Game Center CX 01

[takenoko]

Atlantis no Nazo

Enjoy the series reboot of GameCenter CX. Arino pretty much explains the difference in the first few minutes.

Anyway, this is the format for the rest of the series that made the show famous

Also released the CM for the GameCenter CX game

So unfortunately, this ends the GCX marathon that we had stocked up. Of course we'll continue to work on GCX, but at a more leisurely rate (these episodes are more drama length and require a lot more work, plus the stuff marathoned was the culmination of 6 months of preparation)

So enjoy this episode, there'll be more to come

[TheFreak]

Greetings.

I just signed on to thank you so very much for all of the subbing that you've done on this show. I've become something of a rabid fan of Game Center CX over the past year, and even got to see the IFC "Retro Game Master" screenings here in New York, so you have absolutely no idea how much this means to me, both as an aforementioned fan and a player of games both old and new, arcade and console.

In case you didn't know, the two episodes screened at the IFC were, in fact, Atlantis No Nazo and Ghosts 'N Goblins (Why the skip from episodes 1 to 3, I am uncertain), but I can definitely use this sub to compare and contrast. The "Retro Game Master" screenings used English dubbing for narrations, and referred to the ADs as "Assistant S" and "Assistant T". Everything else was subtitled with the initial background music intact.

Again, I thank you so very much for your work, and hope to see more GCCX subs in the forseeable future.

-TF

[takenoko]

I look forward to hearing your comparison of the two

[Joe1991]

Going to miss my daily fix

[Sho-saka]

Aaaw, damn. I guess it's back to normal for me. Searching back and forth for any new episodes of Keitai 7 or those Den-O Special Talk Shows or that Double Action Climax Form or Macross Frontier or Gintama or any favourite episode that I've been waiting for ages. ;_:

I always enjoy Arino and his antics in GameCenter CX and...

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...I'm going to miss AD Toujima, since he's very hilarious with Arino and that he's always with him when things start to go wrong in many challenges. Oh well, at least Ari-Kachou's going to have Sasano as Toujima's replacement.

[Joe1991]

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I'm assuming Toujima comes back from time to time, as he is in the north trip :S

[Mr Jim]

Arino is my new hero!

I love this show, thanks to the team for subbing it - Takenoko, AdamH, Kamen Rider Gumo & MrMan99.

Its been a fun week downloading new episodes everyday. I look forward to future episodes when they are ready

[Battra]

Good episode the game definitely looked very hard.

[Mr Jim]

It seemed to have a deavious angle to it with the hidden warps & traps. No wonder it got bit of a bashing when not a lot of players could get all the way through it.

[VerusMaya II]

Just fyi, in the second Famicom disk section, it's Palutena, not Palthena.

Were all Famicom games super ridiculously hard, with awkward controls to boot? 100 stages just seemed unfair...

Toujima can't be leaving! They just said he graduated from being an AD, maybe he was promoted! Toujimaaaaa

[Joe1991]

I really feel like picking up a famicom and trying everything he does, see if i'm better than him

[takenoko]

Just fyi, in the second Famicom disk section, it's Palutena, not Palthena.

I thought it was a combination of Pallas and Athena

Further research shows:

[quote='imdb trivia"]The name of the game's title character was changed to "Palutena" for its English-language release. However, the character was officially called "Parthena" in Japan, and "Parthena" is a Greek female first name meaning "holy".[/quote]

http://www.behindthename.com/name/parthenia

So if I understand this correctly, all of us are a bit correct and a bit wrong at the same time. Surely the truth is somewhere. Maybe it's out there

[Sho-saka]

Were all Famicom games super ridiculously hard, with awkward controls to boot? 100 stages just seemed unfair...

Yeah, I mean, looking at Super Mario Brothers 2 (aka the Lost Levels), I think there were people ripping their hair off when it came to complete ALL 8 stages literally without using the warps and then nearly gave up when it came to the extra level that Nintendo sneakily put in as extra present/punishment, depending on the gamers' view. Then again, there was that Mushihimesama Futari game that I saw over at YouTube, where the last boss is just riduculously insanely hard to beat with all those colourful, but schizophrenic beams that have been almost squashed with each other. And the same thing applies to many shooters.

But don't get me started on that Alex the Kidd game; when I was a child, I tried to complete the game, but I died somewhere in the forest level, all because of that scary reaper who is trying to kill me. And worse, it was a built-in game WITH no save points and when I get a game over, I have to start the bugger from STAGE 1 all over again. T_T

And if someone decides to complete Atlantis no Nazo WITHOUT using the warps AND clear ALL 100 stages literally, he/she must be really insane or really patient and brave to have done this task.

[VerusMaya II]

So if I understand this correctly, all of us are a bit correct and a bit wrong at the same time. Surely the truth is somewhere. Maybe it's out there

Haha that seems to happen a lot. Well, interesting to know the origin of the name. Just reading the katakana, it's ru and te, so I always figured Palutena to be more accurate, but listening to them say it, it does sound like they're pronouncing it Palthena.

[Phoenix512]

I don't know it's possible to play Mystery of Atlantis straight through as the warps would screw you up. Did Arino ever find Hang On?