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Electronic Game Information, or EGI for short, is a Video-Game focused liveshow hosted by Robby Rackleff of Wham City, and streamed online by [adult swim].

Dressed in Cosplay, Robby and his Wham City friends discuss all-things gaming; the funny, the weird, the real, the fictional, and everything in between. They converse and play games with callers, interview video-game characters, and even have poetry segments set to dramatic music and video. Sometimes they manage to get through a show without a hitch, bringing funny and informative information.

Other times, well... controversies are had, friendships are tested, and the show slides into being a Meta Fiction dramedy, with callers pushed into the center of it all.

Additionally, we also learn a lot about Robby's theoretical video game, and the complex lore involved in the world he created.

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Tropes featured in Electronic Game Information:

• Angrish: In "Sega's Shame", the text-scroll starts spamming gibberish after a caller talks a lot and then leaves without contributing to Robby's list, accompanied by Robby's irritated sigh.
• Borrowed Catch Phrase: Alan once describes a caller as "having a lot of heart", prompting a moment of silence from Robby.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Poor Alan can't take a break; by his second appearance, he'd already had his special report dismissed, been shouted down by Robby for daring to interrupt him, and called out openly on the show. Future episodes see him suffer injuries, including having to wear a neck-brace that Robby hates. On Twitter, he ended up blamed for the loss of fan-art sent to the show, on the assumption that it couldn't have been Robby. To top it off, he was expected to be literally fatalitied in a real-life Mortal Kombat fight, and everyone else was disappointed to see him survive.
  • Deconstructed at one point; after being treated poorly by Robby, Alan stormed off the set and poured his heart out to Captain Toad. When Robby continued to dismiss his side of the story, fans began to call him out, and Alan ended up screaming and ranting about how betrayed and hurt he felt. This culminated in "I Did Nothing Wrong", an episode heavily devoted to the two of them fighting.
• Can't Take Criticism:
  • Robby gets very miffed when both Alan and a caller try and critique the flaws in his made-up game, and only wants to know what people like about the game- with a demand for detailed, multi-part answers. Later, he gets frustrated whenever Ben or Cricket criticizes it, and easily annoyed when they pitch ideas he's not too fond of while dismissing his own, even if they're just minor changes to his concept.
  • Cricket had this attitude in her first appearance, becoming visibly upset whenever anyone argued against her "cubby" idea and getting dejected when Robby attempted to spin her "label maker" idea as customizable menus. Her expression would immediately shift from happy to sad, or vice versa, depending on what people said about the "cubbies", despite that she had too little understanding of game design or pop-culture to know what Robby was even talking about.
• Catchphrase: Robby keeps describing games as "having a lot of heart" and "not playing by the rules", regardless of what the game actually was, and with no real explanation of what it means.
• Control Freak: Robby is portrayed as this; he just wants things to go his way, and gets cross when someone tries to do...well, anything else. He got annoyed at callers for trying to talk about games not related to his list, demanded everyone play the "Screenshot Game" with their eyes closed, and even got annoyed when Alan dismissed the Ecco the Dolphin games. In general, anything going outside of his plans gets him irritated.
• Cosplay: Robby and his Wham City friends wear video-game character cosplays while on the show, such as Ness or Scorpion.
• Fake Static: Happens in "Killing Time". When a caller tries to convince Robby to apologize to Alan, he pretends he can't hear her, and insists that she's breaking up- even as she points out she can hear herself live, at which point he just drops the call and moves on.
• Feud Episode: "I Did Nothing Wrong" focuses heavily on the fight between Alan and Robby, which had begun two episodes prior. They yell at each other, share angry poems, and even bring the callers into their drama. It goes From Bad to Worse, culminating in Robby storming off. It takes Alan's "special report", which turns out to be a love letter to Robby, to get them to apologize and hug it out.
• Hypocrite: Robby gets furious at Alan for supposedly lying to him, glossing over the fact that he also lied to Alan. Despite going on about how friends should be honest and complaining about Alan's dishonesty, he ignores the fact that he's guilty of the same thing. Alan, of course, calls him out on this.
• It's All About Me: An episode about the Tokyo Gameshow, with a special report from Alan in the mix? Nah, just make it entirely dedicated to Robby's made-up game, even as Alan begs him to go onto a different segment, and the audience complains about Robby taking too long. When faced with opposition, he merely claimed that the insults were aimed at Alan, instead.
  Alan: It's the fucking Tokyo Game-show!
  Robby: It's my Tokyo Game-show, and you're ruining it for me!
• Low Count Gag: One of Robby's poem's involves the line "I'm so strong / I did eight pull-ups".
• Meta Fiction: While framed as an informative live-show about video game news, the series is also heavily fictionalized, involving feuds, fake controversies, and all the drama inherent of running a show with your friends, all while actually doing a show with your friends.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Alan was having fun upsetting Robby, right until his insults made him storm out of the set. Afterward, Alan admitted that he might have gone too far, having known that what he was saying was going to hurt Robby. He calls out in an effort to apologize, but Robby is already gone by then.
• Mythology Gag: When asking callers if there are any Playstation 2 games they couldn't remember the name of, one caller told him about a game where you play a garbage-eating blue-cat. Ultimately Played for Laughs; Robby ends up deciding he's referring to Vexx.
