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"On Sunday, a Chuck E. Cheese employee named Stewart Coonrod posted a TikTok
video that documents the process of installing a new song-and-dance show on an
old Chuck E. Cheese animatronics system—a process that involves a 3.5-inch
floppy disk and two DVDs. Coonrod says it is the last update before his store
undergoes a remodel that will remove the animatronics altogether.
Coonrod's Chuck E. Cheese location in Darien, Illinois, was originally a
Show-Biz Pizza restaurant but changed over to Chuck E. Cheese branding in 1991.
It includes a single Chuck E. Cheese animatronics character (called
"Cyberamics" in the parlance of the company) surrounded by four video screens
in a setup called "Studio C," first introduced in 1998.
Currently, those 25-year-old setups are being phased out nationwide in favor of
a remodel that replaces the animatronics character with a dance floor. It's the
end of the line for Cyberamics, but a few stores still use them, and the parent
company ships out updates on floppy and DVD to match the legacy system."
Via Esther Schindler.
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*** Xanni ***
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