Pocket Gamer writes: "Staples such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Pop Idol may be universally successful, but it's series like GameCenter CX which tell you something about the Japanese national psyche. After all, where else would you have a show in its 10th season that stars a man playing old computer games, often badly?
Strictly speaking, of course, Shinya Arino is part of well known comic duo, but that doesn't seem to make his exasperated attempts at trying to best some of the trickiest games the 8-bit era has to offer any less popular."
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