The cause was due to a mix up with one of the GameTrailers staff on what videos to report. Rolfe's account was later reinstated the following day. Ironically enough, however, GameTrailers' YouTube account was also suspended on the same day due to a copyright claim allegedly by its own company.
Rolfe's YouTube account was suspended on May 19, 2008, due to an alleged copyright claim by GameTrailers on his trailer for the reviews of the Spider-Man games. Starting July 23rd, 2012 the show returned to YouTube. And was later on employed by MTV Networks' from 2007 - 2011.
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Rolfe's videos grew longer, soon turning into an actual series complete with title cards, an intro song and official merchandise including t-shirts and multiple DVD sets.Īfter his fourth online review on YouTube, ScrewAttack invited him to have his own section on their website. They soon did, and since then, his reviews have become increasingly popular and have developed a large fanbase. After two years passed, Mike Matei suggested he put it online. Rolfe has stated on his website that the first videos he made were "just a joke" and he had no intention on making them public,instead showing them only to friends. The Nerd during his first review of Back to the Future for the NES He also references video game culture in a reenactment of the retro console wars in one video in a Wii tribute.
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Along with reviewing games, some episodes have featured other video game-related items, such as the Power Glove, the U-Force and other NES accessories, the two Genesis/Mega Drive add-ons (the Sega CD and the Sega 32X), movie reviews of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III and The Wizard, and a tribute to Nintendo Power. He later changed the name to "Angry Video Game Nerd" to prevent trademark issues.Īlong with the name change, the Nerd soon diversified, reviewing games on other platforms such as the Atari 2600, Super Nintendo, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Nintendo Virtual Boy, the Atari 5200, the Vectrex on his Star Trek special, the Intellivision and ColecoVision systems in a special two-part episode, the Sony PlayStation on one occasion, the Nintendo 64 (and the game Superman 64), the Commodore 64 for both the Superman and Batman reviews, the VIC-20 for the Dracula review, the Atari Lynx in the first part of his Batman review, and the Philips CD-I. In 2006, the videos were put on YouTube under the name of "Angry Nintendo Nerd".
The videos were produced and published on. At the time, he was drinking the beer "Rolling Rock", and this became a trait of The Nerd, so he decided to use it in later videos. Rolfe decided to make another video which was supposed to be the last, because Dr. The series began with a short review of the NES game Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, originally released as a VHS tape in May 2004. Varying amounts of physical comedy are mixed into the verbal abuse. He derives comic appeal from excessive and inventive use of profanity, frequent displays of explicit gestures, and heavy consumption of beer, particularly Rolling Rock or Yuengling, to "soothe the pain".Ī particular characteristic is his favorable comparison of extremely repulsive and painful, usually firmly scatological, acts to playing the games he reviews the opening theme song, for example, states that "he'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear" than play any of the games he reviews. The Nerd character is an ill-tempered and foul-mouthed video game fanatic. This title that was abandoned to evade legal issues due to the Nintendo trademark, and that the show had diversed when Rolfe began to review on non Nintendo hardware and games. The show was formerly known as The Angry Nintendo Nerd as early AVGN episodes had Rolfe solely reviewed on Nintendo Entertainment System hardware, particularly its games.
The series began as a feature on YouTube, and later joined ScrewAttack Entertainment, which would later have three of its features, including the AVGN series, transferred to GameTrailers exclusively. The show revolves around retro game reviews that involve acerbic rants against the particularly low-quality or poorly designed video games, generally being 8-bit video games and usually also featuring licensed characters. The Angry Video Game Nerd (abbreviated as AVGN) is the titular character and name of a series of farcical retrogaming video reviews by James Rolfe.
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