Author Topic: Game Center CX TV Series Debuts in the US (Read 33819 times)

Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich · « **on:** June 15, 2011, 10:16:16 PM »

... via K $:-\$ TAKU

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Kotaku Exclusively Brings Japanese Cult Hit Retro Game Master to the United States
NEW YORK – Gawker Media's influential gaming website Kotaku will be the first media outlet in the United States to air a U.S. version of Japan's wildly successful cult television hit Retro Game Master.
The show, known in Japan as Game Center CX, features comedian Shinya Arino playing Japan's most popular video games – a perfect fit for Kotaku. Kotaku, in partnership with RGM, will feature new episodes made for United States viewers weekly starting in June.

Peter Block's A Bigger Boat helped secure the rights for RGM from Yuko Shiomaki's pictures department. Yuko Shiomaki's pictures department acted as international representative on behalf of rights holder Fuji Television, Japanese international sales agent STYLEJAM, and Producer Tsuyoshi Kan of Gascoin.

Says Block "Watching RGM is addictive...I knew we had something special when we couldn't stop watching our first episodes, and when people would stop for a quick peek and stay for 30 minutes. It's Iron Chef for the Gamers."

Eric Spiegelman of Jetpack Media brokered the deal between Gawker Media and A Bigger Boat.

Retro Game Master will be featured exclusively on Kotaku every Thursday night, posting at 8pm EST, starting June 23, 2011.

Anybody care about this?

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #1 on:** June 15, 2011, 10:25:52 PM »

I love GCCX but hate Kotaku. WHAT TO DO

iconoclast · « **Reply #2 on:** June 15, 2011, 11:51:26 PM »

Quote from: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on June 15, 2011, 10:16:16 PM

Anybody care about this?

hell yes. this is like the only show worth watching on television.

Himu · « **Reply #3 on:** June 15, 2011, 11:57:05 PM »

Quote from: iconoclast on June 15, 2011, 11:51:26 PM

Quote from: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on June 15, 2011, 10:16:16 PM
Anybody care about this?

hell yes. this is like the only show worth watching on television.

maybe if you have the taste of a pre-pubescent

iconoclast · « **Reply #4 on:** June 16, 2011, 12:05:56 AM »

alright i lied, House is okay too.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #5 on:** June 16, 2011, 12:32:08 AM »

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on June 15, 2011, 10:25:52 PM

I love GCCX but hate Kotaku. WHAT TO DO

Watch the fucking show. That's what.

magus · « **Reply #6 on:** June 16, 2011, 06:04:46 AM »

i know how this is going to end

this is going to stop the sub because yadda yadda yadda,but they are going to show all of season 1/2 (the one that got subbed) and then puff! no more game center cx

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3177407&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=22#post392689493

right on money!

iconoclast · « **Reply #7 on:** June 16, 2011, 06:16:36 AM »

Quote from: magus on June 16, 2011, 06:04:46 AM

i know how this is going to end

this is going to stop the sub because yadda yadda yadda,but they are going to show all of season 1/2 (the one that got subbed) and then puff! no more game center cx

Yeah, I don't think this is going to get a ton of viewers. But I still hope it does well enough for them to continue on with additional seasons. I'll be sure to "tune in" every Thursday, even though I've already seen all of this stuff.

tiesto · « **Reply #8 on:** June 16, 2011, 09:19:44 AM »

G4TV not picking this up was a massive fail on their part.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #9 on:** June 16, 2011, 01:59:50 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on June 16, 2011, 09:38:27 AM

Quote from: tiesto on June 16, 2011, 09:19:44 AM
G4TV not picking this up was a massive fail on their part.

I'm glad they didn't, Kotaku almost certainly has more viewers.

Yeah, but I'd prefer to watch it on my TV instead of on a computer.

Diunx · « **Reply #10 on:** June 16, 2011, 03:21:53 PM »

Uhhh why would I want to watch some dude playing video games? With porn I can at least masturbate.

