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Here’s some current buzz from the forums:
Showbiz Pizza Place vs. Chuck E Cheese’s
“Showbiz Pizza Place was a favorite hang out on the weekends in Sacramento. The pizza was ok, games were awesome. I liked it much better than Chuck E. Cheese’s. It was brighter, cleaner and the animatronic characters were cooler and had better songs. I actually have a 45 of the Rockafire Explosion Band covering the Beatles “Birthday” and a song sung by Duke the drumming dog “Heartache”. I bought the full length LP but I left it by the Joust machine and someone stole it. They wouldn’t give me a new LP but they gave me five dollars of game tokens because it was my birthday. Sadly it closed down in the 90′s and I miss it a lot. showbizpizza.com is great site. And there are some vintage Showbiz Pizza commercials on youtube which is cool.”
Skate Birds board game
“I had a Skatebirds board game when I was like 8. It was a fun game with all of the characters, like the Robonic Stooges. You rolled a marble down this chute and it rolled around the board settling into one of many holes on the board. This is where you would move your character and the first one to the end is the winner. There were probably other parts to the game, but I remember rolling the marble the most, and the cool art on the gameboard and box.”
What is the Best Breakfast Cereal?
“Probably Golden Grahams right now. As a kid it was probably Cocoa Puffs.”
Your Absolute Favorite Horror Film?
“I am a big fan of the classic stuff like Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, Dracula… the classic B&W movie monsters. But more modern stuff I would say Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street. But I do enjoy the Saw films, even thought they suck, I still will watch them. But I am more sci-fi alien monster stuff. Give me a good sci-fi film any day”
Favorite Muppet
“Animal was always my fave. How could you not like Animal? He was crazy AND he played the drums!”
Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghost Stories For Young People
“Thanks very much Jonathan – Great to have this.”
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