Retro Game Master (Game Center CX)

[Secretagentnumber6]

Kotaku is running this show every Thursday through their site. It is a Japanese show and Kotaku has gotten the rights to air episodes (old episodes). The show is super entertaining, and if you love old video games check it our for sure.

For some reason I cannot link Kotaku here, but if you want to see the show there are 6 episodes currently and you can watch them by going to Kotaku website /rgm and then there will be a link for all the episodes somewhere on that page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Center_CX

Retro Game Master, known in Japan as GameCenter CX (ゲームセンターCX Gēmu Sentā Shī Ekkusu?), is a Japanese television series where Shinya Arino, a member of comedy duo Yoiko, plays Japan's most popular video games (a majority of which are Family Computer games) and records his progress as he works through a time limit, usually lasting up to one day. He is supported by his Assistant Directors (herein referred to as ADs) and Staff, both via moral support and actual gameplay.

He also gets the chance to interview game designers and to play arcade games occasionally.

There are currently six DVD sets released in Japan. The show will be returning for its 13th season on July 22, 2010, and has been on-air since November 4, 2003 with a new episode every 2 weeks when a season is running.

Beginning June 23rd 2011, gaming website Kotaku has been streaming English translated episodes of the series.

[J.R._Beasley]

I just watched a couple episodes after reading your post. Quite a bit of fun! Thank you very much.

[Secretagentnumber6]

Originally Posted by J.R._Beasley

I just watched a couple episodes after reading your post. Quite a bit of fun! Thank you very much.

Glad you enjoyed it. I have been made aware some of the translation is not great but it is still really funny. So far only one episode has let me down and that is the Clock Tower episode. The game just was not very entertaining. The Kacho however was still funny.

[rdm5777]

I've fallen a couple of episodes behind but I really enjoy the show.