The Chuck E. Cheese Experience
Did any of your guys ever go there as a kid? What about Show Biz Pizza?
Well we did not have anything better to do with my son this afternoon, so the Empress and I headed out to Chuck E. Cheese. I had memories of these places as a kid. Parents would take me every couple of months or so I guess. Pizza, games, ball pitts, slides, skee ball, etc.
Well it is not what I remember it to be. Gone were the stage shows with multiple robitic things gryating and gesticulating in a song and dance. There was but one lousy mouse, and the rest was video. The games were cheep and the prizes very expensive. I can see these places have been consumed by corporate greed. Perhaps it was always like this, perhaps not.
The service was nice, but there were only two other famillies there. The place could hold 300+ The rides were intersting, and fun, but I can get it all at Galactic Circuis. The prize games were not what was expected. In melbourne, 50 tickets, will appease a 3 yearold, here you need about 1000. Games might be a quarter here (or yuck tokens), compred to Melbourne's dollar, but it is still 8 tickets to one coin. Unless of course your a skeeball master and can get the 10000 point shots continously.
Still I can't say my son had a bad time. He had a ball, him and me in an arcade=fun. The Empress not so much. I was even better at skeeball than her. Which I found weird her being an athlete and all.
Oh and the pizza was awful. Not the worse I ever had. That award goes to a shop in Frankston, salty and oily. At least these had some sauce on it.
We were hoping for lots of kids, but I guess it was a weekday so there were none around. If today was typical, you would wonder how they stay in business.
-If anyone can find a suitable location for a playday, man you could make a mint. Healthy, entertaining and engaging compared to this.
www.playdays.com.au.
I'm sure we will go back once or twice, but I'd rather other activites, otherwise I'm going to have to cheat at skeeball.
Compared to what I saw today, it was much much better when I was a kid.
Anyone know where I can find some good pony rides for my son? My parents have been looking for 6 months now, but no luck, only bloody multi-million dolalr through breads out here.
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