I used to collect these as a kid since we used to go to Chuck E. Cheese in the 90s. I remember having one dated 1983 and my last one was like 1997. We still had our Chuck E. Cheese until last year when the pandemic caused it to permanently close. I had not been inside since 1997 so I have no idea how much it changed but I did hear from a friend that they stopped doing tokens at some point - not sure as to the year but am curious why they stopped and what year last token was made.

@Smudge said:
The band sucks and the pizza’s cold and you eat it with a snot nose four year old.

That and the McDonalds bouncy ball playhouse they used to have all over. Cesspool of germs

My kids used to love those places.

I worked in the video arcade business for 17 years. 2 of the companies I worked for used tokens, Nickels and Dimes, Inc. (Gold Mine, Tilt) and Dave & Buster's. During my time with them, I amassed a decent-sized collection of tokens, not only theirs but from other arcades as well, including Chuck E. Cheese. The Chuck E. Cheese tokens were very close in size to our D&B tokens and we found a lot of them in our machines. I made an deal with the manager of a nearby Chuck E. Cheese to swap their tokens back for ours from time to time. Now I'm wishing I'd set more of the unusual ones aside.

I spent a lot of time and money at Pizza Time Theater at ages 12-15 in 1979-82, coinciding with my pre-driving and pre-dating coin collecting. Back then it was a cool hang out place for kids my age, all the latest video games, a strobe light disco room, not nearly as young-kiddie oriented as it is now.

We'd put a five in the machine and get 25 tokens, and of course over time I assembled a nice collection by quickly sorting and saving the "gems" brand new ones and the occasional "rare" old or very different one from each handful.

Of course, I now wish Id saved the set all this time, I'm sure some of those would be interesting and valuable now. But alas, along came expenses for gasoline and girls and grass and the rest, and I lost interest in coins and tokens.

Spent the tokens in one last hurrah at Chuck's, just as my friends were getting home video game consoles, and out local Pizza Time Theater remodeled into the little kid focused business with the ball pit, climbing structure, and baby games.

Good times, long gone. Have gone with my own kids a few times, but alas, they are teenagers now, too. Fugio.

@koynekwest said:

@JoeLewis said:
Hey guys. That’s my website (and my collection)!

Once again-great info!

Thanks! It’s been so much fun over the years discovering and cataloging all the different varieties/types. Very different experience from the US coin collecting I’ve done for 37 years.

Canada

The Saudi Arabia and Australia ones are fairly rare. The Canadian one is very common.

does anyone have a photo of chuck e cheese 25 years of fun token

@SmartBanjo said:
does anyone have a photo of chuck e cheese 25 years of fun token

I know it's been two years since you've asked but here's the pic of the 25 year anniversary token!

https://cectoken.com/items/chuck-e-cheese-25th-anniversary-token-m01n

@Smudge said:
The band sucks and the pizza’s cold and you eat it with a snot nose four year old.

God I hated that place.

I used to work with young lady that i would tease about being the Security Guard for the Ball Pit at Chuck-e-Cheese.