{"id":364,"date":"2009-02-08T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/game-center-cx-so-totally-nerdy-it-has-to-be-japanese\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T06:54:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T21:54:33","slug":"game-center-cx-so-totally-nerdy-it-has-to-be-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/game-center-cx-so-totally-nerdy-it-has-to-be-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Center CX: So totally nerdy, it has to be Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Arino-san\"
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\nArino-san up close. He’s afraid of “the concept of (a) time (limit)!”

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\nGame screen shots with little explanations of the game characteristics. In this case, rappelling action is the key to the strategy.

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A while back I heard about Game Center CX<\/a> (and an English Wikipedia link also<\/a>.) It is a TV show that is on Fuji TV, a normal TV channel broadcast over the air, about video games. The main focus of the show is Arino-san, a guy in this mid-30s (?) who plays video games. It is a kind of twist on a conventional Japanese formula: put people in painful or awkward situations and see how they respond to the adversity. The painful situation in this case? Play a difficult game from the 80s to completion. These games are tough. Also, Arino-san is pretty much locked up in a room and not allowed out. <\/p>\n

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Of course, as with almost all funny people on TV, Arino-san is from the Kansai region. I’m not really sure why he is so funny, but he is really funny. He’s playing some game, and gets up to the end boss. He pauses the game and is like “What’s that? It’s HUGE!” but the way he says it is hilarious. I’ve watched the first 5 rental episodes of the show (there are 6 total) and have enjoyed each one. <\/p>\n

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The versions that are available for sale are actually different from the rental versions. I have enjoyed these things so much that I am thinking of picking up the box sets (1<\/a>\"\" 2<\/a>\"\" 3<\/a>\"\" 4<\/a>\"\" 5<\/a>\"\"). <\/p>\n


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