I was a game tech at the Showbiz on Noland Road in Independence Mo. I did fill in at the Antioch store (the one in the video) a few times as well. We used to perform maintenance on the shows weekly and we would calibrate/synchronize every movement on every character once a month. They ran on adjustable dual action pneumatic cylinders. The speed of each cylinder was adjustable in both directions as well as the range of motion. There was a special video we used to get the speed of each motion precisely adjusted to the proper speed, which is what allowed the characters to stay in synch with the music. It took a few hours to do it if you did it right. All of the control solenoids and adjustment valves were under the stage and accessible via trap doors in the stage. Good times!
Chuck E. Entertainment - Wow! Never knew that :). Great memories were made there on several occasions. Glad my dad kept the camera rolling to capture the magic.
This used to Open as The Wolf Pack 5, In March 1980. It was home to Rock-afire, but the headquarters itself was in Orlando, FL called "Creative Engineering". Kansas City (Antioch) has some videos of it up on YT or at this! www.showbizpizza.com/photos/spp/mo_antioch/index.html.
This brought me back. I can remember that helicopter. I believe the arcade section was way better than the current ones. I could remember the days of Pac Man, Q-bert, Donkey Kong Jr.. I grew up in Kenner, Louisiana and we had one there.
It’s weird the things you remember from places like this. I was the same age as these kids in the video and I only remember small details about Showbiz, but one of them was this weird arcade that had a monkey as the playable character, who had been transformed. I found out later it was called “Toki.” It was right near the front entrance to the place. I think that’s partially why it stands out so vividly.
i use to work at the Noland Showbiz Pizza in the 80's. I did a lot of work at this store as well during that time. This took me back to some good times. Thanks for the memories.
I used to work with John at the Noland Road Showbiz Pizza in the 1980's. Good to see you old friend! I'm pretty sure both of us filled in and helped out at the Antioch store more than once. The tech room at that store was HUGE!!! Those were good times John! I miss staying late on Sunday nights emptying the tokens and quarters (the games ran on both) and counting them while blaring Dr. Dimento over the PA system. Those were some good times!!!
Just in case anyone's curious, the actual tape playing is the "SPP Faith/Dreams/Kids" show, which was the September 1989 show. The next show would of course be "SPP Christmas '89" that featured a preview of the "CU Premiere" show. ruclips.net/video/SBeFG74JALo/видео.html ruclips.net/video/WgHL-OZ8ybY/видео.html
It still up and In buisness, there's only one left. Still up and running, it's in west Virginia in barborsville, it's just been renamed "billy bob's wonderland" look it up on Google! The photos of the place are amazing! Also look it up on RUclips! But make sure to put in "west Virginia barborsville" when looking it up on RUclips :)
@@internetpapaya1454 From what I know, the emergency backup tapes and players were around just in case something went wrong with the main tapes or players. Then again I that could just be the normal variation of the 2nd segment to the kids shows.
@@internetpapaya1454 emergency tapes are for when a show tape is sent back to corporate then they use the emergency show tape until the corporate until they make a showtape with new songs and stuff
@@JG1universe We never used the emergency backup tapes at the Noland road store because we always kept the show tapes. Antioch kept them too, so they could have used an old show tape in a pinch had they wanted to. That said, corporate didn't like for the stores to use the old tapes because they were rougher on the robotics than the newer shows were by the time 1989 rolled around, especially in the 3 Kansas City area stores that were still open in 1989 (Antioch, Metcalf, and Noland) because those were the oldest shows. The backup tapes were fine, but the early Rockafire shows really kicked ass, so if we had a tape break on us (they were reel to reel) we would just use something really cool from 1981 or 1982.
Omg, this was my Showbiz pizza, my grandpa lived only a few miles away. We would bike over to Antioch in the summer and hit up Showbiz and...Aladdin's Castle? The one inside the mall proper. Timing is right for me too, I would have been 8 this year.
this is my birthday date too. and on that date I was in a hospital doped up after a seizure. we lost our Showbiz Pizza Place in 1985. your Mitzi looks like ours did.
