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In Short – Clean and chaotic, Chuck E. Cheese's is part arcade, part playground, part children's theater. The arcade is refreshingly free from shoot-'em-up, assault-weapon games, instead sticking to cartoon-variety machines and a few high-octane auto-racing games for the older siblings (and parents). The playground, a huge collection of multi-colored plastic balls and elevated sky tubes, provides a great opportunity to send tykes up the pipeline while grownups catch their breath. In the show room, life-size animal robots perform a maddening loop of catchy songs. The food is the type most…