Video games At the end of the sixth season, it was announced that there were plans to make a
GameCenter CX video game. The game, entitled
GameCenter CX: Arino no Chōsenjō, was developed for the Nintendo DS as a collaborative effort between Fuji TV and Bandai Namco Games. During the seventh season, certain parts of the show featured the development process of the game. The game was released in Japan on November 15, 2007, and in North America by
Xseed Games on February 10, 2009, under the title
Retro Game Challenge. A second game,
GameCenter CX: Arino no Chōsenjō 2, was released in Japan on February 26, 2009. Xseed Games has stated that US release of the game is unlikely, due to its predecessor's not catching enough attention from the North American gaming community. A third game,
GameCenter CX: 3-Chōme no Arino, was released in Japan on March 20, 2014, and was the first installment in the series to release on Nintendo 3DS. Arino appears as a Mystery Mushroom figure in
Super Mario Maker, which is unlocked by clearing one of his Event Courses added to the game on November 4, 2015. A remaster of the first two games on Nintendo DS, named
GameCenter CX: Arino no Chōsenjō 1+2 REPLAY for the
Nintendo Switch was announced by Fuji TV and is set to be released only in Japan by February 22, 2024. Currently, no news of English localization from either Fuji TV or Bandai Namco has been announced.
Books Several books of the show have been manufactured and released by
Ohta Publishing from 2004 to 2011. These books cover secrets and interviews with the TV show's staff: •
GameCenter 「CX」 (ISBN 487233907X) •
GameCenter CX2 (ISBN 4778310195) •
GameCenter CX3 (ISBN 4778310454) •
GameCenter CX COMPLETE (ISBN 9784778311803) •
GameCenter CX V (ISBN 978-4-7783-1290-9) •
GameCenter CX CHRONICLE The Japanese Magazine
CONTINUE (also from Ohta Publishing) has a frequent habit of interviewing Arino over the years as well.
CD GameCenter CX 10th Anniversary Soundtrack (HMCM-1120) is a music CD containing 16 tracks used in the show, manufactured by
Happinet. Some of the tracks are part of the original songs, others are Staff themes and standard game music from games that Arino played in the show. It was released on July 24, 2013, as a part of the show's 10th anniversary.
BONUS STAGE (LNCM-1454) is a music CD from
accekk (also called AXK, created by Staff writer Kibe and named by Arino), manufactured by Mastard Records. It was released March 4, 2023. Of the 9 tracks included, two of them,
ENDINGRATULATION and
ASSISTANTDIRe:CTION, are used in the TV show.
Theatrical Film GameCenter CX: The Movie - 1986 Mighty Bomb Jack was released on February 22, 2014, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the show. It features excerpts of the Mighty Bomb Jack episodes alongside a fictional side-story set in 1986 focused on a boy named Daisuke constructing a love relationship with a girl named Kumiko by borrowing his cartridge. As with the show's DVDs, it was distributed by Happinet.
Spin-Offs & Advertising Biohazard EX (SDS-12863) is a special bonus DVD that came with early pre-orders from Japanese copies of
Resident Evil: Extinction in Blu-Ray, DVD, and UMD discs, manufactured by
SPEJ. The disc itself includes an interview with Arino discussing his thoughts on
Resident Evil games and movies, as well excerpts of the
Capcom episode from the show's first season. It was not sold as a retail disc.
THE Game Maker was a series of DVDs focused on a variety of content from video game companies, as a tribute to the show's first season. It features Arino &
Yoshiuki Hirai doing playthroughs with live commentary, as well as extended Game Collections, interviews, and other kinds of extras (varying by disc). These DVDs were manufactured between 2010 and 2011. The companies featured were
Irem,
Jaleco,
Namco,
Sega,
Sunsoft,
Taito and
Tecmo (the
Sega edition was sold in a DVD box with two DVDs rather than a single one).
GameCenter DX, starring another challenger (Masaru Hamaguchi, the other half of star Arino Kacho's comedy duo "Yoiko"), and featuring many staff of the original, began in 2015 to showcase contemporary Nintendo titles, such as the latest entries in the
Mario Bros. and
Starfox series.
Yowiko no xx de xx Seikatsu (''Yoiko's Everyday Life in [something]
) is a spin-off of both GameCenter CX
and GameCenter DX'', featuring Arino and Hamaguchi playing games for Nintendo Switch and being run by Nintendo's Japanese YouTube channel since 2017. Notable games played by the duo are
Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition,
Super Mario Maker 2 and
Nintendo Switch Sports. Since 2023, the TV show's official YouTube channel made Arino do collaboration crossovers with known personalities from Japan, such as ''
Eiko Kano's CritiKano Hit'',
Nijisanji's
Hyakumantenbara Salome and
Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games.
Nintendo eShop-exclusive specials On occasion, special
GameCenter CX programs were produced for the
Nintendo Channel for the
Wii. Later, when the
Nintendo eShop succeeded the Nintendo Channel, additional specials were produced, such as a special where Arino and late Nintendo president
Satoru Iwata interviewed each other and played
Balloon Fight, which Iwata had programmed during the early years of his career. ==References==