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ShowBiz Pizza: Where a Xennial Can Be a Kid
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Are rats and pizza synonymous in your mind? Did the jingle of gaming tokens in your plastic cup spike your childhood adrenaline?
Did your favorite fictional chicken wear a wig?
If you still remember the OG place that combined pizza, animatronic animals and gaming -- you might be a Xennial who went to ShowBiz Pizza in the 1980s.
Join us as we embark on a nostalgic journey back to the pizza parlor-centric 1980s to revisit the delicious cultural touchstone that was Showbiz Pizza and its evolution into Chuck E. Cheese.
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Chapters
1. Memories of Showbiz Pizza (00:00:00)
2. Welcome to Generation Inbetween (00:05:45)
3. The Origin Story of Chuck E. Cheese (00:15:30)
4. The Birth of Showbiz Pizza (00:26:10)
5. The Rock-afire Explosion Characters (00:38:36)
6. From Showbiz to Chuck E. Cheese (00:49:11)
7. The Modern Evolution of Chuck E. Cheese (00:57:28)
8. 80s and 90s Movie Trivia (01:05:11)
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