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I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"

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Off brand Chuck E Cheese's?

The other way around IIRC. They were first but Chucky out-cheesed them.

 

I think it goes like this:

 

  • Norm Bushnell creates Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater as a way to expand Atari and looking at crossing his experience with amusement parks and Disney attractions
  • Bushnell buys the concept back from Warners who wanted Atari the game maker, not Atari the pizza maker
  • Bushnell tries to expand the line with franchises; he signs a deal with Robert Brock.  Brock, afraid that Bushnell wasn't protecting his investment by not keeping his animatronics up to date cancelled his deal with Bushnell and opened restaurants using the same concept but with animatronics from a company called CEI after Brock was convinced that the technology that Aaron "Whack-a-mole" Fechter was working on was better than Bushnell's. This was branded ShowBiz Pizza
  • Bushnell sued Brock over breach of contract; the end result was that ShowBiz Pizza paid part of their profits to Pizza Time
  • Bushnell took Pizza Time public in 1981, but the video game crash of 1983 sent Pizza Time into bankruptcy
  • ShowBiz Pizza bought Pizza Time in bankruptcy, merging to become ShowBiz Pizza Time
  • Chuck E. Cheese proved a better mascot and eventually all of the restaurants became Chuck E. Cheeses and the company rebranded itself CEC Entertainment
  • CEC entertainment was bought out by Apollo Management Group who is altering some restaurants to have a dance floor rather than an animatronic show to appeal to adults.
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I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man

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Off brand Chuck E Cheese's?

The other way around IIRC. They were first but Chucky out-cheesed them.

 

I think it goes like this:

 

  • Norm Bushnell creates Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater as a way to expand Atari and looking at crossing his experience with amusement parks and Disney attractions
  • Bushnell buys the concept back from Warners who wanted Atari the game maker, not Atari the pizza maker
  • Bushnell tries to expand the line with franchises; he signs a deal with Robert Brock.  Brock, afraid that Bushnell wasn't protecting his investment by not keeping his animatronics up to date cancelled his deal with Bushnell and opened restaurants usin!g the same concept but with animatronics from a company called CEI after Brock was convinced that the technology that Aaron "Whack-a-mole" Fechter was working on was better than Bushnell's. This was branded ShowBiz Pizza
  • Bushnell sued Brock over breach of contract; the end result was that ShowBiz Pizza paid part of their profits to Pizza Time
  • Bushnell took Pizza Time public in 1981, but the video game crash of 1983 sent Pizza Time into bankruptcy
  • ShowBiz Pizza bought Pizza Time in bankruptcy, merging to become ShowBiz Pizza Time
  • Chuck E. Cheese proved a better mascot and eventually all of the restaurants became Chuck E. Cheeses and the company rebranded itself CEC Entertainment
  • CEC entertainment was bought out by Apollo Management Group who is altering some restaurants to have a dance floor rather than an animatronic show to appeal to adults.

 

Way to spoil my childhood memory with all these facts! I remember pizza time too.

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"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder.

 

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What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past?

 

Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born!


We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did.

 

Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.

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It is good that crimes have punishment based on their severity

look at the bright side: that guy is no longer homeless

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The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder.

 

-Teknoman2-

What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past?

 

Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born!


We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did.

 

Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.

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It is good that crimes have punishment based on their severity

look at the bright side: that guy is no longer homeless

 

 

This was exactly my thought. He's now got a roof over his head and three meals a day for what was 15 years at the time. Plus he can get a degree in prison.

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For the cheap shots.. ;)

 

 

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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