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* LazinessCallout: At the end his review of ''Kid Kool", the Nerd states the game's various flaws are a result of it being untested and rushed, and that in order to make a game good, it takes time.
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* ListOfTransgressions: Does this to ''VideoGame/Action52'':
-->'''Nerd:''' With games that crash, hideous jumping control, random characters, microscopic sprites, a marathon of mediocre space shooters, dying in mid-air, problems with proportions, misleading titles, misleading power-ups, embarrassing weapons, seizure-inducing backgrounds, lack of enemies, games you can't win, games you can't lose, games that make no sense whatsoever, shitty graphics, shitty music, shitty menus, and a fuckton of other things!
-->'''Nerd:''' With games that crash, hideous jumping control, random characters, microscopic sprites, a marathon of mediocre space shooters, dying in mid-air, problems with proportions, misleading titles, misleading power-ups, embarrassing weapons, seizure-inducing backgrounds, lack of enemies, games you can't win, games you can't lose, games that make no sense whatsoever, shitty graphics, shitty music, shitty menus, and a fuckton of other things!
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** In his review of ''Action 52'', he covers all the reasons why the game sucks:
---> '''Nerd''': With games that crash, hideous jumping control, random characters, microscopic sprites, a marathon of mediocre space shooters, dying in mid-air, problems with proportion, misleading titles, misleading power-ups, embarrassing weapons, seizure-inducing backgrounds, lack of enemies, games you can't win, games you can't lose, games that make no sense whatsoever, shitty graphics, shitty music, shitty menus, and a fuckton of other things!
---> '''Nerd''': With games that crash, hideous jumping control, random characters, microscopic sprites, a marathon of mediocre space shooters, dying in mid-air, problems with proportion, misleading titles, misleading power-ups, embarrassing weapons, seizure-inducing backgrounds, lack of enemies, games you can't win, games you can't lose, games that make no sense whatsoever, shitty graphics, shitty music, shitty menus, and a fuckton of other things!
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhbHu1D85U James and Mike Play]] VideoGame/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}}[[NightmareFuel .exe]]
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhbHu1D85U James and Mike Play]] VideoGame/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}}[[NightmareFuel .Franchise/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}}[[NightmareFuel .exe]]
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** ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' and ''Halloween'' (2007).
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** ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' and ''Halloween'' ''VideoGame/HalloweenAtari2600'' (2007).
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* InsistentTerminology: In the ''Halloween'' review. "It's not chocolate, nor is it poop, it's '''''shit!'''''"
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* InsistentTerminology: In the ''Halloween'' ''VideoGame/HalloweenAtari2600'' review. "It's not chocolate, nor is it poop, it's '''''shit!'''''"
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** Used in the ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' episode. [[spoiler:Twice.]]
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** Used in the ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' ''Myth/{{Polybius}}'' episode. [[spoiler:Twice.]]
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* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: One of his main criticisms of ''VideoGame/Action52'' is the excessive amount of the same "Atari Space Shooter" games used for filler.
--> '''Nerd:''' "What's this? They should've called this ''Shooter Games 52!"''
--> '''Nerd:''' "What's this? They should've called this ''Shooter Games 52!"''
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** The UsefulNotes/Commodore64 versions of ''Friday the 13th'' and ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (2021).
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** The UsefulNotes/Commodore64 Platform/Commodore64 versions of ''Friday the 13th'' and ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (2021).
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** In the UsefulNotes/ColecoVision episode, he jokes that he wonders if Series/TheAddamsFamily had a Coleco Adam computer. The Addams family were actually the first TV family to own a computer, albeit one of the old-fashioned UNIVAC types.
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** In the UsefulNotes/ColecoVision Platform/ColecoVision episode, he jokes that he wonders if Series/TheAddamsFamily had a Coleco Adam computer. The Addams family were actually the first TV family to own a computer, albeit one of the old-fashioned UNIVAC types.
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** In the Christmas special, he found out that the future is not going to be good for him as he saw himself as an old man, making a Nerd video about terrible [[UsefulNotes/NintendoWii Wii]] games, and dying of a ''Boogie''-induced heart attack. It turned out to be a dream, so he decides to only play good games from now on. After less than a minute of playing ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' and enjoying it very much, he gets mad, shuts it off, and says "Fuck that, let's play some shitty ones!"
