The name is a combination of "game center" (the Japanese term for an arcade) and Fuji TV's call sign, JOCX-TV.

In the last episode of season 7, Bandai Namco Entertainment president Ishikawa made Arino an honorary employee and presented him with a company card.

The assistant directors help provide creative input, construct settings, and work as a camera crew at times, especially when on location.

They will offer help of varying degrees, enough to dislodge Arino from his despair, but not so much as to raise questions about whether he beat the game on his own.

[4] On January 13, 2012, Kotaku announced that their agreement to broadcast the show had ended; there would be no second season, and existing episodes would be removed when the rights expired.

[5] On February 28, 2012, Discotek Media announced that they had acquired the rights to the 12 episodes shown on Kotaku, releasing them on DVD on September 18, 2012.

He is seated in a small office within the Fuji Television building at a table covered in various snack foods and drinks.

Arino visits these locations throughout Japan and plays a variety of different games often with the goal of winning prizes to be given to winning viewers.This segment was briefly interrupted during most of Season 24 and earlier Season 25 episodes (302 ~ 331) due to the restrictions from COVID-19 in Japan, being filled with reprises of previous places or omitted entirely.

Beginning and ending with season three, Arino was tasked with completing the poorly received Famicom game Super Monkey Daibouken.

A short segment begins with Arino stepping into a sound booth in a recording studio and reading fond recollections from the viewers of their favorite games.

A very tongue-in-cheek segment in which Arino plays various Famicom games in search of salacious scenes featuring women.

These short, silent film-inspired segments involved Arino entering the invincibility code into Xevious for the Famicom before fastening a clip onto the controller's fire button and leaving the game to run throughout the season, in order to see what would happen if the game's infinitely looping design stayed running for long periods of time.

Innocuous mistakes like crashing your bike in Excitebike are over-dramatized with slow-mo, intense music, and countdowns to the carnage.

Arino and two former GCCX staffers, Toujima and Nakayama, convene in a traditional home with a table of games blanketed in front of them.

Arino and news announcer Ms. Nishiyama do dramatic readings of key scenes from various games, such as the melodramatic Fire Emblem.

Arino and crew try out various Famicom accessories, ranging from standard pads and joysticks to the more infamous Robot and Power Glove.

made by the Producer Kan where Arino is caught eating ice cream in a break at the window from the Gascoin Company office or his challenge room.

Parodying Golgo 13, Arino tries to identify games featured from past episodes using a pair of binoculars attached to a Super Scope in a sniper-like scenario.

Arino gets his fortune told via various fortune-telling (Uranai) themed games for the PlayStation by Little River (PR Ogawa).

Arino drinks beverages while hearing music from certain games, such as Uncharted Waters II, Super Fantasy Zone, and Kamaitachi no Yoru.

Arino and an AD play games that feature cats, such as Mappy, Star Fox 64, and Parodius Da!.

The Safety Zone is a reference to Anzen Chitai, which plays the Wine Red no Kokoro song at the end.

Development diary of GameCenter CX: Arino no Chōsenjō 1+2 REPLAY, a remake of the first two games on Nintendo DS for Nintendo Switch, which includes Arino paying visits to the new co-developer, MUTAN, to look and help with the development of new features of the game, including the new minigame exclusive to the remake, Honō no Kakutō Salaryman Yattarō.

[8] Arino appears as a Mystery Mushroom figure in Super Mario Maker, which is unlocked by clearing one of his Event Courses added to the game on November 4, 2015.

BONUS STAGE (LNCM-1454) is a music CD from accekk (also called AXK, created by Staff writer Kibe and named by Arino), manufactured by Mastard Records.

GameCenter CX: The Movie - 1986 Mighty Bomb Jack was released on February 22, 2014, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the show.

The disc itself includes an interview with Arino discussing his thoughts on Resident Evil games and movies, as well excerpts of the Capcom episode from the show's first season.

It features Arino & Yoshiuki Hirai doing playthroughs with live commentary, as well as extended Game Collections, interviews, and other kinds of extras (varying by disc).

GameCenter DX, starring another challenger (Masaru Hamaguchi, the other half of star Arino Kacho's comedy duo "Yoiko"), and featuring many staff of the original, began in 2015 to showcase contemporary Nintendo titles, such as the latest entries in the Mario Bros. and Starfox series.

Since 2023, the TV show's official YouTube channel made Arino do collaboration crossovers with known personalities from Japan, such as Eiko Kano's CritiKano Hit,[10] Nijisanji's Hyakumantenbara Salome[11] and Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games.