It still up and In buisness, there's only one left. Still up and running, it's in west Virginia in barborsville, it's just been renamed "billy bob's wonderland" look it up on Google! The photos of the place are amazing! Also look it up on RUclips! But make sure to put in "west Virginia barborsville" when looking it up on RUclips :)
Went to the one here in buffalo ny so many times growing up. The location was on Niagara falls blvd i believe?? . We would get uncle clunk Santa Claus during Holliday months we even got that weird Statue of Liberty during the summer months I think it was in 86 or so? So many great memories growing up here in Buffalo I'm now 41 years old
It still up and In buisness, there's only one left. Still up and running, it's in west Virginia in barborsville, it's just been renamed "billy bob's wonderland" look it up on Google! The photos of the place are amazing! Also look it up on RUclips! But make sure to put in "west Virginia barborsville" when looking it up on RUclips :)
when you notice that they are singing zip a Dee do dah and splash mountain also sings zip a Dee do dah and Showbiz has animatronics like splash mountain :o
@@afreshloafofgarlicbread6307 well the fnaf jokes are getting old it’s like on almost all videos about showbiz pizza the rock afire explosion or Chuck E. Cheese
It still up and In buisness, there's only one left. Still up and running, it's in west Virginia in barborsville, it's just been renamed "billy bob's wonderland" look it up on Google! The photos of the place are amazing! Also look it up on RUclips! But make sure to put in "west Virginia barborsville" when looking it up on RUclips :)
this isn't just an ordinary showbiz pizza place this is the first showbiz pizza place. later in the early 90s it was renamed into chuck e cheese. hears a link for chuck e cheese in Kansas city MO. www.showbizpizza.com/photos/cec/mo_antioch/index.html
@@CECColumbusOH Ohh.. I think around 1990 was when I started going to Chuck E. Cheese. It was where I had my 3rd birthday that year (1990) & also many other birthday's to follow up to the age of 12. Hmm... Did they ever say why they were converted or closed down? Geniunely curious. I've been binge watching some of the video's on youtube about Showbiz Pizza Palace. Seem's like it was really popular in the 80's! 👍 My parent's took me to the Chuck E. Cheese in Bridgeville PA. Honestly if I saw Showbiz Pizza Palace back then I would go there just to try it out! 😅😅😅👍✌
@@Sunny10tv Showbiz converted all of its locations to Chuck E. Cheese's a few years after buying them out because they wanted the rights to the Rock-Afire, and Creative Engineering, (the Rock-Afire's creators) said no. Without the rights to the characters Showbiz retrofitted the existing animatronics into Munch's Make Believe band.
They converted it to a Chuck-E-Cheese I believe in the early 90's and I think it moved to a new location in 2009 and the entire mall was torn down in stages from 2011-2015. Someone can correct me if I am wrong.
Yeah, Chuck e cheese just has their TVs on all the time after the shows and also they have their lights on all day even when the show is going on, for God's sake please Chuck e cheese bring back the animatronics in never turn on the lights when there is a show and turn off the TVs when you're done with the show
@0:16 Donny Osmond - Sacred Emotion in case the person who poster this or anyone watching would like to know... I know I'm not the ONLY nut who loves the background tapes from SPP/CEC!!
Too be honest, I don't mind Chuck E. Cheese. Even Chuck E. Cheese itself was better at one point. Some people including me didn't mind the rebrand and were happy that Aaron kept the RAE with him. However CEC started turning into a mad zone, with RUclips videos showing fights and kids bleeding all over the place lol. It's honestly kinda sad. I hope Chuck E. Cheese doesn't turn into some generic kid place with stupid parents dropping them off to leave them there. (Also this is only if you ARE: If you're blaming CEC then you're just wrong. ShowBiz was the one who put the Concept Unification thing into initiation. But of course you guys wouldn't want to be blaming ShowBiz because "the restaurant chain I grew up loving can do no wrong!" But of course, that's only if you ARE thinking that)
@@mrmemepro5249 Thats what its become in Madison Wisconsin. I had to deal with a full grown black adult messing with my 12 year old nephew about a video game. We closed down the sanitariums and they flock at chuckies.
