K.C.
it is his birthday if he wants Chuck E Cheese then let him. the other places you mentioned are just adult versions of CEC and the games are usually more than $0.25, they don't have the kid security like CEC either and you are going to have quite the time keeping track of 5 or 6 boys in one of those places. the Gameworks I have been to had 2 floors of games so keeping track of all the boys at the same time would be pretty near impossible.