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The Nerd is the victim of a Jackass Genie.
It's the only explanation for his vast collection.
Disappointed with his small video game library, he discovered a genie and wished for every video game ever made, the systems necessary to play them all, and a lot of beer. The genie granted his wish. In the process, the Nerd received so much shovelware that it was impossible for him to locate the games he truly wanted. Furthermore, the genie has trapped the Nerd in the expansive basement created to house his collection; the Nerd has no choice but to play the shitty games that suck ass. The Nerd has contemplated suicide to escape his situation, but the genie has also cursed him with almost total immortality. There is only one way for the Nerd to die, and he can't work up the courage to play Boogie just yet.
Also, the genie is Mike Matei. Bugs Bunny, The Joker, Freddy Kreuger, and Mike Matei's other roles are manifestations of the genie designed to further antagonize the Nerd.
Chris Bores is the Nerd's evil clone.
Who else would steal his jokes and his money? It's all part of his plan to take over the world and send the Nerd out of business. The Irate Gamer is evil and must be stopped!
The Nerd lives in Videoland.
Even though the Christmas episode of Captain S is not canonical for that show, enough clues exist to guess that the AVGN's house is supposed to be in Videoland:
The Nerd is freakin' rich
Consider how he can own so many games, even the later systems which cost an atom bomb to buy. Then consider the stuff like a real katana (used to bisect a TMNT 3 video cassette), a bow and arrow (which smites a Sega 32x), and a bullwhip (seen in his Indiana Jones video and making a cameo in his Castlevania marathon). He's got a shitload of money, giving him leeway to get not only the games but also the implements of destruction needed to rid the world of copies of those horrors that don't belong in this world.
That, and he was allowed the weapons because even the most stringent weapon laws are lenient if your mission is honourable: to destroy all shitty games.
The nerd is a Coprophiliac.
We know it's not all just Toilet Humor because of Nerdy Turd.
The nerd's super power's come from a deal with the devil
In exchange for them, he has to play all these horrible games that suck ass.
The AVGN's Super Mario Bros.-style reviews will also be parodied by the Happy Video Game Nerd.
The AVGN and the HVGN will be doing a joint review sometime in the future.
One day, The Nerd will make an exemption of the old-games only rule, and will review something recent.
The Nerd and Board James are twin brothers.
Speaks for itself, really.
The Nerd and Board James are clones.
Of the original James Rolfe.He didn't want the frustration of playing those horrible games,so he cloned himself.One dealt with video games,the other with board games.Both contain aspects of his personality.
If James has children any time soon, the world will collapse
Or actually his fans will have a mania fest, be it good or bad in reaction. Also, it will affect his works in some slight way. He has to be a good daddy, so unless he's good at that sort of thing, expect slightly longer delays.
The Nerd is in Purgatory.
It's why he is compelled to continue playing bad games-he is atoning for his sins.It just so happens Purgatory exists in his basement,and God will occasionly let him outside to combat the Critic(who will become the Anti Christ when he goes Mad From The Revelation and turns into Ask That Guy).
The plane from Top Gun that escaped from the Nerd's TV will return one day.
I forsee one of two circumstances: the plane comes in whilst the Nerd is getting his ass handed to him by Bugs Bunny (or someone) again and saves the day. OR, right as he's about to overcome some obstacle he's spent the entire episode raging over, the plane comes in and destroys something, robbing the Nerd of his victory. Cue Cluster F-Bomb.
The nerd will build a replica of the playground dragon for The Dragon in My Dreams
He doesn't want to forget about the one thing that inspired him to do great things, so he'll make a statue in memory of it.
ET for the Atari 2600, will play a big role in The Movie
It's one of the worst games of all time, and one he has avoided time and time again, so naturally it has to be big deal when he reviews it. 5 bucks saves it will the Big Bad of the film.
The Nerd is hikikomori.
Every time he's been seen outside, there have been surreal occurrences, indications that the segment takes place in a bad-game-induced stupor. With the exception times when his house is clearly in shot/nearby (like shooting the game with an arrow).
While cleaning up the buffalo shit from the end of episode 99...
The nerd will find a copy of E.T. in it.
The Nerd wants to play these games.
In the ROB episode, the Nerd takes ROB down for getting rid of all the bad games. Even though it was supposed to be a good thing.
The Nerd is asexual.
There hasn't been a single inkling of sexuality,even to things you think. He barely even commented about Jessica Rabbit's status as Ms. Fanservice beyond comedic effect. It seems he's either not attracted to anyone/thing, or just hasn't found something appealing.
The Nerd is really just a lonely, delusional man.
The Angry Video Game Nerd lives in a normal world, in a normal suburb, has a normal job, but is absolutely miserable. He's treated like shit at work, and barely has any friends or even a love life. But there was one thing that kept him company: video games. However, one night in 2004, he decided to let his rage out on an old NES title, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, and later on, ripped into Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, finding it the worst game he ever played. In 2006, desperate for some attention and under suggestions from his friends, he uploads them on Youtube, where he's a huge hit. But that doesn't stop there. He starts reviewing more crappy games from the past to continue his popularity, and the ordeal of it all causes him to hallucinate. The first delusions were his fights with Freddy Krueger and Jason Vourhees. There were all in his head. Afterwards, he starts to imagine the Shit Pickle, then Bugs Bunny, then Spider-Man, Leatherface, Michael Myers, and other characters who apparently want to kick his ass. Kyle Justin is in fact a mildly successful musician and friend who pays visits to the Nerd simply to prevent him from succumbing to isolation, and even composes his theme song as a favor. These delusions are now reaching a higher level, with the Nerd imagining his neighborhood to be something from an Atari game, and imagining a ninja training him in Ninja Gaiden. With the review of ET across the horizon, how far will his madness go this time?
