You know, not to be glib, but this is some meta shit right here. Follow me down the rabbit hole of abstraction, won’t you? Game Center CX is a show about a comedian pretending to be Japanese middle-manager who plays NES games in marathon sessions, with typically hilarious results. The show’s Americanized name is Retro Game Master, though the show currently has no distribution in the United States. XSEED games, a fairly new US game publisher that specializes in Japanese quirk, is publishing Retro Game Challenge, an English localization of GameCenter CX: Arino no Chōsenjō, a videogame made up of pretend NES games based on a show about a pretend man who plays real NES games. It boggles the mind!
Limited as the audience for Retro Game Challenge might be here in the States, I’m delighted that XSEED is bringing it over. I’ve been lusting for its collection of fake NES games since its Japanese release last year, and this trailer is hardly making the wait any easier. After catching a localized episode of the show last summer, I’m wondering how well the brand’s sense of humor is going to be translated in this little package. Does XSEED’s localization of the game preserve a strong tie to the show? Who knows. Check out the goods and let us know what you think in the comments.
(Link: Siliconera)
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