Robo · « **Reply #11 on:** June 16, 2011, 05:05:03 PM »

You can masturbate to this too, distinguished mentally-challenged fellow. Expand your horizons.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #12 on:** June 16, 2011, 07:50:15 PM »

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on June 15, 2011, 10:25:52 PM

I love GCCX but hate Kotaku. WHAT TO DO

Bittorrent

originalz · « **Reply #13 on:** June 18, 2011, 09:12:12 AM »

I'm part of the Somethingawful subbing group for this. We're discussing how to handle this new development, but most likely going to continue subbing additional episodes.

magus · « **Reply #14 on:** June 18, 2011, 10:28:57 AM »

oh? that's some good news

ehy originalz since you are part of the translation team can i make a request? i would like to see the episode of tower of druaga,the game is legendary in it's badness plus with the episode being a DVD special the chance of it getting broadcasted are basicaly 0%

EDIT: wow castlevania 3 contains some heavy bullshit

originalz · « **Reply #15 on:** June 18, 2011, 08:13:00 PM »

We're not subbing any DVD episodes or extended cuts, only TV broadcasts. Don't want to promote piracy! For such a niche series, having people import the DVDs can only help generate interest.

magus · « **Reply #16 on:** June 18, 2011, 08:28:08 PM »

well okay...

iconoclast · « **Reply #17 on:** June 18, 2011, 09:33:19 PM »

Quote from: Wrath2X on June 18, 2011, 09:16:13 PM

What is Game Center CX anyway?

Arino, a comedian who is absolutely terrible at games, is given a challenge to clear [game] by [date]. They're usually old Famicom or SFC games, but sometimes they throw some other things into the mix (like Steel Battalion

). His struggle is always fun to watch, especially when he's playing a really hard or shitty game.

iconoclast · « **Reply #18 on:** June 18, 2011, 11:09:02 PM »

They're kinda similar, but AVGN is more of a scripted character, and he tries to review the games he plays and such. Arino just tries to beat the games by the deadline they give him.

I like both shows, but I'd take GC CX over AVGN any day. Especially since GC CX doesn't have any awful skits like AVGN usually does.

demi · « **Reply #19 on:** June 18, 2011, 11:11:25 PM »

Quote from: Wrath2X on June 18, 2011, 10:21:16 PM

So its the japanese AVGN except with good games?

Not even... Arino is just some japanese guy who squabbles and squawks (like most japanese people) and we're like "lol that silly japanese man is playing a hard game"

originalz · « **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2011, 06:09:23 AM »

I've actually been to some of the arcades he visits, if they're not too far out of the way then I'll try and stop in if it seems interesting. There's a retro arcade near where I live which I also hit up every once in awhile. It's nice to play a game that actually rewards your skill and lets you play longer, nowadays you could be the best player ever but they'll find a way to limit your playing time so you keep pump in those 100yen coins!

Those country town arcades are pretty impressive, it's like going back to the mid-90s. Back when it was actually feasible to open your own place since games didn't cost 2mil yen.

magus · « **Reply #21 on:** June 23, 2011, 07:57:37 AM »

isn't the first episode supposed to be aired in 5 minutes?

iconoclast · « **Reply #22 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:19:43 AM »

Quote from: magus on June 23, 2011, 07:57:37 AM

isn't the first episode supposed to be aired in 5 minutes?

No, it airs 8pm EST, which is a little less than 12 hours from now.

cool breeze · « **Reply #23 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:33:23 AM »

magus tries one western shooter game and is now on military time

tiesto · « **Reply #24 on:** June 23, 2011, 10:04:24 AM »

Can't wait

magus · « **Reply #25 on:** June 23, 2011, 10:13:08 AM »

oooohhh i think i fucked up am and pm

Diunx · « **Reply #26 on:** June 23, 2011, 10:21:13 AM »

iconoclast · « **Reply #27 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:02:31 PM »

http://kotaku.com/5814938/episode-1-ninja-gaiden

Damn, they start the show with a show stopper.

demi · « **Reply #28 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:08:45 PM »

lol... their hosting is down. only kotaku quality.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #29 on:** June 24, 2011, 01:50:33 AM »

Man, I forgot how much I hated Ninja Gaiden as a kid.

magus · « **Reply #30 on:** June 24, 2011, 06:32:04 AM »

people on SA says that they wanted to choke the shit out of the narrator... your opinion bore?

iconoclast · « **Reply #31 on:** June 24, 2011, 10:03:08 AM »

The narrator wasn't very good, but I didn't find him annoying or anything. The much larger problem is that they cut out all of the non-game bits... unless this episode for some reason didn't have any to begin with. That's pretty terrible.

