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** When the Nerd couldn't get his AtariJaguar CD add-on to work, he sent it to Richard, the guy who invented the Nintoaster[[note]]An NES inside a toaster housing[[/note]] and the Super Nin-Gen-Tari[[note]]A composite system that plays NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Atari 2600 games[[/note]]. Even '''''HE''''' couldn't get it to work. This was his report:
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** When the Nerd couldn't get his AtariJaguar CD add-on to work, he sent it to Richard, the guy who invented the Nintoaster[[note]]An NES inside a toaster housing[[/note]] and the Super Nin-Gen-Tari[[note]]A Genintari[[note]]A composite system that plays NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Atari 2600 games[[/note]]. Even '''''HE''''' couldn't get it to work. This was his report:
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* When the Nerd couldn't get his AtariJaguar CD add-on to work, he sent it to Richard, the guy who invented the Nintoaster[[note]]An NES inside a toaster housing[[/note]] and the Super Nin-Gen-Tari[[note]]A composite system that plays NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Atari 2600 games.[[/note]]. Even '''''HE''''' couldn't get it to work. This was his report:
-->Aah, yes, the Atari Jaguar CD... What a steaming pile of fucking shit that was... I wanna make sure there's nothing wrong with the console itself first just to rule it out. So I plug in a game, push the power button, the Jaguar logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, and after a particularly hilarious fucking startup sequence, I'm playing Tempest 2000. Woooaaah. So now I know there's nothing wrong with the console itself. Time to move on to the CD unit. So I plug it in, hook up the additional 47 cables that came with it, push the power button, the logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, snarls, and... The red screen of death, indicating a connection problem. So, the first thing I did was deep clean every single contact point on both the console and the CD unit. I turned it on; red screen. Then I went back and made physical adjustments to every contact point in both the console and CD unit so they'd make a more solid connection. Turned it on; red screen. Finally, I just said "fuck it" and directly wired the two sons-of-a-bitches together, completely bypassing any and all cartridge ports and ruling out the remote chance of there ever being any kind of connection issue between the two systems. I turned it on and, guess what? Red screen! So at this point I pretty much just gave up and shipped everything back to him, along with a Pong machine, which pretty much said "I'm sorry man. This thing is just too shitty to work on." I think, between the flaming-fuck-you-middle-finger-red screens, and getting snarled at at the same time, this machine has become self-aware and does not want to be repaired. That is my diagnosis, Richard out.
-->Aah, yes, the Atari Jaguar CD... What a steaming pile of fucking shit that was... I wanna make sure there's nothing wrong with the console itself first just to rule it out. So I plug in a game, push the power button, the Jaguar logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, and after a particularly hilarious fucking startup sequence, I'm playing Tempest 2000. Woooaaah. So now I know there's nothing wrong with the console itself. Time to move on to the CD unit. So I plug it in, hook up the additional 47 cables that came with it, push the power button, the logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, snarls, and... The red screen of death, indicating a connection problem. So, the first thing I did was deep clean every single contact point on both the console and the CD unit. I turned it on; red screen. Then I went back and made physical adjustments to every contact point in both the console and CD unit so they'd make a more solid connection. Turned it on; red screen. Finally, I just said "fuck it" and directly wired the two sons-of-a-bitches together, completely bypassing any and all cartridge ports and ruling out the remote chance of there ever being any kind of connection issue between the two systems. I turned it on and, guess what? Red screen! So at this point I pretty much just gave up and shipped everything back to him, along with a Pong machine, which pretty much said "I'm sorry man. This thing is just too shitty to work on." I think, between the flaming-fuck-you-middle-finger-red screens, and getting snarled at at the same time, this machine has become self-aware and does not want to be repaired. That is my diagnosis, Richard out.
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-->Aah, yes, the Atari Jaguar CD... What a steaming pile of fucking shit that was... I wanna make sure there's nothing wrong with the console itself first just to rule it out. So I plug in a game, push the power button, the Jaguar logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, and after a particularly hilarious fucking startup sequence, I'm playing Tempest 2000.
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----> "I lost to [[WarmUpBoss Glass Joe]]. '''I lost. To [[{{Jobber}} GLASS JOE]].'''"
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----> "There's a difference between something that's old school and something that's outdated. Old school is like the Atari 2600. The games are primitive, but they're still fun to play. You can always go back to them. Outdated is something you never want to go back to. Tiger games are so outdated, they were never in-dated! They were a fad, like POGs! If they were an experiment in the '70s and they only made a few of 'em, then I could accept that. But, no, they milked these things for all that they're worth! You thought LJN was the grand champion, the almighty shitty game factory? Tiger put LJN to shame! Yeah, LJN laid down turd after turd after turd, but Tiger was like a machine gun ass, shitting out turturturturturturturtu-t-turd! These are the worst games I've ever had the honor of playing, if you even count them as video games! People have discussions like, "Are video games art?" or something like that. Well, I have a better one. "Are Tiger games video games?" These are a caveman's version of video games! These were a step back in human evolution! These are the most desperate attempt at entertainment! You could save up for a Game Boy, or just go [imitating the Tiger handheld sounds] eh-eh-eh-eh-eh. Yeah, well, [while simulating hand jerking and alternatively flashing the middle finger] eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh. J-Just, what the Hell?! T-These things, how'd they waste so much plastic to make these things?! It brought the game industry down as low as it could go! It's proof that Jesus died in vain and legally changed His middle name to "Fucking"! The only thing I could think of to use these things for is to wipe your ass with it! You might as well save that toilet paper, it's worth a whole lot more! [drinks Rolling Rock]"
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-->Aah, yes, the Atari Jaguar CD... What a steaming pile of fucking shit that was... I wanna make sure there's nothing wrong with the console itself first just to rule it out. So I plug in a game, push the power button, the Jaguar logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, and after a particularly hilarious fucking startup sequence, I'm playing Tempest 2000. Woooaaah. So now I know there's nothing wrong with the console itself. Time to move on to the CD unit. So I plug it in, hook up the additional 47 cables that came with it, push the power button, the logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, snarls, and... The red screen of death, indicating a connection problem. So, the first thing I did was deep clean every single contact point on both the console and the CD unit. I turned it on; red screen. Then I went back and made physical adjustments to every contact point in both the console and CD unit so they'd make a more solid connection. Turned it on; red screen. Finally, I just said "fuck it" and directly wired the two sons-of-a-bitches together, completely bypassing any and all cartridge ports and ruling out the remote chance of there ever being any kind of connection issue between the two systems. I turned it on and, guess what? Red screen! So at this point I pretty much just gave up and shipped everything back to him, along with a Pong machine, which pretty much said "I'm sorry man. This thing is just too shitty to work on." I think, between the flaming-fuck-you-middle-finger-red screens, and getting snarled at at the same time, this machine has become self-aware and does not want to be repaired. That is my diagnosis, Richard out.
-->Aah, yes, the Atari Jaguar CD... What a steaming pile of fucking shit that was... I wanna make sure there's nothing wrong with the console itself first just to rule it out. So I plug in a game, push the power button, the Jaguar logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, and after a particularly hilarious fucking startup sequence, I'm playing Tempest 2000. Woooaaah. So now I know there's nothing wrong with the console itself. Time to move on to the CD unit. So I plug it in, hook up the additional 47 cables that came with it, push the power button, the logo comes careening towards me in the foreground, snarls, and... The red screen of death, indicating a connection problem. So, the first thing I did was deep clean every single contact point on both the console and the CD unit. I turned it on; red screen. Then I went back and made physical adjustments to every contact point in both the console and CD unit so they'd make a more solid connection. Turned it on; red screen. Finally, I just said "fuck it" and directly wired the two sons-of-a-bitches together, completely bypassing any and all cartridge ports and ruling out the remote chance of there ever being any kind of connection issue between the two systems. I turned it on and, guess what? Red screen! So at this point I pretty much just gave up and shipped everything back to him, along with a Pong machine, which pretty much said "I'm sorry man. This thing is just too shitty to work on." I think, between the flaming-fuck-you-middle-finger-red screens, and getting snarled at at the same time, this machine has become self-aware and does not want to be repaired. That is my diagnosis, Richard out.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: After playing ''Desert Bus'', he feels that its existence is proof that he's failed in his mission to warn the world about shitty games, and he declares his retirement. Then he finds a cartridge containing a hacked version of ''Simon's Quest'', the first game he ever reviewed, and decides to do one last review for old times sake. After discovering that the hack did its best to fix most of the things the Nerd complained about, it makes him realize that his efforts are not in vain after all, and that the show must go on.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: After playing ''Desert Bus'', he feels that its existence is proof that he's failed in his mission to warn the world about shitty games, and he declares his retirement. Then he finds a cartridge containing a hacked version of ''Simon's Quest'', the first game he ever reviewed, and decides to do one last review for old times sake. After discovering that the hack did its best to fix most of the things the Nerd complained about, it makes him realize that his efforts are not were ''not'' in vain after all, and that the show must go on.
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien³" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/{{Alien3}} the movie]] "as [[/Film/GodzillavsGigan Space Hunter Nebula M]] has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien³" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/{{Alien3}} the movie]] "as [[/Film/GodzillavsGigan [[Film/GodzillavsGigan Space Hunter Nebula M]] has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien³" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/{{Alien3}} the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien³" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/{{Alien3}} the movie]] "as [[/Film/GodzillavsGigan Space Hunter Nebula M M]] has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** Genesis 44:13[[note]] which is about eleven of Jacob's sons tearing off their clothes and reloading their donkeys before returning to Egypt[[/note]];
** Luke 13:15[[note]] which is about Jesus rebuking the synagogue officials for telling him not to heal on the sabbath day, saying to them, "Does not each one of you untie your ox or your ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?"[[/note]];
** 1 Samuel 12:3[[note]] about Samuel asking the Israelites whether he has committed any sins or not[[/note]];
** Exodus 22:9[[note]] about a person handing an animal to another, and the animal dying or being stolen or maimed without anyone addressing the fact, although the next passage (22:10) has said giver swear an oath that he did not harm anyone else's property, and the owner may accept the oath[[/note]];
** Luke 14:5[[note]] about Jesus asking the scribes and Pharisees if one among them would not help their ox or ass (although "ass" is replaced with the word "son" in most modern versions of the Bible) out of the cistern on the sabbath day[[/note]];
** John 12:14[[note]] about Jesus finding an ass' colt and sitting upon it before riding in triumph to Jerusalem on what is now Palm Sunday[[/note]];
** 2 Peter 2:16[[note]] about St. Peter retelling the story about how Balaam got a rebuke for his crime via a mute donkey that spoke with a human voice and restraining his madness (although Balaam is not portrayed in a bad light in Numbers 22, which is soon to follow, and the words "dumb ass" are replaced by "mute beast" in modern versions of the Bible)[[/note]];
** Numbers 22:21[[note]] about the same Balaam riding off to Balak with the princes of Moab on God's command[[/note]];
** Genesis 42:27[[note]] about one of Jacob's sons opening a bag to feed his donkey when he is surprised to find money in the mouth of the bag[[/note]];
** 1 Kings 13:28[[note]] about a prophet finding the servant of God lying dead on the road, with both the lion and the unharmed donkey standing next to his corpse[[/note]];
** and Numbers 22:22[[note]] about the angels of God standing on the road to Balak to make a sneak attack on Balaam as he was riding on his donkey (as mentioned before in the passage preceding it, 22:21), which the Lord possessed to make it talk to Balaam[[/note]].
** Luke 13:15[[note]] which is about Jesus rebuking the synagogue officials for telling him not to heal on the sabbath day, saying to them, "Does not each one of you untie your ox or your ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?"[[/note]];
** 1 Samuel 12:3[[note]] about Samuel asking the Israelites whether he has committed any sins or not[[/note]];
** Exodus 22:9[[note]] about a person handing an animal to another, and the animal dying or being stolen or maimed without anyone addressing the fact, although the next passage (22:10) has said giver swear an oath that he did not harm anyone else's property, and the owner may accept the oath[[/note]];
** Luke 14:5[[note]] about Jesus asking the scribes and Pharisees if one among them would not help their ox or ass (although "ass" is replaced with the word "son" in most modern versions of the Bible) out of the cistern on the sabbath day[[/note]];
** John 12:14[[note]] about Jesus finding an ass' colt and sitting upon it before riding in triumph to Jerusalem on what is now Palm Sunday[[/note]];
** 2 Peter 2:16[[note]] about St. Peter retelling the story about how Balaam got a rebuke for his crime via a mute donkey that spoke with a human voice and restraining his madness (although Balaam is not portrayed in a bad light in Numbers 22, which is soon to follow, and the words "dumb ass" are replaced by "mute beast" in modern versions of the Bible)[[/note]];
** Numbers 22:21[[note]] about the same Balaam riding off to Balak with the princes of Moab on God's command[[/note]];
** Genesis 42:27[[note]] about one of Jacob's sons opening a bag to feed his donkey when he is surprised to find money in the mouth of the bag[[/note]];
** 1 Kings 13:28[[note]] about a prophet finding the servant of God lying dead on the road, with both the lion and the unharmed donkey standing next to his corpse[[/note]];
** and Numbers 22:22[[note]] about the angels of God standing on the road to Balak to make a sneak attack on Balaam as he was riding on his donkey (as mentioned before in the passage preceding it, 22:21), which the Lord possessed to make it talk to Balaam[[/note]].
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** "Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass..."[[labelnote:*]] Genesis 44:13[[note]] 44:13, which is about eleven of Jacob's sons tearing off their clothes and reloading their donkeys before returning to Egypt[[/note]];
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** "...loose his ox or his ass..."[[labelnote:*]] Luke13:15[[note]] 13:15, which is about Jesus rebuking the synagogue officials for telling him not to heal on the sabbath day, saying to them, "Does not each one of you untie your ox or your ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?"[[/note]];
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**1 "...whose ass have I taken?"[[labelnote:*]]1 Samuel 12:3[[note]] 12:3, about Samuel asking the Israelites whether he has committed any sins or not[[/note]];
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**Exodus 22:9[[note]] "...deliver unto his neighbour an ass..."[[labelnote:*]]Exodus 22:9 about a person handing an animal to another, and the animal dying or being stolen or maimed without anyone addressing the fact, although the next passage (22:10) has said giver swear an oath that he did not harm anyone else's property, and the owner may accept the oath[[/note]];
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**Luke 14:5[[note]] "Which of you shall have an ass..."[[labelnote:*]]Luke 14:5, about Jesus asking the scribes and Pharisees if one among them would not help their ox or ass (although "ass" is replaced with the word "son" in most modern versions of the Bible) out of the cistern on the sabbath day[[/note]];
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**John 12:14[[note]] "...he had found a young ass..."[[labelnote:*]]John 12:14, about Jesus finding an ass' colt and sitting upon it before riding in triumph to Jerusalem on what is now Palm Sunday[[/note]];
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**2 "...the dumb ass..."[[labelnote:*]]2 Peter 2:16[[note]] 2:16, about St. Peter retelling the story about how Balaam got a rebuke for his crime via a mute donkey that spoke with a human voice and restraining his madness (although Balaam is not portrayed in a bad light in Numbers 22, which is soon to follow, and the words "dumb ass" "[[HaveAGayOldTime dumb ass]]" are replaced by "mute beast" in modern versions of the Bible)[[/note]];
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**Numbers 22:21[[note]] "...saddled his ass..."[[labelnote:*]]Numbers 22:21, about the same Balaam riding off to Balak with the princes of Moab on God's command[[/note]];
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**Genesis 42:27[[note]] "...opened his sack to give his ass..."[[labelnote:*]]Genesis 42:27, about one of Jacob's sons opening a bag to feed his donkey when he is surprised to find money in the mouth of the bag[[/note]];
bag[[/labelnote]]
**1 "...the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass..."[[labelnote:*]]1 Kings 13:28[[note]] 13:28 about a prophet finding the servant of God lying dead on the road, with both the lion and the unharmed donkey standing next to his corpse[[/note]];
corpse[[/labelnote]]
**and Numbers 22:22[[note]] "...riding upon his ass..."[[labelnote:*]]Numbers 22:22, about the angels of God standing on the road to Balak to make a sneak attack on Balaam as he was riding on his donkey (as mentioned before in the passage preceding it, 22:21), which the Lord possessed to make it talk to Balaam[[/note]].Balaam[[/labelnote]].
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** At the end of the ''Alien 3'' episode, parodying the ending to [[Film/Alien3 the actual movie]].
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** At the end of the ''Alien 3'' ''Alien³'' episode, parodying the ending to [[Film/Alien3 [[Film/{{Alien3}} the actual movie]].
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/{{Alien3}} the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" "Alien³" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/{{Alien3}} the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/AlienThree the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/AlienThree [[Film/{{Alien3}} the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[{{Film/Alien3}} the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[{{Film/Alien3}} [[Film/AlienThree the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/Alien3 the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/Alien3 [[{{Film/Alien3}} the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
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** An inadvertent one: in the "Wii Salute" video, which portrays a silly re-enactment of the ConsoleWars using the real consoles as props, a simple picture of a Sega Saturn is used instead of a real one, with an accompanying caption explaining that the Nerd (and by extension, James) doesn't own a Saturn. The opening sequence of the next episode have a quick bit showing that, in between episodes, ''four different people'' sent him a Saturn!
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* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: The Nerd learns this the hard way when he tries to cheat ''Desert Bus'' by putting a wrench on his controller:
-->'''Nerd''': They made the bus veer to the right on purpose! They thought of everything. Ugh, goddamn you PennAndTeller!
-->'''Nerd''': They made the bus veer to the right on purpose! They thought of everything. Ugh, goddamn you PennAndTeller!
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** In the ''Desert Bus'' episode, [[spoiler:after the Nerd announces his retirement]] a somber piano version of the theme plays over a montage of the Nerd through the years. [[TearJerker It's just as sad as it sounds.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During the Ninja Gaiden's montage of Ryu saying "What the...", one of them is suspiciously similar to one particular thing.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During the Ninja Gaiden's montage of Ryu saying "What the...", one of them is suspiciously similar to one particular thing.[[note]]It looks like [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Ryu is getting head]].[[/note]]
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* TheDreaded: The Nerd is ''terrified'' ''[[EveryoneHasStandards terrified]]'' of the E.T. game.
** At the end of the ''Alien 3'' episode, parodying the ending to [[Film/Alien3 the actual movie]].
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* EpisodeTitleCard: All drawn by Mike Matei, and all featuring a caricature of the Nerd.
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* EpisodeTitleCard: OncePerEpisode up until episode 100. All drawn by Mike Matei, and all featuring a caricature of the Nerd.Nerd, more often than not with relevance to the topic of the episode.
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-->'''Angry Video Game Nerd:''' Nerd''': [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest This game game]] sucks.
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* ExcrementStatement: At the end of the "Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout" video, he drops his pants and takes a giant shit on Bugs' face. He also throws a plastic butt at him saying, "[[BondOneLiner Got your ass handed to ya]]."
