VGC writes: "A game based on a Japanese TV show about a guy completing challenges in retro games. With eight brand-new NES-style games included, is Retro Game Challenge successful at bringing the past into the present?
GameCenter CX is a Japanese video game show featuring comedian Shinya Arino, employed at the GameCenter CX Company, whose sole job is to sit around and play retro video games. He actually gets promoted - and demoted - based on his performance. Namco-Bandai turned this idea into a video game, released only in Japan a year and a half ago. XSEED Games worked up the courage to actually bring the game overseas, and so now we have Retro Game Challenge, a strange yet extremely well put-together package all about playing retro-style video games."
In Anthony's final 8-Bit Chronicles for 2019, he dives into...a DS game? That's right: it's Retro Game Challenge -- based off the Japanese TV show Game Center CX!
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From the article, "Which is a shame, because Retro Game Challenge, and the succession of Game Center CX games that have been released since, offer an equivalent, and often superior experience. Granted, they don’t cash in on the real nostalgia value of offering actual NES and SNES games to play, but the fact that people are earning full games makes up for that."
