History Funny / RetroGameMaster

** When Arino reaches stage five, he gets a special unexpected visitor; the building's window washer! When he attempts to show him the game he's playing, the window washer cracks up, Arino saying "This is you right now!"

* In the first attempt at playing the ludicrously hard VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels, Arino makes it past level 8-2's "Triangle Paratrooper Jump" (Where you need to time a jump on a Paratrooper just right such that you hit a block to open a way to the last part of the level (in the form of a vine), needless to say, this took up a fairly large chunk of the challenge) only to miss the last jump, just centimetres away from the end level flag. The pure inhuman scream that Arino emits is hilarious.

* In the ''Super Spy Hunter'' challenge, Arino is struggling near the end of the game, so Takahashi informs him of a code that nets him 20 lives. What he ''doesn't'' tell him is he has to earn them by playing a Pong clone called ''Hyper Tennis''. Beating the computer gives him the 20 lives, failing the minigame ''changes his lives to zero.''

* The ''Quiz Nanairo Dreams'' challenge starts out as "Quiz Game meets VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial" but eventually turns into "Arino and co. looking at girls in swimsuits".

** Near the start of the game, he comes across a little boy who works with one of the girls, Saki, at the Earth Defense Squad. Arino mocks the boy's runny nose, followed by his game character doing the same thing. Arino claims he and Capcom (the developers) have the same sense of humor. The fact that it happens twice while meeting the same boy makes it even more hilarious.

** During the challenge proper, he discovers a pair of joysticks that come with the game after he complains about his thumbs hurting due to the weird control scheme (using the d-pads of both controllers for each arm). He initially does well with them, but they come off rather easily, causing him to abandon them.
*** Much later, he decides to try them again, this time taping the controllers to the table so the peripherals stay in place. He manages to do much better, but once he reaches the mandatory bonus stage, he ''[[EpicFail can't remove the controllers from the table]]'' due to the bonus stage changing the control scheme to that of a standard platformer. This forces Arino to play the bonus stage at an awkward angle, causing him to get a game over.

* In the VideoGame/PunchOut episode, AD Emoto offers to fight Soda Popinski, with Arino serving as his "second". Every time Mac gets knocked down, Arino throws in the towel. Emoyan ultimately loses by TKO, and just to further rub it in, [[EvilLaugh Arino laughs like Popinski.]]

* During the arcade trip in the ''Crazy Climber'' challenge, Arino and co visit a cafe with tabletop arcade machines as tables. Unfortunately, only one of them is turned on, ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. When Arino finishes playing, he's told that they don't have enough footage for the segment. Hoping to [[{{Padding}} pad for time]], he has Kibe play a round, and even then, ''they still don't have enough footage.''

* During the arcade trip in the ''Crazy Climber'' challenge, Arino and co visit a cafe with tabletop arcade machines as tables. Unfortunately, only one of them is turned on, ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. When Arino finishes playing, he's told that they don't have enough footage for the segment. Hoping to [[{{Padding}} pad for time]], he has Kibe play a round, and even then, ''they still don't have enough footage.''

* During the arcade trip in the ''Crazy Climber'' challenge, Arino and co visit a cafe with tabletop arcade machines as tables. Unfortunately, only one of them is turned on, ''VideoGame/Tetris''. When Arino finishes playing, he's told that they don't have enough footage for the segment. Hoping to [[{{Padding}} pad for time]], he has Kibe play a round, and even then, ''they still don't have enough footage.''

* Arino's odds were stacked against him for the ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors'' challenge. To start off, Arino had to start the challenge a few minutes past noon due to a prior engagement. Then he's told the person who playtested the game, a female staffer who didn't play games that much, managed to beat the game in ''6 hours''. Arino, wanting to best her, tries to beat the game in less than 6 hours instead of his normal 12 hours.

* The ''Quiz Nanairo Dreams'' challenge starts out as "Quiz Game meets TokimekiMemorial" but eventually turns into "Arino and co. looking at girls in swimsuits".

* In the PunchOut episode, AD Emoto offers to fight Soda Popinski, with Arino serving as his "second". Every time Mac gets knocked down, Arino throws in the towel. Emoyan ultimately loses by TKO, and just to further rub it in, [[EvilLaugh Arino laughs like Popinski.]]

** Realizing Arino ''might'' beat the game that quickly, the crew decide to film them eating an authentic Chinese cuisine for lunch just in case they need to pad out the rest of the episode, like they did with the ''Ninja Spirit'' challenge. After they realize that not much is happening as they eat, they nix the idea and they cut ahead to Arino returning to the game.

* In the ''Kung Fu Heroes'' challenge, Arino finds a warp room not long after he begins playing, which is followed up by him finding another warp room a few stages later. Taking the second warp lands him about ''halfway through the entire game'', to which Arino claims this could be the fastest completion of a game ever and stating that "Inoue's looking a bit pale" at the revelation. [[spoiler: This ends up biting him in the butt later due to the sharp increase in difficulty when taking such long warps, eventually causing him to run out of time, labeling the challenge a failure.]]
** Realizing Arino ''might'' beat the game that quickly, the crew decide to film them eating an authentic Chinese cuisine just in case they need to pad out the rest of the episode, like they did with the ''Ninja Spirit'' challenge. After they realize that not much is happening as they eat, they nix the idea and they cut ahead to Arino returning to the game.

* While playing ''Balloon Fight'' as Satoru Iwata watches, the Nintendo president explains to him how things in the game work, such as the fish who is always moving around the screen and so may or may not appear when the player goes too low. He then says he knows those things because ''he'' programed the game.