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* ExcrementStatement: At times, the end of the "Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout" video, he drops his pants and takes a giant shit on Bugs' face. He also throws a plastic butt at him saying, "[[BondOneLiner Got your ass handed to ya]]."whole show is this trope ''[[UpToEleven amplified]]''.
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** Mike Matei, who always wears some form of costume or makeup ([[spoiler:That is, until ''WebVideo/BoardJames'', where Matei becomes ''Motherfucker Mike'']]).
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** Mike Matei, who always wears some form of costume or makeup ([[spoiler:That is, until ''WebVideo/BoardJames'', where Matei becomes ''Motherfucker Mike'']]).''[[{{Jerkass}} Motherfucker Mike]]'']]).
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-->'''James Rolfe''': It�s funny how people usually see videos on Website/YouTube and take them at face value. The same people probably believe that I go around in real life, wearing a white pressed shirt, stuffed with pens in the pocket, and saying �fuck� all the time and talking about buffaloes taking diarrhea dumps.
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-->'''James Rolfe''': It�s It's funny how people usually see videos on Website/YouTube and take them at face value. The same people probably believe that I go around in real life, wearing a white pressed shirt, stuffed with pens in the pocket, and saying �fuck� "fuck" all the time and talking about buffaloes taking diarrhea dumps.
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* AntiHumor: "The Nerd�s Nerd's Anger Management"
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--->'''Nerd:''' Yes. I said that. As if the Virtual Voy isn't already shitty enough!
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--->'''Nerd:''' Yes. I said that. As if the Virtual Voy Boy isn't already shitty enough!
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-->'''James Rolfe''': It’s funny how people usually see videos on Website/YouTube and take them at face value. The same people probably believe that I go around in real life, wearing a white pressed shirt, stuffed with pens in the pocket, and saying “fuck” all the time and talking about buffaloes taking diarrhea dumps.
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-->'''James Rolfe''': It’s It�s funny how people usually see videos on Website/YouTube and take them at face value. The same people probably believe that I go around in real life, wearing a white pressed shirt, stuffed with pens in the pocket, and saying “fuck” �fuck� all the time and talking about buffaloes taking diarrhea dumps.
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* BookEnds: The shot of ''Simon's Quest'' at the end of the 100th episode, considering it was the first game the Nerd reviewed.
** Also in the ''Desert Bus'' episode, when the Nerd [[spoiler:(after his "retirement")]] takes the game off his shelf [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments and smiles]].
** Also in the ''Desert Bus'' episode, when the Nerd [[spoiler:(after his "retirement")]] takes the game off his shelf [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments and smiles]].
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During the Ninja Gaiden's montage of Ryu saying "What the...", one of them is suspiciously similar to one paritcular thing.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During the Ninja Gaiden's montage of Ryu saying "What the...", one of them is suspiciously similar to one paritcular particular thing.
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--->'''Nerd:''' Yes. I said that. As if the Virtual Voy isn't already shitty enough!
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* BigDamnMovie: The AVGN movie involves, among other things, Area 51, the US Army, a giant mecha attack, a ZombieApocalypse, a RobotWar, and aliens. Oh yeah.
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* BigDamnMovie: The AVGN movie involves, among other things, Area 51, the US Army, a giant mecha attack, a ZombieApocalypse, a RobotWar, and aliens. Oh yeah. yeah.
** Referenced in the ''Desert Bus'' video. After the Nerd comes out of his TenMinuteRetirement, he declares that he must venture outside of his game room and do something bigger than he's ever done before.
** Referenced in the ''Desert Bus'' video. After the Nerd comes out of his TenMinuteRetirement, he declares that he must venture outside of his game room and do something bigger than he's ever done before.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: After playing ''Desert Bus'', he feels that its existence is proof that he's failed in his mission to warn the world about shitty games, and he declares his retirement. Then he finds a cartridge containing a hacked version of ''Simon's Quest'', the first game he ever reviewed, and decides to do one last review for old times sake. After discovering that the hack did its best to fix most of the things the Nerd complained about, it makes him realize that his efforts are not in vain after all, and that the show must go on.
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** He also made an appearance in the Youtube Celebrity version of ''I Choose You To Die'' by [[NinjaSexParty]].
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** He also made an appearance in the Youtube Celebrity version of ''I Choose You To Die'' by [[NinjaSexParty]].
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* FantasticDrug: BubbleBobble was a childhood obsessin of the Nerd, and his review of it is treated as a drug addict having a relapse.
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* AwesomeYetPractical: "It's a Nintoaster, and yes it works!"
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* {{Defictionalization}}: There are a couple of episodes in which he casually mentions names of fake ridiculous games, this has caused some fans to actually google those games causing some curious results:
** In his review of Shaq Fu, he mentions FullHouse Tournament Fighter. Later, someone on [=YouTube=] submmited the supposely intro of the game, and recently he even submmited a whole battle between Uncle Jesse and Joey.
** In the review of Kid Kool, he mentions the game [[InspectorGadget "Doctor Claw's Dump and Pump"]], there are already a couple of fake Website/YouTube videos claiming to be the intro of the game to mislead the people that actually try to Google it.
** Taken further when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07OAUpq9IMs somebody brought]] an exact replica of the cartridge used in the Kid Kool video to a convention for James to sign.
** In his review of Shaq Fu, he mentions FullHouse Tournament Fighter. Later, someone on [=YouTube=] submmited the supposely intro of the game, and recently he even submmited a whole battle between Uncle Jesse and Joey.
** In the review of Kid Kool, he mentions the game [[InspectorGadget "Doctor Claw's Dump and Pump"]], there are already a couple of fake Website/YouTube videos claiming to be the intro of the game to mislead the people that actually try to Google it.
** Taken further when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07OAUpq9IMs somebody brought]] an exact replica of the cartridge used in the Kid Kool video to a convention for James to sign.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Several times, those are genuine reactions, and sometimes James thinks they were so good that they're worth putting into the final take. Gameplaywise, he shows that he's actually playing the game and that he wasn't staging them. If it's a new game he's never played before (Namely ''Dragon's Lair''), some of those are his actual thoughts.
** Subverted in a couple of his early videos. He admits in his 'Making an AVGN episode' documentary that in his ''Karate Kid'' video he was intentionally walking into the enemies.
** Subverted in a couple of his early videos. He admits in his 'Making an AVGN episode' documentary that in his ''Karate Kid'' video he was intentionally walking into the enemies.
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* FountainOfExpies: He got a lot of them!
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** Two of the lines in the AVGN Theme Song ("He'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a roadkilled skunk" and "He'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear," were first said by the Nerd himself in the "Back to the Future" review (Episode 6; the theme song is first heard at the beginning of Episode 7.)
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Nerd doesn't appear on screen in the first episode of the series and in the second, a review of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, he plays the game for only about a minute because it's so bad. The first version of the current theme song doesn't appear until episode 7 (McKids).
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* OneHundredAndEight: Ghosts and Goblins is the 108th episode.
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* OneHundredAndEight: Ghosts and Goblins is the 108th episode.
* AccentuateTheNegative: Played straight. Many viewers forget that he deliberately accentuated the negative in his review of ''Castlevania II: Simon's Quest'', as pointed out on Cinemassacre's FAQ, because it was meant to be a ''caricature'' of easily-angered gamers.
** Played straight up with ''NinjaGaiden''. However, the review was done this way not to emphasize how bad of a game it was, but rather how hard and challenging it was. He did the same thing with ''VideoGame/{{Zelda II|TheAdventureOfLink}}'' and ''GhostsNGoblins''
** And when he reviewed ''StreetFighter 2010'' he stated that if you get past it [[InNameOnly having nothing]] [[DolledUpInstallment to do with]] any other part of the ''StreetFighter'' series, limited controls, and an [[DisappointingLastLevel impossibly difficult]] last stage, it's actually a pretty decent game. He tends to point this out a lot, playing the trope straight.
** Note that The Nerd doesn't always do this. He generally gives quite a lot of slack to SoOkayItsAverage [[invoked]] or SoBadItsGood games, more than most {{Caustic Critic}}s would, and he occasionally does whole episodes on games he loves like ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania|1986}}'' and homages like ''VideoGame/{{Swordquest}}''. He will also often include games that appear in the same series as the real bad ones, and often they get some praise. This is both for completion and comparison, since often it will serve to let you know there is no excuse for the company that made it. Examples include his ''Godzilla'' review and ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' re-review. He flat out praised ''BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'', perhaps because so much had already been negatively said about the game, but ostensibly because it showed truth in advertising: No road can contain that truck.
** The Nerd unwittingly [[TemptingFate tempts fate]] with regard to this while the Joker is forcing him to play ''[[VideoGame/BatmanSunsoft Batman: Return of the Joker]]'' for the NES. After complaining about the game at length, the Nerd comments that it's actually a decent game overall, just an excessively hard one. So the Joker decides to make him play the Game Boy and Genesis adaptations of the game, driving the Nerd over the edge.
** There are also instances where he is obviously looking for something to make fun of.
** Flat out stated in his Colecovision review:
--> '''Nerd''': Now, I know we mainly focused on the shitty aspects, but lemme tell ya: ''That's'' the name of the game.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and played straight in the 2013 Wish List episode: when the fans asked him to review the bad Series/SonicTheHedgehog games, his response was simply: "What bad Sonic games?" Still, he did take a look at some less-than-favorable Sonic games, like ''VideoGame/SonicBlast'', ''VideoGame/SonicLabyrinth'', ''VideoGame/{{Sonic R}}'', ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle'', and ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''. In reality, James Rolfe said the last Sonic game he played was ''VideoGame/SonicRush'', which he enjoyed.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: He somehow manages to get BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing to run on a {{Commodore 64}}.
* ActorRoleConfusion: Some fans seem to believe that the Nerd and his creator James Rolfe are supposed to be the same person, when the Nerd is just a character and James is an actor.
-->'''James Rolfe''': It’s funny how people usually see videos on Website/YouTube and take them at face value. The same people probably believe that I go around in real life, wearing a white pressed shirt, stuffed with pens in the pocket, and saying “fuck” all the time and talking about buffaloes taking diarrhea dumps.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In his review of ''Ricky 1'', you can hear him holding back laughter when he mentions the scene that parodies ''Film/TheGodfather'' is the closest the film comes to being funny. He was also amused by the Mr. Smithers ghost in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart vs. The World]]''.
** Despite talking about how much he hates the "Help, I'm a turtle and I can't get up!" line in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII'', the Nerd has a hard time controlling his laughter.
*** "I mean, come on! It's not funny!" *laughs* "Okay, I'm back!"
** During the "Daydreamin' Davey" review, he laughs at the "vultures shitting exploding bloody diarrhea" in the Western level.
** Admits that the intro to ''TheThreeStooges'' game on NES is pretty funny.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Often.
** On Winter Games: "This is a blizzard of '''balls!'''"
** During his Star Trek review: "You're relieved to finally start walking around and doing stuff, but only then do you realize how ''astronomically'' '''ass''' this game is!"
** The Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin
* AdjustingYourGlasses: In the Action 52 episode, the Nerd does this by the bridge, just after he takes out a calculator from his front pocket to determine the price that each of the 52 games would have if sold separately. The whole gesture actually makes him look, well, [[NerdGlasses more nerdy]].
* AgonyOfTheFeet: The Atari 5200 episode.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The Nerd is convinced that the Atari Jaguar CD is sentient, and purposefully preventing you from playing it.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-Universe. According to the Nerd, the intro to ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' actually goes this way:
-->"A couple [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces has just got done having sex in a cemetery]]. I'm not even kidding! What else does this looks like?! He's not wearing clothes! Next thing: Satan shows up as if saying 'Yeah, [[HornyDevils I wanna get into some of that]]!' and takes her away. That's the plot. [[RefugeInAudacity Is that the greatest opening to an NES game, or what?!]]"
* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the Die Hard review, the Nerd jokingly suggests the idea of a ''Film/LethalWeapon'' game where Riggs's powerups are dog biscuits. This really does happen in the SuperNintendo game based on the movies.
* AncientGrome: The Nerd's [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/708928 review]] of the NES game ''Day Dreamin' Davey'' has him keep mislabeling a few stages of Ancient Greece as "Ancient Rome", even though they show Hades' lair and Mt. Olympus.
* AndAnotherThing: At the end of his ''very first'' review (Castlevania2); he thanks the listeners, bids them good night, and cuts to black...only to come back quickly to add that the game's ending sucks too.
** Taken UpToEleven in his review of Bill and Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure; combines with LeaveTheCameraRunning.
* {{Angrish}}: A staple of his reviews. Notably, James' tantrum during the Scrooge special.
-->HUMBUG! BAH agabaggablughraghablugga-- '''''HELL!!'''''
* AntiHero: The Nerd is generally pleasant to most people until they turn out to be less than wholesome themselves, refrains from killing a defeated Klingon and has fought against Satan with Jesus on multiple occasions. Then again, he is a coarse, foul mouthed rage-a-holic who brutally beat up and decapitated Bugs Bunny (Though he certainly had it coming) roughly making him a Type III.
* AntiHumor: "The Nerd’s Anger Management"
* AppliedMathematics: Chronologically Confused features the Nerd in front of a board filled with nonsensical equations and formulae, including at points a Triforce and a drawing of Mario.
* ArousedByTheirVoice: In his NES Days Re-Revisited episode, the Nerd decides to call the phone number in the ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' game, only to find that what used to be a recorded message giving tips for the game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmg7C72g6nQ is now a sex hotline]]. ArousedByTheirVoice indeed.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: He LOVES this trope.
** On the ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' NES game:
---> '''AVGN:''' It [[{{Spoonerism}} sucking fucks]], it fucking sucks, it fucking blows, it's a piece of shit... and ''I don't like it''.
*** He says something similar when talking about the radar in the Film/IndependenceDay episode... "It's too small, it makes no fuckin' sense, and... I don't like it."
** From the ''Deadly Towers'' review, probably because the fans had already taken all the best lines:
---> This game is a chicken-lickin'-finger-fuckin' son of a bitch! This game is BALL CIDER! The assholians bow down to this piece of shit! In other words, the game sucks.
** Here is the biggest ClusterFBomb in the whole series, in the Power Glove review:
---> "Now you're playing with power." (Pause) Now you're playing with fuckin' shit! You're better off fuckin' shit than fuckin' with this fucked up shit! Fuck this shit! You don't know shit about how fuckin' shitty this fuckin' shit is! It's so bad it sucks! It's so fuckin' suck it fucks! And I...can't take it anymore.
** Another one, from Superman 64 when he fails to complete a stage in time:
---> "Fuck! Ass! Bitch! Cunt! Fart!"
*** Before that, there was also the NES Accessories episode in which he shouts "FUCK!" in place of the word "FIRE!" with the Konami Laserscope, and he also thinks he can say anything besides "FUCK!", like for example "ASS!":
----> "SHIT! BITCH! CUNT! FUCK! FART!"
** Another much more subtle example appears at the end of his ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' review, where, after his usual ranting about things he'd rather do than play the game, he ends with "I'd rather eat raw eggs".
*** Also in the ''Rocky'' review:
---->"It's a bunch of putrid anal shit coming out of a rhinoceros's asshole. It fucks up the ass, shits out the mouth, piss out the mouth, dookie out the ears, diarrhea out the dick, shits for the birds. The control for this game is ''poo-poo''".
** His obscure enemy roll call for ''Wolverine'' (NES).
--->"It's time for the enemy roll call: We have green rotary dial telephones, ComicBook/{{Silver Surfer}}s in flying wheelchairs, Silver Surfers air-guitaring, John [=McClane=] from ''Film/DieHard'', TheGrimReaper throwing skulls, [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankenstein monsters]] wearing metal masks with visors like Geordi from ''Series/{{Star Trek|TheNextGeneration}}'', and bubbles."
** In the "Making Of" video, James remarks that he has a lot of AVGN shirts, and why.
--> '''James Rolfe''': "As you can see, I have plenty of Nerd shirts because they get fucked up all the time. Bloodstains, shit-stains, missing buttons."
* ArtEvolution: Mike Matei's title cards. Pointed out in the episode in which the Nerd re-visit his earliest videos, he comments on how even the title card from the Top Gun episode was crappy, just to have it replaced in that moment with a dramatically better one.
--> '''AVGN''':"Oh, okay. That's way better".
* AssShove: The Bat-Nerd does it to the Joker with all the Batman games reviewed. (Except the good one.)
* [[JustForPun "Ass"]] [[AsTheGoodBookSays the Good Book Says]]: In "Bible Games 3", when the Nerd types out the word "ass" in the Game Boy's ''The King James Version'', and the results got in a list of passages with the word "ass", the following passages he reads are:
** Genesis 44:13[[note]] which is about eleven of Jacob's sons tearing off their clothes and reloading their donkeys before returning to Egypt[[/note]];
** Luke 13:15[[note]] which is about Jesus rebuking the synagogue officials for telling him not to heal on the sabbath day, saying to them, "Does not each one of you untie your ox or your ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?"[[/note]];
** 1 Samuel 12:3[[note]] about Samuel asking the Israelites whether he has committed any sins or not[[/note]];
** Exodus 22:9[[note]] about a person handing an animal to another, and the animal dying or being stolen or maimed without anyone addressing the fact, although the next passage (22:10) has said giver swear an oath that he did not harm anyone else's property, and the owner may accept the oath[[/note]];
** Luke 14:5[[note]] about Jesus asking the scribes and Pharisees if one among them would not help their ox or ass (although "ass" is replaced with the word "son" in most modern versions of the Bible) out of the cistern on the sabbath day[[/note]];
** John 12:14[[note]] about Jesus finding an ass' colt and sitting upon it before riding in triumph to Jerusalem on what is now Palm Sunday[[/note]];
** 2 Peter 2:16[[note]] about St. Peter retelling the story about how Balaam got a rebuke for his crime via a mute donkey that spoke with a human voice and restraining his madness (although Balaam is not portrayed in a bad light in Numbers 22, which is soon to follow, and the words "dumb ass" are replaced by "mute beast" in modern versions of the Bible)[[/note]];
** Numbers 22:21[[note]] about the same Balaam riding off to Balak with the princes of Moab on God's command[[/note]];
** Genesis 42:27[[note]] about one of Jacob's sons opening a bag to feed his donkey when he is surprised to find money in the mouth of the bag[[/note]];
** 1 Kings 13:28[[note]] about a prophet finding the servant of God lying dead on the road, with both the lion and the unharmed donkey standing next to his corpse[[/note]];
** and Numbers 22:22[[note]] about the angels of God standing on the road to Balak to make a sneak attack on Balaam as he was riding on his donkey (as mentioned before in the passage preceding it, 22:21), which the Lord possessed to make it talk to Balaam[[/note]].
---> '''AVGN''': Ooh I'm going to hell.
