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Chuck E. Cheese Still Runs On Floppy Disks — For Now
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Chuck E. Cheese Still Runs On Floppy Disks — For Now

BuzzFeed News·Katie Notopoulos·about 1 month ago
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Of the over 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations worldwide, fewer than 50 restaurants still have the quarter-century–old “Studio C” layout of animatronics that uses these floppy disks. Other restaurants have a version of the show that uses contemporary tech, while some have no animatronics at all. (Ars Technica has a story about Chuck E. Cheese’s floppy disk usage with a more detailed breakdown of all the paleotech.) Eventually, Chuck E. Cheese plans to phase out animatronics altogether and focus on new screen-based entertainment (plus an even more retro approach: a live human in a mascot costume). The overhaul was first announced in 2017 , but the restaurant renovations are an ongoing process, and it may be a year or two before the last of the animatronics are done away with. Tom Persky is the owner of floppydisk.com , the biggest floppy disk purveyor still standing. His business has a few arms: You can buy blank disks through it or send in your old floppies to be transferred to more modern storage media.…

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