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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Game Center CX - It's like Top Gear for video games
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davidHalestorm
Aug 5, 2009

Sultan Tarquin posted:

I love how excited Arino gets when he wins at gambling. Watching the Legend of the Mystical Ninja episode and he's so worked up he's yelling in english and japanese. Dude fuckin' loves gambling.

I love that, in the South Korean trip, he lost a lot of money at the roulette with money provided by the show and later on, by the staff because he keeps betting on black, while red keeps coming up. The look on staff's face after Arino bet their last stack on black, even though they all said bet on red was priceless.

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davidHalestorm
Aug 5, 2009

pnumoman posted:

I love the followup to that segment as well.

Just in case you haven't gotten to that particular episode yet: the staff were especially annoyed because, after filming wrapped, Arino went back to the casino to play with his own money and found great success.


I did, actually. Been watching the episodes out of order per OP's recommendation but happened to watch those ones consecutively. Wonder how much he actually won, since he kept going on about his approval ratings being so low.

I must give yet another props to the SAGCCX translation. You guys did a great job in the quiz game episodes. Translating those dumb jokes into english and still make it work is pretty cool.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2012 03:32
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davidHalestorm
Aug 5, 2009

Random Stranger posted:

Just to expound on things; Arino got married during the Famicom Jump challenge. When he came in to continue the challenge they handed him Tokimeki Memorial instead.

That's really sweet that Arino found a perfect match for himself. Now I'm hoping that they've gone out in public dressed as a pair of characters from 1980's anime...

I'm also shocked Arino owns an X-Box. I'm dieing of curiosity to know what games he plays on it.

Edit: I think Toujima's is the only wedding that's been shown on the series. Urakawa got married during season 10, Abe was married when the show started, Nakayama has had a series of girlfriends, and we know that Inoko MAX can find no love (or at least hadn't as of season 13). I'm not sure if anyone else's marital status has come up on the show.

Tokimeki Memorial is one of my favorite episode. I just loved when the AD handed him the strategy guide in order to get the "best girl" Arino just went, "Strategy guide? Don't need them " And he was right.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2012 00:01
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davidHalestorm
Aug 5, 2009


 Aw, that's too bad. I like the whole slightly disapproving older authority figure tone in her narration. It had a nice contrast to the overly dramatic Producer Kan's narration.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2012 09:31
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davidHalestorm
Aug 5, 2009


 I can't believe there's people who think Arino's gameplay segment is scripted/staged. A simple proof would be the live 24 hour episode of Quest of Ki. He was stuck in one stage for 8 real-time hours. There is no way a producer would plan something like that during live broadcast for a national TV.

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