* AtomicFBomb: The sheer intensity of the way he screams "FUUUUCK!" after seeing and playing the ''Godzilla'' games that he always wanted to play as a child, but which were released after his video game-playing prime had passed, is almost scary; it helps that the famous Godzilla roar was mixed into the scream.
** Another one was when he ordered a custom Atari 5200 controller when he couldn't use the originals, only to discover it wouldn't fit in the controller ports.[[note]]The joystick originally came with a Y-adaptor cable; the joystick did not include the 5200 controller's keypad, so the cable was used to connect both the joystick and an original controller to the 5200 console. Apparently, due to the Nerd buying a previously-owned joystick, he did not receive the Y-adaptor that originally came with it.[[/note]]
** It's also referenced by name in the ''Ghosts 'n Goblins'' review.
* AuthorAppeal: It sure seems like The Nerd has an odd obsession with animal diarrhea...
** James Rolfe loves horror movies and this fact is clearly evident in the extra work he puts into Halloween-themed AVGN episodes and Cinemassacre updates.
* AwesomeYetPractical: "It's a Nintoaster, and yes it works!"
* AWinnerIsYou: The Nerd HATES games that do this, especially games that he's actually taken the effort to defeat for his reviews. Especially noteworthy is the ending of his ''Little Red Hood'' review, when, overwhelmed and angry at how NintendoHard the game was, he WANTED to see a shitty ending. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor And he got one]].
-->'''Nerd''': (''reading from the ending screen'') "Oh my dear little Red Hood! Thank you for your coming!"
--> *'''lets the controller slip from his fingers onto the floor'''*
-->'''Nerd''': You did not disappoint. [[INeedAFreakingDrink (drinks some Rolling Rock)]]
* BaitAndSwitchComment: While he talks about his experiences with the ''VideoGame/TotalRecall'' game:
--> "I remember playing it for the first time as a kid. It was a Friday night, my homework was all done, my mom took me to the video store, I rented this game, I took it home, man, I played it, and it just FUCKING ''PISSED ME OFF '''AND RUINED MY WHOLE GODDAMN WEEKEND!"'''''
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The 100th episode starts with the Nerd monologuing about how he have come to hate videogames thanks to shitty games, and how he wished humanity wouldn't have invented them in the first place. [[spoiler: After going berserk, R.O.B. tries to get rid of all the videogames, replacing them with Gyromite and Stack-up, proclaiming that shitty games would no longer exist thanks to this. It's then that the Nerd realizes that he actually enjoyed the time playing all those games and battle R.O.B. to stop him.]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory: As ''The History of Super Mecha Death Christ'' reveals, Super Mecha Death Christ has had an influence in history from its first chronological appearance in 2000 [[AC:b.c.]], where the prototype spontaneously appeared after the events of ''[[ReturnToOz The Wizard of Oz 3: Dorothy Goes to Hell]]'' (one of James' earlier videos) and was subsequently destroyed by the cavemen, the vikings, and the Egyptosaurus. There's a laundry list of appearances, but suffice it to say, SMDC had ''way'' more influence on history than ForrestGump did.
* BerserkButton: This is what he's known for!
** Excessively long passwords, and [[DamnYouMuscleMemory using any other key besides A to jump]] are his two main ones. Especially if you have to press Up to jump.
*** Any obtuseness with the password system will set him off. Passwords should be simple, quick, and easy to use.
** Games without the pause features, such as Film/{{Ghostbusters}} 2 on NES.
** In that same vein: BGM that refuses to turn off, even when the game is paused.
*** When the game plays the exact same song throughout its entirety.
** Seeing the LJN logo on a game cartridge has also caused him to snap.
** ''GoddamnedBats!''[[invoked]]
** The Medusa Heads in ''Castlevania'' have reportedly given him a pathological hatred of wavy lines.
** Movie sequels that [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo don't follow a logical numbering system]].
** Games with '''[[CheckPointStarvation NO CONTINUES!?!?]]''' after you die. Turned UpToEleven if the game combines this with OneHitKill or only having one life throughout the entire game.
** Game cartridges with no end labels.
** In ''Batman Part I'', when he explains the utterly ridiculous controls of ''VideoGame/BatmanForever'', which was designed with the Mortal Kombat engine. He actually seems to have strained his voice by the end of the review.
** AC adapters with built-in prongs (the box shaped ones that tend to preclude the usage of the two adjacent sockets) also greatly annoy him, as seen in the Sega 32X and Dracula reviews. Related to this, ancient consoles which force the player to make use of an RF connector box for television hookups -- or worse still, television ''and'' power hookup -- as opposed to just plugging a cable into a much simpler coaxial converter.
** Loading times. His annoyance with them is most pronounced in the ''Superman'' (Commodore) and ''Zelda's Adventure'' reviews.
*** Also seen in the ''Batman Forever'' review, which ironically was a cartridge game.
--> '''Nerd''': ...Whenever you access a new part of the game, it says "Hold On". Hold on for what? It has to fucking ''load''?!
** Overly cryptic puzzles, such as in ''VideoGame/MilonsSecretCastle''.
** He hates Tiger Electronics with a passion, mostly for making (paraphrased) cheap versions of real video games with no substance and unintuitive controls. Apparently, he hates them more than ''LJN''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Nerd ends up [[spoiler: getting strangled by PatTheNESPunk after destroying the Nintendo World Championship cartridges.]] That said, [[spoiler: the PatTheNESPunk character]] is probably only just 'nicer' than the Nerd in the video itself.
* BigBad: LJN made about 60% of the terrible games he reviews.
** BiggerBad: Turns out Tiger Electronics is responsible for even worse products he reviews.
* BigDamnMovie: The AVGN movie involves, among other things, Area 51, the US Army, a giant mecha attack, a ZombieApocalypse, a RobotWar, and aliens. Oh yeah.
* BigNo: Creator/LloydKaufman lets one out for humor when told by the Nerd that he's going to be playing shitty games based off his most famous creation, ''TheToxicAvenger.''
* BigStupidDoodooHead: Despite his generous use of swear words and scatological similes, he sometimes ends up using these instead.
-->'''AVGN:''' ...I got more... You're a '''poopy-head!'''
* BileFascination: [[{{In-Universe}} It's]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d early on that the Nerd subjecting himself to horrible games is entirely a torment of his own making, but after the Christmas Carol parody episode, he decides that he can't handle only playing good games and goes right back to bad ones.
** In his ''VideoGame/TransformersConvoyNoNazo'' episode, the title card has the Nerd fighting Megatron, who says to the Nerd "Stop playing shitty games!", to which the Nerd cries out [[BigNever "NEVER!"]]
** And in the R.O.B. episode, after he gets beaten to within an inch of his life and R.O.B. is in the process of destroying all games except the two it was programmed for, instead of thinking about the good games he's played, he flashes back to all the horrible piles of digital crap he'd reviewed, gathers his HeroicResolve, and shouts, "I WON'T FUCKING HAVE IT!"
* BladderOfSteel: Discussed in his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfq-IPlLF8 review]] of the NES version of ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}} II'':
-->'''AVGN:''' I mean, if you have to answer the phone, or take a shit, it's like, "Tough shit if you gotta take a shit!" You gotta take a quick shit! You gotta have turbo turds! I'm trying to play the game, I've got shit stains in my pants, and an answering machine that says "Sorry, I'm playing Ghostbusters 2 on Nintendo." What a selfish game. Bottom line, '''have a fucking pause button, god damn it!'''
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The AVGN lampshades this in his review of the NES version of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
-->"Man, these translations suck. Couldn't they just get anyone to proofread this shitload of fuck?"
* BodyHorror[=/=]UncannyValley: The thoroughly glitched boxers on Rocky for PS2 were either FUCKING ''SCARY'' or funny as hell.
* BoozeFlamethrower: At the end of the Rambo episode.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: After seeing the newer ''Godzilla'' games, the AVGN laments that he was born too early and instead had to grow up with the games he had just previously reviewed.
* BottledHeroicResolve: He uses Billy Mitchell's Hot Sauce to give himself sufficient gaming powers to beat ''VideoGame/TransformersConvoyNoNazo''.
* BoundAndGagged: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVtwVXMPBY8 Every]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p713bNaO4A now]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvtk5toGJg and]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvs6JDSBqoE then]].
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Spoofed in the ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' review's "TV Version" clip:
-->'''AVGN:''' Whoever came up with this is an ass[[[BleepDammit bleep]]]!... Ass!... Hole?... Ass[bleep]! [[SarcasmMode Television makes a lot of sense.]]
** In the crossover episode with CaptainS, the Nerd foul language gets toned down to fit with the G-rated, Saturday morning cartoon feeling of the show. It gets lampshaded at the end when all the characters get scandalized when he says "Merry [[[CensoredForComedy bleep]]] Christmas!"
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In the ''Chronologically Confused Zelda Timeline'':
-->'''AVGN:''' [[TheLegendOfZelda We have]] [[ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink a sequel to the original,]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast a PREQUEL to the original,]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening a sequel to the prequel,]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime a PREQUEL to the prequel,]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask and a SEQUEL to the young Link of the prequel's prequel!]] [[MindScrew WHAT THE FUCK?!?]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: He offers the controller to the viewer in his ''Dragon's Lair'' review.
** In his Nintendo Days Revisited review, the Nerd plays ''Top Gun'' again. It appears as if he is about to actually land the plane, but instead the plane '''flies out of the TV and out the window.'''
** In his Schwartzenegger Games review, he comments on how the guys fly off the screen. What happens next? Everyone flies out of the TV.
** Long before that, he finally landed the plane with the '''''Power Glove'''''.
*** In the same vein as the ''Top Gun'' plane exiting the TV, in his ''Star Wars'' review, the boss's life bar in one of the ''Super Star Wars'' games is so long that it exits the TV and keeps expanding.
** Though usually reserved for outtakes, in several episodes (especially when another person is present), he can be seen laughing when he's supposed to be angry and/or serious about the game he's playing. This is especially noticable in the Ikari Warriors episode (unable to stop laughing at Guitar Guy's "Where Did The Hair Go?" song) and just about everything in the Toxic Crusader episode.
* BreakingTheReviewersWall: Sometimes he gets into fights with characters from the games, and in a few rare occasions, enters the game he's reviewing.
* BrickJoke:
** The mail on his Street Fighter 2010 review.
** Leatherface and the bicycle in the ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' review.
** Mentions of "the Poopie Man" in the ''Halloween'' review.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: He coins the world's strongest expletive just to describe a set of games. It's so strong that both the audio track and his mouth are censored. Consider what ''[[CountryMatters does]]'' get through and...
** Later, he finds that ''Bill and Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure'' is so bad, it actually takes him a while to come up with a strong enough insult for it.
* TheBusCameBack: The ''Ikari Warriors'' episode marks the long-anticipated return of Guitar Guy to the show.
* CallBack:
** In the Pitfall episode there's an small call back to The Crazy Castle episode:
--> '''AVGN:''' That would be like the Easter Eggs were full of diarrhea and the Easter Bunny was shitting all over your face... but I had enough with bunnies and shit lately...
** There's a Call Back to the Super Mario Bros. 3/The Wizard episode in the Game Glitches episode:
--> '''AVGN:''' Moving on to Mario 3, The Glitch Gremlin usually stays away from this one. Yeah, it's a little too crowded with demonic possessions.
** In the out takes of the Nintendo World Championship episode, Pat mocks the Nerd about how he's a better gamer than him, making reference to many of the Nerd's failures from past episodes, including [[RunningGag his inability to land the plane in Top Gun.]]
** From his Star Wars games review: "And what's this? The program engineer shows his face? I wish it was Fred Fuchs!" (referencing his "Bram Stoker's Dracula" review)
*** And before that, he mentions Fred Fuchs in his review of Winter Games: "Who programmed this thing?? Maybe it was Fred Fuchs!"
*** In his "Schwarzenegger Games" review, when reviewing the ''Total Recall'' game, commenting on a graphic of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in a movie theatre and showing the credits, the AVGN muses, "I miss Fred Fuchs."
*** Fred Fuchs is also the name given on the generic rendering of a credit card in the ''Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure'' game review.
** In his second "Bible Games" review, the Nerd ends the review by looking at BIBLE GAMES... on CD-i! Much later, in his Dark Castle review, he ended the review the same way.
*** In the same episode, the Nerd sarcastically utters that the cartoonish dragon seen in the Genesis version of ''Dark Castle'' will give him nightmares, likely a reference to James Rolfe's own short autobiographical film ''The Dragon in my Dreams''.
** In his re-visit of the ''Back to the Future'' game, he said he was experiencing deja vu because he stuck the game cartridge in the Nintoaster. In his first ''Back to the Future'' review, he stuck the cartridge in an actual toaster.
** The Nerd has tried to land the plane in ''Top Gun'' four times: Initially in his ''Top Gun'' review, again in his Power Glove review (ironically, the only time he landed it successfully), again in the NES Accessories video when he used the U-Force. And finally, he revisited the game during his ''Back to the Future'' re-review, and once again tried to land the plane. This time, the plane exited his TV and flew out of the basement.
** In his ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer'' review, the Nerd says that just thinking about the game makes him feel like having an anal evacuation. He says the same thing about the Power Pad in his NES Accessories review.
*** Also in that review, he says "It would be easier to pick fly shit out of pepper... while wearing boxing gloves!" This topic is brought up again in the Transformers episode of OverAnalyzers, where James' character claims that boxers deliberately do this to have shitty gloves later during the boxing match, as some sort of advantage.
** In his ''[=McKids=]'' review, he comments that the character can walk on water. Then he asks, "Who does he think he is: Jesus Christ?" He asks the same thing in his ''Rambo'' review.
** In his review of the ''Film/IndependenceDay'' video game, he thought that he should be doing something better with his time than playing the game, such as playing with dog turds. Later, when he reviewed ''Ricky 1'', he complained about being harassed by The Nostalgia Critic, and asks, "Don't you think I have ''enough'' videos to make?! That I have nothing better to do than, y'know, play with dog turds?"
** In his Virtual Boy review, he describes Waterworld as "like puking on a pile of shit." Fast forward to the Toxic Crusaders episode, in which he actually ''does'' puke on a pile of shit.
** One of his descriptions of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' for the NES is "diarrhea coming out of my dick." Fast-forward seven years, and ''VideoGame/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' for the NES is [[SerialEscalation "diarrhea coming out of an old woman's bleeding vagina."]]
** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/Alien3 the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
* TheCameo: Shit Pickle turned up due to his similarity to the enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'s'' "Ooze".
** Richard Daluz, creator of James' "Nintoaster", appears in voiceover in the Atari Jaguar video, discussing his attempts to fix the Jaguar CD that James had sent him.
** The AVGN has a small cameo in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6krCnZFXuM Cinevore's music video parody '''Piece of Meat''']]
** Other Internet personalities like [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Doug Walker]] and [[WebVideo/TalkingClassics Keith Apicary]] will be appearing in the AVGN movie.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNUfk3R157U In episode 5]] of ''THE UNLIMITED Hyoubu Kyousuke'' WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd appear out together in a Tokyo amusement park [[http://ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/the-nostalgia-critic-in-zettai-karen-children-the-unlimited/ as random spectators.]]
** James' other characters make appearances alongside the Nerd: the [[YouKnowWhatsBullshit Bullshit Man]] appears in the Tiger Electronic Games episode to vent over plastic packaging that requires scissors to break through (in this case, packaging for a Tiger Electronics wristwatch game), and BoardJames came in the [=AVGN=] Games episode to show the Nerd his own version of {{Monopoly}}.
* CaptainErsatz: The LoonyFan from ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' review is based on Chop-Top from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2''.
** The man who sells him the games is based on Alfredo (the gas station owner) from ''Film/LeatherfaceTheTexasChainsawMassacreIII'', and even singing the same song the character does at one point.
* CaptainObvious: When criticizing the Virtual Boy's size for a portable system, he remarks, "My ass is portable!"
* CasualDangerDialog: When looking at the Franchise/JurassicPark game for the 3DO, he notices that the mini-game where you're being chased by a T-Rex doesn't show any hands on the steering wheel. He guesses that the driver either has their hand on the bottom of the wheel or is steering with their knee, and then goes on to note that the driver must be pretty casual about the situation to steer like that, and imagines them doing this on a cell phone at the same time.
-->'''Nerd as Driver(on cellphone)''': Hey, I'm stoppin' at Dunkin Donuts, you want me to pick up a coffee? What's that? Oh, just some fuckin' T-Rex behind me. Yeah, what an asshole.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
--> [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "I am DEAD. FUCKING. SERIOUS."]]
--> [[WhatWereYouThinking "What were they THINKING?!"]]
--> "What a shit load of fuck."
--> "Let's pop this fucker in!"
--> "Let's play some shitty games!"
--> "I would rather (do something involving animal shit) than play this game!"
--> "What a piece of shit!"
--> "It's like puking on a pile of shit!"
--> "What a joke!"
--> '''''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MuGxsLplA&feature=related ASS!]]"'''''
--> "Fuck. Fuck! FUCK! FUUUUUUUUUUCK!" as seen [[http://youtu.be/t9nxIUhZCCw?t=7m59s here]] and [[http://youtu.be/1dJXgJ1c4vY?t=3m7s here]].
--> "You think that's enough?"
--> (when having to do something very tedious) Oh my God. This takes forever.
--> "Let's flick that shit switch and crank up the diarrhea dial! It's [insert title here], '''ON CD-I!'''
--> [[ObviousBeta "Did they even test this shitty game?"]]
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in his Schwarzenegger Games review, when he reels off several of these in quick succession with increasingly flattening inflection: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "I am DEAD. FUCKING. SERIOUS.]] What a shitload of fuck. What were they thinking." (Takes a sip of Rolling Rock).
** Super Mecha Death Christ: [[ClusterFBomb FUCKERS!!!!!!]]
** Bullshit Man: "You know what's bullshit?" Of course eventually followed up with: "That's bullshit!"
** [[SophisticatedAsHell Makes me wanna have an anal evacuation.]]
* CausticCritic: Note that this is very much [[MeanCharacterNiceActor just the Nerd's exaggerated persona]] - when James reviews media as himself, he's actually more generous than most Internet critics. He is apparently rather soft spoken, which comes as a shock to people used to him as the AVGN. Contrast with WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd, who inverts James' concept and even has gotten James' seal of approval -- by subscribing to Happy's Website/YouTube account.
** Taken UpToEleven in his review of Ghostbusters for the Sega Genesis, when he declares that the world is coming to an end due to him liking the game.
*** And up to '''twelve''' after reviewing [[ComicBook/MaximumCarnage Spider-Man& Venom: Maximum Carnage]], when he [[spoiler: finds out that it was a LJN game and gets a HeroicBSOD as a result.]]
** You'll also notice that a lot of his videos where he tries to be more informative have him be more...well, out-of-character.
