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 an hour long, and the main challenge is broken up by a couple of shorter segments throughout. The recurring one is TamaGe, where Arino visits an arcade, or at least a business that has arcade games attached to it like a candy store. One of the other segments changes from season to season. While there hasn't been a seasonal segment that I've actively disliked, there are certainly some that stand out as particularly entertaining to me. So today I'd like to talk about five of my favorite seasonal segments from GameCenter CX!

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The Enduring Appeal of Game Center CX: Laughing Through Failures and Embracing Nostalgia

I've been wanting to write a blog post about Game Center CX for a while now. After all, it's one of my favorite shows of all-time, and something I still look forward to whenever a new fansubbed episode is dropped. But I get overwhelmed, because the show is so big. It's been going on in Japan for 20 years now! And I'm pretty sure that I've been watching it for almost as long! If I had to guess, I believe the first fansubs started popping up around 2007 by a group called TV-Nihon.

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