with animatronic shows but usually of theme parks I think. Although I swear that Hennie van der Most( famous Dutch business man) also had a chain of animatronic show restaurants.
It's funny you mentioned that, because I myself was thinking about how weird this must all seem to anyone not from America. :P
Lol
think eating food with Gundam entertaining and feeding you sushi.
i remember going to chuck e. cheese as a child - once you're 5 and hearing about all of these heavenly sights inside of a restaurant, especially a pizza one, it's not hard to wish for. growing up in a smaller area and the anamotronics not truly having a huge place up here, my parents managed to bring me to the restaurant which conveniently held the chuck e. cheese gang that day. i remember hearing kids scream and cheer for chuck e. then leave after the party was over. my grandpa was pushing for me to go see chuck, and i kept refusing. i don't know if it was the dark stage area or just the eree clicking of his movements but i refused entirely. i know they managed to get a picture of me with him, but in the end my real take away from the memory is the feeling of being watched as we filed out. it wasn't by the workers or the few small families left, i know it was by the animotronics because i looked behind me and just made eye contact back. the first and last time i'll ever go there. i have maybe two more animatronic experiences but nothing like that has happened sense.
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Something similar hapoened to me except i dont really blame the animatronics but when i was younger that was all i could blame, age 7 it was my little brother birthday so we decided to go to chuck E cheese for his 2nd birthday, i ran around everywhere the tunnels, stared at the animatronics but only for a sec, the more i got close the more creepy they looked when they moved and opened their eyes so i decided to just take a seat with my family. I looked out the window eating that disgusting pizza then a sudden boom sound alarmed everyone bur we ignored it, later on that day when we left we seen a car completely upside down and no way they did it themselves so i always blamed the robots.
there should be a bad smell coming out of them... and mucus on their mouth...
I believe you. You are seen. I hope you heal from your trauma.
Just to make you feel better, these are lifeless machines that are programmed very primitively for chuck e cheese at least. Showbiz actually had a primitive form of ai during the late 80s that would watch over the programming of the movements.
i can understand that. their maneuvers are just so janky but yet are so linguistically advanced. cant help but think about them like ai characters today: what if they had other thoughts?
7:15 "And a bosom that rises and falls with compressed air." 😔 Chuck E. Cheese downbad moment
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I have one question.... *W H Y?*
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!
I was a lucky kid that had a Chuck E. Cheese in our city with an Elvis lion, and now being older I was always curious what the background was. This was such an exciting documentary for me.
THE KING!! I love that animatronic so much he's so cool
Due to the still growing FNAF craze, I have a sneaking suspicion that once the pandemic is fully over animatronic themed restaurants will make a decent comeback to capitalize on the trend although who knows how long they'll stay
Especially since people have been stuck inside for over a year.
@Jonathan Armstrong It would probably see success as a horror-themed escape room
@Jonathan Armstrong I feel like an escape room would lend itself better to a horror theme then a restaurant does. Escape rooms give the customer a goal to work towards, pushing them to experience the scares and getting them more immersed in the setting.
@@AndrewJohnson-ny5nx Why not both? After your scared you can get some pizza.
The “pandemic” will never be over. Go on r/nonewnormal
13:27 "Dick the birthday boy"
That's... unfortunate. Those days left us some severely cursed and deep-fried imagery.
EDIT: Also, loved the video! Very informative and fascinating. 10/10 would get nightmares again.
Lmao that's Right Evans from Red Letter Media. He even used his laugh when the picture showed up. For some reason that picture also ended up being shown on Ellen's show.
@@MrVIPGuest small world huh?
@@MrVIPGuest I believe you mean Internet Superstar Rich Evans.
@@MrVIPGuest I laughed hard when the laugh came up, hope RLM see that!
that’s ellen superstar rich evans
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.”
When I woke up this morning I never could have imagined I'd see dancing hippopotamus bossom before the day was through
Dave & Buster's is kind of like Chuck E Cheese for Adults. Or it was, before everybody started taking their kids.
Yep
Yeah. That's how I've seen it as well.
Also, was D&B less sports bar-ish? Not that I have any problem with it being that now.
That reminds me, some Chuck E Cheese locations serve alcohol. It was a popular spot for bar brawls for a while lmao
There was ment to be a bar and grill made by Chuck e cheese name Zapp's and grill. I only know of two mascots Wolfman Zapp and Dr. Dux
B&D is Chuck E. Cheese but not creepy and the food is actually good
I haven’t seen anyone say this, but at 2:10 the faces of the two men in the middle look IDENTICAL to the men in The Walten Files. Just seeing that photo sent chills down my spine…
i also noticed that and it IS the two men from the walten files, also scared me as well haha
Cause its actually them, at least Felix.
yes!! a few of the photos used for jack walten are indeed edited pictures of nolan bushnell himself. :))
Walton files?
the way i was looking for comments about this!! idk why everyone's talking about fnaf when we literally have the pics of the guys from TWF here
"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...
