Visiting a REAL 90s Pizza Hut (kinda)
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We took a trip out to Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania to check out one of the last remaining Pizza Hut Classic locations… and it honestly felt like stepping back into the 90s. (This was actually filmed a while ago, back in September of 2025, when we filmed at Reaper’s Revenge haunted hayride near Scranton, PA for Monster Madness. Same day!)
If you grew up going to Pizza Hut, you probably remember it as more than just pizza. The red cups, the dim lighting, the buffet, the arcade machines… it was a whole experience. Something you don’t really get anymore. So I went out there with Justin, Ryan, and Patrick and just started talking about all the weird, specific memories that come with Pizza Hut. The ads, the promotions, Ninja Turtles, demo discs, Friday nights… all of it. But at the same time, it’s kind of a weird feeling. Because these “Pizza Hut Classic” locations are both a time capsule… and a modern attempt to recreate something that’s been gone for years.
So the question is… what place would YOU want to see brought back like this?
Visit the Tunkhannock Pizza Hut:
828 Route 6 W, Tunkhannock, PA 18657
CREDITS:
Video by James Rolfe
Camera & Help
Justin Silverman, Patrick Farrell, and Ryan Schott
Produced by Justin Silverman
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Edited by Queue
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🍕 UPDATED LIST OF PIZZA HUT CLASSIC LOCATIONS:
https://rolandopujol.substack.com/p/the-retrologists-guide-to-pizza-hut
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@JamesNintendoNerd
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
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@badghostlive
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
There is one in St Augustine too
@Lucasstrawser-f1h
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I live in Pennsylvania, so I better head by and check it out
@CraigWisconsin316
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
Get The Door! It's Domino's!
@CraigWisconsin316
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
That 90s Show
@AMP1987-h4c
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
God I miss the 90s we millennials know.
@doug1797
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
Am I the only one who remembers the DESSERT PIZZAS??
@joeneri150
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
If you're going to do McDonald's for the retro/nostalgic feel the one in Downey, Ca is one that has the 50s look and serves food. You could also visit the McDonald's museum in San Bernardino, CA. A bad part of this trip is going to San Bernardino. The city is a real shit hole, also LA traffic is terrible.
@fidelmanto6754
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I still have my back to the future Fievel goes west and land before time vhs from the hut
@BillyBobKornholl
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
The Pizza Hut where I grew up
In Pennsylvania used to sell beer & I remember they had a table top “Ms.PAC-MAN” too.
Just recently, a “small” Pizza Hut just closed. It’s sad that a steak dinner to go from “Texas Roadhouse” costs just as much or less than a pan pizza from Pizza Hut.
That’s what did them in🤷🏼♂️.
The BEST PIZZA they ever had was called “Neopolitan” pizza. They had it in the 90’s & a lot of people want them to BRING IT BACK🙏🏻‼️
@Adultindiapers
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
Our pizz hut in washigton, mo still looks like this but it no linger has the buffet
@kenjones9326
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I will say that I refused to eat a stuffed crust pizza backwards. Still refuse to do so to this day.
@markismiller6484
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
This video made me visit an old pizza hut in a small town near where we live and have a sit down meal. I'm okd
@DarkestImmortal
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
You just unlocked a core memory. I can’t believe I forgot about the Pizza Head ads!
@JohnClark-tt2bl
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I still have the tapes of the 90s X-Men cartoon that pizza hut put out.
@powersportsenthusiast1986
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
it's a long shot, but i live 20 minutes from reaper's revenge and am looking for good people to go with this season. @jamesnintendonerd if you're looking for a stranger to tag along let me know lol
@TheMKluver
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I'd like to see a toy works, or a KB toys come back
@1c3p1ck99
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
There's one in Quakertown PA that's a lot like the Pizza Hut classic off RT309
@jeffreytunney4976
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I never forget seeing that Pizza Hut commercial on the TMNT movie. So many times I watched that movie.
@SKorea_Israel_are_same
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
AVGN is Italian-American man.
Pizza Hut is American Italian cuisine.
