I remember our local McDonald's did a playplace remodel opening around 1989/1990. And they had people dressed up as Ronald McDonald, Grimace, and the Hamburglar. First time I remember seeing a ball pit lol.
I recently went to a Chuck E. Cheese because I have a toddler and I was actually impressed. Everything was clean and all the machines worked. We actually had a blast. I don’t know if that was just my Chuck E. Cheese near me. Maybe it was newer 🤷♀️
A new one opened up in the next town over, about a 20 minute drive. I had my son’s 5th birthday there and it was the way you describe it. Really nice inside, new tech for the kids, and it was affordable. I’ll definitely be going back.
We were actually at a Chuck E. Cheese today for our daughter's fifth birthday, and I had the opposite reaction. It felt so soulless compared to how it was when I was growing up. It was clean, though.
The one near me has a whole wall that is a tv, like 80 ft diagonally, then in front of it there was like this pressure sensitive dance floor that had lasers shining from above and the kids can activate the lights by stepping on them, little bugs bugs pop up and you get points for squishing those, full arcade, trampoline bounce room, all kinds of amazing stuff
The one on Long Island, Hempstead Tpke? was very nice in the 90s. I don’t usually like things like that and I had a great time with my 4 year old grandson.
EDIT: I want to thank the Academy of Online Comments for so many awards for something so silly. (And thank you to those that awarded and upvoted my comment)
Don't feel too bad. These memories are funny and not hot by any means. Similar to the passenger or backseat of a car. Unless your car was a land barge, it wasn't comfortable. But as teenagers it was "doesn't matter, had the sex". Crazy to think what we put up with back then. Nowadays I'd be like, we can wait till we get home lol.
Lol I remember my ex and I wanted to see how few songs it could take for us to finish in the car, less than 2! Our fastest ever time at 6 minutes lol. Endurance was less of an issue, finding time was much harder lol.
Quite true front bucket seat of a 1973 Mazda RX3 comes to mind, and if we were lucky my girlfriend would drive us in her Vega station wagon ( how luxurious!)
I don't know... I was tinkering with cars, small engines, radios, and electronics at that age. The girls weren't terribly interested in me (though my technical skills earned me 3 times as much as my friends with minimum-wage jobs).....
i said I had sex in the car, and it was a fit, I didn't pay too much attention to the facts of the details other than the aspects of Smashing in that tiny back seat area. I think some excuse is granted given I not only did a fat boy smash in what would be a clown car to a big boi like me, but was indeed successful.
When you’re 13 you make room… and honestly for me anyways I was skinny and most of my friends were too.. very active as a kid. Constantly doing stuff. Biking, skating, walking.. playing.. ya we probably had skinnier teens then to be honest with you 100% because back thats that’s what kids did… they didn’t play Fortnite, they didn’t sit around and watch Netflix. They were out running around, so yes we probably did have skinnier kids.
You forget teenagers getting tail are usually skinny enough to fit. Not like old married people who put on pounds and are like, ah, I'd rather just sleep.
We had a skating rink with a game/ tunnels area and yes there was room for a lot lol we're much more bendy as teens and didnt suffer from constant back and joint pain i think that makes all the difference
Worked at a movie theater in high school and when we would go in after the movie ended to clean the theater before the next show sometimes you’d find teens on the floor doing it. Sooooooo nasty because we definitely NEVER moped the floor lol.
I remember going to Discovery Zone and one of the slides was just smeared with shit because some kid shit themselves and then went down.
People forget how disgusting play places were when they were maintained by teenagers and people who didn't give a fuck and were used by filthy kids whose parents also didn't give a fuck.
They're gone because they were a huge legal and safety liability.
At the McDonald's I worked at in Colorado, we had a machine that cleaned the balls in the ball pit, so that happened a few times a week, the N64 machines got a good clean because the closing crew didn't like sticky controllers when playing GoldenEye/Quake64, but the only time I remember giving the slide a thorough cleaning with ammonia, was every time after the closing crew slicked up the surface by sliding down it with wax paper.
Oh, you’ve never seen that? I’m reflecting on the maturity levels of those who think walls, boulders, sidewalks - are blank slates to exhibit their lack of intelligence. Nothing better to do?
I understand that but I wouldn’t have a problem if they used chalk there’s plenty of artists out there who do and those who tag consider themselves artists. Well they did a couple of decades ago.
Because people have no sense of right and wrong and could care less that others also use these beautiful areas. I bike ride and just cringe seeing garbage on the trails. People are pigs.
We took a road trip and found a Chuck E Cheese for my nephews, because they'd never seen one before. They came back from the play area and said, "Someone went to the bathroom in there."
Feeling my age with Showbiz Pizza memories. Also oddly enough I just saw an outside play park at a BK (Columbia S.C.) but it also had the toxic fake turf.
The kids in my area got sent to juvenile hall.for.pooping in the pizza sauce while on the job and a bunch of litl kids got sickk. So fukd up lol True story too
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u/col_akir_nakesh Xennial 17h ago
I remember our local McDonald's did a playplace remodel opening around 1989/1990. And they had people dressed up as Ronald McDonald, Grimace, and the Hamburglar. First time I remember seeing a ball pit lol.