Two of the greatest memories of our puerility — an adolescent casino and an antiquated data storage format — are still colliding to this very day . A Chuck E. Cheese employee gave his TikTok TV audience the humble - down on how the pizzeria / arcade combo still employ floppy disks to load its animatronic shows .
Earlier this yr , TikTok usershowbizpizzaman — who go by Stewart — documented how his Chuck E. Cheese uses a floppy disk to load the character shows . Stewart shows the floppy disk , which reads “ Evergreen Show 2023″ and loads it into the dusty reckoner loom over him . After a few moments of beep , bloops , and flashing Light Within , Stewart pans to the admonisher attached to the electronic computer tower , which spatter out personal line of credit of ostensibly gibberish codification in disgraceful - and - clean .
“ you’re able to see it ’s load everything , ” Stewart say . As the code scrolls down the screen , Stewart explains : “ Those are all the dance you see , [ the computer ] is getting all the information . ”
Chuck E. Cheese announced in 2017 that it would be moving away from animatronic shows, in favor of video-based entertainment.Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)
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It ’s 2023 , and the floppy disk feels like a relic of a bygone era of technical school , go with by the VHS tape or the Walkman , but Stewart ’s work flow is an example of how the floppy disk just wo n’t die . AsWiredpoints out , most of the party that still use floppy disks are either small businesses or companies that have n’t updated their equipment due to it just being too expensive .
In Stewart ’s video , he aver that his Chuck E. Cheese branch is father a facelift in the near future , and that this is the last floppy disk he ’ll ever have to load as the ship’s company does by with the data format — likely in favor of DVDs or a completely digital filing cabinet scheme . Chuck E. Cheeseannounced in 2017that it was design on completely ridding itself of the creepy automaton mouse and duck that put it on the map — and cheer theincredibly pop revulsion video recording game Five Nights of Freddy’s — to sharpen on video - base entertainment and * gasp ! * humanity in mascot suits .
Chuck E. Cheese did not immediately return Gizmodo ’s request for comment on what its new file system will look like for its animatronic shows , or why it has waited so long to transition away from floppy disks .
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