Showtape (ShowBiz Pizza Time) (Johnsonverse)

A showtape (or showdisc) is the containment of information for the animatronic shows at Chuck E. Cheese's and ShowBiz Pizza Place. It contains all of the programming for the characters, lighting effects, video footage, and show audio.
==Media formats==
There have been several different media formats of showtapes:
*Reel-to-Reel - 1977-1990
*Cyberstar VHS - 1988-2005 (the computer running the animatronic figures was upgraded to include a special VCR that would play video footage on television monitors mounted to the ceiling of the showroom)
*Laserdisc - 1997-1999 (Awesome Adventure Machine and Studio C only)
*DVD - 1999–2013
*Cyberstar Digital - 2011-present (same as Cyberstar VHS, but all footage is downloaded from a cloud-based server in San Jose and played digitally)
==Show Formats==
*Songs and Skits (certain skits and songs only shown at select parts of the day) (1977-1978)
*Songs (every 12 minutes; 1978-1987)
*Songs and Intermissions (every 8 minutes; 1987-present)
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