A neat little documentary about the animatronic band from Showbiz Pizza Place restaurants from back in the 80's
The place (later becoming Chuck E. Cheese) was a frequent hangout for me as a kid, and watching the documentary brought back some fun memories. Also some great shots of old arcades and arcade games.
> A neat little documentary about the animatronic band from Showbiz Pizza Place > restaurants from back in the 80's > > The place (later becoming Chuck E. Cheese) was a frequent hangout for me as a kid, > and watching the documentary brought back some fun memories. Also some great shots of > old arcades and arcade games. > > Worth a watch. Streaming on Netflix now.
I say this as someone with a hobby that causes a lot of people to raise their eyebrows: These people are weird.
I never went to a Showbiz Pizza, but I was never much of a fan of the animatronic characters at Chuck E. Cheese's. They were a little bit creepy, and it was basically just something you had to sit through before you could get your stack of tokens and get out in the arcade.
These collectors have a working piece of history that affected many kids memories. My wife and I shared stories of going to Show Biz as children. Many of my earliest arcade memories are from Show Biz and Chuck E. Cheese's and I used to look forward to the shows while I was wharfing down horrible pizza.
My parents always dreaded it there, and now that I'm a parent myself I can understand why, and appreciate more the headaches they endured for my enjoyment.
Like they described at the beginning of the documentary, Show Biz Pizza Place was as close as you could get to Disneyland or Six Flags for kids in the western suburbs. There was a magic to it. In the documentary they show a brief clip of the entrance of one of those places and I paused the movie and was instantly taken back...I could almost smell the pizza and hear Tempest and Q*bert.
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