*** He then makes his way to a room Endou claimed would help him get to a shortcut, a room labeled "Dead End". When he arrives in the room, a small hallway leads to a man at a work desk slouched over, dead, with no way out. He then calls up Endou again to confront him about the room. Turns out that man is Endou himself and poking the body warps him to another room. He then tells him he chose the name "Dead End" not just because its a seemingly dead end, but because there's also a "Dead '''End'''ou" in the room. That's right, the room doubles as ''[[PunnyName a pun.]]''

* In the ''Kung Fu Heroes'' challenge, Arino finds a warp room not long after he begins playing, which is followed up by him finding another warp room a few stages later. Taking the second warp lands him about ''halfway through the entire game'', to which Arino claims this could be the fastest completion of a game ever and stating that "Inoue's looking a bit pale" at the revelation. [[spoiler: This ends up biting him in the butt later due to the sharp increase in difficulty when taking such long warps, eventually causing him to run out of time, labeling the challenge a failure.]]

*** He then makes his way to a room Endou claimed would help him get to a shortcut, a room labeled "Dead End". When he arrives in the room, a small hallway leads to a man at a work desk slouched over, dead, with no way out. He then calls up Endou again to confront him about the room. Turns out that man is Endou himself and poking the body warps him to another room. He then tells him he chose the name "Dead End" not just because its a seemingly dead end, but because there's also a "Dead '''End'''ou" in the room. That's right, the room doubles as ''[[PunnyName a pun.]]''

* When Arino calls for an extension in the ''VideoGame/IntelligentQube'' episode, he also states he'd take the game home to practice for the next two weeks in-between recording sessions. Come two weeks later he has quite the story. First, he misplaces his PS1 so he ends up downloading the game from the PSN Store on his PSP. Then after taking a nap he accidentally [[EpicFail knocks it off a table and onto the floor]], effectively breaking it. He ends up buying a ''second'' PSP and purchases the game ''again''. [[{{Determinator}} All of this just so he can beat a 20-year-old puzzle game.]]

*** He then makes his way to a room Endou claimed would help him get to a shortcut, a room labeled "Dead End". When he arrives in the room, a small hallway leads to a man at a work desk slouched over, dead, with no way out. He then calls up Endou again to confront him about the room. Turns out that man is Endou himself and poking the body warps him to another room. He then tells him he chose the name "Dead End" not because its a seemingly dead end, but because there's also a "Dead '''End'''ou" in the room. That's right, the room doubles as ''[[PunnyName a pun.]]''

** After having difficulty with a room for over an hour, Arino decides to call up the game's creator, Masanobu Endoh, to complain about the difficulty. After greeting him and revealing who he is, a crowd of people can be heard laughing on the other end of the phone. Turns out Arino ''interrupted the class he teaches'' at a university. After giving him some tips, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming he leads his class in saying "Hang in there Chief Arino!"]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Arino then complains that there's too many male voices in his class.]]

** During the challenge portion, playing ''The Return Of Ishtar'', he accidentally starts a new game two hours in. This causes AD Yanai to step in and assist Arino in getting back to his original spot. Due to the unusual play style (you control two characters using the D-Pad and the buttons separately), Yanai controls one of the characters while sharing Arino's controller, which starts a whole slew of HoYay moments between the two, usually started by Arino.

* In the Vietnam special, Arino visits a Vietnamese family at their house, a series first. The two brothers, Xuan and Minh, show them their computers, where Xuan begins to play a Chinese FPS. Arino then takes a turn and [[EpicFail gets sniped over and over by another player.]] This causes Xuan to {{facepalm}}.

*** Come a week later after Arino is given an extension, along with forgetting how to activate Vic Viper's shields, he forgets that it will be Takahashi's last episode.

** Near the start of the game, he comes across a little boy who works with one of the girls, Saki, at the Earth Defense Squad. Arino mocks the boy's runny nose, followed by his game character doing the same thing. Arino claims he and Capcom (the developers) have the same sense of humor.

Given that Arino's a comedian, things getting funny is only a given.

* The Game Center CX in the USA special features the Musée Mécanique, an arcade in San Francisco full of antique arcade machines, some of which, are quite strange to foreigners like Arino and the staff. One of them is called "Laffin' Sal", which, true to her name, laughs when you put a coin in. Another machine depicts a war-torn desert that, when a coin is inserted, starts a small fan that blows a flag inside the case. This completely baffles Arino and he makes a request to the owner to increase the wind speed.

* In the ''The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido'', AD Tsuruoka sings lyrics set to the melody of the stage's music. When he gets too a certain line, he starts singing a little too high. Arino stops him and mocks him with the same high pitched line and as a result the staff won't let him live this one down.

* During the Super Mario Bros 30th Anniversary Special at NicoNico Chokaigi 2015, Arino challenges two Japanese Let's Players to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'' levels he made himself. When they sit down, Arino questions them as to why they're both wearing masks, since they're not actually sick. He adds an additional bet saying if they lost, he could unmask them. He then decides to join them by putting on a mask as well, only to reveal it's a Comic/CaptainAmerica mask.

** Near the start of the game, he comes across a little boy who works with one of the girls, Saki, at the Earth Defense Squad. Arino mocks the boy's runny nose, followed by his game character. Arino claims he and Capcom (the developers) have the same sense of humor.

* On the DVD cut of the ''NinjaGaiden'' episode, as time runs short on the first day of the challenge, Toujima warns Arino that "this is no laughing matter," to remind him of his schedule. Arino answers by making a fart sound, instantly destroying the serious mood Toujima was trying to set.

** Later, former ADs Matsui, Nakayama, and Emoto show up to give their support. Arino asks them who their favorite girl is, with Emoto responding with a girl who isn't in the game, revealing he [[HappilyMarried recently got married]]. The nice tender moment is immediately shattered with Arino saying "Never mind that, pick one of ''these'' [girls]!"