@@AlexPlays14 Is he though?
at 27:08 where its showing the disassembly process of the animatronic parts reminded me so much of those vhs tapes of fnaf anamatronics from squimpus grimpus. That is so unsettling
Rich Evans and RLM's constant mentions of Showbiz brought me here.
You can actually faintly hear Rich Evans' famous laugh at 13:29 😄
@@runi5413 This actually made my day! You cannot escape that beautiful laugh. And that picture Mike rescued and gifted the internet.
@@jenadams9904 For sure, he has the voice of an angel :)
And how amazing/creepy was it when the Showbiz Pizza bear then showed up on the same episode, appearing in some random horror movie? That still gets me!
I clapped when I saw Rich Evans!
I’m so glad Dick the Birthday boy was in the vid
This really brought back memories of my childhood. I remember both restaurants and had my first few birthday parties at ShowBiz and then later at chuck e. cheeze's. They were fun, creepy, and yet totally a products of their time.
ye we can all agree that we loved chukie chees
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.
After a tough day, horrific animatronics and failed business is exactly what I need.
God I remember my dad taking me to Chuck. E Cheese so much when I was little. I always loved going. They recently closed the one near me because covid. Sad. Memories will always be great though.
Blame the establishment using scaremongering tactics to become more authoritarian
COVID saved you now the purple security guard can’t touch you
"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
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!
"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.
It was very surprising that Nolan Bushnell, the guy who created Chuck E Cheese franchise, is the same guy who founded Atari.
Tell me about it. Once I heard Charles Entertainment filed for bankruptcy I did extensive research. That fun fact really threw me for a loop
Yes, when the first location opened in San Jose, California on May 17, 1977, Atari actually owned the chain, but when corporate parent Warner Communications refused to finance more locations, Nolan Bushnell bought back Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, but Warner Communications also made him sign a five-year non-compete clause to stay out of the video game industry, and Bushnell used this away time to help him grow Pizza Time Theatre.
Being an employee at a Chuck E. Cheese's, learning about the history of the company makes me...happy for some reason. 🤷♀️
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 had nightmares about this as a kid, hiding under the pizza tables as they looked for me.
i was looking through some old photos,and their are very familiar
Same, and their voices were slow and distorted while they sang the "Happy birthday song" that they do.
*the man behind the slaughter*
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?
In the late 90's and early 2000's, I went to a Chuck E. Cheese in my hometown several times as a kid for birthdays. But when this video went over the "concept unification" of Showbiz, it dawned on me that the characters on stage were set up in the same band configuration. I wonder how long that place in my hometown was Showbiz until the name change.
Concept Unification lasted from 1989-1992, most stores received it in 1991, 😊So that may possibly be the year your location got it.
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'm seriously pissed as someone who missed out on seeing these things in person. That was fantastic Thank You.
Same here, I only heard about Showbiz Pizza through Red Letter Media...had no clue it was related to Chuck E Cheese
Lots of childhood memories from there. It was a treat to go, eat pizza while being serenaded by scary creatures.. Lol
It really was SO much fun. The pizza was meh, but the animatronics were entertaining enough while you hurried and ate so you could go back to the arcade games.
Same. It was one of those things that my siblings and I always wanted to do for a birthday or some such but that my family could never afford.
The King animatronic…well one of them anyway, can be found at Jungle Jim’s grocery store in Ohio. I love visiting him!
There was way more confederate flags then I could’ve ever expected in this video 😂
Back in the day the flag didn't bother anyone. The taboo view of the flag is a very recent thing, especially in the last 15 years or so
yeah and especially in California which wasn't a southern/slave state and is now considered a very liberal state 😂
@@PixelDough Ask any African American who's lived in the South during the Jim Crow era what they think of the Confederate flag, and their answers will prove you wrong.
@@jlev1028 tell that to the African Americans who used to wave that flag during the time of this video’s subject matter as proud southerners who know that here in the south their race no longer defines them and they are able to stand alongside people of any color or place of origin as proud Americans.
@@PixelDough of which there are next to none....
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!!
"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
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You're not wrong. But I have big dumb fingers, So I use voice to text, mostly.
Uncle Clunk is so clearly horrifying. How did an entire team of people think it was good idea?
Yeah its crazy how the prospect of "uncanny" was so much more different, or nonexistent back then. Such a weird phenomenon.
Because it was the 80s it wouldn't have been looked at that way back then
"Yeah, it's fucked up, but the kids ain't gonna care"
@@fullweezy3553
Yeah, it’s really interesting how each era has a different idea of what’s creepy. There’s things I liked as a kid, like Ren & Stimpy, that would probably disturb a kid today.
Kids back then were tough as the men today.
Chuck E. Cheese should open at night (for adults) and turn into a haunted house/bar scenario with the animatronics turning nightmarish and maybe add Escape Room elements to it, ala FNAF. Or at least do this for the Halloween season.
Now somebody’s thinking!!
Add teens to that audience and now that'll really be a great idea