ONE of the Kansas City Locations. There were 5 of them at one time, but this one was the very first Showbiz pizza. In 1989 three of the original 5 Showbiz pizza places were still open. Antioch, Noland Road (My home store), and Metcalf avenue. The Metcalf avenue store still exists to this day as a Chuck E. Cheese and is the ONLY one of the original 5 Showbiz pizza place buildings that is still standing. The Noland road store building was torn down this past year. So even though it bares virtually NO resemblance to Showbiz pizza, it's the oldest Showbiz/Chuck E Cheese in existence.
Creative Engineering (Aaron Fechter) invented and created EVERYTHING associated with the show, Characters and all. He rightfully owned the rights to all of it as well. Showbiz essentially demanded that he sign the rights over to them for free. I can't blame him for telling them to kick rocks. They ultimately rebranded because when they bought out Chuck E Cheese they owned the rights to those characters outright. It's a shame because Rockafire was way better than anything Chuck E Cheese ever did.
It’s amazing to see them in such perfect shape and a perfectly synced performance. I’m glad this video exists.
I was a game tech at the Showbiz on Noland Road in Independence Mo. I did fill in at the Antioch store (the one in the video) a few times as well. We used to perform maintenance on the shows weekly and we would calibrate/synchronize every movement on every character once a month. They ran on adjustable dual action pneumatic cylinders. The speed of each cylinder was adjustable in both directions as well as the range of motion. There was a special video we used to get the speed of each motion precisely adjusted to the proper speed, which is what allowed the characters to stay in synch with the music. It took a few hours to do it if you did it right. All of the control solenoids and adjustment valves were under the stage and accessible via trap doors in the stage. Good times!
This was the first Showbiz!
Chuck E. Entertainment - Wow! Never knew that :). Great memories were made there on several occasions. Glad my dad kept the camera rolling to capture the magic.
This used to Open as The Wolf Pack 5, In March 1980. It was home to Rock-afire, but the headquarters itself was in Orlando, FL called "Creative Engineering". Kansas City (Antioch) has some videos of it up on YT or at this! www.showbizpizza.com/photos/spp/mo_antioch/index.html.
Aaron Fechter is still in business, and hes still building and recording RAEs!
No the frist one was in 1980
@@Penguinwentdown You do realize that stores were open longer than their opening year? It opened in 1980, but this was recorded in 1989.
I can't think of place I'd rather have spent my sixth birthday.
oml thats awesome. I wish showbiz pizza place still existed ;-;
The Annoying Pink Fox It does now. Check Rock-afire's YT channel. (They don't seem to be in the best conditions as far as I kbow though...)
They re in perfect condition, the owner its aaron fetcher in Creative Engenering
The last showbiz closed in 2014 so it lasted longer and it got replaced with drum roll please big rat/chuck e cheese
Looney bird studios and Billy bob nobody cares 🙄🙄
Bj Nation that’s ur opinion I won’t support
This brought me back. I can remember that helicopter. I believe the arcade section was way better than the current ones. I could remember the days of Pac Man, Q-bert, Donkey Kong Jr.. I grew up in Kenner, Louisiana and we had one there.
It’s weird the things you remember from places like this. I was the same age as these kids in the video and I only remember small details about Showbiz, but one of them was this weird arcade that had a monkey as the playable character, who had been transformed. I found out later it was called “Toki.” It was right near the front entrance to the place. I think that’s partially why it stands out so vividly.
i use to work at the Noland Showbiz Pizza in the 80's. I did a lot of work at this store as well during that time. This took me back to some good times. Thanks for the memories.
Yes, those were good times! Thank you for the comments.
I used to work with John at the Noland Road Showbiz Pizza in the 1980's. Good to see you old friend! I'm pretty sure both of us filled in and helped out at the Antioch store more than once. The tech room at that store was HUGE!!! Those were good times John! I miss staying late on Sunday nights emptying the tokens and quarters (the games ran on both) and counting them while blaring Dr. Dimento over the PA system. Those were some good times!!!