Plus the translation was a little weird from time to time. At one point the narrator refers to the basic enemies as "zako" enemies. It's appropriate, but how many people will get that instead of being confused? Just seemed weird to me.

magus · « **Reply #32 on:** June 24, 2011, 10:09:54 AM »

from what i understand all these bits are taken from DVD and the various other bit aren't featured on it so it's going to be the challenge's only

anyway it seems another subbing group decided to sub those,they just released episode number 80 which is kirby adventure

and it's a quite boring episode because kirby adventure is incredibly easy

magus · « **Reply #33 on:** June 24, 2011, 01:03:20 PM »

if demi give me his blessing i have a megaupload with the kotaku episode for all the dirty european

like me

magus · « **Reply #34 on:** June 27, 2011, 07:53:49 PM »

there is a new episode subbed by goons!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Land_%28arcade_game%29

i guess i'm the only one that cares......

iconoclast · « **Reply #35 on:** June 27, 2011, 08:27:38 PM »

I'm gonna watch it later.

I wish this show would start doing arcade games though.

magus · « **Reply #36 on:** June 27, 2011, 08:35:22 PM »

well plenty of arcade ports (this one is)

and i guess putting a whole arcade in front of the guy would be hard

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #37 on:** June 27, 2011, 09:36:39 PM »

Throwing Arino into a retro arcade and making him do shots every time he dies would be a brilliant episode.

magus · « **Reply #38 on:** June 28, 2011, 01:19:51 PM »

next kotaku episode announced,it's super fantasy zone for the mega drive/genesis

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #39 on:** June 28, 2011, 01:24:56 PM »

Is it too much to hope they'll do the Takeshi's Challenge episode?

iconoclast · « **Reply #40 on:** June 28, 2011, 01:31:46 PM »

Fantasy Zone

The Shadow Land episode was good too. Makes me wish the Gawker episodes weren't butchered. It's nice to see that Shadow Land doesn't allow you to continue after dying as well. That's how all arcade ports should be done. (with a practice mode/level select for convenience)

magus · « **Reply #41 on:** June 28, 2011, 01:38:28 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on June 28, 2011, 01:24:56 PM

Is it too much to hope they'll do the Takeshi's Challenge episode?

why don't you just see the fansub? it was the first episode to ever be released

though it's probably less amusing than what you would think but i like the beginning where he hunt for the creator of "THE LEGENDARY SHITTY GAME!"

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #42 on:** June 28, 2011, 01:42:40 PM »

Quote from: magus on June 28, 2011, 01:38:28 PM

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on June 28, 2011, 01:24:56 PM
Is it too much to hope they'll do the Takeshi's Challenge episode?

why don't you just see the fansub? it was the first episode to ever be released

though it's probably less amusing than what you would think but i like the beginning where he hunt for the creator of "THE LEGENDARY SHITTY GAME!"

I figured it's subbed, but having Kotaku actually do the episode means more people get to see the insanity of it.

I've played the game before, I want to see him sit there for 60 minutes doing nothing with the game to advance.

magus · « **Reply #43 on:** June 28, 2011, 01:48:28 PM »

i doubt kotaku would pick it based on

1) on the first season the challenge segment is much much shorter so it wouldn't fill the whole time slot
2) it's a japan only game

though there is a chance,so far it seems they are picking random releases from dvd (ninja gaiden was from dvd 3 and fantasy zone is from dvd 5) and takeshi challenge is in dvd 2

Herr Mafflard · « **Reply #44 on:** June 28, 2011, 02:24:49 PM »

Quote from: magus on June 24, 2011, 01:03:20 PM

if demi give me his blessing i have a megaupload with the kotaku episode for all the dirty european like me

if you could pm the link that would be rad

edit: thanks

tiesto · « **Reply #45 on:** June 28, 2011, 04:18:53 PM »

Disappointing how they cut out the game center stuff... and I'm not a big fan of the narrator. Sure it's weeaboo nitpicking, but "Rye-you"?? Seriously?

I'm gonna have to d/l some of those subs, no idea you were involved with them, Z.

iconoclast · « **Reply #46 on:** June 29, 2011, 04:01:56 AM »

I watched part 1 of the Mega Man 3 episode from SA, and the subs for that episode were really bad. Constantly using stupid "words" like "whazzat" and "izzat"? Come the fuck on.

