With a handful of game tokens, mouthful of cheese pizza and earful of arcade sounds, people across the U.S. remember going to Chuck E. Cheese and being mesmerized by the animatronic show that Chuck E.

The Kansas City area’s last Chuck E. Cheese mouse doesn’t do much these days. He slowly turns his animatronic matted, gray head a few times a minute — scanning the empty stage. His earlier ...

A mainstay of the pizza and arcade chain, by turns endearing and creepy, will be phased out by year’s end at all but two locations. We visited one of them. A Chuck E. Cheese in Hicksville, N.Y., is ...