* CensoredForComedy: Discussed in the ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' review:
--> Whoever made this game is an ass****! Ass! ...Hole? ...Ass****! ...[[SarcasmMode Television makes a lot of sense.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Earlier videos were mostly Rolfe taking on the "Angry Video Game Nerd" role through and through, pretty much a [[BrattyHalfPint bratty kid]] talking trash about almost everything. More recent installments have involved him inserting more of his RealLife [[MeanCharacterNiceActor personality]] into the character, reserving the old JerkAss behavior more for reactionary purposes. Which are, well, pretty common.
* TheChewToy: Half the fun is simply watching the Nerd suffer and become increasingly unhinged over the course of the video.
* ChirpingCrickets: In the ''Action 52'' episode, when he tries to play Alfred and the Fettuc (for the second time) the game never loads and the Nerd is left only with a dark screen and the sound of crickets.
** In the ''Nintendo World Championships'' episode, Pat the NES Punk and the Nerd both have {{Imagine Spot}}s about what it would be like if they owned both the grey and gold NWC cartridges. Pat imagines himself at an awards ceremony winning an award for Best NES Collection (grudgingly presented to him by the Nerd just to rub salt in the wound). The Nerd imagines himself putting both cartridges on his shelf with the rest of his collection and just standing there looking at them with the sound of crickets playing.
* ChristmasEpisode: "Bible Games" (2006), "An Angry Nerd Christmas Carol" (2007), "Bible Games 2" (2008), "Winter Games" (2009), "How the Nerd Stole Christmas" (2010), "Bible Games 3" (2011), and "Wish List" parts 1 and 2 (2013).
* ChristmasMiracle: [[spoiler:Finally, the Nerd discovered an LJN game that is not a steaming pile of fucking shit. Appropriately, this happened on part 2 of the 2013 ChristmasEpisode.]]
* ClassicCheatCode: The Nerd uses the "A, B, B, A" code to revive Kyle Justin twice during the Ikari Warriors episode.
** The game itself has [[SomeDexterityRequired a truly absurd example]]: the level select code, as explained by the book ''How to Win at Nintendo'', is Up, Down, A, A, B, Left, Right, A, B, Up, A, Down, Right, Right, Left, B, Up, Left, A, Right, B, Left, Right, A, Left, [[OverlyLongGag Up, A, Down, A, Right, Left, B, and Select.]] '''''All before the title screen fully forms.'''''[[note]]The book was wrong, actually; the VHS tape "Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes, & Strategies" reveals that the code only works when entered during the title screen.[[/note]]
* ClipShow: Part of the December 2010 episode is a recap of all the previous Christmastime episodes.
* CloningBlues: None of them want to play ''[[Videogame/ANightmareOnElmStreetNES A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' with him. Though you can hardly blame them.
** The Nerdy Turd is cloned from the Nerd's feces.
* ClusterFBomb: Doesn't even begin to describe him.
** In the third CD-i segment, he literally drops some F-Bombs - [[VisualPun as in Zelda-esque bombs with "F" imprinted on them]] - ([[LampshadeHanging as he described it]]), while shouting... [[CaptainObvious "FUCK!"]] for each bomb.
*** Also, after his LaughingMad sequence for ''Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon'', he flips off both middle fingers and clucks like the Cluster F-Bomb Chicken.
** There's his exploration of various NES accessories, one of which was a headset Zapper with voice activation. He then found out that he didn't have to shout "Fire!" to make it shoot. HilarityEnsues as he goes on into a literal PrecisionFStrike.
-->"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9kBMscW_dVg#t=485s I just shot down a duck, by saying fuck.]]"
** Parodied with a line in his ''Dracula'' video.
-->"Oh eff--I mean fuck!"
** The end of the ''Ghosts 'n Goblins'' review directly references the trope title.
** The ''Godzilla'' games episode ends on such an epic ClusterFBomb that he runs out of swears that can properly convey his frustration and invents a new one (though [[SoundEffectBleep we don't get to hear it]]) just to satisfy his pent-up rage.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:
-->"[[color:purple:Purple]] for "Putrid Gameplay", [[color:blue:Blue]] for "Bad Musical Abominations", [[color:green:Green]] for "Graphical Farts and Garlic", [[color:yellow:Yellow]] for "Piss-Poor Lack of Loyalty to Source Material", [[color:orange:Orange]] for "Orange you a fucking idiot!", and [[color:red:Red]] for "High-stress Anger-Inducing Masochism"! Put that all together, and you have all the colors of the shit-rainbow! [[SarcasmMode Hooray LJN."]]
** FunWithAcronyms: Or, if you prefer, '''L'''aughing '''J'''oking '''N'''umbnuts.
* ComicalAngryFace: The Nerd excels in doing this.
* CompilationRerelease: The first two episodes were re-released as "Bad NES Games" together with various other shorts in the "Shorts" tape of the "Cinemassacre Gold Collection".
* [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining about Games You Don't Like]]: Pretty much the whole point of his videos.
** Even more so in another of Rolfe's series, ''You Know What's Bullshit'', though there it's more "Complaining About Pet Peeves", such as shoelaces, the post office not having much pens and pennies, which actually made the news.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: No surprise this happens a lot since a great part of the games he reviews are full of terrible FakeDifficulty.
--> '''AVGN''': The game cheats. That's all there is to it. '''The game fucking cheats.'''
* ConsoleWars: Discussed at great length in "SNES VS. Sega Genesis," including a video of himself as a 11-year-old fighting for the Nintendo side.
* ContinuityNod: The Nerd mentions "Fred Fuchs" from his ''Dracula'' review in his ''Winter Games'' review.
** When the couch gets destroyed in the Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle review, the Guitar Guy comes out from under the wreckage. He's been there apparently since the beginning of the series, though you only learn about this in the Battletoads review.
** The Guitar Guy (whose real name is Kyle) appears behind the couch again in a later episode . . . As a skeleton.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Instead of an ironically cruel death, [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] forces the Nerd to play [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames his NES game]]. (Though Freddy did try to kill him when he took a shit on the cartridge.)
* CoolPet: Boo/Death Kitty, his pet black cat. Just see the Atari Jaguar review.
--> '''AVGN''': "Yeah! That's the REAL Jaguar!"
* CoolOldGuy: Creator/LloydKaufman, the creator and director of the ''Toxic Avenger'' series, was invited to the Nerd's game basement to play and give thoughts on some games based off of the cartoon series ''Toxic Crusaders''. He may be 67, but he keeps up with the Nerd's brand of low-brow scatological humor so ''well'', even creating some funny moments of his own.
* CoolShades: The Nerd briefly wears some sunglasses in the first ''Terminator'' game review.
* {{Corpsing}}: The Nerd has trouble containing his laughter at many scripted gags, especially when the Lion shows up in the Wizard of Oz video.
** The song "Where Did Their Hair Go" has him fighting hard not to laugh during stage 4 of ''Ikari Warriors''.
*** The episode had quite a few instances of James breaking character by trying not to laugh. He failed during the latter stages of the song - you can hear him laughing off-screen.
** The Nerd cracks up at a few of Creator/LloydKaufman's antics in the ''Toxic Crusaders'' episode.
** At the end of the second video (''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''), he delivers his very first "Dead. Fuckin'. Serious." and then the video ends just as he begins to laugh, but not quick enough to cut the laugh out completely.
** When he sees the infamous [[AWinnerIsYou "YOU'RE WINNER!"]] screen in BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing, he completely loses it.
* CosmicRetcon: The [=Y2K=] bug caused the events of his earlier "Wizard of Oz 3" video to be wiped from existence. This is referenced in ''The History Of Super Mecha Death Christ''.
* CoversAlwaysLie:
** In his ''Little Red Hood'' review, he points out that even though the title character is shown kicking a {{Mook|s}} on the cover, you cannot kick your enemies in the game.
** In the Cheetahmen review's opening theme song movie, The Nerd plays the SNES game ''Phalanx'', a space shooter. He then looks closely at the cover of the game, which has an old southern man with a banjo. He looks to the camera, confused. (Yes, this is real; the publishers did this hoping it would grab people's attention).
* CoverVersion: His ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' review features Kyle Justin performing a cover of the Nintendo Power jingle and the beginning of his "Double Vision" ({{Colecovision}} & {{Intellivision}}) review, Kyle does a cover of Music/{{Foreigner}}'s "Double Vision." The Angry Video Game Nerd's theme has also been covered and remixed by fans of the series countless times in nearly every single genre of music.
* CreatorThumbprint:
** Rolfe is a huge fan of the horror genre, and it shows in his annual Halloween specials, dedicating daily updates on his Cinemassacre site to surprisingly thorough horror movie history.
** He's also a fan of the ''Godzilla'' films as well.
** His Castlevania marathon has him start by mentioning it as one of his favorite franchises.
* CrossOver: With Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Repeatedly. And consistently over-the-top.
** With [[TheNewAdventuresOfCaptainS Captain S]], in a Christmas special of said series.
** With PatTheNESPunk, for a review of the ultra-rare ''NES World Championship'' cartridge.
** With Creator/LloydKaufman of Creator/{{Troma}} at the ''[[Film/TheToxicAvenger Toxic Crusaders]]'' episode. And he's quite a CloudCuckoolander.
* CrossPoppingVeins: In his logo. The shape also suggests a game controller's directional pad.
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* CrucifiedHeroShot: James lying bloodied and charred from his fight with R.O.B. --With the trademark white shirt, of course.
* CulturedBadass: For a guy who spends all day playing old video games and swearing like a sailor he has a surprisingly in-depth knowledge of Scottish folklore, recounting the meeting of St. Columba and the Loch Ness monster in the history of Super Mecha Death Christ. Though in his version the monster was Satan and Death Christ drove him off.
* CurbStompBattle: Both of the fights between the Nerd and Bugs Bunny. Bugs is the first to get his ass kicked, but he later comes back in the Crazy Castle review to exact his rabbit revenge.
* CurseCutShort: From the ''VideoGame/{{Jaws}}'' section of his Creator/{{S|tevenSpielberg}}pielberg movie games review: "Smile, you son of a- Mmmmm!"
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: A major complaint he has in his review of ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'', in which he gets annoyed very quickly at the quantity of Space Shooters which are basically the same. Reaches the level of "{{Why Did It Have to Be|Snakes}} [[RecycledINSPACE Space?]]"
** Also shows up in his re-review of Film/BackToTheFuture (NES).
--> '''Nerd''': The rest of the street stages are all the same, except they change the color. No effort. Time is money. Don't design another stage; just change the color, and kids will think it's different. Do they think we're idiots?
* CuteKitten: His black cat Boo, a.k.a. "Death Kitty" has made a few appearances:
** In the second part of the Atari Jaguar episode, the Nerd is attacked by the Atari Jaguar logo. He thus summons Death Kitty to fight it, and proves quite {{Badass}}.
** In the NES accessories episode, it plays with the screen for a few seconds, as well as defacing the Power Pad when the Nerd references what pets can do to it. The Nerd also attempts to use him to control the Roll'n Rocker, only for Boo to walk off it 5 seconds later.
** AVGN [[{{Animorphism}} turns into Boo]] at the end of his ''VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker'' review.
** His white cat, Little Yeti, is used to torture the Nostalgia Critic into submission in the Final Battle behind-the-scenes.
* ADarkerMe
* DarkReprise: A low-tempo version of the AVGN theme plays us into his 100th review. It reflects the Nerd's increasing disillusionment with his once-beloved NES games.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode in which "the guitar guy" (Kyle Justin) who sings the Nerd's ThemeSong helps review ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''.
** And again in ''VideoGame/IkariWarriors''.
* DeadpanSnarker: This is the Nerd's default mode, from which he gradually transitions to full on rage. From the Sega CD review, for instance:
-->'''Superior Officer from ''Ground Zero Texas''''': Lets see some fire-power or I am personally going to call headquarters and find out what ''hole'' they ''dug you out of''--
-->'''The Nerd''': The hole in your ''ass''.
-->'''Eddie from ''Double Switch''''': Hey...
-->'''The Nerd''': Hey.
-->'''Eddie''': Hi.
-->'''The Nerd''': Hi.
-->'''Eddie''': My name is Eddie--
-->'''The Nerd''': Hi Eddie.
-->'''Eddie''': --I need your help. This is my building, and since the neighborhood ''really'' sucks--
-->'''The Nerd''': Like this ''game'' sucks.
* DecisionDarts: The 100th Episode (R.O.B.) reveals that the Nerd takes a pen out of his pocket protector and randomly hurls it at his wall of games to determine his next review.
* {{Defictionalization}}: There are a couple of episodes in which he casually mentions names of fake ridiculous games, this has caused some fans to actually google those games causing some curious results:
** In his review of Shaq Fu, he mentions FullHouse Tournament Fighter. Later, someone on [=YouTube=] submmited the supposely intro of the game, and recently he even submmited a whole battle between Uncle Jesse and Joey.
** In the review of Kid Kool, he mentions the game [[InspectorGadget "Doctor Claw's Dump and Pump"]], there are already a couple of fake Website/YouTube videos claiming to be the intro of the game to mislead the people that actually try to Google it.
** Taken further when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07OAUpq9IMs somebody brought]] an exact replica of the cartridge used in the Kid Kool video to a convention for James to sign.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: ''Fester's Quest'', apart from the game footage.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment
-->'''Nerd:''' They just cut out the logo with cheap paper and they glued it on...with glue.
** In his ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' review:
--> '''Nerd:''' And you know what pisses me off? Every time you fall down, you have to walk through the entire room all over again. All the enemies come back, so you have to fight everybody all over again.
** In "Schwarzenegger Games":
-->'''Nerd:''' Whoever designed the game this way is a real cocksucker! [[ShapedLikeItself ...that sucks cock.]]
** In "AVGN Games":
-->'''Nerd''': Okay, whoever came up with this is--(message from in-game Nerd appears)--yeah, exactly. They read my mind. They're an asshole, which means that the asshole who made this game acknowledges that they're an asshole and that I called them an asshole! [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You asshole.]]
*** Also, from the same episode:
-->'''Nerd''': It's the Giant Claw. It's as big as a battleship! How did it get in this game? It just barged right in, like a battleship crashing into a harbor. It's taken so many hits, like bullets on a battleship! [[YouKeepUsingThatWord It's a flying battleship!]]
* DerailedFairyTale: ''Red Riding Hood'' has an interesting take on the children's classic.
-->"Once upon a time, there was a girl named Little Red Riding Hood. She liked to jump in the air and whistle out her vagina. She kicked at trees until [[SesameStreet Big Bird's]] ballsack would appear. --what, that's not the story?"
* DeusExMachina: Literal case during his battle with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. The Critic begins channeling the power of Satan, and the Nerd is helpless, until Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 [[AC:B.C.]] 4.0 Beta shows up.
* DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck: [[invoked]] The Nerd sees the Tiger Electronic Games as this for video gaming as a whole. Their horridness were one of the few games to bring the Nerd to his breaking point.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In his revisit of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', The Nerd (who himself has been transformed into Hyde) is so pissed off by the game that he goes and digs up the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson.
** It then gets subverted when Stevenson's skeleton rises up and says 'Fuck you!' to the Nerd and foils his revenge. May count as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} for some.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During the Ninja Gaiden's montage of Ryu saying "What the...", one of them is suspiciously similar to one paritcular thing.
--> '''Nerd''': [[LampshadeHanging What is going on there?]]
* TheDogShotFirst: Mercilessly mocked in the intro to Nintendo Days Revisited. "Jason Voorhees shot first".
* DontExplainTheJoke: In his "Star Wars" review:
--> '''Obi Wan''': Luke, choose the force!
--> '''Nerd''': Get it? Instead of "use the force", it's "choose the force", [[SarcasmMode that's clever]].
* DoubleStandard: In his Atari Porn review, the Nerd calls a woman who bangs a lot of guys a "whore" and then almost immediately calls a guy who bangs a lot of women a "stud", although he does sound sarcastic when he says it.
* DoubleTake: Mistakingly beating ''Zelda II'' by wearing the Power Glove on his hand.
* DownerEnding: In his ''NinjaGaiden'' review, he and his ninja mentor ultimately give up trying to defeat the FinalBoss. The Nerd has also failed in other games, despite his best efforts. Other episodes end with him getting killed.
* TheDreaded: The Nerd is ''terrified'' of the E.T. game.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Following the Dracula reviews, the Angry Vampire Game Nerd begs the sun to "vanquish" him.
** The frustration of playing ''Ikari Warriors'' drives Kyle Justin to shoot himself in the head with a Zapper. This causes him to flicker and disappear until he is revived with a code, like the characters in the game.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Done in the review of ''The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2''.
* DuctTapeForEverything: The Nerd deals with the Virtual Boy's unwieldy design by duct-taping it to his head.
* DudeWheresMyReward: At the end of the Captain S crossover, the Nerd merrily announces "Merry [bleep] Christmas!", shocking everybody with his language, he ends up being sent back to his home and receives the Home Alone 2 cartridge from Santa Claus as a punishment for being foul-mouthed, [[UngratefulBastard ignoring the fact that the Nerd just helped Captain S to save him and Christmas from the Game Genie]]. In the [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol Christmas Carol episode]], it turns out receiving that game was the last straw that caused the Nerd go Scrooge. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job, Santa.]]
* EasterEgg: [[http://cinemassacre.com/2008/08/04/dark-side-of-the-nerd/ You can sync the episode of the review of the Wizard of Oz SNES game with Pink Floyd's'''Dark Side of the Moon''' album]]. Done in purpose as a reference to the urban legend that the Wizard of Oz movie could be synced to the album.
* EdutainmentShow: His reviews actually fall into this category, when you think about it. You may learn something you never knew about an old console or game, while being entertained at the same time.
** Many of his more recent episodes (2010 and beyond normally) were a little more like a documentary.
* EnemyMine: He has joined forces with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic to review ''The Making of TMNT: Coming Out Of Their Shells'' as they both are ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' fans. Sure, they technically became allies at the TGWTG Brawl, but still...
* EnforcedMethodActing: Several times, those are genuine reactions, and sometimes James thinks they were so good that they're worth putting into the final take. Gameplaywise, he shows that he's actually playing the game and that he wasn't staging them. If it's a new game he's never played before (Namely ''Dragon's Lair''), some of those are his actual thoughts.
** Subverted in a couple of his early videos. He admits in his 'Making an AVGN episode' documentary that in his ''Karate Kid'' video he was intentionally walking into the enemies.
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* EpicFail:
** Has several examples thanks to the Power Glove:
*** Stairs become a major obstacle for him in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI''.
*** In ''[[VideoGame/PunchOut Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!]]'', even the very first opponent in the game scores a TKO on him:
----> "I lost to [[WarmUpBoss Glass Joe]]. '''I lost. To [[{{Jobber}} GLASS JOE]].'''"