Just in case anyone's curious, the actual tape playing is the "SPP Faith/Dreams/Kids" show, which was the September 1989 show. The next show would of course be "SPP Christmas '89" that featured
a preview of the "CU Premiere" show. ruclips.net/video/SBeFG74JALo/видео.html ruclips.net/video/WgHL-OZ8ybY/видео.html
I wish showbiz pizza was still around
It still up and In buisness, there's only one left. Still up and running, it's in west Virginia in barborsville, it's just been renamed "billy bob's wonderland" look it up on Google! The photos of the place are amazing! Also look it up on RUclips! But make sure to put in "west Virginia barborsville" when looking it up on RUclips :)
I just realized that one of the emergency backup tapes were being played on the Rock Afire Explosion.
Emergency backup tapes? I’m interested, explain
@@internetpapaya1454 From what I know, the emergency backup tapes and players were around just in case something went wrong with the main tapes or players. Then again I that could just be the normal variation of the 2nd segment to the kids shows.
@@sethhorst6158 alright
@@internetpapaya1454 emergency tapes are for when a show tape is sent back to corporate then they use the emergency show tape until the corporate until they make a showtape with new songs and stuff
@@JG1universe We never used the emergency backup tapes at the Noland road store because we always kept the show tapes. Antioch kept them too, so they could have used an old show tape in a pinch had they wanted to. That said, corporate didn't like for the stores to use the old tapes because they were rougher on the robotics than the newer shows were by the time 1989 rolled around, especially in the 3 Kansas City area stores that were still open in 1989 (Antioch, Metcalf, and Noland) because those were the oldest shows. The backup tapes were fine, but the early Rockafire shows really kicked ass, so if we had a tape break on us (they were reel to reel) we would just use something really cool from 1981 or 1982.
Omg, this was my Showbiz pizza, my grandpa lived only a few miles away. We would bike over to Antioch in the summer and hit up Showbiz and...Aladdin's Castle? The one inside the mall proper. Timing is right for me too, I would have been 8 this year.
Took me back to my childhood. But I would have been in there more like 1985-1988
this is my birthday date too. and on that date I was in a hospital doped up after a seizure. we lost our Showbiz Pizza Place in 1985. your Mitzi looks like ours did.
I’m so happy you got this on video
I wasn’t born yet, but I really want to se them in person
You should check out smittys super service station. They have the king, beagles, PTT full show, and the RAE!
It still up and In buisness, there's only one left. Still up and running, it's in west Virginia in barborsville, it's just been renamed "billy bob's wonderland" look it up on Google! The photos of the place are amazing! Also look it up on RUclips! But make sure to put in "west Virginia barborsville" when looking it up on RUclips :)
Love it!!! 🎉🎉🎉
I have a video from 1986 of my 5th birthday at the Showbiz Pizza in Myrtle Beach including Rock-Afire Explosion and Billy Bob :-)
Awesome!
Myrtle Beach Continued Operations Until The Early 1990’s. I Saw A Comment On One Showbiz Location From 1991 That Looked Like It.
If I could spend my birthdays anywhere, it would be here.
Cool! Thanks for sharing
How life was before but that was the original show pizza place for kids love the most
One of the presents was pretty petals
Sounds so quiet compared to Chuck E Cheeses....
I been to a showbiz pizza but I wish I could go in Kansas City cause my dad’s grandma lives in Kansas
Showbiz pizza cam there air pressure is low on Dook
This is super cool!!
12:10 we can still hear this soung in Chuck E. Cheese in northridge
Went to the one here in buffalo ny so many times growing up. The location was on Niagara falls blvd i believe?? . We would get uncle clunk Santa Claus during Holliday months we even got that weird Statue of Liberty during the summer months I think it was in 86 or so? So many great memories growing up here in Buffalo I'm now 41 years old
It still up and In buisness, there's only one left. Still up and running, it's in west Virginia in barborsville, it's just been renamed "billy bob's wonderland" look it up on Google! The photos of the place are amazing! Also look it up on RUclips! But make sure to put in "west Virginia barborsville" when looking it up on RUclips :)
Had a few birthdays here in the 80s, maybe we ran into each other back then! 😅
when you notice that they are singing zip a Dee do dah and splash mountain also sings zip a Dee do dah and Showbiz has animatronics like splash mountain :o
4:07 looks in the curtains, sees probably Fatz looking at him, MOVE IT ALONG COME ON GUYS
Ha ha!
