GameCenter CX (2003)
Shinya Arino, a member of comedy duo Yoiko, plays Japan's most popular video games and records his progress as he works through a time limit, usually lasting up to one day. He is supported by his Assistant Directors and Staff, both via moral support and actual gameplay. He also gets the chance to interview game designers and to play arcade games occasionally.
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Episode 1 - Hello 9th Season! The Spikey Kacho Takes On "Sonic The Hedgehog" (#64)
Release Date: 2008-06-18 -
Episode 2 - The Kacho's Business Trip to the Cannes Film Festival
Release Date: 2008-07-02Aired while Arino Kachou was hospitalized. Arino and the staff head to the Cannes Film Festival in hopes of selling the show overseas.
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Episode 3 - Welcome Back! The Kacho Returns! (#65)
Release Date: 2008-07-16Arino was hospitalized after he discovered an abcess on his lung. Returning to work for the first time, Kibe "interrogates" the Kachou. Afterwords Arino enters "recovery mode". The staff decides it would be cruel to subject him to a usual challenge so soon. So Arino casually plays Super Mario Bros, and ends the episode playing Dr. Mario's VS mode with AD Nakayama.
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Episode 4 - Back to Work, Kacho! "Zombie Nation" (#67)
Release Date: 2008-07-30Arino must save America from being completely zombiefied in the cult classic Abarenbou Tengu (Zombie Nation) for Famicom.
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Episode 5 - Fight! Sunsoft's Madonna, "The Wing of Madoola" (#68)
Release Date: 2008-09-03Not since Clock Tower has Arino played as a girl in a challenge game before, but this season we have The Madoola no Tsubasa, starring the female knight Lucia.
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Episode 6 - The Perfect Missing Child!? "Legacy of the Wizard" (#69)
Release Date: 2008-09-17After three victories, Arino faces what could be his biggest challenge this season. The game before him is Namco/Falcom’s Dragon Slayer IV, known in America as Legacy of the Wizard. This action-RPG featurs a humongous mazelike dungeon, and a family of five, the Worzens, who must defeat the dormant dragon living beneath.