Zapp's Games, Bar & Grill Tokens

In 1983, entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell—best known for founding Chuck E. Cheese's—launched Zapp's Games, Bar & Grill (also styled Gilbert Zapp's) as a more adult-oriented twist on the family-entertainment restaurant model. The concept combined arcade games, a full-service bar, and animatronic entertainment (featuring a mascot called “Wolfman Zapp”) in a venue geared toward adults rather than kids. Only a handful of locations were ever launched, and by the early 1990s the chain had ceased operations as the model failed to scale profitably.