Showbiz pizza what a place to a birthday at
"and theres michael!"
michael afton: *sweats nervously*
@The Art of Meme V Oh, chill. Let people enjoy their game. That franchise probably introduced a ton of new people to RAE anyways.
@@afreshloafofgarlicbread6307 well the fnaf jokes are getting old it’s like on almost all videos about showbiz pizza the rock afire explosion or Chuck E. Cheese
@Garbage Guy Aaron Fechter ain't real
I miss showboiz
This is awesome!
this will be in the history books.
It still up and In buisness, there's only one left. Still up and running, it's in west Virginia in barborsville, it's just been renamed "billy bob's wonderland" look it up on Google! The photos of the place are amazing! Also look it up on RUclips! But make sure to put in "west Virginia barborsville" when looking it up on RUclips :)
this isn't just an ordinary showbiz pizza place this is the first showbiz pizza place. later in the early 90s it was renamed into chuck e cheese. hears a link for chuck e cheese in Kansas city MO. www.showbizpizza.com/photos/cec/mo_antioch/index.html
This was the first Showbiz Pizza Place
Never been to: Show Biz Pizza back then. It remind's me alot of Chuck E. Cheese for some reason though... 🤔
That's because they were all either converted to Chuck E Cheese, or closed down around 1990
@@CECColumbusOH Ohh.. I think around 1990 was when I started going to Chuck E. Cheese. It was where I had my 3rd birthday that year (1990) & also many other birthday's to follow up to the age of 12. Hmm... Did they ever say why they were converted or closed down? Geniunely curious. I've been binge watching some of the video's on youtube about Showbiz Pizza Palace. Seem's like it was really popular in the 80's! 👍 My parent's took me to the Chuck E. Cheese in Bridgeville PA. Honestly if I saw Showbiz Pizza Palace back then I would go there just to try it out! 😅😅😅👍✌
@@Sunny10tv Showbiz converted all of its locations to Chuck E. Cheese's a few years after buying them out because they wanted the rights to the Rock-Afire, and Creative Engineering, (the Rock-Afire's creators) said no. Without the rights to the characters Showbiz retrofitted the existing animatronics into Munch's Make Believe band.
Nice.
Por fin...
El comentario en español que tanto estabas esperando...
wow
How come Rolfe and Mitzi are v1 and the others are v2? (Not to sure about Billy Bob)
actually rolfe looks to be v3, and mitzi v3 too, the rest looks like v2
I couldn't tell that was a Version 1 Rolfe, and Mitzi.
1:13: fnaf sl fans: H E Y B O N B O N
Hey, do you mind if I use some of this footage in an upcoming video of mine? I'll be sure to give credit.
That’s fine! Thanks for asking :)
I went to show biz pizza zone when I was 6 and I was terrified of fatz
Me too! Ha ha.
If only this location still exists to this day. But this location installed with the Wolf Pack 5 and later got RAE in Early 1981 maybe not sure.
It’s closed it closed sometime in 2017 and was left abandoned then got abandoned in 2011 or 12 idk tbh
That one kid sank through the floor
Where
Just think those kids have kids now and taking them to Chuck E. Cheese
@Garbage Guy ok?
@Garbage Guy That’s kinda sad.
im sad it closed
i think theres a birthday party
Can you list the song names in the video?
the first spp ever
What year this location was closed
They converted it to a Chuck-E-Cheese I believe in the early 90's and I think it moved to a new location in 2009 and the entire mall was torn down in stages from 2011-2015. Someone can correct me if I am wrong.
1 month before disaster (concept unification)
There's actually a footage of another location that still had the Rock Afire Explosion in 1991.
@@sethhorst6158 The last rockafires lasted until 1992 before all being converted
@W4ZFN the last location to receive concept unification was in paseadena California in early 1993
Insane to think this was the same place that held a Wolfpack 5.