** He has such a low opinion of Tiger Electronics handheld games, he thinks they're worse than LJN!
----> "There's a difference between something that's old school and something that's outdated. Old school is like the Atari 2600. The games are primitive, but they're still fun to play. You can always go back to them. Outdated is something you never want to go back to. Tiger games are so outdated, they were never in-dated! They were a fad, like POGs! If they were an experiment in the '70s and they only made a few of 'em, then I could accept that. But, no, they milked these things for all that they're worth! You thought LJN was the grand champion, the almighty shitty game factory? Tiger put LJN to shame! Yeah, LJN laid down turd after turd after turd, but Tiger was like a machine gun ass, shitting out turturturturturturturtu-t-turd! These are the worst games I've ever had the honor of playing, if you even count them as video games! People have discussions like, "Are video games art?" or something like that. Well, I have a better one. "Are Tiger games video games?" These are a caveman's version of video games! These were a step back in human evolution! These are the most desperate attempt at entertainment! You could save up for a Game Boy, or just go [imitating the Tiger handheld sounds] eh-eh-eh-eh-eh. Yeah, well, [while simulating hand jerking and alternatively flashing the middle finger] eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh. J-Just, what the Hell?! T-These things, how'd they waste so much plastic to make these things?! It brought the game industry down as low as it could go! It's proof that Jesus died in vain and legally changed His middle name to "Fucking"! The only thing I could think of to use these things for is to wipe your ass with it! You might as well save that toilet paper, it's worth a whole lot more! [drinks Rolling Rock]"
** Then he gets to the Tiger Wrist Games, which he is incredulous to even existing. And then he gets to the Tiger R-Zone, which he says with utter seriousness that it is a shitty version of the VirtualBoy.
* EpilepticFlashingLights: He's reviewed a few games in which feature these, though he doesn't actually show offending scenes often. In two particular reviews, he even comments on the effects. In his Swordquest reviews, he comments on the games room transition effect, only describing it as being scary (the effect itself is harmless). In his Transformers games review, he comments on the Japanese-only Famicom game at when Optimus Prime forms in the beginning and when you lose a life, the black background suddenly starts flashing rapid colors. James says that the game is trying to give him a seizure. In both of these instances, the episodes suddenly cuts to him with a slow "red, blue, green, yellow" hue-color change effect. The Swordquest one has him jumping back (as if to steer clear of whatever is coming after him), while the Transformers one simpily has him staring bug-eyed at the screen while the color-change effect happens.
* EpisodeTitleCard: All drawn by Mike Matei, and all featuring a caricature of the Nerd.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His very first words:
-->'''Angry Video Game Nerd:''' This game sucks.
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Angry Nerds Love Their Mamas:]] In the ''SuperMarioBros. 3'' review, it's not the SHIT PUKE that pissed the Nerd off about the possessed cartridge in the first place. It's the line ''"[[Film/TheExorcist Your mother sucks cocks in Hell!]]"''
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Vulgarity Has Standards]]: During the Bible Games episode, the nerd shows us one of his limits (though he had said the first sentence straight in an earlier review, so he was probably trying to make up for that).
-->'''Nerd:''' You would rather listen to your own infant child puking to death. That is, choking on his own puke chunks...[[DudeNotFunny That's disgusting, I apologize.]]
** He also apologizes for something he says in his Indiana Jones review. "I'd rather drink buffalo shizz! That's a combination of shit and jizz. Yeah, that's foul. I apologize."
** While reviewing the Sega Genesis version of "Action 52", he was shocked to see a dog in the game freeway being ran over by a car. In the same game, he demanded to know what was the deal with "dead cats" in another game on the same cart.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: The tendency for tanks to explode when they run out of fuel in ''VideoGame/IkariWarriors'' is parodied.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: Not ''all'' of them, but it often involves destroying the cartridge of the game reviewed.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: InUniverse: Parodied at the end of his ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'' review remake.
* EveryoneIsSatanInHell: Parodied in-universe. Near the end of the VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 review, the Nerd starts finding all kinds of obtuse Satanic imagery and references in the game, until the game turns out to be possessed by the Devil and attacks him.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He is a nerd, he often gets angry, the show is about video games.
--> "To play the game, you need the ''GameBoy''. Here's the game, that's the boy, this is the Game Boy."
** Shit Pickle. He's a pickle, and he's got a big (well, relative to his size) dollop of shit on his head.
** Also the Nerdy Turd, a large turd with the Nerd's face on it. Created for the Magnavox Odyssey review. [[TheUnintelligible The only sound it makes is fart noises.]]
** "Hey, you like my new invention? I call it the "Gyromite Controller". ..It plays Gyromite."
** The Nerd lampshades this in "How the Nerd Stole Christmas":
--->''VideoGame/{{Ballz}}'' is an aptly-named travesty on SNES\\
That makes no sense and is a cockamamie butt-brained mess!
* ExcrementStatement: At the end of the "Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout" video, he drops his pants and takes a giant shit on Bugs' face. He also throws a plastic butt at him saying, "[[BondOneLiner Got your ass handed to ya]]."
* ExpositoryThemeTune
* EyeScream: When confronted by Michael Myers, the Nerd jabs the joysticks of a pair of Atari controllers through the eye holes of his mask, [[ImplacableMan evidently to little effect]].
* FailedDramaticExit: After suffering the NES ''VideoGame/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' game, AVGN walks off the screen only to run back in front of the camera to attempt a more accurate description of how much it sucks. This happens twice.
* TheFaceless:
** Mike Matei, who always wears some form of costume or makeup ([[spoiler:That is, until ''WebVideo/BoardJames'', where Matei becomes ''Motherfucker Mike'']]).
** Freddy Krueger's face is covered by shadow or obscured otherwise in the ''[[Videogame/ANightmareOnElmStreetNES A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' episode. [[spoiler: He looks just like the Nerd.]]
** Initially the Bullshit Man, until TheReveal that he's...ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* FacePalm: The Nerd can't help but do this during ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'' and during his ''Dracula'' review.
* FailedASpotCheck: In the ''VideoGame/{{Alien 3}}'' review, he complains that the game doesn't tell you how many people you have left to save before you can proceed to the next level, when part of the HUD periodically switches back and forth between displaying the timer and the number of people left.
* FakeCrossover: The crossover with ''TheNewAdventuresOfCaptainS''.
* FakeDifficulty: The biggest reason why the games the Nerd reviews suck.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: To the nerd, ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' is this trope. Out of a six and a half minute video, exactly one minute and 12 seconds is actually spent playing; the remaining time has the Nerd [[TakeOurWordForIt going on about how horrible it is]], [[INeedAFreakingDrink chugging back his beer several times]], and essentially begging not to have to play it or that the viewer not play it. And it really is that bad.
** Another time, when Jason Voorhees is forcing him to play the ''VideoGame/FridayThe13th'' NES game and say good things about it, the Nerd at one point gets caught badmouthing it and runs away before Jason pins him in a corner. At first, he pleads for his life...then Jason takes out the cartridge, and the Nerd begs to be killed instead.
* FightSceneFailure:[[invoked]] [[StylisticSuck Intentionally]] used in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' review, where a shot show him jump-kicking a wall for no reason, which Kirk actually [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHCNTELFI8 did once]].
--> "And I am dead fucking serious. Dead. Fucking. Serious." *breaks into laughter as video cuts away*
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Seen in the "Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle" review.
* FireForgedFriends: The Nerd and CaptainS in the crossover Christmas special.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kinda. His earlier reviews (back before his Screwattack partnership) had him act much calmer, with some swear words popped in at times. Now he swears much more often, and he's more over the top angry. Beer drinking was also a one-time action in his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde review, now being a staple of his series.
** Another way to put it is that before, he was simply an "Angry Video Game Nerd" who became angry at the constant suckage of the games he played. Now, he's an ''insane'' muthafucka. Compare his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reviews.
* FlashbackCut: Demonstrated in his ''Rambo'' review when he briefly flashed back to a satirical remark he made in his ''Chronologically Confused'' video about what the next Rambo movie might be called.
* FlippingTheBird
* FollowTheLeader
** Inspired a glut of profanity-filled internet video game reviews, with WebVideo/TheIrateGamer being among the most prominent.
** He also has some imitators in other countries, like the WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier ("The Attic Gamer") in France.
* ForegoneConclusion: In his ''Die Hard'' review:
--> '''Nerd''': So is this game gonna be great, or is it gonna suck? Well take a wild fucking guess!
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Nerd mentions Richard Daluz's Nintoaster in passing during his review of the Atari Jaguar CD. It is the console he plays ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' on in THAT video.
** Also overlaps with BrickJoke: [[spoiler: In his earlier review of the Film/BackToTheFuture games: he stuffs the cartridge in a toaster.]] This overlap was lampshaded.
** In the Making Of special, when James demonstrates how he has hooked up so many consoles to a single TV, he uses the CD-I as the example and shows us how he activates it, but adds "[[TemptingFate I don't know why I'd ever want to play CD-I again.]]" Guess what console he uses in the ''Dark Castle'' review?
* FountainOfExpies: He got a lot of them!
* FrankensteinsMonster: The "Franken-Nerd".
* FreakOut: The Nerd goes completely fucking loco at the end of the Dick Tracy review. He starts ''screaming'' about the NintendoHard aspect of the game, coming closer and closer to the screen, screams, starts drinking beer like crazy (''wetting his clothes'' in the process), starts shouting muffled nonsense while pushing his face into ''a pillow'', [[ClusterFBomb a brief montage of him screaming "FUCK" in various parts of his house follows]], and even then, he pierces the cartridge with a drill. ''[[ButWaitTheresMore Then]]'' he looks at the cartridge, spinning because he wasn't holding it and it was still on the drill, [[NightmareFuel with a demented stare]], at that, and the screen ''finally'' cuts to black as he destroys it with his hammer. ''While the cartridge is spinning''.
** It's been noted the sheer ire of this particular FreakOut concerning ''Dick Tracy'' was because this was one of the few games the Nerd owns that he hasn't been able to beat for over 20 years and actually harbors [[SincerityMode sincere animosity for]]. Projecting real-life frustration via the Nerd persona equals one of his most ''batshit insane'' rants ever in the series.
** Done again in his second revisit of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''. After too much time playing the game (and, arguably, too much liquor), the Nerd goes [[HulkingOut on a rage-blinded mission]] with a cape, top hat, and a cane to dig up Robert Louis Stevenson's grave for making the book that inspired the game; after the skeleton somehow comes back to life, proclaiming it's the devil and commanding the Nerd to play the game some more, [[AllJustADream the Nerd wakes up]] with the game still in the toaster-turned-NES. He has an {{e|urekaMoment}}piphany...
* FreezeFrameBonus: In the ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' review, when the nerd is attempting to see just how fast the truck can go while reversing, as it goes beyond ludicrous speed, you can briefly see images of Franchise/WinnieThePooh, [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy]], [[Film/StarWars Darth Vader]] and [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] appearing on-screen.
* FridgeBrilliance:[[invoked]] The Nerd has an extreme case of this himself when he revisits ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde''. Toward the end of the review, he begins to think it is actually a clever game, as [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory it makes sense that Jekyll's weapon doesn't hurt people since he symbolizes good, how you get a game over when Hyde physically passes Jekyll since in that instance it would mean evil triumphs over good, and many other bits of symbolism in the game.]] Of course, even after realizing this stuff, he still hates the game for being awful.
** His "evidence" for VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 being possessed had to take forever to come up with, and it's truly a spectacle of nerd theory-dom.
** He doesn't use his 'Beat-a-Game button' on the original Ninja Gaiden, but on Ninja Gaiden 2 instead. Why? Because he never beat the first one so he wouldn't be able to use footage of the ending cutscenes.
* FridgeLogic: Invoked in his ''Ricky 1'' review:
--> '''Nerd''': Oh my God. An exploding doormat to keep burglars out!.... I always thought burglars came in through the window. And what if it was a neighbor or a mailman or something?!
* FromBadToWorse: The Tiger Electronics episode is basically one long case of this trope, with each of their products only serving to piss off the Nerd more and more. It says everything that when he gets to the Game.com -- widely regarded as one of the worst handhelds ever -- he actually considers it a ''respite'' from the other Tiger products, since it at least has actual console-type games and some features which were innovative (if badly executed) for the time.
* FrothyMugsOfWater: WordOfGod says the Rolling Rock bottles are actually filled with water. Justified because James shoots the footage in the morning and doesn't want to drink alcohol that early.
** In the 'Spiderman' episode, you can see that it [[http://youtu.be/omW1E7rv7IM?t=3m30s is indeed water in the bottle]] (as Spidey tips it away claiming it to be 'corporate bullshit' and 'Shit Rock'), although this might be purely because of the nature of this shot; who the hell would actually tip perfectly good beer away like that?
** It's also visible to anybody who has seen enough bottles to realize the tint of the liquid should be darker if he were actually drinking beer, but it's a lot less indefinite and an actual admission.
** This is a common practice in the film business, as filming often requires multiple takes; using real alcohol get actors very drunk very fast. Also, it would be a lot more difficult to chug like the Nerd does it if it were real alcohol.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the Winter Games review, the Nerd eventually goes on a rant about how the control setup is essentially [[PacManFever frantic mashing of random buttons]]. He does an example of this while saying so, facing the camera and using the controller plugged into the NES behind him. Viewers looking past him during this moment will notice the figure skater in the game doing several (relatively) impressive moves; all of which the Nerd previously noted he couldn't do when he was ''trying''.
** Much the same happens when he tries to beat Zelda II with the Power Glove. The Nerd is busy talking about the NintendoHard nature of the game and the shittiness of the Power Glove while lamenting how he's never been able to beat the game. All the while behind him, Shadow Link is handily defeated by the Power Glove's random movements, something he was never able to do when he actually tried his hardest.
-->'''AVGN:''' ''[while Link goes to the far-left corner, crouches and swings his sword repeatedly]'' In conclusion, it's still a great game. But many considered it the black sheep in the ''Zelda'' franchise. And understandably, it's very different from the first game, but obviously Nintendo didn't want to rehash the same game over again, ''[Link completely drains Shadow Link's health, defeating him]'' so they tried something new. Some people were confused, and admittedly it had some mixed results. [[spoiler:''[Link grabs the Triforce of Courage from the elder]'']] But it had a legacy of its own. ''[Link is next seen [[spoiler:slowly spreading out the Triforce of Power, Wisdom, and Courage in front of the sleeping Zelda]] while the AVGN is still talking]'' It was the first ''Zelda'' game that had towns to visit, and they had a magic meter, and many games copied its style such as ''VideoGame/TheBattleOfOlympus'' and even ''VideoGame/{{Rambo}}''. Bottom line, it's a good game, but a very frustrating one. [[spoiler:''[the incantation of the Triforce wakes up Zelda]'']] I'll never beat it as long as I live. Nope.
*** This is of course PlayedForLaughs and an EasterEgg for those aware of the famous glitch (crouching in the corner and stabbing) used for beating Shadow Link in Zelda II.
* FutureLoser: During the 2007 ''A Christmas Carol'' parody, the Nerd sees his future self playing various shitty Wii games and [[spoiler:the future Nerd eventually has a heart attack while playing Boogie to the tune of "[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Walking]] [[Music/KatrinaAndTheWaves on Sunshine]]"]].
* GainaxEnding: The ending to his Franchise/StarWars review, in which [[spoiler: a buffalo shits through his window and covers his floor in buffalo dookie]]. For no apparent reason.
* GenrePopularizer: Of the "angry video game reviewing" kind, if you're not going to call those others copycats.
* GenreSavvy: The Nerd created a FrankensteinsMonster, but also added a way to shut it off.
* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when The Nerd shows clips of what his earlier videos would be like [[TakeThat if he went back and added new special effects]], then reveals that he was just messing with his fans and that he'll simply shoot new reviews that expanded upon his older videos instead of going back and altering previously released videos.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: All the time, but there are particularly plenty of examples in his ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'' review:
--> '''AVGN''': There's ''dogs applauding''!! I didn't even know that dogs were fucking watching!!
--> '''AVGN''': [[HeroicBSOD Bu... th... uh... wha...]] A fucking ''chicken mask''?! ...An '''[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment UPSIDE DOWN FUCKING CHICKEN MASK!]]'''
--> '''AVGN''': WHY IS IT NOW JUST A HEAD OF A PANDA?!
** In "Wish List Part 2", the Nerd judges ''Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage'' to be a decent game. Not great, but not bad either. Then he takes a look at the box to see who made the game. [[spoiler:And finds the '''LJN''' logo.]]
* TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation: James is an admitted fan of vintage animation, to the point where even goes out of his way to ''collect the original prints of those cartoons and watch them at home with his own movie projector.''
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Used in a few examples in his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEXpsDB2XQ review]] of ''[[VideoGame/{{Pitfall}} Super Pitfall]]'' when an angel and a devil fight over Harry's body every time an enemy kills him. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Even funnier is that when Harry falls into spikes at one scene, the game would freeze up while the angel and devil are hovering for a few seconds before Harry finally "dies".]]
* AGoodNameForARockBand: "Cunt-thrust", inspired by the ladies who "restore Link's health", so to speak, in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''.
* GoshDangItToHeck: In the crossover with CaptainS, the Nerd's foul language got humorously toned down.
-->'''AVGN:''' Home Alone in the Nintendo Entertaiment System, ''what a buttload of crud''.
** Also happens while reviewing the SNES ''Terminator'' game, but still manages to retain some profanity.
-->"Holy mother, and fucking god, shit, holy mackerel, gosh dangit, how is it not over yet? How long could this first level possibly go?! Unless maybe the whole game is like this. I just can't fucking believe it!"
** And again in the review of ''Lester the Unlikely'' while trying to get past the cave stage:
--> "The next level's inside a cave, and now things are becoming very labyrinth-like. On top of bad control, I don't even know where to go." (Lester falls down a pit) "Aw, doodoo!"\\
''A little while later...''\\
"Oh, no, why do so many games have to have bats?!" (Lester dies) "AW, DOODY!!"
** In the "Schwarzenegger games" review:
--> '''Nerd''': This game blows ass, sucks duck cunt fucking shit munching bunch of pile of.... poop.
** In the "Dracula" review, he does this but then "corrects" himself:
--> '''Nerd''': (after dying in the game) Aw, F! I mean, ''fuck''!
* GrammarNazi: James does this to the credits for the NES ''Ghostbusters'' game. Though in fairness to James, those were really obvious errors and deserved to be corrected.
* GratuitousGerman: Slips into this during his ''VideoGame/DeadlyTowers'' video ([[FourthWallMailSlot the one where everything was written by the fans]]).
--> "Well, I gave that a try..."
** According to the comments on the video, it translates to "This game is shit! This game fucks you harder than life!"
* GrossoutShow
* GuestFighter: Bugs Bunny, who intrudes the Nerd's reality just to kick the crap out of him.
** The Nerd and Kyle Justin were the guest characters (...and Ma-Ti from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'') that were not part of the TGWTG.com crew that appeared in the [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover Anniversary Team Brawl]].
* GuideDangIt: Really, ''really'' pisses him off. Justified, in that when NES games were first released, not everybody had access to guidebooks and video game magazines for help. But perhaps the granddaddy of examples is when he played ''Little Red Hood'', and discovered that in Stage 8, the key to exit the level doesn't appear unless you first buy one Invincibility Potion and three Slingshots!
