Game Center CX Live Show 2012

6:00
The show begins, the schedule is as follows

Finish the game by midnight and then...
-birthday party
-a message from a 40:year old Arino
-dinner
-Memories of GCCX
-Surprise guest
-staff's Hidden Talent Show
-song show
-Bingo contest (with fabulous prizes)

6:05
Tani and Tojima welcome Arino and show him a pile of 40 presents, which represent gifts he will receive throughout the show.
6:10
a review of past challenge on Pilotwings, his challenge is to beat the game, using bonus levels if he can reach them. This is done by achieving a set score on a number of events, mostly flying through wings in either a small plane, a hang glider, as a skydiver, or with a jetpack (the rocket-belt).
6:17
Introducing the fax room with Kibe-kun, he gives out the fax number
6:20
KACHO ON!
He begins the first licence test
6:28
The first plane crash! (he forgot how to make the plane brake)
6:32
License 1 Completed!
6:35
Arino’s first gift is a king slime plush, which he promptly drops in excitement
6:37
A birthday message from Uji:Hori himself, they replayed the part of the serial murders episode that he appeared in.

Crash landings in this section = 1

6:40
Tojima gives him a password to skip to level 6
6:42
He promptly crashes because of the increased difficulty : he must complete the rocket:belt level and then land on a small quickly moving platform to access the bonus stage.
7:10
Arino lands on the platform for the first time and gets his first chance to try bonus stage, but fails almost instantly
7:23
He narrowly misses the bonus stage by a few pixels – “KACHO MISSS!!”
7:29
Fax corner! There are already many! Someone faxes in to use a “penguin jump” technique to land on the bonus platform correctly
7:36
He gets another chance at the bonus, AD Takahashi comes on to give him some advice, he completes the bonus and gets 120 points!

Crash landings on this section = 12

7:36
Arino now attempts LIGHTO PLANE! (as he calls it)
7:42
He forgets how to break again, and crashes!
7:46
Emoto and Ito appear in captain and flight attendant uniforms to give him a video walkthrough of the skydiving stage.
7:52
Arino gets another 3 birthday messages from some Japanese celebrities including Takahiro from TKO, during which Arino is rudely doing cassette fu-fu on Pilotwings which seems to be having some technical problems (a pinkish haze on the screen).
7:57
Tama:ge! At Batting Place is shown while they resolve the technical problems

8:04
The challenge resumes
8:12
He completes all three tests but misses passing the licence by ONE POINT. He must retry.
8:22
He and Takahashi talk tactics for correctly flying through the rings in the LIGHTO PLANE stage.
8:42
After failing the entire test (3 whole stages) twice, Arino completes Level 6 with 248 points

deaths on this section = 11

8:43
Arino gets a birthday message from Kirby and smash bros creator Masahiro Sakura
8:45
A special song written for Arino, called Kacho Fighter, Apparently the song took three months to make and Inoue spent a day making the music video.  : Zari-Gani
See Zari-Gani’s translation here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3452856&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=65#post400934383
8:49
Three of the staff model some cardigans for Arino
8:51
The challenge resumes on Level 7, a twilight themed stage

9:02
An advert for some merchandise, DVD 8 and a DVD of Sega related GCCX (interview with Uji-Naka, a fight against Nakayama on Virtual Fighter, and a special Tama-ge with Tojima),  some business/birthday cards, and a calendar I think and some sort of phone app. Perhaps these games that Ray posted:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gemusentacx:gao:wei:shannobori/id498874764?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gemusentacx:kugure:tsu!/id498873848?mt=8

9:05
Emoto and Ito appear again in their uniforms to give advice on the hang gliding stage
9:32
Fax Corner, including a special wall for USA faxes!

Kibe: "This was a big surprise to us. We're receiving faxes from overseas."
Arino: "Huh? How do you know they're from overseas?"
Kibe: "For example, this says 'From the USA'..."
Arino: "But that doesn't mean they're actually from America!"
Kibe: "This one says 'I hope you come back to San Francisco soon'... They must be from San Francisco."
Arino: "Oh, they're asking me to go back there?"
Arino: "I wonder how they're watching this?"
Kibe: "Well... They're probably getting the information from Twitter."
-Zari-Gani

10:22
Arino is still having trouble completing Level 7, he cannot seem to get enough points. Arino is stopped by Kan, the announcer and given some more advice, he decides to put on his first cooling pad of the night!
10:29
Kan begins helping Arino by reading him the altitude of the rings he must fly through as he plays the level.
10:36
Arino finally scores "GREATO" in hang gliding with a score of 95, he needs 75 more to finish the stage

11:17
Arino fails at passing the licence by 33 points, he starts over
11:42
Arino is still struggling with this licence, even though Kan is still helping him with the rings.
11:59
Inoko MAX does a 60 second count down to Arino's birthday using paper cards.