Doug Walker will have a cameo in the Angry Video Game Nerd Movie.
Considering that he and James Rolfe are friends and James had a cameo in Suburban Knights, it's not too much of a stretch to assume that Doug would repay the favor by making a short appearance.
The Nerd is a Puer Magi.
His wish, as above, was to obtain every video game and console ever made and have the time to play all of them. His Incubator, sensing that he was irritable, granted it, knowing that playing all the bad games in the world would make him angry, thus producing grief and making the Nerd a good source of energy. His gear made up of NES add-ons that he uses when he has to get into an epic fight is actually his form as a Magical Boy - his Transformation Sequence always occurs off-screen - which is why the light guns are functional weapons. In between reviewing shitty games, he's fighting Witches. However, he turns out to be unexpectedly diligent (and has the advantage of being of legal drinking age) and refuses to give in to despair no matter how mad he gets, so his Soul Gem doesn't go dark until he finally gets senile enough to let it slip, and he was consumed with all the built-up stress and became a Warlock while playing Boogie on the Wii. He thought it was a heart attack because he wasn't familiar with how the system worked, being a loner who never was on a team with other Magical Boys or Magical Girls. Motherfucker Mike might be a shapeshifting Witch or Warlock that takes on the forms of characters from the Nerd's games to torment him.
The Nerd is the kid from The Wizard.
Suggested in the end of the NC's review of The Wizard, when he draws glasses and a pocket on the picture of Jimmy. As he grew up, he realized really bad games were out there, but he's got a compulsion to play them anyway because he's a videogame wizard and vents his frustration through reviews.
The Nostalgia Critic's great revenge would be making the review of the AVGN movie.
It's not a Nostalgic movie, but still... (Maybe he can travel to the future in the Delorean to make it nostalgic enough to review, like he did in the review of The Room).
The Irate Gamer will appear in The Movie.
Not the actual Irate Gamer though, since his ego and jerkassery couldn't take it. Rather, it'll be a Captain Ersatz called "The Furious Gamer", who is essentially the Irate Gamer. And he will be an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
The Nerd's Powerglove is actually Malecite's hand
Only such a magical ancient power could be a reasonable explanation for how The Nerd was able to land the plane in Top Gun... Oh also, destroying Freddy Krugger and beating Zelda II with a Power Glove.
The AVGN Movie will have a giant ET fighting Super Mecha Death Christ.
This seems to confirm that the movie will have miniature city sets wrecked, and involve puppetry and animatronics. Since the movie will be about ET on Atari 2600, the highlight of the movie will be ET grown into a superpowered Kaiju (possibly possessed by Satan or something) and Super Mecha Death Christ will fight him in a model city.
The Nerd is a Reality Warper.
It explains why he can throw Sonic Booms and Hadokens, fly, breathe in space, summon Super Mecha Death Christ, fire real lasers from light guns and have his basement return to normal after each episode. The downside is that characters from shitty games sometimes defictionalize and harass him.
The Nerd is a Contractor.
See the Reality Warper entry above, with the added bonus of not being an Emotionless Boy (You don't say!). Playing shitty games is his remuneration.
The Game Glitch Gremlin isn't as harmless as you'd think.
I say this because of two reasons. First, he's able to glitch physical reality. Secondly, since this is part of the Channel Awesome universe(what with the crossovers and all), glitches can produce interdimensional monstrosities. After all, the Entity proved to be a very legendary glitch. Given that the Glitch Gremlin seems to be the creator of glitches, there's a very good chance it can unwittingly summon an army of cosmic horrors to do its bidding. Needless to say, the Nerd should be very careful with the Glitch Gremlin.
The plot of the movie will be a treasure hunt
The Power Glove is not nearly as useless as it seems
It one-shotted Freddy Krueger, and it allowed the Nerd to accomplish the otherwise impossible tasks of landing the plane in Top Gun and beating Dark Link in Zelda II, despite its reputation for being a non-functional piece of garbage. Clearly, there's something greater about it in the Angry Video Game Nerd universe; perhaps it's a sentient item, a Chaotic Neutral being in the form of a peripheral for the Nintendo Entertainment System, with power enough to win any game but instead considering it funnier to be completely useless and frustrating and to see the Nerd's reactions to its failures, but from time to time shows its true power against an incredibly difficult game situation (perhaps seeing a Worthy Opponent). The incident with Freddy might have been All Just a Dream, but equally likely is that the Power Glove had too much "fun" planned for the Nerd to let Freddy kill him, so it inserted itself into the dream to allow the Nerd's survival.
The Angry Video Game Nerd has not only fought off a slew of Hollywood monsters, but is a master at video games(need I remind you of the Nintoaster?) Who else on Earth would be more of a threat to a glitch from a video game?
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