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''[[Retro Game Challenge]]'' (a.k.a. ''Game Center CX: Arino's Challenge'') is a Nintendo DS game based on the Japanese TV series ''[[Retro Game Master]]''. In the game, your character is pulled back in time to [[The Eighties]] and the childhood of one Shinya Arino (based on the host of the show himself), and are tasked with meeting the challenges of his evil-self-from-the-present by playing eight different 8-bit games, which emulate the style of actual Family Computer games of that time. Only then will you be able to return to your own world.
Each of the eight mini-games comes with its own fully colored and illustrated (in-game) manual, and Kid Arino will periodically buy game magazines that contain cheat codes (which you ''are'' allowed to use against his future self) that you can browse while playing.
Absolutely ''no'' marketing in America led to poor sales, which means that XSEED [[No Export for You|didn't bring the sequel to America.]] But have no fear: a [[Fan Translation]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110223115130/http://rgc2.overfold.net/ is in the works].
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=== Styles emulated by the mini-games: ===
* [[Driving Game]]: ''Rally King'' and ''Rally King SP''.
* [[Platformer]]: the ''Robot Ninja Haggle Man'' trilogy (the first two are based on a Japan-only Jaleco game titled ''Ninja Jajamaru-Kun'', while the third is a ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' pastiche).
* [[Role
* [[Shoot'Em Up]]: ''Cosmic Gate'' (modeled after ''[[Galaga]]'') and ''Star Prince'' (a pastiche of ''[[
=== Cosmic Gate provides examples of: ===
* [[Asteroid Thicket]] / [[Bonus Stage]]
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Endless Game]]: averted - the game ends when you beat the last of 64 stages. But if you want to keep building your score higher and higher, you can {{spoiler|open a final Cosmic Gate during stage 64...}}
* [[
* [[Warp Zone]]: the titular Cosmic Gates.
=== Haggle Man 1 and Haggle Man 2 provide examples of: ===
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of [[Mega Man (
* [[Adjective Noun Fred]]: Robot Ninja Haggle Man
* [[
* [[Goomba Stomp]]: One of two ways to kill enemies in the first two ''Haggle Man'' games.
* [[Good Bad Translation]]: Intentional: his original name is Haguruman, which is a pun on the Japanese word for "gear". Extended in the 3rd game, where he can equip Hagglegears, or [[Department of Redundancy Department|Geargears]].
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* [[Nitro Boost]]: In Rally King and Rally King SP, doing drifts can give you boosts.
* [[Product Placement]]: ''Rally King SP'' is a joint venture between ''Rally King'''s developer, GameFan Magazine, and a ramen noodle company.
** And also [[Truth in Television]], as special "sponsor editions" of games (such as ''[http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/fc/gradiusa.html Archimendes Gradius]'' and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090830084053/http://www.nindb.net/ann-super-mario-bros.html All-Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.]'') were not unheard of back in the Famicom era.
* [[Palette Swap]]: In ''SP'', the palettes for all the tracks past 3 are changed, to be set at night.
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* [[Deflector Shields]]
* [[Mutually Exclusive Powerups]]
* [[
* [[Reverse Shrapnel]]: The "Spark Shot", which fires shots in all directions when you absorb three enemy bullets with your barrier. It even [[Mercy Invincibility|makes you invincible for a moment]], making it excellent for use as a point-blank weapon.
* [[Smart Bomb]]: Available by, get this, shooting a powerup instead of collecting it.
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=== Guadia Quest provides examples of: ===
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of [[Dragon Quest]].
** There's a multilayered joke in an item that only someone who's played [[Dragon Quest]] will get. In [[Dragon Quest]], the 'warp to town' item is called a Chimera Wing. In
*** The layout of the first town is almost identical to [[Final Fantasy|Corneria]]
* [[Bag of Sharing]]: The party as a whole has 63 item slots to share among them, equipped weaponry and your journal included.
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* [[Bond Creatures]]: The [[Mons|Guadias]], whom you must defeat [[Boss in Mook Clothing|in a random battle]] if you want to earn their services. However, unlike usual [[Summon Magic|Summoned Monsters]], Guadias will act automatically after building up their attack for a few rounds.
* [[Bonus Boss]]: {{spoiler|1=GameGuadia, represented by Arino's disembodied head}}.
* [[Development Hell]]: An [[In
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Even though you vanquished the Dark Scream, you still killed the Dark Lord and Holy King on his orders, violated the treaty, and completely shattered the peace between the three worlds. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]. It is inferred that for all you did, you at least brought hope, and that the people's desire for peace could still lead to something good in the long run, "[[Sequel Hook|but that is a tale for another day.]]"}}
* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: Celestial Tower, the "reaching infinitely into the sky" type.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Money Spider]]
* [[Monster Allies]]: Part of the gameplay in Guadia Quest is to make pacts with special "Guadia" monsters, who then pop in during battle to do attacks. Some Guadias are better suited to certain foes, making getting the best Guadia for the job part of the strategy.
* {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: A twofer - one of the towns has a duck hanging out in the graveyard, which only says "Aclaf!" when you talk to it - a reference to both the old Aflac Duck and ''[[Castlevania II]]'s'' infamous "graveyard duck" reference.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: The games up to this point have no save function and are basically endless play. Guadia Quest introduces a lot of new mechanics.
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* [[Fighting Your Friend]]: {{spoiler|Haggleman Lady challenges you after your victory.}}
* [[Genre Shift]]: ''Haggle Man 3'' looks and plays vastly different than the first two ''Haggle Man'' games, resembling something closer to the NES ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' titles.
** [[Took a Level
* [[Powers
* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: The Imperial Regalia of Japan serve as the game's [[Plot Coupon|Plot Coupons]]
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** ''Star Prince'' has the especially hilarious "'''''GREAT!'''''" in big flashing letters, followed by "Finaly you saved ancient times ROYAL POWER!" "Thanks for playing - And you will get final bonus!", before counting up the bonus points for however many lives you have left.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The "GameFan Magazine" parody (see [[Woolseyism]] on the YMMV page) extends as far as its staff writers, thinly veiled [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to actual game journalists. For instance, Dan Sock standing in for Dan "Shoe" Hsu, Johnny England for John Davison, "Milkman" for James Mielke, and others.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: ''Cosmic Gate'' and ''Star Prince''.
* [[Pastiche]]
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* [[Retraux]]
* [[Scoring Points]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: The American translation references a few other XSEED-published game characters, including [[Shadow Hearts|John Garland]] and [[Wild
** Young Arino also compliments your skills by comparing you to the kid in [[The Wizard (
** ''Guadia Quest'' also contains a nod to the so-called "graveyard duck" in ''[[Castlevania II:
* [[Strategy Guide]]
* [[That's All Folks]]: Just wait a minute after RGC's credits.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: {{spoiler|''Haggle Man'', ''Haggle Man 2'', and ''Star Prince'' all have a fake final boss and ending halfway through, after which you have to go through tougher versions of the previous levels.}}
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