-->'''Nerd''': ''(aghast)'' '''How would anyone know to do that?!''' It's like, you're playing the game, and all of a sudden the game throws you a curve ball and ''[[FlippingTheBird changes the fucking rules!!]]'' It would be like if you were playing SuperMarioBrothers, and there was one level where you couldn't jump on the flagpole unless first you collected EXACTLY 29 coins, stomped on 3 Goombas, and got 1 Fire Flower!
* GuiltyPleasures: According to his review of "The Making of WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour," he had a cassette of the tour, which he would listen to all the time, but is ashamed to admit it.
** He also admits to liking "TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze" as a guilty pleasure, despite (or perhaps because of) thinking it's cornier than the first movie.
* SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike: The main purpose overall of his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' and ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series reviews. This is especially prevalent for ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV'', since he had criticisms for the other games, but that game garnered nothing but praise.
** He also sometimes gushes about features he likes, like how the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis controllers use the same type of plug as several other game controllers, so that when he encounters one he doesn't like, he can just swap it out for either of those two and it will still work.
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* AccentuateTheNegative: Played straight. Many viewers forget that he deliberately accentuated the negative in his review of ''Castlevania II: Simon's Quest'', as pointed out on Cinemassacre's FAQ, because it was meant to be a ''caricature'' of easily-angered gamers.
** Played straight up with ''NinjaGaiden''. However, the review was done this way not to emphasize how bad of a game it was, but rather how hard and challenging it was. He did the same thing with ''VideoGame/{{Zelda II|TheAdventureOfLink}}'' and ''GhostsNGoblins''
** And when he reviewed ''StreetFighter 2010'' he stated that if you get past it [[InNameOnly having nothing]] [[DolledUpInstallment to do with]] any other part of the ''StreetFighter'' series, limited controls, and an [[DisappointingLastLevel impossibly difficult]] last stage, it's actually a pretty decent game. He tends to point this out a lot, playing the trope straight.
** Note that The Nerd doesn't always do this. He generally gives quite a lot of slack to SoOkayItsAverage [[invoked]] or SoBadItsGood games, more than most {{Caustic Critic}}s would, and he occasionally does whole episodes on games he loves like ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania|1986}}'' and homages like ''VideoGame/{{Swordquest}}''. He will also often include games that appear in the same series as the real bad ones, and often they get some praise. This is both for completion and comparison, since often it will serve to let you know there is no excuse for the company that made it. Examples include his ''Godzilla'' review and ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' re-review. He flat out praised ''BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'', perhaps because so much had already been negatively said about the game, but ostensibly because it showed truth in advertising: No road can contain that truck.
** The Nerd unwittingly [[TemptingFate tempts fate]] with regard to this while the Joker is forcing him to play ''[[VideoGame/BatmanSunsoft Batman: Return of the Joker]]'' for the NES. After complaining about the game at length, the Nerd comments that it's actually a decent game overall, just an excessively hard one. So the Joker decides to make him play the Game Boy and Genesis adaptations of the game, driving the Nerd over the edge.
** There are also instances where he is obviously looking for something to make fun of.
** Flat out stated in his Colecovision review:
--> '''Nerd''': Now, I know we mainly focused on the shitty aspects, but lemme tell ya: ''That's'' the name of the game.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and played straight in the 2013 Wish List episode: when the fans asked him to review the bad Series/SonicTheHedgehog games, his response was simply: "What bad Sonic games?" Still, he did take a look at some less-than-favorable Sonic games, like ''VideoGame/SonicBlast'', ''VideoGame/SonicLabyrinth'', ''VideoGame/{{Sonic R}}'', ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle'', and ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''. In reality, James Rolfe said the last Sonic game he played was ''VideoGame/SonicRush'', which he enjoyed.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: He somehow manages to get BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing to run on a {{Commodore 64}}.
* ActorRoleConfusion: Some fans seem to believe that the Nerd and his creator James Rolfe are supposed to be the same person, when the Nerd is just a character and James is an actor.
-->'''James Rolfe''': It’s funny how people usually see videos on Website/YouTube and take them at face value. The same people probably believe that I go around in real life, wearing a white pressed shirt, stuffed with pens in the pocket, and saying “fuck” all the time and talking about buffaloes taking diarrhea dumps.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In his review of ''Ricky 1'', you can hear him holding back laughter when he mentions the scene that parodies ''Film/TheGodfather'' is the closest the film comes to being funny. He was also amused by the Mr. Smithers ghost in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart vs. The World]]''.
** Despite talking about how much he hates the "Help, I'm a turtle and I can't get up!" line in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII'', the Nerd has a hard time controlling his laughter.
*** "I mean, come on! It's not funny!" *laughs* "Okay, I'm back!"
** During the "Daydreamin' Davey" review, he laughs at the "vultures shitting exploding bloody diarrhea" in the Western level.
** Admits that the intro to ''TheThreeStooges'' game on NES is pretty funny.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Often.
** On Winter Games: "This is a blizzard of '''balls!'''"
** During his Star Trek review: "You're relieved to finally start walking around and doing stuff, but only then do you realize how ''astronomically'' '''ass''' this game is!"
** The Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin
* AdjustingYourGlasses: In the Action 52 episode, the Nerd does this by the bridge, just after he takes out a calculator from his front pocket to determine the price that each of the 52 games would have if sold separately. The whole gesture actually makes him look, well, [[NerdGlasses more nerdy]].
* AgonyOfTheFeet: The Atari 5200 episode.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The Nerd is convinced that the Atari Jaguar CD is sentient, and purposefully preventing you from playing it.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-Universe. According to the Nerd, the intro to ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' actually goes this way:
-->"A couple [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces has just got done having sex in a cemetery]]. I'm not even kidding! What else does this looks like?! He's not wearing clothes! Next thing: Satan shows up as if saying 'Yeah, [[HornyDevils I wanna get into some of that]]!' and takes her away. That's the plot. [[RefugeInAudacity Is that the greatest opening to an NES game, or what?!]]"
* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the Die Hard review, the Nerd jokingly suggests the idea of a ''Film/LethalWeapon'' game where Riggs's powerups are dog biscuits. This really does happen in the SuperNintendo game based on the movies.
* AncientGrome: The Nerd's [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/708928 review]] of the NES game ''Day Dreamin' Davey'' has him keep mislabeling a few stages of Ancient Greece as "Ancient Rome", even though they show Hades' lair and Mt. Olympus.
* AndAnotherThing: At the end of his ''very first'' review (Castlevania2); he thanks the listeners, bids them good night, and cuts to black...only to come back quickly to add that the game's ending sucks too.
** Taken UpToEleven in his review of Bill and Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure; combines with LeaveTheCameraRunning.
* {{Angrish}}: A staple of his reviews. Notably, James' tantrum during the Scrooge special.
-->HUMBUG! BAH agabaggablughraghablugga-- '''''HELL!!'''''
* AntiHero: The Nerd is generally pleasant to most people until they turn out to be less than wholesome themselves, refrains from killing a defeated Klingon and has fought against Satan with Jesus on multiple occasions. Then again, he is a coarse, foul mouthed rage-a-holic who brutally beat up and decapitated Bugs Bunny (Though he certainly had it coming) roughly making him a Type III.
* AntiHumor: "The Nerd’s Anger Management"
* AppliedMathematics: Chronologically Confused features the Nerd in front of a board filled with nonsensical equations and formulae, including at points a Triforce and a drawing of Mario.
* ArousedByTheirVoice: In his NES Days Re-Revisited episode, the Nerd decides to call the phone number in the ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' game, only to find that what used to be a recorded message giving tips for the game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmg7C72g6nQ is now a sex hotline]]. ArousedByTheirVoice indeed.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: He LOVES this trope.
** On the ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' NES game:
---> '''AVGN:''' It [[{{Spoonerism}} sucking fucks]], it fucking sucks, it fucking blows, it's a piece of shit... and ''I don't like it''.
*** He says something similar when talking about the radar in the Film/IndependenceDay episode... "It's too small, it makes no fuckin' sense, and... I don't like it."
** From the ''Deadly Towers'' review, probably because the fans had already taken all the best lines:
---> This game is a chicken-lickin'-finger-fuckin' son of a bitch! This game is BALL CIDER! The assholians bow down to this piece of shit! In other words, the game sucks.
** Here is the biggest ClusterFBomb in the whole series, in the Power Glove review:
---> "Now you're playing with power." (Pause) Now you're playing with fuckin' shit! You're better off fuckin' shit than fuckin' with this fucked up shit! Fuck this shit! You don't know shit about how fuckin' shitty this fuckin' shit is! It's so bad it sucks! It's so fuckin' suck it fucks! And I...can't take it anymore.
** Another one, from Superman 64 when he fails to complete a stage in time:
---> "Fuck! Ass! Bitch! Cunt! Fart!"
*** Before that, there was also the NES Accessories episode in which he shouts "FUCK!" in place of the word "FIRE!" with the Konami Laserscope, and he also thinks he can say anything besides "FUCK!", like for example "ASS!":
----> "SHIT! BITCH! CUNT! FUCK! FART!"
** Another much more subtle example appears at the end of his ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' review, where, after his usual ranting about things he'd rather do than play the game, he ends with "I'd rather eat raw eggs".
*** Also in the ''Rocky'' review:
---->"It's a bunch of putrid anal shit coming out of a rhinoceros's asshole. It fucks up the ass, shits out the mouth, piss out the mouth, dookie out the ears, diarrhea out the dick, shits for the birds. The control for this game is ''poo-poo''".
** His obscure enemy roll call for ''Wolverine'' (NES).
--->"It's time for the enemy roll call: We have green rotary dial telephones, ComicBook/{{Silver Surfer}}s in flying wheelchairs, Silver Surfers air-guitaring, John [=McClane=] from ''Film/DieHard'', TheGrimReaper throwing skulls, [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankenstein monsters]] wearing metal masks with visors like Geordi from ''Series/{{Star Trek|TheNextGeneration}}'', and bubbles."
** In the "Making Of" video, James remarks that he has a lot of AVGN shirts, and why.
--> '''James Rolfe''': "As you can see, I have plenty of Nerd shirts because they get fucked up all the time. Bloodstains, shit-stains, missing buttons."
* ArtEvolution: Mike Matei's title cards. Pointed out in the episode in which the Nerd re-visit his earliest videos, he comments on how even the title card from the Top Gun episode was crappy, just to have it replaced in that moment with a dramatically better one.
--> '''AVGN''':"Oh, okay. That's way better".
* AssShove: The Bat-Nerd does it to the Joker with all the Batman games reviewed. (Except the good one.)
* [[JustForPun "Ass"]] [[AsTheGoodBookSays the Good Book Says]]: In "Bible Games 3", when the Nerd types out the word "ass" in the Game Boy's ''The King James Version'', and the results got in a list of passages with the word "ass", the following passages he reads are:
** Genesis 44:13[[note]] which is about eleven of Jacob's sons tearing off their clothes and reloading their donkeys before returning to Egypt[[/note]];
** Luke 13:15[[note]] which is about Jesus rebuking the synagogue officials for telling him not to heal on the sabbath day, saying to them, "Does not each one of you untie your ox or your ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?"[[/note]];
** 1 Samuel 12:3[[note]] about Samuel asking the Israelites whether he has committed any sins or not[[/note]];
** Exodus 22:9[[note]] about a person handing an animal to another, and the animal dying or being stolen or maimed without anyone addressing the fact, although the next passage (22:10) has said giver swear an oath that he did not harm anyone else's property, and the owner may accept the oath[[/note]];
** Luke 14:5[[note]] about Jesus asking the scribes and Pharisees if one among them would not help their ox or ass (although "ass" is replaced with the word "son" in most modern versions of the Bible) out of the cistern on the sabbath day[[/note]];
** John 12:14[[note]] about Jesus finding an ass' colt and sitting upon it before riding in triumph to Jerusalem on what is now Palm Sunday[[/note]];
** 2 Peter 2:16[[note]] about St. Peter retelling the story about how Balaam got a rebuke for his crime via a mute donkey that spoke with a human voice and restraining his madness (although Balaam is not portrayed in a bad light in Numbers 22, which is soon to follow, and the words "dumb ass" are replaced by "mute beast" in modern versions of the Bible)[[/note]];
** Numbers 22:21[[note]] about the same Balaam riding off to Balak with the princes of Moab on God's command[[/note]];
** Genesis 42:27[[note]] about one of Jacob's sons opening a bag to feed his donkey when he is surprised to find money in the mouth of the bag[[/note]];
** 1 Kings 13:28[[note]] about a prophet finding the servant of God lying dead on the road, with both the lion and the unharmed donkey standing next to his corpse[[/note]];
** and Numbers 22:22[[note]] about the angels of God standing on the road to Balak to make a sneak attack on Balaam as he was riding on his donkey (as mentioned before in the passage preceding it, 22:21), which the Lord possessed to make it talk to Balaam[[/note]].
---> '''AVGN''': Ooh I'm going to hell.
* AtomicFBomb: The sheer intensity of the way he screams "FUUUUCK!" after seeing and playing the ''Godzilla'' games that he always wanted to play as a child, but which were released after his video game-playing prime had passed, is almost scary; it helps that the famous Godzilla roar was mixed into the scream.
** Another one was when he ordered a custom Atari 5200 controller when he couldn't use the originals, only to discover it wouldn't fit in the controller ports.[[note]]The joystick originally came with a Y-adaptor cable; the joystick did not include the 5200 controller's keypad, so the cable was used to connect both the joystick and an original controller to the 5200 console. Apparently, due to the Nerd buying a previously-owned joystick, he did not receive the Y-adaptor that originally came with it.[[/note]]
** It's also referenced by name in the ''Ghosts 'n Goblins'' review.
* AuthorAppeal: It sure seems like The Nerd has an odd obsession with animal diarrhea...
** James Rolfe loves horror movies and this fact is clearly evident in the extra work he puts into Halloween-themed AVGN episodes and Cinemassacre updates.
* AwesomeYetPractical: "It's a Nintoaster, and yes it works!"
* AWinnerIsYou: The Nerd HATES games that do this, especially games that he's actually taken the effort to defeat for his reviews. Especially noteworthy is the ending of his ''Little Red Hood'' review, when, overwhelmed and angry at how NintendoHard the game was, he WANTED to see a shitty ending. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor And he got one]].
-->'''Nerd''': (''reading from the ending screen'') "Oh my dear little Red Hood! Thank you for your coming!"
--> *'''lets the controller slip from his fingers onto the floor'''*
-->'''Nerd''': You did not disappoint. [[INeedAFreakingDrink (drinks some Rolling Rock)]]
* BaitAndSwitchComment: While he talks about his experiences with the ''VideoGame/TotalRecall'' game:
--> "I remember playing it for the first time as a kid. It was a Friday night, my homework was all done, my mom took me to the video store, I rented this game, I took it home, man, I played it, and it just FUCKING ''PISSED ME OFF '''AND RUINED MY WHOLE GODDAMN WEEKEND!"'''''
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The 100th episode starts with the Nerd monologuing about how he have come to hate videogames thanks to shitty games, and how he wished humanity wouldn't have invented them in the first place. [[spoiler: After going berserk, R.O.B. tries to get rid of all the videogames, replacing them with Gyromite and Stack-up, proclaiming that shitty games would no longer exist thanks to this. It's then that the Nerd realizes that he actually enjoyed the time playing all those games and battle R.O.B. to stop him.]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory: As ''The History of Super Mecha Death Christ'' reveals, Super Mecha Death Christ has had an influence in history from its first chronological appearance in 2000 [[AC:b.c.]], where the prototype spontaneously appeared after the events of ''[[ReturnToOz The Wizard of Oz 3: Dorothy Goes to Hell]]'' (one of James' earlier videos) and was subsequently destroyed by the cavemen, the vikings, and the Egyptosaurus. There's a laundry list of appearances, but suffice it to say, SMDC had ''way'' more influence on history than ForrestGump did.
* BerserkButton: This is what he's known for!
** Excessively long passwords, and [[DamnYouMuscleMemory using any other key besides A to jump]] are his two main ones. Especially if you have to press Up to jump.
*** Any obtuseness with the password system will set him off. Passwords should be simple, quick, and easy to use.
** Games without the pause features, such as Film/{{Ghostbusters}} 2 on NES.
** In that same vein: BGM that refuses to turn off, even when the game is paused.
*** When the game plays the exact same song throughout its entirety.
** Seeing the LJN logo on a game cartridge has also caused him to snap.
** ''GoddamnedBats!''[[invoked]]
** The Medusa Heads in ''Castlevania'' have reportedly given him a pathological hatred of wavy lines.
** Movie sequels that [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo don't follow a logical numbering system]].
** Games with '''[[CheckPointStarvation NO CONTINUES!?!?]]''' after you die. Turned UpToEleven if the game combines this with OneHitKill or only having one life throughout the entire game.
** Game cartridges with no end labels.
** In ''Batman Part I'', when he explains the utterly ridiculous controls of ''VideoGame/BatmanForever'', which was designed with the Mortal Kombat engine. He actually seems to have strained his voice by the end of the review.
** AC adapters with built-in prongs (the box shaped ones that tend to preclude the usage of the two adjacent sockets) also greatly annoy him, as seen in the Sega 32X and Dracula reviews. Related to this, ancient consoles which force the player to make use of an RF connector box for television hookups -- or worse still, television ''and'' power hookup -- as opposed to just plugging a cable into a much simpler coaxial converter.
** Loading times. His annoyance with them is most pronounced in the ''Superman'' (Commodore) and ''Zelda's Adventure'' reviews.
*** Also seen in the ''Batman Forever'' review, which ironically was a cartridge game.
--> '''Nerd''': ...Whenever you access a new part of the game, it says "Hold On". Hold on for what? It has to fucking ''load''?!
** Overly cryptic puzzles, such as in ''VideoGame/MilonsSecretCastle''.
** He hates Tiger Electronics with a passion, mostly for making (paraphrased) cheap versions of real video games with no substance and unintuitive controls. Apparently, he hates them more than ''LJN''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Nerd ends up [[spoiler: getting strangled by PatTheNESPunk after destroying the Nintendo World Championship cartridges.]] That said, [[spoiler: the PatTheNESPunk character]] is probably only just 'nicer' than the Nerd in the video itself.
* BigBad: LJN made about 60% of the terrible games he reviews.
** BiggerBad: Turns out Tiger Electronics is responsible for even worse products he reviews.
* BigDamnMovie: The AVGN movie involves, among other things, Area 51, the US Army, a giant mecha attack, a ZombieApocalypse, a RobotWar, and aliens. Oh yeah.
* BigNo: Creator/LloydKaufman lets one out for humor when told by the Nerd that he's going to be playing shitty games based off his most famous creation, ''TheToxicAvenger.''
* BigStupidDoodooHead: Despite his generous use of swear words and scatological similes, he sometimes ends up using these instead.
