In addition to the free play day, Chuck E. Cheese locations throughout San Diego, the U.S., and Canada will support The Toy Foundation through fundraisers during June. (Photo courtesy of Chuck E.

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.

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 ...

Chuck's Arcade staffer Armando Arizmendi plays a NERF arcade game at the Brea venue hours before its grand opening. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones / For The Times) Chuck E. Cheese is all grown-up. Sort of.