12:00
The staff sing happy birthday in English along with acoustic guitar accompaniment. He blows out his candles. Tsuruoka appears with the guitar and together they sing 53 Stations of the Tokaido.
12:04
Arino gets a birthday phone call from yamasato? But pretends that the line is bad, and can’t hear him.
12:10
Arino is presented with an amazing illustration courtesy of SA’s own Zari-Gani!
12:12
We return to Tojima in the party room who presents Arino with a buffet and an announcement that Tritros from RGC 2 is to be ported to iphone and ipad. They begin eating Arino's buffet without him.
12:14
A birthday message from his comedy partner Masaru
12:16
He returns to the challenge, now as a 40 year old!
12:33
 Inoko Max brings him a new controller as one of the buttons seems to have stuck on the old one.
12:38
AD Takahashi offers to play one life, and scores 75 on the Light Plane event.
12:42
Arino eats some squid and reads a fax offering advice on rocket belt and skydiving
12:55
With the help of Takahashi he finally scores a 75 on the Light Plane and moves onto the rocket belt.
12:57
In frustration he rips the schedule from the whiteboard so Takahashi can draw the path of the bonus platform that he needs to land on.

1:08
He lands a bulls eye on the rocket belt and scores 70, and moves onto the final event, the hang glider
1:11
Crash landing, he misses the licence by 32 points, and must start over
1:12
A repeat of the advert shown at nine o'clock
1:15
Tsuruoka modes the Anniversary T:Shirts and Mouse pads that are available from the homepage.
1:16
A replay of Kacho Fighter.
1:20
Gameplay resumes, but not before Arino applies 2 more cooling pads to either sides of his face
1:47
Inoko Max brings Arino some fax advice on the correct speed of approach for landing the Light Plane.
1:59
Arino needs 88 points to complete the level, but is interrupted by Inoko Max who counts down to the end of available show time.

Crash landings in this section = 49

2:00
CHECKPOINTO CLEAR: TIME EXTENDO
2:02
A rerun of the advert from nine o’clock
2:05
Tamge : Benki:Horu? : From the Flashback episode
2:11
Tamage : Yamoto Shoten (a sweet shop)
2:21
The challenge restarts with a cool anime style opening and new room complete with viewer faxes :)
2:32
AD Watanabe sprays Arino and Takahashi with water to wake them up, and presents Arino a lanyard (pilots licence?) and cool pair of Rayban sunglasses.
2:37
The challenge resumes, now with Raybans
3:15
Takahashi offers to do the hang gliding and rocket belt for Arino
3:20
Takahashi scores 95 on the hang gliding and 100 points on the rocket belt, he baton passes to Arino, who refuses, and dramatically throws his pilot’s licence away, leaving the last event in the level to AD Takahashi.
3:24
Takahashi scores 82, and passes area 7 with 277 points
3:25
Arino receives another birthday message from his comedy partner Masaru

Arino’s Crash Landings in this section = 12

3:27
Arino starts Level 8, a night stage.
3:32
AD Takahashi leaves
3:32
AD Emoto and Ms Ito appear in their captain and flight attendant uniforms again, to give Arino a video walkthrough of the rocket belt stage
3:36
Takahashi also brings him a paper diorama of level 8 with a tiny model plane to try and demonstrate how best to fly through the rings.
3:55
Arino takes a break from the Light Plane level to finally check the manual
3:58
AD Emoto, dressed as a captain, and AD Katayama dressed as a policeman, come to Arino's aid, along with AD Takahashi. They agree to each take on one event each, Emoto the light Plane, Katayama the skydiving, Takahashi the hang gliding, leaving Arino with the rocketbelt (his best event).

4:17
Kun announces they will finish at 6AM, making 6 hours total overtime
4:52
AD Emoto finally lands the Light Plane, after many restarts, scoring a magnificent 88 points
4:55
Arino takes on the rocket belt and scores 70, leaving 162 points needed to pass the level
4:57
AD Takahashi scores a fabulous 90 on the hang gliding, leaving Katayama only needing to score 72 on the skydiving, well within his abilities.
4:59
Though he misses some rings because of the pressure, AD Katayama scores 76, beating level 8 by four points

Arino's Crash Landings in this section = 11

5:00
Abe is in the kitchen making pizza as a present for Arino, his tea towel is a print from his manga about a Samurai Motorbike gang
5:03
Kojima also brings him some heart-warming drawings from his children, and reads him a message from his wife
5:07
Arino begins the final level
5:10
he fails and AD Emoto and Ms Ito reappear, now dressed in military fatigues and give him a video walkthrough
5:13
Abe brings in pizza, according to Zari-Gani:

It's "hakata-style pan-fried ramen pizza" -I guess he basically put his pan:fried ramen on top of a pizza? I think it looks good! But it kind of looks more like okonomiyaki than pizza. The nori and aonori toppings look good.

5:30
Arino has to stop twice to quieten the staff who are all shouting "watch out!" and "jiggs saggu desu!"
5:51
Running out of time, he attempts the challenge one last time

5:54
THE CHALLENGE ENDS

Crash Landings in this section = 11

5:55
-A quick overview of the gifts that did not get shown:
-A written message from narrator Takeda (of the arcade trips) with a picture of her newborn.
-A custom hashi from the guy featured in Abe's Tama'ge segment http://www.urusigei:nakajima.com/
-A video message and gift basket from a former AP
-A video message from Kaayan (the little kid he talked to during Ring Ring Tactics; he's 18 now)
-A famicom cassette version of the detective mystery game from Retro Game Challenge 2 (probably just for show) made by the indies zero CEO
-A video message from the kid who helped Arino beat Super Mario 2
-A limited edition Zelda 3DS

6:00
The programme ends with a compilation video of successes and failures during the challenge

Total Number of Crash Landings = 107