• Once an Episode: Robby will share a poem and read a list of games in each episode; typically, the poem and list will be related to the episode's general theme or plot.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Apparently, Cricket has never heard of Image Comics or Skyrim; kind of an issue when on a show about video games and when your friend is drafting a game about Spawn and Shadowhawk...
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In "32X", the text scroll goes on a rant about their personal flaws and the mistakes they make, culminating in cursing out a hypothetical, irresponsible person, ripping them to shreds for being unsympathetic and spoiled. All of this, of course, happens whilst Robby is frantically trying to read that episode's list.
• Running Gag: Robby does not want to speak of Headless Harn. Unfortunately, his callers won't stop bringing him up. Even Alan uses it against him.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
  • After an entire episode of begging to do his special report, Alan gets disgusted and leaves when Robby dismisses him for a final time to do the ending monologue, on top of telling him there may be time for him to do the report next year and while calling him a liar. He's still gone in the next episode.
  • After twenty-minutes of arguing, Alan starts to openly insult Robby, pushing all of his buttons. Robby decides he's had enough, announces he already received his check, and leaves- not only planning to ditch the set, but also the country. Subverted, in that he's actually just standing off-screen, and rejoins the episode soon after.
• Serious Business: If you believe Robby and Alan, people were so upset over Sonic 3 & Knuckles not being in the Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection that they started a riot at the Tokyo Gameshow and violently attacked a Sega employee. One little kid was reportedly so upset that he could do nothing but cry when Alan spoke to him.
• Splash of Color: Played for Laughs; Alan's poetry videos in "I Did Nothing Wrong" are mostly monochrome, with the other colors faded...save for his bright green crocs.
• Suddenly Shouting:
  • After making it very clear he did not want to speak of Headless Harn, a caller tried to interrogate him on why he wouldn't talk about them. Robby didn't take it well, flying off the handle and shouting at them before storming off the set.
  • At the end of "Killing Time", Alan is speaking with Birdo about his feud with Robby, and has a few loud moments before he descends into full on screaming:
    Who...who... Who entraps their friend on live-TV, my parents WERE WATCHING THAT STREAM!
    (later)
    He's such a dick! Ah, GOD DAMN IT, ROBBY!
  • During: "I Did Nothing Wrong":
    • While arguing with Alan, Robby gets pissed:
      I took a chance on you, Alan, I TOOK A CHANCE ON YOU!
      You're live on the air with Tokyo Game Show... (Alan starts interrupting) Coverage of the electronic games...TOKYO GAME SHOW ELECTRONIC GAME INFORMATION!'
    • Alan tells Robby that nobody cares about Spawn, and so Robby starts rambling about why people should care. Alan's reaction:
      This is so stupid...this is a waste of time...YOU'RE GOING ON ABOUT SPAWN AGAIN!
    • Alan and Robby both share poems, each about their feelings toward their feud. After Alan gets upset at an implied threat in Robby's poem, he says:
      Excuse me, I have a follow up poem, (Robby starts to interrupt) Can you PLAY MY OTHER POEM?
• Sudden Soundtrack Stop: In a moment that overlaps with Suddenly Shouting, music is playing as Alan starts to push all of Robby's buttons. Robby starts to storm out, and as he begins to scream at Alan, the music cuts out.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: During the Tokyo Live Show, Alan is asked his opinion about Sonic 3 & Knuckles being left out of the Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection:
  Well, Robby, this entire situation has left me confused and sad.
• Title Drop: Alan's second poem in "I Did Nothing Wrong" contains the line:
  Guess what idiot
  I did nothing wrong
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: In-universe, Robby claims that Battle Monsters is actually a perfect, 100% intentional allegory for the political and social issues of the 1990's, using Insane Troll Logic to justify his claim that every character represents something about society.
• With Friends Like These...: Robby keeps getting into conflict with his Wham City friends, starting with a massive fight with Alan, who gets continually picked on by Robby and the others. When Ben and Cricket show up, they're outright dismissive of Robby's game idea and barely seem interested in being there, while Robby rambles on about the game and gets annoyed at their ideas and criticisms. This is all fictionalized, of course, but it portrays the cast of Wham City as being dysfunctional at best.

Tropes specific to "A Game I Made Up":

• Cloud Cuckoolander: Phillip, the "strange child", who refers to himself as Phillip, rambles on about a sea-shell related dream he had, and likes to poke around in people's basements.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Robby shares a bit of dialogue featuring the character of Zadock, an old man who had prophetic dreams about two heroes coming to save the village of Gloomsbrooke, who turn out to be Spawn and Shadowhawk. He also claims to have had a lot of other dreams come true.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Robby's game involves Spawn and Shadowhawk being sent back to Colonial America, where they presumably need to adjust to their new surroundings while the townspeople get used to them.
• Item Crafting: Spawn and Shadowhawk would be given different crafting methods based on their unique skillsets; Spawn's would be about augmenting weapons with magic, while Shadowhawk would do it with mechanical parts instead.
• Sinister Minister: Marcelle describes his church's newest priest as a "perversion" who manipulated people and forced them to give them things- like money or wine, or even more, in the case of women... His followers would go and steal from homes if they weren't allowed inside, and even stole soup from a man and his sick daughter, before beating the man senseless. To top it off, they're behind the murder of Marcelle's family and have made contact with demons.