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Siliconera posts answers to Our Video Game Exams

We're no strangers to scrawling information across our arms and concealing it beneath our sleeves before taking an exam -- it's precisely this kind of devilish act that got us through most of school. Yet thanks to its intensive use of Japanese, Bokura no Terebi Game Kentei (Our TV Game Exams) left u...

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Friday Video: Edutainment

We feel like we could score in a fairly high percentage on the TV Game Exam, but right now it's only available to Japanese students. This short commercial for the game, which arrived to Japanese retailers this week, plays up the "exam" concept of the game, presenting the mini-challenges with...

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All aboard the Game Training train

For a press preview of Bokura no Terebi Game Kentei (Our TV Game Exams), Namco Bandai made a train car on Tokyo's Arakawa line into a mobile game demo venue, emulating the ideal location for everyday play of the game-training minigame collection. As the writers accrued points in minigames, they we...

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Meet the student taking the Video Game Exams

The aspect of Bokura no TV Game Kentei (Our Video Game Exams) that doesn't get much attention is the metagame -- the original bits that connect all the retrogaming experiences together. New screens offer us a look at this area of the game, which is vaguely RPG-like -- Pico, a sentient arcade machine...

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More Namco classics thrown on the Video Game Exams pile

The more old games Namco Bandai refines into representative mini-challenges and adds to Bokura no TV Game Kentei, the better a deal it becomes. Many old arcade games can be boiled down into a few seconds' worth of basic material, which is then repeated in slightly different arrangements until you ru...

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Time to start studying: Our Video Game Exams scheduled

Early this year, Namco Bandai announced an indefinite delay for their "video game training" collection, Bokura no TV Game Kentei (Our Video Game Exams). The company has, finally, finished the back-breaking labor of making a new game out of tiny excerpts of old games, as evidenced by the fact that th...

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Video Game Exams study guide

Namco Bandai has released a more complete list of classic games that will be featured in Our Video Game Exams, as well as (obviously) the boxart. We doubt it's a full list, given that there are games on the box that aren't on the list (Rally-X and Dig Dug are immediately identifiable). Surprisingl...

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Our Splatterhouse Exams

New screens of Namco Bandai's classic-gaming trainer, Our Video Game Exams, reveals a few more gems pulled off of Namco's shelf and excerpted for the DS. Most notable is the bizarre, super-deformed Famicom Splatterhouse game, Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti. The challenges seen in the screens includ...

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