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Aaron Fechter (born December 22, 1953) [1] is an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, voice actor, singer, and musician who owns and operates Creative Engineering, Inc. (CEI). He is best known as the creator of The Rock-afire Explosion , an animatronic show featuring a variety of characters created primarily for Showbiz Pizza Place ...
CEI was founded by inventor Aaron Fechter, who oversaw production of the animatronics and provided several of the characters' voices. The band was replaced by Chuck E. Cheese characters and renamed Munch's Make Believe Band following ShowBiz Pizza's decision to rebrand in the early 1990s. [ 3 ]
Aaron Fechter: Lambda-Alpha / University of South Florida: Invented the Whac-A-Mole and created The Rock-afire Explosion animatronic show at ShowBiz Pizza Place, which merged into Chuck E. Cheese [10] Alan Gershenhorn: Epsilon-Omicron / University of Houston: Executive Vice President and CCO of UPS (2014–2018) [10] James Goodnight
Whac-A-Mole is an arcade game.It was created in 1975 by the amusements manufacturer TOGO in Japan, where it was originally known as Mogura Taiji (モグラ退治, "Mole Buster") or Mogura Tataki (モグラたたき, "Mole Smash").
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The Japanese page has the detail of the original inventor. It's a fact that Fechter's game is widely accepted in the US. He made it successful. But just like the light bulb was not invented by Edison the game machine was not invented by Fechter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.95.24.145 05:41, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
1980 (): Aaron Fechter's ShowBiz Pizza Place restaurant opens with the Rock-afire Explosion animatronic show, directly competing with Chuck E. Cheese. [20] [24] [25] 1981: Efteling renovates it's Sprookjesbos walk through ride, adding 92 animatronics [26] 1982 (): Ben Franklin is the first animatronic figure to walk up a set of stairs. [27]