Gawker redeemed

originalz · « **Reply #47 on:** June 29, 2011, 10:50:11 PM »

I'm not helping out with any episodes that are out on DVD, so I didn't do anything with MM3. For some stupid reason they're only subbing DVD episodes which is distinguished mentally-challenged when there are countless episodes that haven't been released yet.

The Tokimemo episode was my choice and I think it came out pretty well!

magus · « **Reply #48 on:** July 01, 2011, 07:45:25 PM »

the super fantasy zone episode was really funny even with the lame kotaku dubs

i heard goons are subbing clock tower next

iconoclast · « **Reply #49 on:** July 01, 2011, 08:00:14 PM »

The Tokimeki episode was pretty good, I watched it last night before going to bed. And I forgot I had already seen the Fantasy Zone episode in Japanese... what are the odds that one of the few raw episodes I watched would be chosen for subs.

I'm looking forward to the Clock Tower episode as well. I like it when they do lesser known games like that instead of the classics like Mega Man and such. Plus Clock Tower is awesome.

magus · « **Reply #50 on:** July 02, 2011, 05:11:25 PM »

the clock tower episode subbed from goons is out if anybody cares

magus · « **Reply #51 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:02:10 AM »

and next kotaku episode is bonanza bros which seems to throw out the theory that they are only doing dvd episodes

goons are subbing the umihara kawase one

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #52 on:** July 10, 2011, 12:28:21 PM »

Figured Magus would find this kinda cool.

$9 at a Book-Off in Vancouver, BC. Has Ninja Gaiden, Ghouls and Ghosts, Final Fight, Contra, Twinbee, Milon's Secret Castle and Quiz Tonosama no Yabou.

iconoclast · « **Reply #53 on:** July 10, 2011, 01:11:53 PM »

The Bonanza Bros. episode was kinda crappy. What Arino said at the end is true, "If there's no tension, then I don't feel satisfaction once I beat it" or something along those lines. I hope Kotaku starts picking better episodes... But I know they want to do popular games to attract more viewers, so I guess it can't be helped.

magus · « **Reply #54 on:** July 10, 2011, 01:21:29 PM »

Quote from: iconoclast on July 10, 2011, 01:11:53 PM

The Bonanza Bros. episode was kinda crappy. What Arino said at the end is true, "If there's no tension, then I don't feel satisfaction once I beat it" or something along those lines. I hope Kotaku starts picking better episodes... But I know they want to do popular games to attract more viewers, so I guess it can't be helped.

i liked the end where he ends up falling through the pithole and he has to redo the whole game as a result

and i don't think they are aiming at more popular game episodes,heck if they were trying to do that then they would have picked ocarina and be done with it

though they certainly are straying for games that are japanese only or too obscure

Mr.Gundam - isn't that just the dvd? what's so special about it?

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #55 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:11:16 PM »

Quote from: magus on July 10, 2011, 01:21:29 PM

Mr.Gundam - isn't that just the dvd? what's so special about it?

Because it was crazy cheap? Oh, I forgot, you're a fucking dirty pirate.

magus · « **Reply #56 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:20:03 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on July 10, 2011, 02:11:16 PM

Quote from: magus on July 10, 2011, 01:21:29 PM
Mr.Gundam - isn't that just the dvd? what's so special about it?

Because it was crazy cheap?

well isn't it pretty ancient? after 5 years i think finding it in the budget section pretty normal?

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Oh, I forgot, you're a fucking dirty pirate.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #57 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:46:00 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on July 10, 2011, 02:33:16 PM

Even the first couple volumes of the DVD sets still hover around 4000-5000 yen used here in Japan. That's a nice find, Mr. Gundam.

Yeah, I just checked Amazon JP, Box 3 goes for between 4,200 and 5,300 used.

originalz · « **Reply #58 on:** July 11, 2011, 02:07:18 AM »

Yeah, these DVDs never drop in price, most gaming DVDs usually don't for whatever reason except for maybe oldass Togeki tournaments.

magus · « **Reply #59 on:** July 12, 2011, 07:11:52 AM »

well anyway let's get this thread on the road again

there is a new subbed episode going around,lemmings!

EDIT: aaaaand the next kotaku episode is solomon key,which already got subbed by tv-nihon forever ago

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Author Topic: Game Center CX TV Series Debuts in the US (Read 33819 times)