-->'''AVGN:''' ...I got more... You're a '''poopy-head!'''
* BileFascination: [[{{In-Universe}} It's]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d early on that the Nerd subjecting himself to horrible games is entirely a torment of his own making, but after the Christmas Carol parody episode, he decides that he can't handle only playing good games and goes right back to bad ones.
** In his ''VideoGame/TransformersConvoyNoNazo'' episode, the title card has the Nerd fighting Megatron, who says to the Nerd "Stop playing shitty games!", to which the Nerd cries out [[BigNever "NEVER!"]]
** And in the R.O.B. episode, after he gets beaten to within an inch of his life and R.O.B. is in the process of destroying all games except the two it was programmed for, instead of thinking about the good games he's played, he flashes back to all the horrible piles of digital crap he'd reviewed, gathers his HeroicResolve, and shouts, "I WON'T FUCKING HAVE IT!"
* BladderOfSteel: Discussed in his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfq-IPlLF8 review]] of the NES version of ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}} II'':
-->'''AVGN:''' I mean, if you have to answer the phone, or take a shit, it's like, "Tough shit if you gotta take a shit!" You gotta take a quick shit! You gotta have turbo turds! I'm trying to play the game, I've got shit stains in my pants, and an answering machine that says "Sorry, I'm playing Ghostbusters 2 on Nintendo." What a selfish game. Bottom line, '''have a fucking pause button, god damn it!'''
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The AVGN lampshades this in his review of the NES version of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
-->"Man, these translations suck. Couldn't they just get anyone to proofread this shitload of fuck?"
* BodyHorror[=/=]UncannyValley: The thoroughly glitched boxers on Rocky for PS2 were either FUCKING ''SCARY'' or funny as hell.
* BoozeFlamethrower: At the end of the Rambo episode.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: After seeing the newer ''Godzilla'' games, the AVGN laments that he was born too early and instead had to grow up with the games he had just previously reviewed.
* BottledHeroicResolve: He uses Billy Mitchell's Hot Sauce to give himself sufficient gaming powers to beat ''VideoGame/TransformersConvoyNoNazo''.
* BoundAndGagged: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVtwVXMPBY8 Every]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p713bNaO4A now]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvtk5toGJg and]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvs6JDSBqoE then]].
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Spoofed in the ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' review's "TV Version" clip:
-->'''AVGN:''' Whoever came up with this is an ass[[[BleepDammit bleep]]]!... Ass!... Hole?... Ass[bleep]! [[SarcasmMode Television makes a lot of sense.]]
** In the crossover episode with CaptainS, the Nerd foul language gets toned down to fit with the G-rated, Saturday morning cartoon feeling of the show. It gets lampshaded at the end when all the characters get scandalized when he says "Merry [[[CensoredForComedy bleep]]] Christmas!"
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In the ''Chronologically Confused Zelda Timeline'':
-->'''AVGN:''' [[TheLegendOfZelda We have]] [[ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink a sequel to the original,]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast a PREQUEL to the original,]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening a sequel to the prequel,]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime a PREQUEL to the prequel,]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask and a SEQUEL to the young Link of the prequel's prequel!]] [[MindScrew WHAT THE FUCK?!?]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: He offers the controller to the viewer in his ''Dragon's Lair'' review.
** In his Nintendo Days Revisited review, the Nerd plays ''Top Gun'' again. It appears as if he is about to actually land the plane, but instead the plane '''flies out of the TV and out the window.'''
** In his Schwartzenegger Games review, he comments on how the guys fly off the screen. What happens next? Everyone flies out of the TV.
** Long before that, he finally landed the plane with the '''''Power Glove'''''.
*** In the same vein as the ''Top Gun'' plane exiting the TV, in his ''Star Wars'' review, the boss's life bar in one of the ''Super Star Wars'' games is so long that it exits the TV and keeps expanding.
** Though usually reserved for outtakes, in several episodes (especially when another person is present), he can be seen laughing when he's supposed to be angry and/or serious about the game he's playing. This is especially noticable in the Ikari Warriors episode (unable to stop laughing at Guitar Guy's "Where Did The Hair Go?" song) and just about everything in the Toxic Crusader episode.
* BreakingTheReviewersWall: Sometimes he gets into fights with characters from the games, and in a few rare occasions, enters the game he's reviewing.
* BrickJoke:
** The mail on his Street Fighter 2010 review.
** Leatherface and the bicycle in the ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' review.
** Mentions of "the Poopie Man" in the ''Halloween'' review.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: He coins the world's strongest expletive just to describe a set of games. It's so strong that both the audio track and his mouth are censored. Consider what ''[[CountryMatters does]]'' get through and...
** Later, he finds that ''Bill and Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure'' is so bad, it actually takes him a while to come up with a strong enough insult for it.
* TheBusCameBack: The ''Ikari Warriors'' episode marks the long-anticipated return of Guitar Guy to the show.
* CallBack:
** In the Pitfall episode there's an small call back to The Crazy Castle episode:
--> '''AVGN:''' That would be like the Easter Eggs were full of diarrhea and the Easter Bunny was shitting all over your face... but I had enough with bunnies and shit lately...
** There's a Call Back to the Super Mario Bros. 3/The Wizard episode in the Game Glitches episode:
--> '''AVGN:''' Moving on to Mario 3, The Glitch Gremlin usually stays away from this one. Yeah, it's a little too crowded with demonic possessions.
** In the out takes of the Nintendo World Championship episode, Pat mocks the Nerd about how he's a better gamer than him, making reference to many of the Nerd's failures from past episodes, including [[RunningGag his inability to land the plane in Top Gun.]]
** From his Star Wars games review: "And what's this? The program engineer shows his face? I wish it was Fred Fuchs!" (referencing his "Bram Stoker's Dracula" review)
*** And before that, he mentions Fred Fuchs in his review of Winter Games: "Who programmed this thing?? Maybe it was Fred Fuchs!"
*** In his "Schwarzenegger Games" review, when reviewing the ''Total Recall'' game, commenting on a graphic of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in a movie theatre and showing the credits, the AVGN muses, "I miss Fred Fuchs."
*** Fred Fuchs is also the name given on the generic rendering of a credit card in the ''Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure'' game review.
** In his second "Bible Games" review, the Nerd ends the review by looking at BIBLE GAMES... on CD-i! Much later, in his Dark Castle review, he ended the review the same way.
*** In the same episode, the Nerd sarcastically utters that the cartoonish dragon seen in the Genesis version of ''Dark Castle'' will give him nightmares, likely a reference to James Rolfe's own short autobiographical film ''The Dragon in my Dreams''.
** In his re-visit of the ''Back to the Future'' game, he said he was experiencing deja vu because he stuck the game cartridge in the Nintoaster. In his first ''Back to the Future'' review, he stuck the cartridge in an actual toaster.
** The Nerd has tried to land the plane in ''Top Gun'' four times: Initially in his ''Top Gun'' review, again in his Power Glove review (ironically, the only time he landed it successfully), again in the NES Accessories video when he used the U-Force. And finally, he revisited the game during his ''Back to the Future'' re-review, and once again tried to land the plane. This time, the plane exited his TV and flew out of the basement.
** In his ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer'' review, the Nerd says that just thinking about the game makes him feel like having an anal evacuation. He says the same thing about the Power Pad in his NES Accessories review.
*** Also in that review, he says "It would be easier to pick fly shit out of pepper... while wearing boxing gloves!" This topic is brought up again in the Transformers episode of OverAnalyzers, where James' character claims that boxers deliberately do this to have shitty gloves later during the boxing match, as some sort of advantage.
** In his ''[=McKids=]'' review, he comments that the character can walk on water. Then he asks, "Who does he think he is: Jesus Christ?" He asks the same thing in his ''Rambo'' review.
** In his review of the ''Film/IndependenceDay'' video game, he thought that he should be doing something better with his time than playing the game, such as playing with dog turds. Later, when he reviewed ''Ricky 1'', he complained about being harassed by The Nostalgia Critic, and asks, "Don't you think I have ''enough'' videos to make?! That I have nothing better to do than, y'know, play with dog turds?"
** In his Virtual Boy review, he describes Waterworld as "like puking on a pile of shit." Fast forward to the Toxic Crusaders episode, in which he actually ''does'' puke on a pile of shit.
** One of his descriptions of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' for the NES is "diarrhea coming out of my dick." Fast-forward seven years, and ''VideoGame/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' for the NES is [[SerialEscalation "diarrhea coming out of an old woman's bleeding vagina."]]
** In WebVideo/BoardJames, another one of James' projects, when Bad Luck Bootsy asks where the shark from ''Shark Attack'' is from, Board James says "Lake Tittycaca!" In the "Alien 3" episode, the Nerd says the game has as much to do with [[Film/Alien3 the movie]] "as Space Hunter Nebula M has to do with Lake Tittycaca."
* TheCameo: Shit Pickle turned up due to his similarity to the enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'s'' "Ooze".
** Richard Daluz, creator of James' "Nintoaster", appears in voiceover in the Atari Jaguar video, discussing his attempts to fix the Jaguar CD that James had sent him.
** The AVGN has a small cameo in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6krCnZFXuM Cinevore's music video parody '''Piece of Meat''']]
** Other Internet personalities like [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Doug Walker]] and [[WebVideo/TalkingClassics Keith Apicary]] will be appearing in the AVGN movie.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNUfk3R157U In episode 5]] of ''THE UNLIMITED Hyoubu Kyousuke'' WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd appear out together in a Tokyo amusement park [[http://ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/the-nostalgia-critic-in-zettai-karen-children-the-unlimited/ as random spectators.]]
** James' other characters make appearances alongside the Nerd: the [[YouKnowWhatsBullshit Bullshit Man]] appears in the Tiger Electronic Games episode to vent over plastic packaging that requires scissors to break through (in this case, packaging for a Tiger Electronics wristwatch game), and BoardJames came in the [=AVGN=] Games episode to show the Nerd his own version of {{Monopoly}}.
* CaptainErsatz: The LoonyFan from ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' review is based on Chop-Top from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2''.
** The man who sells him the games is based on Alfredo (the gas station owner) from ''Film/LeatherfaceTheTexasChainsawMassacreIII'', and even singing the same song the character does at one point.
* CaptainObvious: When criticizing the Virtual Boy's size for a portable system, he remarks, "My ass is portable!"
* CasualDangerDialog: When looking at the Franchise/JurassicPark game for the 3DO, he notices that the mini-game where you're being chased by a T-Rex doesn't show any hands on the steering wheel. He guesses that the driver either has their hand on the bottom of the wheel or is steering with their knee, and then goes on to note that the driver must be pretty casual about the situation to steer like that, and imagines them doing this on a cell phone at the same time.
-->'''Nerd as Driver(on cellphone)''': Hey, I'm stoppin' at Dunkin Donuts, you want me to pick up a coffee? What's that? Oh, just some fuckin' T-Rex behind me. Yeah, what an asshole.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
--> [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "I am DEAD. FUCKING. SERIOUS."]]
--> [[WhatWereYouThinking "What were they THINKING?!"]]
--> "What a shit load of fuck."
--> "Let's pop this fucker in!"
--> "Let's play some shitty games!"
--> "I would rather (do something involving animal shit) than play this game!"
--> "What a piece of shit!"
--> "It's like puking on a pile of shit!"
--> "What a joke!"
--> '''''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MuGxsLplA&feature=related ASS!]]"'''''
--> "Fuck. Fuck! FUCK! FUUUUUUUUUUCK!" as seen [[http://youtu.be/t9nxIUhZCCw?t=7m59s here]] and [[http://youtu.be/1dJXgJ1c4vY?t=3m7s here]].
--> "You think that's enough?"
--> (when having to do something very tedious) Oh my God. This takes forever.
--> "Let's flick that shit switch and crank up the diarrhea dial! It's [insert title here], '''ON CD-I!'''
--> [[ObviousBeta "Did they even test this shitty game?"]]
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in his Schwarzenegger Games review, when he reels off several of these in quick succession with increasingly flattening inflection: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "I am DEAD. FUCKING. SERIOUS.]] What a shitload of fuck. What were they thinking." (Takes a sip of Rolling Rock).
** Super Mecha Death Christ: [[ClusterFBomb FUCKERS!!!!!!]]
** Bullshit Man: "You know what's bullshit?" Of course eventually followed up with: "That's bullshit!"
** [[SophisticatedAsHell Makes me wanna have an anal evacuation.]]
* CausticCritic: Note that this is very much [[MeanCharacterNiceActor just the Nerd's exaggerated persona]] - when James reviews media as himself, he's actually more generous than most Internet critics. He is apparently rather soft spoken, which comes as a shock to people used to him as the AVGN. Contrast with WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd, who inverts James' concept and even has gotten James' seal of approval -- by subscribing to Happy's Website/YouTube account.
** Taken UpToEleven in his review of Ghostbusters for the Sega Genesis, when he declares that the world is coming to an end due to him liking the game.
*** And up to '''twelve''' after reviewing [[ComicBook/MaximumCarnage Spider-Man& Venom: Maximum Carnage]], when he [[spoiler: finds out that it was a LJN game and gets a HeroicBSOD as a result.]]
** You'll also notice that a lot of his videos where he tries to be more informative have him be more...well, out-of-character.
* CensoredForComedy: Discussed in the ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' review:
--> Whoever made this game is an ass****! Ass! ...Hole? ...Ass****! ...[[SarcasmMode Television makes a lot of sense.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Earlier videos were mostly Rolfe taking on the "Angry Video Game Nerd" role through and through, pretty much a [[BrattyHalfPint bratty kid]] talking trash about almost everything. More recent installments have involved him inserting more of his RealLife [[MeanCharacterNiceActor personality]] into the character, reserving the old JerkAss behavior more for reactionary purposes. Which are, well, pretty common.
* TheChewToy: Half the fun is simply watching the Nerd suffer and become increasingly unhinged over the course of the video.
* ChirpingCrickets: In the ''Action 52'' episode, when he tries to play Alfred and the Fettuc (for the second time) the game never loads and the Nerd is left only with a dark screen and the sound of crickets.
** In the ''Nintendo World Championships'' episode, Pat the NES Punk and the Nerd both have {{Imagine Spot}}s about what it would be like if they owned both the grey and gold NWC cartridges. Pat imagines himself at an awards ceremony winning an award for Best NES Collection (grudgingly presented to him by the Nerd just to rub salt in the wound). The Nerd imagines himself putting both cartridges on his shelf with the rest of his collection and just standing there looking at them with the sound of crickets playing.
* ChristmasEpisode: "Bible Games" (2006), "An Angry Nerd Christmas Carol" (2007), "Bible Games 2" (2008), "Winter Games" (2009), "How the Nerd Stole Christmas" (2010), "Bible Games 3" (2011), and "Wish List" parts 1 and 2 (2013).
* ChristmasMiracle: [[spoiler:Finally, the Nerd discovered an LJN game that is not a steaming pile of fucking shit. Appropriately, this happened on part 2 of the 2013 ChristmasEpisode.]]
* ClassicCheatCode: The Nerd uses the "A, B, B, A" code to revive Kyle Justin twice during the Ikari Warriors episode.
** The game itself has [[SomeDexterityRequired a truly absurd example]]: the level select code, as explained by the book ''How to Win at Nintendo'', is Up, Down, A, A, B, Left, Right, A, B, Up, A, Down, Right, Right, Left, B, Up, Left, A, Right, B, Left, Right, A, Left, [[OverlyLongGag Up, A, Down, A, Right, Left, B, and Select.]] '''''All before the title screen fully forms.'''''[[note]]The book was wrong, actually; the VHS tape "Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes, & Strategies" reveals that the code only works when entered during the title screen.[[/note]]
* ClipShow: Part of the December 2010 episode is a recap of all the previous Christmastime episodes.
* CloningBlues: None of them want to play ''[[Videogame/ANightmareOnElmStreetNES A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' with him. Though you can hardly blame them.
** The Nerdy Turd is cloned from the Nerd's feces.
* ClusterFBomb: Doesn't even begin to describe him.
** In the third CD-i segment, he literally drops some F-Bombs - [[VisualPun as in Zelda-esque bombs with "F" imprinted on them]] - ([[LampshadeHanging as he described it]]), while shouting... [[CaptainObvious "FUCK!"]] for each bomb.
*** Also, after his LaughingMad sequence for ''Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon'', he flips off both middle fingers and clucks like the Cluster F-Bomb Chicken.
** There's his exploration of various NES accessories, one of which was a headset Zapper with voice activation. He then found out that he didn't have to shout "Fire!" to make it shoot. HilarityEnsues as he goes on into a literal PrecisionFStrike.
-->"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9kBMscW_dVg#t=485s I just shot down a duck, by saying fuck.]]"
** Parodied with a line in his ''Dracula'' video.
-->"Oh eff--I mean fuck!"
** The end of the ''Ghosts 'n Goblins'' review directly references the trope title.
** The ''Godzilla'' games episode ends on such an epic ClusterFBomb that he runs out of swears that can properly convey his frustration and invents a new one (though [[SoundEffectBleep we don't get to hear it]]) just to satisfy his pent-up rage.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:
-->"[[color:purple:Purple]] for "Putrid Gameplay", [[color:blue:Blue]] for "Bad Musical Abominations", [[color:green:Green]] for "Graphical Farts and Garlic", [[color:yellow:Yellow]] for "Piss-Poor Lack of Loyalty to Source Material", [[color:orange:Orange]] for "Orange you a fucking idiot!", and [[color:red:Red]] for "High-stress Anger-Inducing Masochism"! Put that all together, and you have all the colors of the shit-rainbow! [[SarcasmMode Hooray LJN."]]
** FunWithAcronyms: Or, if you prefer, '''L'''aughing '''J'''oking '''N'''umbnuts.
* ComicalAngryFace: The Nerd excels in doing this.
* CompilationRerelease: The first two episodes were re-released as "Bad NES Games" together with various other shorts in the "Shorts" tape of the "Cinemassacre Gold Collection".
* [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining about Games You Don't Like]]: Pretty much the whole point of his videos.
** Even more so in another of Rolfe's series, ''You Know What's Bullshit'', though there it's more "Complaining About Pet Peeves", such as shoelaces, the post office not having much pens and pennies, which actually made the news.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: No surprise this happens a lot since a great part of the games he reviews are full of terrible FakeDifficulty.
--> '''AVGN''': The game cheats. That's all there is to it. '''The game fucking cheats.'''
* ConsoleWars: Discussed at great length in "SNES VS. Sega Genesis," including a video of himself as a 11-year-old fighting for the Nintendo side.
* ContinuityNod: The Nerd mentions "Fred Fuchs" from his ''Dracula'' review in his ''Winter Games'' review.
** When the couch gets destroyed in the Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle review, the Guitar Guy comes out from under the wreckage. He's been there apparently since the beginning of the series, though you only learn about this in the Battletoads review.
