Call it "The Free-For-All by the Skee Ball," "The Tiff Near the Ball Pit," or perhaps just "Super Smash Mothers Brawl." Whatever the name, it appears that two patrons of a Massachusetts Chuck E. Cheese's took founder Nolan Bushnell's idea of a place for kids of all ages a little too seriously.

　　The Associated Press reports that a 9-year-old birthday boy's Chuck E. Cheese party went awry last Saturday night as his mother and that of another customer got into a fight. According to the wire service, police said the mother of the birthday boy was upset at another woman's son "hogging" an arcade game, which led the two moms to tussle in the Natick, Mass., gaming-themed pizza parlor.

　　A police representative said the two women would be brought up on charges of simple assault and battery, and characterized the event as a birthday celebration deteriorating into a "birthday melee."

　　While the Chuck E. Cheese organization touts its restaurants as places "where a kid can be a kid" and emphasizes the safe, family friendly atmosphere, the pop culture intersection of rodents and pizza parlors is still subject to the same ugliness as the outside world. For example, in late January, a Chuck E. Cheese was the arena for an 80-person brawl, according to a report in The Flint Journal.

　　"The biggest thing we did was just try to control the crowd," a police officer said of the brawl. "Once pepper has been sprayed, it's floating in the air so we called in for medical help in clearing it. If people aren't used to pepper spray, they get pretty scared and angry."

　　That location also played host to another, smaller scuffle the following day while a TV news crew was filming a story on the incident.