MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: The Rock-afire Explosion documentary

I don't see it any differently than my sister's father in law restoring a car because it was the first car he'd ever ridden in.

Or not too far from where I live there is a restored carousel.

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.