The Chuck E. Cheese nearest my house still has most of the animatronics, however, most of the arcade games are gone. When I was a kid I remember Chucky's being packed with arcade games, now there's only a few and they are mostly car driving games. For the most part there are a lot of ticket dispensing games as you stated. The balls that you could play in have been removed, and replaced by a complicated series of slides. Also, when I was a kid I remember them having a maze under the stage that you could crawl through. That was quickly removed though when some kid got stuck under there. My cousin's wife was a manager there a few years back and she said that, in the slides I mentioned a few sentences back, kids would constantly climb to the top of the slide and (ahem) use the restroom. Oh yeah, they don't sell beer there anymore either! Ah well, it still holds plenty of fond memories