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

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