Game Center CX Coming to North America

[愛]

http://kotaku.com/5812385/kotaku-presents-retro-game-master-japans-cult-hit-video-game-show

WHAT?

[Brodie]

YESSSSSS....I wonder if you'll be able to watch previously streamed episodes?

[Peanut]

F*cking fantastic! Now we just need someone to pick up the DVD distribution rights. I know they have several seasons entirely subbed and the discs/packaging fully designed, so it's just a matter of someone putting it out. How the hell is it possible we get all the sh*t anime we get on huge sets over here, but no one will take on Game Center?

[GK Punk]

I'm so down. I <3 that show to a ridiculous degree.

[愛]

This is a show that I wished had more online presence. It was nearly impossible to find unsubbed versions of episodes, let alone subbed. I did find a few HD episodes, but I believe that site is no longer around. To find out that new episodes are coming here is just mind-blowing for me. I simply cannot wait.

He is the MAN OF MANUALS!

[Brodie]

I'd like to trade business cards with him.

[愛]

There's a lot of really great episodes that were never subbed, and it makes me sad. I'm currently watching on youtube the episode where he plays Tokimeki Memorial. F*cking DATING SIM game! Oh, this is too hilarious...

[GK Punk]

I've only seen the subbed ones sadly. Maybe more of the past eps will get subbed after this?

[愛]

I sure hope so. More people need to watch this show. The amount of hilarity is astronomical.

[Peanut]

I've only seen the subbed ones sadly. Maybe more of the past eps will get subbed after this?

Like I said, there are seasons of the show already subbed out there and ready to go. They announced Game Center coming to NA years ago as "Retro Game Master" and part of that announcement was that several seasons had finished being fulled subbed, DVD sets had been designed and ready and Fuji TV (or whoever) was looking for dist for them for like 3 years with no takers, which baffles me.

[愛]

The first episode is airing tonight at 8pm!

...I won't be home. :( I really hope it'll be viewable after it airs...

[Leogeddon]

Never did get to watch this, but heard good things, however I'm not finding it on ANY channel tonight for me. :( (EST)

[Peanut]

Did you even read the post? It's on Kotaku, not TV.

[Leogeddon]

I haven't had any reason or anybody to introduce Kotaku to me, so that went over my head.

[Brodie]

Except for that time, on this page, someone linked to the site wherein the article stated it would air "HERE, ON KOTAKU."

[愛]

I'm watching the first episode right now. The announcer is pretty annoying, and has some rather odd pronunciations of names...but it is in English, and the subtitles are on the mark. Can't ask for much more.

[Leogeddon]

Except for that time, on this page, someone linked to the site wherein the article stated it would air "HERE, ON KOTAKU."
Not the first time for a japanese game show to be airing either, yeah, it's being streamed to the site. I wouldn't doubt that G4 will try to get it... scratch that, they better, I'm tired of seeing trash tv on G4, ****ing COPS, Cheaters, and whatever else they can cough up from other channels. Next up, Jerry Springer.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Fu*king fantastic. Glad this is finally getting some attention. :)

[Brodie]

You know what isn't good? The goddamn US Announcer.

[愛]

I just wish they subtitled the whole damn thing like other fansubbers did. It's a Japanesey show, anyway, why even introduce the horrible announcer?

[Peanut]

Honestly, this isn't a very good version of the show. I know the NG ep was super long, but none of the cool segments are in there to break the show up, they didn't sub ANY of the on-screen text and the announcer is horrible. Losing the Japanese announcer definitely takes a good deal of charm out of the show.

Do not like. The fansubs are insanely superior. I find it crazy I'm saying anything so idiotically weeaboo like that, but anyone who's ever watched the TV Nihon translations of Game Center knows it's true.

[愛]

Honestly, this isn't a very good version of the show. I know the NG ep was super long, but none of the cool segments are in there to break the show up, they didn't sub ANY of the on-screen text and the announcer is horrible. Losing the Japanese announcer definitely takes a good deal of charm out of the show.

Do not like. The fansubs are insanely superior. I find it crazy I'm saying anything so idiotically weeaboo like that, but anyone who's ever watched the TV Nihon translations of Game Center knows it's true.

I really really like TV Nihon's translations. The thing about them is even though they take their time, they do everything right. I also miss the segments when he goes to visit old game centers or meets key members of the video game industry. He interviews Kojima in one of the older episodes, and it was awesome.

They did sub some of the onscreen text, but not nearly enough. I just wish they would lose that horrible announcer and sub the whole thing. The announcer pretty much says what the Japanese announcer says, anyway, just put it in text form!

[Peanut]

Just so people know, there's been a pretty big backlash over the state of the translated episodes of Game Center that have been hitting Kotaku. Everyone loves the show, but once they've seen a properly subbed episode, they find it hard to go back to the gimped dubbed version.

The best thing about that backlash is that a ton of people have come forward and started working on fantastic fan translations for a ton more episodes. I've found a place (http://www.gamingcx.com/search/label/gamecentercx) that's been putting them up at an amazing rate for the last little while and there's a ton on there I still haven't watched yet.

If anyone here loves (or even likes) games, especially retro games, this show is an absolute must-watch and the site I linked has a ton of amazing episodes. GO WATCH IT! Raise awareness and maybe we'll get proper translations and those DVD sets!

[愛]

Oh my, this site is AWESOME! Now I know what I'm doing today. There's a lot I haven't watched yet.

The Kotaku translations are terrible. They often don't match what the Kachou is actually saying, and they never translate any on-screen text. It's incredibly lazy on their part.

[Cryomancer]

Most of the translations on that site are coming from this thread on the somethingawful forums: http://tinyurl.com/SAGCCX (you can see this url at the end of the episodes where the king/queen is talking). This link may or may not be visible depending on the day, SA forums sometimes can't be read by non members, it fluctuates. Those guys are the ones doing the recent/fast subtitled episodes going around now.

This thread on the gaki no tsukai fanbased forums also uploads the same files, and the TV-nihon ones, and the kotak ones, and raw ones too: http://gaki-no-tsukai.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2653

That is a pretty decent site if you are just looking for a streaming version to watch though, or if you want to link an episode to someone to show them the show, etc.

[Peanut]

Oh maaaan. I've been watching so much Gaki No Tsukai over the past week that it's killing me. I think I've watched every 24h Batsu Game in the last 3 days.

Also, sooooo much Game Center. I'm so glad that people have jumped onto these translations. It was pretty brutal to find anything beyond the first 10 or 11 episodes for like 2 years or more. TV Nihon did a great job, but it was like an episode (and most comprised of just Arino's Challenge) every 4 or more months.

Maybe this big spark in interest will lead to Namco-Bandai finally putting out Retro Game Challenge 2 over here, but I'm still pretty doubtful of that.

[Cryomancer]

Supposedly someone from Namco went with them on their US trip, so I guess it's more possible now than it was before. Here's hoping, anyway. There's a fan translation in progress but they've been non-specific about how far along they are so who knows how that'll go either.