WEEKEND WATCHING: IWATA ASKS… GAME CENTER CX’S KACHO ARINO

It feels like high time to revive the ‘Weekend Watching’ feature I set forth back in late 2008/early 2009 (as Netflix were debuting their new ‘streaming’ service to Xbox 360, remember before then?), this time with an additional relaxation of my unofficial rule to keep relatively mum about fan-subtitled releases of my real actual favorite TV show, Game Center CX.

This latest fan-subbed installment of GCCX seems slightly more fair game, as it’s a 15 minute installment of Nintendo’s brilliant Iwata Asks series featuring the banana-beholder himself visiting the show for a cross-interview chat, and a mini-challenge where GCCX’s Arino takes on Balloon Fight, the first game Iwata programmed and designed for Nintendo in 1984.

It seems like as perfect an introduction to the series as any, and a good segue to remind you that the previously-featured DVD box set, released stateside as ‘Retro Game Master’ with 14 full-length episodes, has now officially been released and is 100% the best way you can spend a quiet weekend at home.