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''[[Retro Game Master]]'', known in Japan as ''GameCenter CX'', is a TV series starring Shinya Arino, one half of the Japanese comedy duo [[Yoiko]], who attempts to play through some of the most beloved (and most challenging) retro video games ever made.
Arino, who is presented as a ''kachō'' (section chief) of the fictional GameCenter CX company, is given a time limit within which he must complete the game, but he isn't the most skilled player around. When he gets stuck or needs advice, he can ask his fellow "staff" to help him out (usually in the form of playing through a level he needs to complete, additional time or offering a strategy for beating an enemy). Arino doesn't always complete his challenge, but he still manages to stay positive even when he's losing badly.
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The first season's episodes profiled a particular company or game series and featured Arino's game challlenge as a side feature. From the second season on, the game challenge became the main focus, although the show would still cut away to show Arino doing things like visiting game arcades, interviewing developers, and so on.
A few DVD box sets have been released in Japan; these are collections of selected episodes rather than season sets. Plans for an international subtitled DVD release are reportedly under way. In 2011, the Arino's Challenge segments from twelve episodes were once available for US viewers to watch on gaming blog [https://web.archive.org/web/20121020133634/http://kotaku.com/retro-game-master/ Kotaku.com], but they since lost the rights and have [http://kotaku.com/5875856/this-could-be-your-last-chance-to-see-retro-game-master taken them down]. Kotaku themselves now [http://kotaku.com/5877067/where-can-you-watch-more-retro-game-master recommend watching the fansubs]. The version that aired on Kotaku is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120426104024/http://www.gamingcx.com/news/retro-game-master-coming-to-dvd getting a DVD release] with new subtitles from SA-GCCX Team and English and Japanese language tracks for the announcer.
The show also has spawned two video games for the Nintendo DS, the first of which was released in North America as ''[[Retro Game Challenge]]''.
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Some of the games that have been featured on the show include:
* ''[[Adventure Island]]''
* ''[[Battle Golfer Yui]]''
* ''[[Castlevania|Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse]]''
* ''[[Contra]]''
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* ''[[Fatal Fury|Fatal Fury Special]]''
* ''[[Final Fight]]''
* The ''[[
* ''[[Golden Axe]]''
* ''[[Kirby|Kirby's Adventure]]''
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* The ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' series
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* [[Something Completely Different|And Now For Something Completely Different]]: Small off-topic segments like visits to arcades, fairs and reviews of contemporary games related to the one being reviewed, averaging two of these segments per episode.
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: Arino ranks up (and down) the corporate tree according to his performance in the games he plays.
** Probably the most [[Wham! Episode|dramatic one]] when he got demoted from Chief to Section Chief, after failing [[
** Nowadays, however, his being promoted/demoted based on his victories and losses is [[The Artifact]], and he's stayed as a chief for a while now.
* [[Awesome By Analysis]] / [[Determinator]]: Arino falls somewhere in between both.
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Arino is straight up bad at [[Shoot'Em Up|shoot 'em ups]], and no matter how many times it happens, he NEVER grasps the concept of final bosses having multiple forms, celebrates too early and gets killed by them before he figures out what happened. He also tends to forget to use the continue codes in older games that require them or forgets to press Start in the case they're timed, forcing him to start over from the beginning.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: When Arino is asked about his love life during the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' episode, he tells his staff that he has only been in three serious relationships (including his wife), but that he has "hugged" way more women than that. Arino then wonders whether they should talking about such topics in a show "seen by kids."
* [[Infinite
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Certain, uh, non-official translations, were taken down from [[YouTube]] or otherwise removed when Kotaku announced another episode that had already been previously fan translated.
** Once Kotaku's license to show the series expired, they pretty much officially sanctioned people watching fansubbed versions instead.
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* [[Recycled Soundtrack]]: Scenes were Arino visits a game center often have music from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' in the background.
* [[Retool]]: The first season was primarily a documentary show in which Arino interviewed people from the game industry involved with certain companies or specific franchises. From Season 2 and onward, the "Arino's Challenge" segments that were originally meant to be a secondary portion of the show became the main feature instead.
* [[Retraux]]: The King/Queen (and in season 6, Dark King) sequences, which resemble 16-bit [[Role
* [[Retro Gaming]]
* [[Spam Attack]]: Arino brute-forces his way through ''[[Street Fighter II]]'s'' single player mode relying almost entirely on Dhalsim's Yoga Fire attack. Leads to an [[Oh Crap]] moment when he discovers the four Grand Masters are far harder to take down this way.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: [[
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