Game Center CX - Recurring Themes

Recurring Themes

• He often will apply reikyaku sheets (adhesive cooling pads intended to decrease temperatures and inhibit fevers) on his forehead. During earlier seasons, he exclusively used Hiepita-brand reikyaku. Occasionally he'll write encouraging words on them as a form of self-inspiration.
• He has a large array of water bottles and junk food to his left to snack on.
• Many of the food items in later episodes are sent in from fans. Arino really enjoys kusashisuika, which are skewered vinegar-soaked squid.
• Whenever Arino plays an arcade machine and makes a top scorer's list (or plays a home console game with a top scorer's list), he enters the letters "SEX" as his name (or "SEXY" if four characters can be entered). However, since this has become expected, Arino has occasionally switched to using "SET" instead.
• Arino will often comment on his strengths and weaknesses as a gamer as he is playing. The narrator often reminds viewers how bad he is at shoot-'em-up games, but Arino takes pride in how good he is at puzzle games.
• Often after a difficult section or at the end of a game, Arino will raise his arms in victory or clap in celebration, only to find that something else remains to be done (and with his hands not holding the controller, may sometimes not react in time). Usually this involves multiple forms of a final boss, or, in the case of Konami Wai Wai World and Metroid, having to escape.
• Arino often forgets to continue in older games that require a cheat code to do so, and ultimately winds up having to start the game from the beginning losing many hours of game play.