Looney Bird's Lab (Johnsonverse)

Looney Bird's Lab is a program created by Creative Engineering and used by ShowBiz Pizza Time, Inc. for ShowBiz Pizza Place and Chuck E. Cheese's, as well as Looney Bird's until all its locations were closed or converted in 2015. It is used for programming Rock-afire Explosion, New Rock-afire Explosion, Munch's Make-Believe Band, and Ho-kago Tea Time shows, and was first released on September 10, 1995.

In addition to SPT, the program is also available for privately-owned or non-SPT shows as well, such as remaining Pizza Time Theatre shows, virtual shows, other AnimeTronics, and even custom animatronics. It is also compatible with the Rock-afire Replay video game beginning in the January 2021 release.



Conception
In the summer of 1992, Johnson Industries CEO Sheldon Johnson, Jr. requested that CEI head Aaron Fechter create a more sophisticated, user-friendly program to program new Rock-afire shows, as Fechter had been using an Apple IIe computer for years. At first, Fechter was reluctant, but decided to go through with it. With the people Fechter recently hired for operations, work began on a new program on July 19, 1992. The Apple IIe continued being used for the time being. Once the program was finished, the Apple IIe was put in storage; in 2015, it moved to the Creative Engineering museum, where it resides to this day.

Early testing
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Stable release
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