I got my first bike at a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese in San Jose on a Sunday in March 1983. (The location still exists.) The animatronic puppets were larg

I got my first bike at a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese in San Jose on a Sunday in March 1983. (The location still exists.) The animatronic puppets were large, loud, gracelessly mechanical, and creepy to little kids. That aside, it was difficult to argue with ever sort of arcade game, skeeball, whackamole, and basketball game that spat out the all-important tickets to win carnival prizes.