going back to the "gccx in russia" special, where he visited dmitriy sienduk's geektrip shop in saint petersburg, the storeowner wanted to show off the peculiarities of eastern european gaming by showing "kart fighter" (a bootleg game where charactars from super mario kart fight each other, street fighter 2 style) to arino, and the footage was blurred due to copyright rules. there wasn't even a line where arino or someone on his team said "wait, is that mario and dk junior fighting each other?" or even "i was shown an unauthorized game where characters from a very famous japanese game series are punching and kicking each other" or anything like that

it is notable, because one time the show went to the house of an avid famicom collector and they had a rom hack of "gradius" with graphics modified to be more arcade-authentic, they also blurred the footage, but did describe the rom hack itself in enough terms that i later was able to find it #GameCenterCX

watching a stream of someone playing "puggsy" and thinking that this could have been a great game for shinya arino of gamecenter cx to play (he loves puzzle games), but japan has weird copyright laws regarding footage of video games and "puggsy" was never released in japan, so it'll probably never happen #GameCenterCX
Merry Christmas! My wife got me some Game Center CX merch! Two acrylic standees and the 2025 desk top calendar. I love the acrylic standees so much! #GameCenterCX #GCCX

In today's* episode of #GameCenterCX ...

(* actually from like 2006.)

Where were you when the dragon in the battle screen was revealed to be the horse?
#GameCenterCX #RetroGaming

I'm watching an old episode of #GameCenterCX. Arino is playing #MegaMan2, and got to this screen. Before I could even consciously process what was happening, I said, out loud, "That's not halfway through the stage, that's the last room!"

I have played this game... A Lot.

New video up of my top 5 favorite Game Center CX segments.
#gamecentercx #GCCX
https://youtu.be/qYf2ciYn8Mk
My Top 5 Game Center CX segments!

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Still trying to make the move from Wordpress.com, but in the meantime, I've got a new post up, talking about five of my favorite segments from Game Center CX! Kacho on!
#blog #GameCenterCX

https://paintedpixelsblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/my-top-5-game-center-cx-segments/

My Top 5 Game Center CX Segments

I’ve talked in a previous post about my love for the show GameCenter CX, a Japanese show where comedian Shinya Arino is tasked with beating a retro game by a certain time limit. The show is a…

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