Post for: #Japan ^{(3 Posts)}

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!

Ah, summer vacation! Hopefully I'll be able to get more blogging done, not to mention some new videos uploaded, I've got so many old games to play and talk about, especially after my latest retro gaming spree! A few weeks ago I went to video game convention that's not too far from my home, called Too Many Games, where there were so many retro and import games that I went a little crazy! Some people…

One of the nice things about the Playstation 3 is that if you’re a fan of imports, the PS3 has no region lockout, meaning that a Japanese PS3 game plays in a US PS3 just fine. You can also, with a little Google searching and a few minutes worth of setup time, set up your own Japanese Playstation Network account, which allows you access to the Playstation Store to try out the latest Japanese demos…