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In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Game Center CX, the first two GCCX games are being remastered and packaged together for Switch: https://replaygccx12.bn-ent.net/ 🇯🇵 It'll be playable at TGS, and Arino's doing a segment for one of Namco's streaming blocks.

For the unaware, Game Center CX is a series primarily focused on comedian Shinya Arino challenging to beat vintage games within a time limit, long before the concept of streaming or lets-playing was a mainstream thing, and it's managed to not only weather the streaming age but actually increase in popularity over the last few years. There's been a couple of small attempts to officially release the series overseas—a sole licensed DVD and, before that, a strange hacked-up online version that Kotaku produced for all of five minutes—but the international following has and continues to be cultivated via fan-subs and online groups whose enthusiasm has long been (unofficially) acknowledged by the show's staff and cast, to the extent that one of the original prominent fan-subbers has illustrated several pieces of official GCCX merch.

Most if not all of the subbed episodes are on the Internet Archive; I typically recommend the Battletoads two-parter as a good intro episode (share your own in the comments if you like):

There have been three GCCX games released—two for the original DS, developed by indieszero (Final Fantasy Theatrhythm, NES Remix, etc) which people quite liked, and a third for the 3DS, developed by G.rev (Senko no Ronde, Border Down, Under Defeat, etc) which people did not like nearly as much—and they are all broadly themed around playing retro games in a manner not entirely dissimilar to the show, with the big hook being that these are all high-quality original games in the vein of the classics: the first game features not-Dragon Quest, not-Star Soldier, a series of ninja games that evolved from not-JaJaMaru-kun to not-Ninja Gaiden, etc. Some of the games, like the Portopia-esque ADV featured in the second games, will directly reference the show and its cast, but you don't need to have watched the show to enjoy or parse any of the content (and if it doesn't get localized, you can probably futz through most of the games/challenges without much trouble.)

(You may have played the first game without knowing it—XSEED published in the US as "Retro Game Challenge", with the GCCX-related content scrubbed out and, in some cases, replaced with parodies of US gaming magazines and whatnot. The second game saw no localisation whatsoever, but it's been fan-translated for a minute; I don't know that anyone's bothered with #3.)

There's no release date or price for this collection yet, just the info that they're being remastered as one game, and that there'll be a version with a special DVD. They are adding one extra retro game: a Technos-esque belt-scroller, and it looks like this: