YMMV / Mega64

• Archive Binge: Mega64 TV was launched in 2015 specifically to help have a place to watch many of their videos in one easy place. It's a 24/7 stream on their Twitch channel that runs a shuffled playlist of nearly every single main Mega64 video ever made, including select episodes of their public access show, personal channel videos, podcast highlights, and others.
• Archive Panic: Mega64 have been around since 2003 and have never stopped making stuff. They have three seasons of their public access show with a fourth, movie-length, coming soon. They have 16 years worth of public skits and written sketches. The podcast started in 2006 and has over 500 episodes. They also have numerous impromptu streams, and each member of the crew has their own personal channel where they upload various personal videos and other ventures, some that are involved and notorious enough (especially Rocco's "Unboxing Ring" and "Voltage Vengerz" sagas) to basically be mainline Mega64 videos. Finally, many of their videos actually predate YouTube, with their partnership with IGN meaning a number of their videos are actually on IGN's channel and not Mega64's, and the fanbase is highly built on injokes and references. Needless to say, there's a lot of ground to cover.
• Awesome Music: The opening theme, "Sequence Erase" by the Aquabats.
• Common Knowledge: It's easy to assume that a group that specializes in video game related skits would named themselves after the Nintendo 64, but the truth is the name came from how Rocco felt he was being followed by the number 64 as it was his locker number in school and a grade he got on a test. In fact, Rocco made it a screen name weeks before the Nintendo 64 was announced.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The fans love Tr1gg3r S3r1ou5 and Hunkty Krunkty. The latter only appears for roughly ten seconds in the series — his full scene can only be seen in the deleted episode.
• Epileptic Trees: Their Metal Gear Solid V spoof led plenty of people to believe that they received a copy of the game before the official release date and they were leaking a spoiler. It's all a big coincidence since they did not receive a free copy at all.
• Fandom Rivalry: Mega64 fans have a semi-facetious rivalry with Rooster Teeth; not helped by the fact that Eric left Mega64 in order to join Rooster Teeth.
• Friendly Fandoms: In actuality, they've collaborated several times and Mega64 frequently go to Rooster Teeth's convention, RTX. In fact, for a long time their booths were usually next to each other at cons, which resulted in this memorable encounter.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The prediction that the PS4 will not be backwards compatible came true.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Mega64, like The Simpsons, has been going so long and covered so much ground that they often talk about stuff like this happening in the podcast.
  • Mega64 made a short skit called "VG Fact Checkers" which try to apply video game logic to real life (with hilarious results). Years later, a new web series called "Game Theory" is made and is about trying to make sense of video game logic. The difference between the two is that Game Theory was being actually being serious with some of their experiments.
  • In their video, "The New Batman", posted in 2013, Batman (played by Derrick) does a number of decidedly un-Batman things, such as getting mad about being unable to go to a Thirty Seconds to Mars concert and then flipping off and yelling at the venue. 30 Seconds to Mars was specifically picked because it was the most anti-Batman band they coud possibly think of. Two years later, not only does Jared Leto get cast as The Joker in Suicide Squad (2016), the first Joker Update involves Jared Leto using his Joker voice to shut down a heckler at a concert. Mega64 then realized that THEY were the hecklers!
  • When Black Panther (2018) first came out, Mega64 released a short video titled "Why no WHITE PANTHER?". The video itself ends up being about the gang's Dude, Not Funny! reaction to the title and lambasting Rocco for even thinking of making such a joke. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which takes place in the same universe as Black Panther, goes on to have Sam Wilson ask Bucky Barnes if he's the White Panther (though granted, unlike Rocco and friends Sam does have the N-Word Privileges to say such a thing).
• Magazine Decay: The podcast is so freeform that it is often rarely about video games or Mega64 in general. The cast are fully aware of this and often sarcastically call themselves "#1 video game podcast on the internet" whenever conversations start getting especially off course.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! HAH HA HA HA HA, UAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ^ExplanationThe explosion — and Gunther Galipot's subsequent Evil Laugh — from their fake commercial for Cold Fear is best known for being part of the WTF Boom meme.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Sean's edited version of the behavior-modifying disc. It's even referred to as such in "Summer Semester."
• Retroactive Recognition: A few of Frank's personal channel videos feature an actress friend of his named Kelly Marie Tran.
• Tear Jerker: Podcast episode 209 is filmed entirely in Rocco's childhood home, which was also where many of Mega64's videos were filmed up to that point. As Rocco and his family were moving out, the Mega64 boys go through the place and reminisce, while this podcast serves as a loving send-off to the house in their nearly 10 year history. Many viewers could relate to the idea of moving away from somewhere they've been used to a while.

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