Get zapped into the '80s with Retro Game Challenge

by JC Fletcher { Nov 19th 2008 at 11:00AM }

A collection of original Famicom-style games on the DS doesn't need a story to be awesome, but Retro Game Challenge has one, and it is wonderfully amusing. The embodiment of Game Center CX star Shinya Arino's gaming frustration becomes personified inside his DS and sends you, as a potential challenger, into the past to play old games with his childhood self.

Of course, in this version, he's just some guy named Arino who gets upset with games. It still works, kind of. 1UP's preview goes into the localization in more detail, including the use of Western game journalism in-jokes in the fake GameFan Magazine found in-game. More videos of the localized Retro Game Challenge, including a readthrough of a GameFan issue, follow the post break.

Gallery: Game Center CX: Arino's Challenge

Tags: game-center-cx, namco-bandai, retro, retro-game-challenge, xseed

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

TheFreak @ Nov 19th 2008 1:44PM

I'll take it! I'll take twelve!

Josh @ Nov 19th 2008 1:50PM

Haha, is that a picture of the real Shoe?

Anyway, this game looks so good. I would have preferred they kept it completely Japanese in nature, but I guess that's only because I'm relatively well-versed/interested in Japan's 80s gaming culture.

Hmm, but one thing I'm hoping for is the ability to turn off that voice during the game. I assume it was the real Arino in the Japanese version, but there's kind of no point to it when Arino's not the one talking in the English version.