Takeshi's Castle

jauntywundrkind

Thanks! Someone once told me about this, told me MXC is actually Takeshi's Castle, but I forgot, long ago. Fun fact.

haunter

https://archive.org/details/003-1986-05-16

klocksib

wait did you see that microsoft execution container (mxc) article and think "oh wow remember the best show that was on spiketv"? :D

grimgrin

You can watch some English subtitled rips here: https://archive.org/details/takeshis-castle-with-english-sub... The other archive link shared here, it's to another set of rips that appear to lack subtitles.

jttnr

Back in the early 2000s, I always had a good laugh whenever I was flipping through TV channels and stumbled upon Takeshi's Castle.

Fervicus

Wouldn't have expected this on Hacker News. Used to love watching this as a kid!

rdtsc

“Right you are, Ken!” (From MXC, based on footage from Takeshi’s Castle) Still remember that phrase from years ago.

sunaookami

I only know the German version from RTL2 which had funny commentary dubbed over it with made-up names and stuff. Curious, did the dubs in other countries do the same? Were there languages with the original commentary translated?

pimeys

His movies are also worth a watch: Hana bi, Sonatine, Brother, Dolls, and Zatōichi are all amazing movies. Should do a rewatch again, it's been a while...

racl101

"Right in to the mud!" Remember watching this as a kid after school eating my bag of chips I'd been given for lunch which I'd save up so I can eat it later while watching this. In Canada, it was aired as MXC.

prominent660

IRL OG Fall Guys

dfxm12

Most of Beat Takeshi's work is amazing, from this, to his films, even his infamous Nintendo game.

alexpotato

I was involved in pro paintball for several years and at the start of every one of their matches, one of the pro teams would chant: "DON'T. GET. ELIMINATED."

1potato

There's a related Famicom game that's quite (in)famous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Challenge