Going into March the wiki’s focus should be on international locations! Mainly anything outside Canada and the US.
These locations are severely lacking, and most also don’t have clear addresses. This is mainly due to CEC Masters list ignoring any attempt to list a location and just note a broad region (seriously Master wtf is going on with that, that being done so deliberately is a bit worrying).
Thankfully the addresses can be figured out with some research. Just reply here with any title fixes as I have to change them sitewide. Feel free to suggest better ways of displaying foreign addresses too as I want them accessible to those living there, while still being in the wikis format of “Country, Region (Shopping center, Street address, unit #)”. I generally try to leave out duplicate info from the address type, or stuff like how US zip codes don’t actually tell you more on where to go.
There’s some locations we really don’t know a lot on, so if anything try to elevate international articles to the same standards as regular pages! Collaborate with users who live there for more insight, or if you’re an international fan yourself help out with what you know!
I’ll also remind the UK CEC location in likely StarCity Center is under construction, that’d be a good focus too for investigation!
February
Last month’s progress wasn’t much. There was a bit of effort but not as much as January. Technically I made January easier to contribute by doing way too much labor myself. The new wiki editor also didn’t really finish until a week ago, so oh well. Hopefully this month has a better chance at moving the site forward.
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I’m personally gonna be looking into the 4 Hong Kong PTTs. Just found this article below dated June 28th, 1983
現代廣告公司「出奇老鼠」獲委任廣告代理
僅有七年歷史，但已瘋魔美國三十五州，並在加拿大及澳洲等地開設分店的「出奇老鼠」，今天正式進軍香港，同時委任現代廣告公司為其廣告策劃及市場推廣之代理。
「出奇老鼠」乃香港最大的娛樂餐廳，其附設之兒童遊戲天地，提供出奇老鼠面積三分一，估計吸引更多眼界，包括：機動電子遊戲、彩球室、店內更有趣味動物及生動物，店內更有趣味，全部由電腦控制，能歌善舞。
贏得「現代廣告公司」之廣告代理，因為各有關工作同事都有深厚相信這道餅及飲食集團，而其發展有信的道餅及意大利粉等，式薄餅及意大利粉等，盡是香港人喜愛的新口味。
“Modern Advertising Company appointed as advertising agent for ‘Chuck E. Cheese’ Having only seven years of history, but already taking over 35 states in America, and having opened branches in Canada and Australia, ‘Chuck E. Cheese’ today officially enters Hong Kong. At the same time appointing Modern Advertising Company as its advertising planning and marketing representative. ‘Chuck E. Cheese’ is Hong Kong’s largest entertainment restaurant. Its attached children’s play area takes up one third of the total floor space. Including: motorised electronic games, ball pit room. All controlled by a computer, capable of singing and dancing. Winning the advertising agency of ‘Modern Advertising Company’, because all relevant staff have deep confidence in this pizza and food group, and its development of thin crust pizza and Italian noodles etc., are all new flavours beloved by Hong Kong people."
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I have compiled a lot of my results onto this page and a few of the location pages. There should be all photos and videos present on the wiki now, just needs sorting. I was also personally completely unaware of the Singapore location, that’s gonna be fun to hunt down! Though also looks like someone committed a bunch of photos for it today.
That led me down to finding this movie clip featuring a location. The ad was for the Singapore location but the ad itself says its a Hong Kong PTT. For the Hong Kong location movies I compiled all the highest quality clips I could find of each (I know my ways), though there’s still one more I’m tracking down.
I’m going to be spending today and tomorrow on The Australian Locations alongside Antioch.
Hopefully I can find something.
Surfers Paradise didn’t close in 1982!
Going to put this on the wiki soon when I find more info on Surfer’s Store.
I could help you a little on this, ive been doing a deep dive for the past five years. As far as we know there was at least six. The owner I connected with and he confirmed to me there was Six in Hong Kong along with Singapore. There’s a commercial screenshot from an unknown date that I ‘ll send below that lists four, Notably Taikoo Shing is closed. I have a bunch of data that i’d like to post on the pages that I think could contribute. There’s also butt loads of shows that are behind paywalls that allegedly have footage of the stores!!!
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They did, they relocated everything to the other store, though they kept some of the rides at Grundy’s
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Then why does it say there are 2 Open? The article is from 1983, why mention 2 if one is already closed?
It’s possible that the Charlie Cheese’s itself relocated, but The article implies that the playhouses in surfer’s paradise was still open.
Ok so after thinking about it, I’ll try and see if I can find anymore info eventually on if they relocated. I still think it’s more likely they didn’t, but If You have any direct info like a link, article, or convo that could confirm then please post them because that would be VERY helpful.
Thanks. Sorry for doubting you. The wording in the newspaper is very strange. I’ll make sure to NOT change Surfer’s to post-1983 then.
Can you just list the shows you know? I’m a piracy king I can get any movie or show.
Supposedly it’s a show titled 430Spaceshuttle, allegedly they filmed segments there 430 SPACE SHUTTLE SP.'82 - Watch on myTV SUPER
Ok so that show is basically nowhere unless I paid for a Hong Kong VPN and snooped around. Given how many episodes there are even if I got the whole series that might be a laborious task to go looking for it. Given its similarities to how Sesame Street just pumped out episodes I’m not sure they’d even all be available to check.
I’ve tried with a VPN, but even then with China they need every possible thing about you 
Throwing my hat into the ring with some Showbiz Pizza Fiesta stuff since that place is criminally under documented.
Interesting to note here is that Fatz’s name stayed the same judging by the merch. The only known character to have a name change was Earl, being renamed to “Pepe”
