Well if it ain't broke...
There are a few things to admire about this video, mainly the chap's period-appropriate mullet and documentation of a system that, soon enough, will be even more of a relic. The Chuck E. Cheese chain is phasing out the floppies and in the last decade has been phasing out the animatronics more generally . Coonrod says he's filming because his location is soon to undergo a remodel and this is something of a last chance to show off how it works.
This has needless to say caused some pangs of nostalgia for the generations of Americans who grew up in an age when pizza, videogames, and a freaky dancing mouse was a genuine treat of an evening. There are even collectors dedicated to re-building their own animatronic sets at home, which would certainly be an eye-opening thing to show someone on a first date.
This is not as unusual as it might seem. Plenty of older systems, including some extremely important ones, are kept on archaic technology both because 'if it ain't broke' and also because these more isolated and self-contained systems have that layer of security built-in. I doubt Chuck E. Cheese is worried about North Korean hackers making the mouse dance, so in this case it's simply that the system clearly still works and has done for decades.
These systems are good"if you’re looking for something very stable, really nonhackable—it's not internet-based, not network-based," Tom Persky, the floppy disk supplier who has the Chuck E. Cheese contract,"Usually newer setups cause issues with stuff, and it's easier to just keep the old stuff running," says one anonymous Chuck E Cheese employee. So when the Studio C setup is finally phased-out at Chuck E.
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