Yeah, Chuck e cheese just has their TVs on all the time after the shows and also they have their lights on all day even when the show is going on, for God's sake please Chuck e cheese bring back the animatronics in never turn on the lights when there is a show and turn off the TVs when you're done with the show
What show are the RAE preforming?
I don't know but one of them is Zippity doo dah.
Kids Show (Segment 2) (1988-1990).
Cute
@0:16 Donny Osmond - Sacred Emotion in case the person who poster this or anyone watching would like to know... I know I'm not the ONLY nut who loves the background tapes from SPP/CEC!!
pizza, pizza, pizza!
Omg niki maja is that u 😉
Chuck E Cheese does it different.
Dah 2022 dah hmmm
This is billy bobs wonderland
Billy Bob's Wonderland was never in Kansas.
wait the fox animaltronic is like foxy and funtime freddy
That's a wolf named Rolfe Dewolfe.
i think FT freddy was based off of rolfe
@@cleverestcantaloupe4840 Ok
bruh
bruh
Now its full of terrible children that parents never watch. Chucky cheese is the ghetto version of showbiz.
I can't disagree with you there. I have kids and have taken them to CC. It lacks the magic ShowBiz once had.
@@JcFrK1983 Amen brother
Brandon Hylton Modern Showbiz would be the same way since Showbiz owns CEC.
Too be honest, I don't mind Chuck E. Cheese. Even Chuck E. Cheese itself was better at one point. Some people including me didn't mind the rebrand and were happy that Aaron kept the RAE with him. However CEC started turning into a mad zone, with RUclips videos showing fights and kids bleeding all over the place lol. It's honestly kinda sad. I hope Chuck E. Cheese doesn't turn into some generic kid place with stupid parents dropping them off to leave them there. (Also this is only if you ARE: If you're blaming CEC then you're just wrong. ShowBiz was the one who put the Concept Unification thing into initiation. But of course you guys wouldn't want to be blaming ShowBiz because "the restaurant chain I grew up loving can do no wrong!" But of course, that's only if you ARE thinking that)
@@mrmemepro5249 Thats what its become in Madison Wisconsin. I had to deal with a full grown black adult messing with my 12 year old nephew about a video game. We closed down the sanitariums and they flock at chuckies.
This is the Kansas City location.
ONE of the Kansas City Locations. There were 5 of them at one time, but this one was the very first Showbiz pizza. In 1989 three of the original 5 Showbiz pizza places were still open. Antioch, Noland Road (My home store), and Metcalf avenue. The Metcalf avenue store still exists to this day as a Chuck E. Cheese and is the ONLY one of the original 5 Showbiz pizza place buildings that is still standing. The Noland road store building was torn down this past year. So even though it bares virtually NO resemblance to Showbiz pizza, it's the oldest Showbiz/Chuck E Cheese in existence.
Showbiz pizza no wait it’s
chuck e cheese
I hate the fact that to get creative engineering off there backs they rebranded his Chuck e cheese's and that's their downfall
Creative Engineering (Aaron Fechter) invented and created EVERYTHING associated with the show, Characters and all. He rightfully owned the rights to all of it as well. Showbiz essentially demanded that he sign the rights over to them for free. I can't blame him for telling them to kick rocks. They ultimately rebranded because when they bought out Chuck E Cheese they owned the rights to those characters outright. It's a shame because Rockafire was way better than anything Chuck E Cheese ever did.
@@craigcampbell8560 not really he owns them but he didn’t make it all by him self other people helped make it to
who thought beach bears guitar is difrent?
I had to to thumb this down...You didnt show billy Bob in his suit...When the kids was singing happy birthday,..Where is billy bob?...bummer👎👎👎👎👎
where's the Chuck e cheese walkaround
In Chuck E Cheese where it belongs.
Seth Horst No. Chuck E. Cheese would appear in Showbiz stores.
These guys came WAY before Chuck E. was even a thing. Chuck and the gang replaced these guys and took over sadly into nowadays in the early 90's.
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This is creepy 😢😢😭😭😭😖😖😖
lps ByHali Your profile pic is creepy 😂
Rankin 109 xd
How is it creepy?
Yeah hows this creepy?
C'mon I waiting.
How is a kids birthday party in the 80’s creepy?