MintSM said:
FPLOON said:
Other than that, I feel like Five Nights at Eggman's would be a much creepier game than Sonic.exe for some reason...
To be fair, that's an extremely easy task. XD
But anyways, does the actual Chuck E Cheese franchise still exist?
Yes, and I believe "Rainforest Café" still exists as well. Establishments like this seem to have taken a huge beating in the economy because they were probably one of the very first things people figured they could do without (as much as a lot of children loved them). I also suspect that the anti-video game lobby really damaged them as well, as one of the big things they attacked was violent video games being put in places where kids could play, or see them. While the home video game market got some of this, arcades got it big time, and when your business is based heavily around video machines being pressured to ditch tons of them hurts a lot. Basically violence/action is popular, and there are only so many ways you can dress up a claw machine or ticket-based game. I comment on this simply because I watched this happen to the arcades/kids centers at the casinos where I worked where you had "children's welfare groups" complaining about some of the machines and such the arcades had, which lead to them being phased out, and then brought back in, and so on. Of course a lot of this also came from a double teaming by the whole "Code Adam" crowd due to the fact that creepy dudes could use the more age-neutral games (fighting games, etc...) to justify hanging out in the arcades and such around all the unattended children but that's another issue entirely (and one I actually sort of agree with from a security perspective,). I don't know what it's like now since I haven't worked at the casinos for years, but at Foxwoods they wound up literally tearing out the video machines from the whole first floor of the arcade and replaced them with ticket-based bowling games, claw, machines, and various other kiddie-gambling devices. Upstairs they had their regular video machines but it seemed like as time went on there were less and less and they wound up pulling anything that was decent for things that wouldn't offend the anti-violence crowd. I see the results around at Wal Marts (those with amusement areas), movie theaters, and other places as well... and I can just imagine what that did to something like Chuck E. Cheese where that's probably their bread and butter (so to speak).
That said, I suppose if they ever did do a sequel to "Five Nights At Freddy's" a logical place to go would be to have you doing security at a warehouse storing a lot of animatronics from businesses that went under, since I'd imagine a lot of this stuff actually did go into warehouses when chains folded and so on. It would let them increase the "rogues gallery" substantially by having characters from a number of defunct concessions running around.
Given some of the new things they can do with animatronics I'm wondering if we ever have another 90s-like boom in the USA if we'll see a return of businesses like this, and what they'll be like with improved tech. That said I'll be a really old dude (already pushing 40) by the time it happens if it ever does. This game's existence has however virtually guaranteed I will avoid taking a job as a security guard for a business like this (which I'm actually way overqualified for). Well not unless I can get a priest to bless an EMP gun for me.
