Chuck E. Cheese

[Empire of Narnia]

:lol: Goood ol'Chucky with its evil looking robot puppets scared the hell out of me, screaming lil brats everywhere only added to the evil diabolical feel. But thank god they served BEER at chucky-cheese hell!

They aren't evil. They are nice. The animatronics show is my favorite part.

They do indeed to serve beer though!

[Ardoki]

I'm glad that doesn't exist in Australia. Fast food is harmful to your health, and thus I do not consume it!

[Washington Resistance Army]

I'm glad that doesn't exist in Australia. Fast food is harmful to your health, and thus I do not consume it!

Yeah, but it tastes good.

[Empire of Narnia]

I'm glad that doesn't exist in Australia. Fast food is harmful to your health, and thus I do not consume it!

That's a lie. I'm addicted to fast food and I'm healthy.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

I haven't been to a Chuck E. Cheese is yeeeeears, but I remember it being nothing spectacular. Being 23 I have no desire to ever go to one again at this day and age.

[Dakini]

I'm glad that doesn't exist in Australia. Fast food is harmful to your health, and thus I do not consume it!

I'm sure that Australia has plenty of its own fast food.

[Empire of Narnia]

I haven't been to a Chuck E. Cheese is yeeeeears, but I remember it being nothing spectacular. Being 23 I have no desire to ever go to one again at this day and age.

You should go. Just bring your girlfriend.

[Wisconsin9]

I haven't been to a Chuck E. Cheese is yeeeeears, but I remember it being nothing spectacular. Being 23 I have no desire to ever go to one again at this day and age.

You should go. Just bring your girlfriend.

I would, but I don't want to get slapped for being cheap and immature.

Also I don't have a girlfriend.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

I haven't been to a Chuck E. Cheese is yeeeeears, but I remember it being nothing spectacular. Being 23 I have no desire to ever go to one again at this day and age.

You should go. Just bring your girlfriend.

Even if I did have a girlfriend, I couldn't see that going down very well.

[Joelyria]

As a Brit I had never been as we don't have Chuck E. Cheese in the UK. However, from what I saw it looks tacky, dirty, and the pizza doesn't look appetizing compared to the ones at Pizza Hut, Pizza Express, and even Domino's.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

I'm glad that doesn't exist in Australia. Fast food is harmful to your health, and thus I do not consume it!

That's a lie. I'm addicted to fast food and I'm healthy.

That doesn't mean fast food is healthy.

[Ardoki]

I'm glad that doesn't exist in Australia. Fast food is harmful to your health, and thus I do not consume it!

That's a lie. I'm addicted to fast food and I'm healthy.

That statement is contradictory.

[Ardoki]

I'm glad that doesn't exist in Australia. Fast food is harmful to your health, and thus I do not consume it!

Yeah, but it tastes good.

I think it tastes vile, in my opinion. It is like eating highly processed grease, oil and fat mixed together. Plus I know what is in that "food".

[Ardoki]

I'm glad that doesn't exist in Australia. Fast food is harmful to your health, and thus I do not consume it!

I'm sure that Australia has plenty of its own fast food.

I never said otherwise.

[Empire of Narnia]

You should go. Just bring your girlfriend.

Even if I did have a girlfriend, I couldn't see that going down very well.

It went very well when I did it.

[Mushet]

I recall liking it as a kid.

I went more to this more local place called Shakey's that also had games, prizes and pizza.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

Even if I did have a girlfriend, I couldn't see that going down very well.

It went very well when I did it.

And how old were you when this occurred? 8? 9?

[Ardoki]

Actually Narnia, how old are you exactly?

[Dakini]

Yeah, but it tastes good.

I think it tastes vile, in my opinion. It is like eating highly processed grease, oil and fat mixed together. Plus I know what is in that "food".

You know, fast food doesn't have to be unhealthy or greasy... and some food that's unhealthy and greasy isn't fast food.

[Empire of Narnia]

Actually Narnia, how old are you exactly?

None of your business.

[Ardoki]

Actually Narnia, how old are you exactly?

None of your business.

I thought so.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

None of your business.

I thought so.

Indeed

[Ardoki]

I think it tastes vile, in my opinion. It is like eating highly processed grease, oil and fat mixed together. Plus I know what is in that "food".

You know, fast food doesn't have to be unhealthy or greasy... and some food that's unhealthy and greasy isn't fast food.

I think we have different definitions of fast food.

[Cannot think of a name]

If this were the 90s, but there are much better establishments.

By the 90s all of the old animatronics had deteriorated into nightmare fuel.




Anyway, isn't Dave & Busters for people who are adults but still want to go to something like a Chuck E. Cheese without triggering an Amber Alert?

[Victorious Decepticons]

I haven't seen one of those in years, and wouldn't have known they'd existed if a neighbor of mine didn't end up getting one of their tokens in change. She showed it to me in the hopes of finding out some way to spend it, and was quite disappointed when I identified it. The very idea that someone wouldn't know what an arcade token looks like is shocking and sad, but even worse, whoever gave it to her also apparently thought it was a strangely-stained quarter and didn't read what was printed right on it.

The last time I was in a Chuck E. Cheese, proper arcades were still a thing. This means it was probably the early 90s. At that time, arcades had gone downhill quite a bit from the mid-80s, but even then, any decent dedicated arcade totally pwned that awful chimera of a pizzeria and really-little-kid fun center that pretended, pathetically, to also be an arcade. Its oft-broken, barely working, B-list games were always covered in what seemed to be soda residue mixed with kid germs, their controls were sluggish, and they just sucked in general. The overabundance of loud brats ensured that it was the arcade of last resort, one to visit mainly to say that I hadn't missed checking out any that were in a 20-mile radius.

Once I'd checked it off my list, it was a place to go when I was in that town for something completely different and refused to just drive out without stopping at an arcade and because, lame as it was, it still had enough games to qualify as an arcade (that happened to contain other irrelevant stuff that I never looked at). I always walked by the animatronics rather speedily since I am in the camp that finds them creepy. They were never active when I was there - I came within the last couple of hours of operation in order to miss as many kids as possible, so the shows had always stopped by then.

Thinking about it makes me nostalgic for a real arcade: One with rows upon rows of clean, well-maintained, 25c video games and nothing else except a change machine and an attendant.