Angry Video Game Nerd

A couple years ago I was on a youtube binge (every once in a while I go on youtube for hours on end). I was just typing in random things including video game titles. What I stumbled upon was a series of videos starring the self-proclaimed "Angry Video Game Nerd". In these videos he reviews classic NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) games that were less than perfect. I think video games have become very fine-tuned with a specific but pretty much everyone remembers playing Nintendo when they were young. I think it is partly due to the fact that Nintendo was billed more as a toy rather than a video game. Regardless, if you have ever played old Nintendo games than you know how frustrating some of the games can be. Because the technology there are many questionable and illogical things about some games that make the game virtually unplayable. The Angry Video Game Nerd basically goes on heated rants about why some of these games were so bad. Being familiar with the games makes the videos even funnier but even if you don't know them the videos are funny. The videos so clips from the games and have other funny graphics happening throughout the game review.

I was immediately hooked from that day on, as I found these videos to be right up my alley. I went on to discover that the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) was in fact a dude named James Rolfe who has his own website Cinemassacre.com. In addition to his character of AVGN was just one of many facets of what Rolfe does on his site. He allows does movie reviews of classic horror movies, 80s films, and waxes about other funny film issues. He also is an avid horror movie film and makes his own shorts that are actually pretty good. He updates the site with new material at least once a week. The site is a real treat to explore. If you haven't been on before you can really log in some time with the slew of assorted material. All of his videos have good production value and he admits he uses nothing more than ProTools. I think these videos are pretty inspiring to create my own material being that he seems to have a fun time with what he is going. He actually has a deal with Spike TV and is know seeing some profits from his work, he deserves it. He also was able to compile the AVGN videos into two separate DVDs that he sells through his website. Here are the URLs to his site:

http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/index.php (Main Site)

http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?page_id=13 (Direct URL to Angry Video Game Nerd Videos)