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Chuck E. Cheese: Where a Kid's Birthday Party Became an Event

Animatronic animals, a ball pit, a pile of tickets that never quite added up to the prize you wanted — for a huge stretch of kids, this was simply what a birthday party was.

Gaming

Mortal Kombat and the Video Game Violence Panic That Created Game Ratings

A fighting game with digitized blood and spines ripped out on screen ended up in front of the US Senate — and permanently changed how every video game since has been labeled and sold.