This is so based. 👍
@nicoperez1064
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
This location needs to be protected. I don't know if they had it in America but in Australia Pizza Hut was known for all you can eat lunch and dinner. It was a tradition for my friends to skip half the last day of the school term and go to Pizza Hut for lunch. All you can eat pizza, salad and desert bar for lunch for about $12 back at the start of the millennium was a great deal for broke high school students.
We almost always had the place basically to ourselves and would compete with each other or our PBs from our previous lunch trip 3 months prior to see who could eat the most pizza. In Australia the school year is broken down into 4 terms about 10 weeks each then we get 2 week break and an extended break over Christmas which is our summer. So we'd try to go at the end of every term up until the Pizza Hut close by closed. I remember my PB was 12 slices with some desert and being dumb ass teenaged boys, we always ended up making a mess.
If there was still a location like that in my city I would promote and recommend it non-stop and go there on the regular as long as they still offered the all you can eat lunch and dinner. I'd be willing to pay 3 times what I was paying back in the day.
@PageofLegend
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I miss the old arcade machine my local Pizza Hut had in it, it was a Excite Bike machine, the cool thing was the screen was horizontal like a table surface.
@PageofLegend
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
Some of my best childhood memories, on the weekend, my dad getting two large pizzas, and renting five movies for five days for five dollars at the local video store.
@Renpet516
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
There’s a classic by my mom. We randomly stopped there and I lost my mind. She didn’t understand why 😂
@mrwii5741
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
Seeing this makes me want to go to Pizza Hut now! 😂 I really enjoy avgns videos! 😊
@copperkiddo
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I would love for more Pizza Hut classics to be built, especially around my area. Having pizza at a sit down Pizza Hut is a core memory from my family Summer Vacations. If there is one other place I would like to see “Retro Restored”, it’s definitely a 90s style Chuck E Cheese’s pizza. Animatronics and all. I never quite understood the issue with nostalgia these days. Who wouldn’t want to relive a fond childhood memory. Isn’t that the whole point?
@Acroanidd
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I live about 10 miles away from that Pizza Hut and we don't really go there. The funny thing is Scranton has some of the best pizza around outside of NYC so Pizza Hut is on the bottom of the list for pretty much everyone here. They still do a ton of business because in Tunkhannock there aren't a lot of options but I dont know of anyone who really goes out of their way to get it either. If you want to know how to pronounce the name of the town 'ton-can-ick'.
@solodante5905
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
Three things immediately come to mind. The buffet,Book It and the PlayStation 1 Demos disc.
@barron8006
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
the entire Great Lakes region has the best ppzza. And, no, we never went to Pizza Hut.
@ToniTheMink
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
This is an hour away from our vacation house!!!
Thanks, James!!!!
@MasterOfFaster666
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
What a cool blast from the past video 😊
@hippydippychicky
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
This place is maybe 20 minutes from me. Its pronounced ton can ick. They still do book it. Its an app now. My kiddo did it over the summer.
@brutalworldvidzproductions2647
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I was more of a Godfathers Pizza fan but Pizza Hut is decent.
@RPGCrash
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
we still have these where i live. weird that its rare or an event for americans.
@LittleAl016
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
There's still a sit-in Pizza Hut by where I live.
@eqseep
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
gotta get them a couple arcades. galaga a must. pac man, or ms… and if they really want to go over the top, moon patrol
@BCNeil
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I would even take dates to pizza hut, and it was considered normal to do
@MarioMarley
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I live in Italy, and naturally, I’ve never seen a Pizza Hut here. This year, I visited Madrid, and the moment I set foot in Plaza Mayor, I rushed inside but I had to make a reservation and wait outside. The place was modern—nothing special, really—with just enough room for two people, at most, to grab a quick bite. As soon as I saw that Pizza Hut sign, I thought of this video and knew it was fate telling me to go inside. Nothing extraordinary happened in there, but thanks for everything; you create real emotion through your videos, whether you're pissed off or not about some shitty videogame.
@Super_Wintendo
October 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
I love seeing James happy and not yelling at Superman 64