{"id":1293,"date":"2017-06-08T15:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:33:13","slug":"the-origins-of-chuck-e-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1293\/the-origins-of-chuck-e-cheese","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Chuck E. Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40425172\/robots-pizza-and-magic-the-chuck-e-cheese-origin-story\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/p-1-pizza-time-history-of-chuck-e-cheese.jpg\" alt=\"Nolan Bushnell and Chuck E. Cheese\" width=\"420\" class=\"centered shadow wp-image-1294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/p-1-pizza-time-history-of-chuck-e-cheese.jpg 707w, https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/p-1-pizza-time-history-of-chuck-e-cheese-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1249\/retro-scan-chuck-e-cheese-tokens-and-tickets\">most recent Retro Scan<\/a>, but I figured this was worth repeating in its own post.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s Pizza Time Theatre launched 40 years ago last month \u2014 on May 16, 1977. To celebrate the anniversary, I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40425172\/robots-pizza-and-magic-the-chuck-e-cheese-origin-story\">long feature about the origins of the pizza chain<\/a> for FastCompany that they published last week.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, you can learn about how Chuck E. Cheese was originally supposed to be a coyote, read about rat-related intrigue, and glean some of the visionary genius of Nolan Bushnell, who saw the chain as a way to bring arcade video games to the mainstream &#8212; as well as scratching a fundamental itch of human nature.  It worked.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned this in my most recent Retro Scan, but I figured this was worth repeating in its own post. Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s Pizza Time Theatre launched 40 years ago last month \u2014 on May 16, 1977. To celebrate the anniversary, I wrote a long feature about the origins of the pizza chain for FastCompany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[185,170,56,979,88,1487,946,1486,57],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retrogaming","tag-185","tag-atari","tag-chuck-e-cheese","tag-fastcompany","tag-freelance-work","tag-gene-landrum","tag-nolan-bushnell","tag-pizza","tag-pizza-time-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}