GameCenter CX
ゲームセンターCX Abbreviated to GCCX
Started November 4, 2003. The CX comes from Fuji TV's call sign.
A video game show starring Arino Shinya of the comedy combi Yoiko.
The First Season: GameCenter [CX]
ゲームセンター「CX」
Initially the program was just Arino interviewing video game company staff. Each episode would focus on a specific company. There would be a small corner where Arino plays a game related to the company, which would later become the main focus of the show.
Corners
Arino's Challenge
Tamagee
Sometimes visit this game center.
Retro Gaming Master
Eventually the producers decided to start to try selling GCCX under the branding Retro Gaming Master to other countries. In one of the episodes, they show the staff talking with foreign buyers.
At a New York convention they showed one of these packaged episodes. Eventually Kotaku.com picked up a limited run of the series, but it was plagued with criticisms for the format changes. Apparently the episodes were the edited DVD versions which cut out the non-gameplay corners. While Arino himself was dubbed, the narrator and staff voices were dubbed over.
DVD Versions
Unfortunately, the DVD Box releases don't contain the episodes as aired on TV. The corners are cut out. Sometimes certain corners are reedited and readded to the DVDs, like the Tamagee sections.