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** In the Christmas special, he found out that the future is not going to be good for him as he saw himself as an old man, making a Nerd video about terrible [[UsefulNotes/NintendoWii [[Platform/NintendoWii Wii]] games, and dying of a ''Boogie''-induced heart attack. It turned out to be a dream, so he decides to only play good games from now on. After less than a minute of playing ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' and enjoying it very much, he gets mad, shuts it off, and says "Fuck that, let's play some shitty ones!"
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** Initially he named the UsefulNotes/RZone as the worst console he'd ever played. The LJN Video Art would later steal that title away, assuming one counts it as a console instead of a productivity device.
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** Initially he named the UsefulNotes/RZone Platform/RZone as the worst console he'd ever played. The LJN Video Art Platform/VideoArt would later steal that title away, assuming one counts it as a console instead of a productivity device.
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** Beating ''Jekyll and Hyde'' (2023)
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** Beating ''Jekyll ''Beating Jekyll and Hyde'' (2023)
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* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Since there were no experts to turn to for help beating ''[[VideoGame/DrJekyllAndMrHydeNES Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'', the Nerd sends a message to his much older self who goes back in time to the present to help him beat the game, both physically and spiritually in a homage to ''Film/TheExorcist''.
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* ItsPopularNowItSucks: InUniverse example in his review of the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' games, when the eponymous character dismisses the Nerd's [[TradeMarkFavoriteFood Rolling Rock]] as "corporate bullshit", then suggests that he "stick to the local brew" with Yuengling.
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* ItsPopularNowItSucks: InUniverse example in his review of the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' games, when the eponymous character dismisses the Nerd's [[TradeMarkFavoriteFood Rolling Rock]] as "corporate bullshit", then suggests that he "stick to the local brew" with Yuengling.
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** He is baffled by the ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' games' obsession with cows, wondering why they keep referencing some random animal for no reason. "All right, let's play some more of this buffalo shit."
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The iconic theme song was removed after the ''VideoGame/{{Darkman}}'' review. Subsequent episodes only include the final line of the song "he's the angry video game nerd" until ''VideoGame/TheRocketeer''. All episodes after "Contra How I Remember It" have a digitized version of the AVGN theme song.
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The iconic theme song was removed after the ''VideoGame/{{Darkman}}'' review. Subsequent episodes only include the final line of the song "he's the angry video game nerd" until ''VideoGame/TheRocketeer''.''The Rocketeer''. All episodes after "Contra How I Remember It" have a digitized version of the AVGN theme song.
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: Mike Matei stopped drawing his familiar title cards for the series after episode 100.
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: Mike Matei stopped drawing his familiar title cards for the series The iconic theme song was removed after episode 100.the ''VideoGame/{{Darkman}}'' review. Subsequent episodes only include the final line of the song "he's the angry video game nerd" until ''VideoGame/TheRocketeer''. All episodes after "Contra How I Remember It" have a digitized version of the AVGN theme song.
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* LamePunReaction:
** He had called out the Who Framed Roger Rabbit game for using a cheetah\cheater pun.
** His reaction to "Lights! Camera! Action 52!".
** Young James thinks the SNES is a bit better. "A '''bit''' better, GEDDIT?"
--->''(cut to adult James wincing)''
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the X-Men video, when he's complaining about bubbles causing damage. "Didn't mean to burst your bubble, hur hur!"
** He had called out the Who Framed Roger Rabbit game for using a cheetah\cheater pun.
** His reaction to "Lights! Camera! Action 52!".
** Young James thinks the SNES is a bit better. "A '''bit''' better, GEDDIT?"
--->''(cut to adult James wincing)''
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the X-Men video, when he's complaining about bubbles causing damage. "Didn't mean to burst your bubble, hur hur!"
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* IncrediblyLamePun:
** He had called out the Who Framed Roger Rabbit game for using a cheetah\cheater pun.
** His reaction to "Lights! Camera! Action 52!".
** Young James thinks the SNES is a bit better. "A '''bit''' better, GEDDIT?"
--->''(cut to adult James wincing)''
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the X-Men video, when he's complaining about bubbles causing damage. "Didn't mean to burst your bubble, hur hur!"
** He had called out the Who Framed Roger Rabbit game for using a cheetah\cheater pun.
** His reaction to "Lights! Camera! Action 52!".
** Young James thinks the SNES is a bit better. "A '''bit''' better, GEDDIT?"
--->''(cut to adult James wincing)''
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the X-Men video, when he's complaining about bubbles causing damage. "Didn't mean to burst your bubble, hur hur!"
