Games that survived the clasp of Showbiz Pizza & Chuck E Cheese.
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ballytablewiz
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I recently sold a DK that was from a CEC, similar tag inside. It was from California, yet had made it's way all the way to the Midwest.
On the topic of game crushing : YES. Chuck E Cheese smashes every game into a million pieces now as a matter of practice. I had a chat with the GM of one, inquiring about a beat-up pinball. He told me the horrible truth, and even went so far as to explain why. Evidently, a location in Florida cycled games a number of years ago and sold off all the old ones. Turns out the buyer of most of them went and opened a competing business down the street with CEC's old games. That did not go over well. So now they destroy every game, down to the point of smashing the circuit boards, and they allegedly have to provide photographic proof of the destruction to corporate.
I hope their corporate bigwigs burn in hell and are subjected to animatronic mouse-sung birthday songs 24 hours a day, for all eternity.
On the topic of game crushing : YES. Chuck E Cheese smashes every game into a million pieces now as a matter of practice. I had a chat with the GM of one, inquiring about a beat-up pinball. He told me the horrible truth, and even went so far as to explain why. Evidently, a location in Florida cycled games a number of years ago and sold off all the old ones. Turns out the buyer of most of them went and opened a competing business down the street with CEC's old games. That did not go over well. So now they destroy every game, down to the point of smashing the circuit boards, and they allegedly have to provide photographic proof of the destruction to corporate.
I hope their corporate bigwigs burn in hell and are subjected to animatronic mouse-sung birthday songs 24 hours a day, for all eternity.
Dave27
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I have 2 games with the Showbiz metal plates on the back. I just cant remember which two I would have to slide them out. On another note for all the locals my Star Wars upright is from the Icecycle Inn in Leavenworth. I talked to the owner and he remembered when it was there he said they had two and at the time made allot of money for him....Later.....Dave
SilverCoin
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Currently have a Kangaroo with a Showbiz pizza metal plate on the upper right back!
I think my plate looks a bit different than what I've been seeing.
I think my plate looks a bit different than what I've been seeing.
chas010
Permanently Banned
I picked up a sinistar cockpit that is supposedly from a cec. The story I was told was that a cec manager spared this one from destruction and kept it in his barn all these years for his kids to play. It was filled with early 80's cec tokens and badly water damaged though.
caddysrule
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I own one game from showbiz my Space Dungeon and It came from Indiana.
Funny..so does mine. Ill post a pic tomorrow.
Also my Dig Dug and Frogger are both from the CC in Sunnyvale, CA
and whats funnier is that I got them from 2 different guys about 50 miles apart!
simpsons99
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Games that survived the clasp of Showbiz Pizza &
I bet the metal Plates are on the Early 80's games when Showbiz Pizza first opened. I would like too get some of these plates. I bet the coolest one would be too get would be Lynnwood Washington. I was there allmost every weekend eating pizza, Listening too the Rock a Fire, Playing all the games inbetween shows!
Those are the days i will never forget and why i collect all this stuff.
I bet the metal Plates are on the Early 80's games when Showbiz Pizza first opened. I would like too get some of these plates. I bet the coolest one would be too get would be Lynnwood Washington. I was there allmost every weekend eating pizza, Listening too the Rock a Fire, Playing all the games inbetween shows!
Those are the days i will never forget and why i collect all this stuff.
p1899m
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did the lynnwood location turn to a CEC or was there just a CEC there as well? I just got a piece of carpet from the lynnwood CEC location
noice87
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Somewhere I have a business card for a manager of a CEC PTT from the early 80ties. I got it in a storage unit I bought out. I just got a batch of PTT tokens with city and state. Some of them I may already have sold but one of them I have several repeats.
The last Super Auction had some CEC Kiddie Rides. One looked from the early 80ties.
The 2 tokens that got me into collecting, I got from a CEC back in the mid 80ties but neither were from CEC. I just happened to look at my tokens and noticed one was Crystal Palace Roller Skating Entertainment and the other Amelia Island Florida's Plantation. I still have both today and save any more of those I find. I have a estimated 10,000 different arcade tokens. One day I will go though them and sort them all out. I had a chance to buy out a huge amusement token collection but didn't have the money.
The last Super Auction had some CEC Kiddie Rides. One looked from the early 80ties.
The 2 tokens that got me into collecting, I got from a CEC back in the mid 80ties but neither were from CEC. I just happened to look at my tokens and noticed one was Crystal Palace Roller Skating Entertainment and the other Amelia Island Florida's Plantation. I still have both today and save any more of those I find. I have a estimated 10,000 different arcade tokens. One day I will go though them and sort them all out. I had a chance to buy out a huge amusement token collection but didn't have the money.
CrazyKongFan
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I wonder where our local Showbiz games went when it closed. There wasn't a CEC anywhere in the area (well, maybe an hour away). I spent alot of Fridays there...good times 
PublicSectorTech
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'My' Showbiz Pizza on Wesleyan St in Houston is still around, although it's a Chuck E. Cheese's now. Does anyone remember playing a mechanical game where you tried to shoot marbles into a frog's mouth? Can't remember if it was redemption or not. Used to love that game, it looked exactly like an exhibit from the reptile house except with an mechanical amphibian!
Cidco
Member
Did it have real water in it? If so I do remember it. It was a redemption game and I remember thinking how weird it was to have water and electricity in the same game.
PublicSectorTech
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I think it might have had water, but I don't remember. You shot the marbles along a metal track and they spun in a circle before flying off and (hopefully) into the frog's mouth. I think it got progressively more difficult as the timer ran down. I think the game had some fake plants in it, or at least a fake jungle background. It was supposed to look like a zoo exhibit. This would have been around '84-87 or so.
