Showbiz

03 - Showbiz vs Chuck E. Cheese

Nolan Bushnell and Chuck E. Cheese (left), Aaron Fechter and Billy Bob from The Rockafire Explosion (right)

We recount our experience at DragonCon 2017, including celebrity encounters with a doctor and a Jewel.

(06:37) We go through the sordid and contentious history of Showbiz and Chuck E. Cheese, and the entrepreneurs who fought it out to be 80s Pizza King: Nolan Bushnell and Aaron Fechter.

(56:15) How Did We Survive? Sarah Jessica Parker writes in and tells us about rolling down the hill in a stolen shopping cart.

References:

The History of Chuck E. Cheese's and ShowBiz Pizza

How I Built This: Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell

RetroGaming RoundUp 24 (Oct 2010)