I grew up with ShowBizz Pizza before it converted to a Chuck E. Cheeze. I remember all too well the fond memeries I had had there. I personally never had a birthday party there, but attended several friends who had. When I was young and entered the place for the first time I did not know what to expect, and to be honest with you, those animitronic characters scared the piss out of me. I never saw anything like that before. But the games, oh man... I played sick one day so I didn't have to go to school. After 10 minutees I felt MUCH better. . So my mom knowingly knew I was just lazy and didn't want to go to school, so she asked me if I wanted to go play games. HECK YA! I threw a cough in occasionally, but my mom said stop pretending. But I can recall playing so many great games there for hours. The game room was nothing BUT video games. Games I played as a kid and loved was Peter pack Rat, Dragon's Lair, Jungle Hunt, Galaxian, Galaga, Frogger, Asteroids, and I even remember they had this built in race track with remote control cars. It had 4-6 cars and people raced against each other. That was fun! My 2 nieces hate the place because they don't have any games, so they go to Oddessey Fun World in Illinois to play in the 3 story tunnel fun land thingy and play games, they could care less about rides. I don't see Chuck E. Cheeze have anything going for them. I remeber the food was pretty darn good, the pizza was dripping grease, way back then, don't know how it is now. Anyone? I do mis the old days, the 5 arcades you could go to in a 10 mile radius, are now but a distant memory. Sad...