** The Guitar Guy (whose real name is Kyle) appears behind the couch again in a later episode . . . As a skeleton.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Instead of an ironically cruel death, [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] forces the Nerd to play [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames his NES game]]. (Though Freddy did try to kill him when he took a shit on the cartridge.)
* CoolPet: Boo/Death Kitty, his pet black cat. Just see the Atari Jaguar review.
--> '''AVGN''': "Yeah! That's the REAL Jaguar!"
* CoolOldGuy: Creator/LloydKaufman, the creator and director of the ''Toxic Avenger'' series, was invited to the Nerd's game basement to play and give thoughts on some games based off of the cartoon series ''Toxic Crusaders''. He may be 67, but he keeps up with the Nerd's brand of low-brow scatological humor so ''well'', even creating some funny moments of his own.
* CoolShades: The Nerd briefly wears some sunglasses in the first ''Terminator'' game review.
* {{Corpsing}}: The Nerd has trouble containing his laughter at many scripted gags, especially when the Lion shows up in the Wizard of Oz video.
** The song "Where Did Their Hair Go" has him fighting hard not to laugh during stage 4 of ''Ikari Warriors''.
*** The episode had quite a few instances of James breaking character by trying not to laugh. He failed during the latter stages of the song - you can hear him laughing off-screen.
** The Nerd cracks up at a few of Creator/LloydKaufman's antics in the ''Toxic Crusaders'' episode.
** At the end of the second video (''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''), he delivers his very first "Dead. Fuckin'. Serious." and then the video ends just as he begins to laugh, but not quick enough to cut the laugh out completely.
** When he sees the infamous [[AWinnerIsYou "YOU'RE WINNER!"]] screen in BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing, he completely loses it.
* CosmicRetcon: The [=Y2K=] bug caused the events of his earlier "Wizard of Oz 3" video to be wiped from existence. This is referenced in ''The History Of Super Mecha Death Christ''.
* CoversAlwaysLie:
** In his ''Little Red Hood'' review, he points out that even though the title character is shown kicking a {{Mook|s}} on the cover, you cannot kick your enemies in the game.
** In the Cheetahmen review's opening theme song movie, The Nerd plays the SNES game ''Phalanx'', a space shooter. He then looks closely at the cover of the game, which has an old southern man with a banjo. He looks to the camera, confused. (Yes, this is real; the publishers did this hoping it would grab people's attention).
* CoverVersion: His ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' review features Kyle Justin performing a cover of the Nintendo Power jingle and the beginning of his "Double Vision" ({{Colecovision}} & {{Intellivision}}) review, Kyle does a cover of Music/{{Foreigner}}'s "Double Vision." The Angry Video Game Nerd's theme has also been covered and remixed by fans of the series countless times in nearly every single genre of music.
* CreatorThumbprint:
** Rolfe is a huge fan of the horror genre, and it shows in his annual Halloween specials, dedicating daily updates on his Cinemassacre site to surprisingly thorough horror movie history.
** He's also a fan of the ''Godzilla'' films as well.
** His Castlevania marathon has him start by mentioning it as one of his favorite franchises.
* CrossOver: With Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Repeatedly. And consistently over-the-top.
** With [[TheNewAdventuresOfCaptainS Captain S]], in a Christmas special of said series.
** With PatTheNESPunk, for a review of the ultra-rare ''NES World Championship'' cartridge.
** With Creator/LloydKaufman of Creator/{{Troma}} at the ''[[Film/TheToxicAvenger Toxic Crusaders]]'' episode. And he's quite a CloudCuckoolander.
* CrossPoppingVeins: In his logo. The shape also suggests a game controller's directional pad.
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* CrucifiedHeroShot: James lying bloodied and charred from his fight with R.O.B. --With the trademark white shirt, of course.
* CulturedBadass: For a guy who spends all day playing old video games and swearing like a sailor he has a surprisingly in-depth knowledge of Scottish folklore, recounting the meeting of St. Columba and the Loch Ness monster in the history of Super Mecha Death Christ. Though in his version the monster was Satan and Death Christ drove him off.
* CurbStompBattle: Both of the fights between the Nerd and Bugs Bunny. Bugs is the first to get his ass kicked, but he later comes back in the Crazy Castle review to exact his rabbit revenge.
* CurseCutShort: From the ''VideoGame/{{Jaws}}'' section of his Creator/{{S|tevenSpielberg}}pielberg movie games review: "Smile, you son of a- Mmmmm!"
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: A major complaint he has in his review of ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'', in which he gets annoyed very quickly at the quantity of Space Shooters which are basically the same. Reaches the level of "{{Why Did It Have to Be|Snakes}} [[RecycledINSPACE Space?]]"
** Also shows up in his re-review of Film/BackToTheFuture (NES).
--> '''Nerd''': The rest of the street stages are all the same, except they change the color. No effort. Time is money. Don't design another stage; just change the color, and kids will think it's different. Do they think we're idiots?
* CuteKitten: His black cat Boo, a.k.a. "Death Kitty" has made a few appearances:
** In the second part of the Atari Jaguar episode, the Nerd is attacked by the Atari Jaguar logo. He thus summons Death Kitty to fight it, and proves quite {{Badass}}.
** In the NES accessories episode, it plays with the screen for a few seconds, as well as defacing the Power Pad when the Nerd references what pets can do to it. The Nerd also attempts to use him to control the Roll'n Rocker, only for Boo to walk off it 5 seconds later.
** AVGN [[{{Animorphism}} turns into Boo]] at the end of his ''VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker'' review.
** His white cat, Little Yeti, is used to torture the Nostalgia Critic into submission in the Final Battle behind-the-scenes.
* ADarkerMe
* DarkReprise: A low-tempo version of the AVGN theme plays us into his 100th review. It reflects the Nerd's increasing disillusionment with his once-beloved NES games.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode in which "the guitar guy" (Kyle Justin) who sings the Nerd's ThemeSong helps review ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''.
** And again in ''VideoGame/IkariWarriors''.
* DeadpanSnarker: This is the Nerd's default mode, from which he gradually transitions to full on rage. From the Sega CD review, for instance:
-->'''Superior Officer from ''Ground Zero Texas''''': Lets see some fire-power or I am personally going to call headquarters and find out what ''hole'' they ''dug you out of''--
-->'''The Nerd''': The hole in your ''ass''.
-->'''Eddie from ''Double Switch''''': Hey...
-->'''The Nerd''': Hey.
-->'''Eddie''': Hi.
-->'''The Nerd''': Hi.
-->'''Eddie''': My name is Eddie--
-->'''The Nerd''': Hi Eddie.
-->'''Eddie''': --I need your help. This is my building, and since the neighborhood ''really'' sucks--
-->'''The Nerd''': Like this ''game'' sucks.
* DecisionDarts: The 100th Episode (R.O.B.) reveals that the Nerd takes a pen out of his pocket protector and randomly hurls it at his wall of games to determine his next review.
* {{Defictionalization}}: There are a couple of episodes in which he casually mentions names of fake ridiculous games, this has caused some fans to actually google those games causing some curious results:
** In his review of Shaq Fu, he mentions FullHouse Tournament Fighter. Later, someone on [=YouTube=] submmited the supposely intro of the game, and recently he even submmited a whole battle between Uncle Jesse and Joey.
** In the review of Kid Kool, he mentions the game [[InspectorGadget "Doctor Claw's Dump and Pump"]], there are already a couple of fake Website/YouTube videos claiming to be the intro of the game to mislead the people that actually try to Google it.
** Taken further when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07OAUpq9IMs somebody brought]] an exact replica of the cartridge used in the Kid Kool video to a convention for James to sign.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: ''Fester's Quest'', apart from the game footage.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment
-->'''Nerd:''' They just cut out the logo with cheap paper and they glued it on...with glue.
** In his ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' review:
--> '''Nerd:''' And you know what pisses me off? Every time you fall down, you have to walk through the entire room all over again. All the enemies come back, so you have to fight everybody all over again.
** In "Schwarzenegger Games":
-->'''Nerd:''' Whoever designed the game this way is a real cocksucker! [[ShapedLikeItself ...that sucks cock.]]
** In "AVGN Games":
-->'''Nerd''': Okay, whoever came up with this is--(message from in-game Nerd appears)--yeah, exactly. They read my mind. They're an asshole, which means that the asshole who made this game acknowledges that they're an asshole and that I called them an asshole! [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You asshole.]]
*** Also, from the same episode:
-->'''Nerd''': It's the Giant Claw. It's as big as a battleship! How did it get in this game? It just barged right in, like a battleship crashing into a harbor. It's taken so many hits, like bullets on a battleship! [[YouKeepUsingThatWord It's a flying battleship!]]
* DerailedFairyTale: ''Red Riding Hood'' has an interesting take on the children's classic.
-->"Once upon a time, there was a girl named Little Red Riding Hood. She liked to jump in the air and whistle out her vagina. She kicked at trees until [[SesameStreet Big Bird's]] ballsack would appear. --what, that's not the story?"
* DeusExMachina: Literal case during his battle with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. The Critic begins channeling the power of Satan, and the Nerd is helpless, until Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 [[AC:B.C.]] 4.0 Beta shows up.
* DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck: [[invoked]] The Nerd sees the Tiger Electronic Games as this for video gaming as a whole. Their horridness were one of the few games to bring the Nerd to his breaking point.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In his revisit of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', The Nerd (who himself has been transformed into Hyde) is so pissed off by the game that he goes and digs up the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson.
** It then gets subverted when Stevenson's skeleton rises up and says 'Fuck you!' to the Nerd and foils his revenge. May count as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} for some.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During the Ninja Gaiden's montage of Ryu saying "What the...", one of them is suspiciously similar to one paritcular thing.
--> '''Nerd''': [[LampshadeHanging What is going on there?]]
* TheDogShotFirst: Mercilessly mocked in the intro to Nintendo Days Revisited. "Jason Voorhees shot first".
* DontExplainTheJoke: In his "Star Wars" review:
--> '''Obi Wan''': Luke, choose the force!
--> '''Nerd''': Get it? Instead of "use the force", it's "choose the force", [[SarcasmMode that's clever]].
* DoubleStandard: In his Atari Porn review, the Nerd calls a woman who bangs a lot of guys a "whore" and then almost immediately calls a guy who bangs a lot of women a "stud", although he does sound sarcastic when he says it.
* DoubleTake: Mistakingly beating ''Zelda II'' by wearing the Power Glove on his hand.
* DownerEnding: In his ''NinjaGaiden'' review, he and his ninja mentor ultimately give up trying to defeat the FinalBoss. The Nerd has also failed in other games, despite his best efforts. Other episodes end with him getting killed.
* TheDreaded: The Nerd is ''terrified'' of the E.T. game.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Following the Dracula reviews, the Angry Vampire Game Nerd begs the sun to "vanquish" him.
** The frustration of playing ''Ikari Warriors'' drives Kyle Justin to shoot himself in the head with a Zapper. This causes him to flicker and disappear until he is revived with a code, like the characters in the game.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Done in the review of ''The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2''.
* DuctTapeForEverything: The Nerd deals with the Virtual Boy's unwieldy design by duct-taping it to his head.
* DudeWheresMyReward: At the end of the Captain S crossover, the Nerd merrily announces "Merry [bleep] Christmas!", shocking everybody with his language, he ends up being sent back to his home and receives the Home Alone 2 cartridge from Santa Claus as a punishment for being foul-mouthed, [[UngratefulBastard ignoring the fact that the Nerd just helped Captain S to save him and Christmas from the Game Genie]]. In the [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol Christmas Carol episode]], it turns out receiving that game was the last straw that caused the Nerd go Scrooge. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job, Santa.]]
* EasterEgg: [[http://cinemassacre.com/2008/08/04/dark-side-of-the-nerd/ You can sync the episode of the review of the Wizard of Oz SNES game with Pink Floyd's'''Dark Side of the Moon''' album]]. Done in purpose as a reference to the urban legend that the Wizard of Oz movie could be synced to the album.
* EdutainmentShow: His reviews actually fall into this category, when you think about it. You may learn something you never knew about an old console or game, while being entertained at the same time.
** Many of his more recent episodes (2010 and beyond normally) were a little more like a documentary.
* EnemyMine: He has joined forces with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic to review ''The Making of TMNT: Coming Out Of Their Shells'' as they both are ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' fans. Sure, they technically became allies at the TGWTG Brawl, but still...
* EnforcedMethodActing: Several times, those are genuine reactions, and sometimes James thinks they were so good that they're worth putting into the final take. Gameplaywise, he shows that he's actually playing the game and that he wasn't staging them. If it's a new game he's never played before (Namely ''Dragon's Lair''), some of those are his actual thoughts.
** Subverted in a couple of his early videos. He admits in his 'Making an AVGN episode' documentary that in his ''Karate Kid'' video he was intentionally walking into the enemies.
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* EpicFail:
** Has several examples thanks to the Power Glove:
*** Stairs become a major obstacle for him in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI''.
*** In ''[[VideoGame/PunchOut Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!]]'', even the very first opponent in the game scores a TKO on him:
----> "I lost to [[WarmUpBoss Glass Joe]]. '''I lost. To [[{{Jobber}} GLASS JOE]].'''"
** He has such a low opinion of Tiger Electronics handheld games, he thinks they're worse than LJN!
----> "There's a difference between something that's old school and something that's outdated. Old school is like the Atari 2600. The games are primitive, but they're still fun to play. You can always go back to them. Outdated is something you never want to go back to. Tiger games are so outdated, they were never in-dated! They were a fad, like POGs! If they were an experiment in the '70s and they only made a few of 'em, then I could accept that. But, no, they milked these things for all that they're worth! You thought LJN was the grand champion, the almighty shitty game factory? Tiger put LJN to shame! Yeah, LJN laid down turd after turd after turd, but Tiger was like a machine gun ass, shitting out turturturturturturturtu-t-turd! These are the worst games I've ever had the honor of playing, if you even count them as video games! People have discussions like, "Are video games art?" or something like that. Well, I have a better one. "Are Tiger games video games?" These are a caveman's version of video games! These were a step back in human evolution! These are the most desperate attempt at entertainment! You could save up for a Game Boy, or just go [imitating the Tiger handheld sounds] eh-eh-eh-eh-eh. Yeah, well, [while simulating hand jerking and alternatively flashing the middle finger] eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh. J-Just, what the Hell?! T-These things, how'd they waste so much plastic to make these things?! It brought the game industry down as low as it could go! It's proof that Jesus died in vain and legally changed His middle name to "Fucking"! The only thing I could think of to use these things for is to wipe your ass with it! You might as well save that toilet paper, it's worth a whole lot more! [drinks Rolling Rock]"
** Then he gets to the Tiger Wrist Games, which he is incredulous to even existing. And then he gets to the Tiger R-Zone, which he says with utter seriousness that it is a shitty version of the VirtualBoy.
* EpilepticFlashingLights: He's reviewed a few games in which feature these, though he doesn't actually show offending scenes often. In two particular reviews, he even comments on the effects. In his Swordquest reviews, he comments on the games room transition effect, only describing it as being scary (the effect itself is harmless). In his Transformers games review, he comments on the Japanese-only Famicom game at when Optimus Prime forms in the beginning and when you lose a life, the black background suddenly starts flashing rapid colors. James says that the game is trying to give him a seizure. In both of these instances, the episodes suddenly cuts to him with a slow "red, blue, green, yellow" hue-color change effect. The Swordquest one has him jumping back (as if to steer clear of whatever is coming after him), while the Transformers one simpily has him staring bug-eyed at the screen while the color-change effect happens.
* EpisodeTitleCard: All drawn by Mike Matei, and all featuring a caricature of the Nerd.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His very first words:
-->'''Angry Video Game Nerd:''' This game sucks.
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Angry Nerds Love Their Mamas:]] In the ''SuperMarioBros. 3'' review, it's not the SHIT PUKE that pissed the Nerd off about the possessed cartridge in the first place. It's the line ''"[[Film/TheExorcist Your mother sucks cocks in Hell!]]"''
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Vulgarity Has Standards]]: During the Bible Games episode, the nerd shows us one of his limits (though he had said the first sentence straight in an earlier review, so he was probably trying to make up for that).
-->'''Nerd:''' You would rather listen to your own infant child puking to death. That is, choking on his own puke chunks...[[DudeNotFunny That's disgusting, I apologize.]]
** He also apologizes for something he says in his Indiana Jones review. "I'd rather drink buffalo shizz! That's a combination of shit and jizz. Yeah, that's foul. I apologize."
** While reviewing the Sega Genesis version of "Action 52", he was shocked to see a dog in the game freeway being ran over by a car. In the same game, he demanded to know what was the deal with "dead cats" in another game on the same cart.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: The tendency for tanks to explode when they run out of fuel in ''VideoGame/IkariWarriors'' is parodied.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: Not ''all'' of them, but it often involves destroying the cartridge of the game reviewed.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: InUniverse: Parodied at the end of his ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'' review remake.
* EveryoneIsSatanInHell: Parodied in-universe. Near the end of the VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 review, the Nerd starts finding all kinds of obtuse Satanic imagery and references in the game, until the game turns out to be possessed by the Devil and attacks him.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He is a nerd, he often gets angry, the show is about video games.
--> "To play the game, you need the ''GameBoy''. Here's the game, that's the boy, this is the Game Boy."
** Shit Pickle. He's a pickle, and he's got a big (well, relative to his size) dollop of shit on his head.
** Also the Nerdy Turd, a large turd with the Nerd's face on it. Created for the Magnavox Odyssey review. [[TheUnintelligible The only sound it makes is fart noises.]]
** "Hey, you like my new invention? I call it the "Gyromite Controller". ..It plays Gyromite."
** The Nerd lampshades this in "How the Nerd Stole Christmas":
--->''VideoGame/{{Ballz}}'' is an aptly-named travesty on SNES\\
That makes no sense and is a cockamamie butt-brained mess!
* ExcrementStatement: At the end of the "Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout" video, he drops his pants and takes a giant shit on Bugs' face. He also throws a plastic butt at him saying, "[[BondOneLiner Got your ass handed to ya]]."
* ExpositoryThemeTune
* EyeScream: When confronted by Michael Myers, the Nerd jabs the joysticks of a pair of Atari controllers through the eye holes of his mask, [[ImplacableMan evidently to little effect]].
* FailedDramaticExit: After suffering the NES ''VideoGame/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' game, AVGN walks off the screen only to run back in front of the camera to attempt a more accurate description of how much it sucks. This happens twice.
* TheFaceless:
** Mike Matei, who always wears some form of costume or makeup ([[spoiler:That is, until ''WebVideo/BoardJames'', where Matei becomes ''Motherfucker Mike'']]).
** Freddy Krueger's face is covered by shadow or obscured otherwise in the ''[[Videogame/ANightmareOnElmStreetNES A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' episode. [[spoiler: He looks just like the Nerd.]]
** Initially the Bullshit Man, until TheReveal that he's...ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* FacePalm: The Nerd can't help but do this during ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'' and during his ''Dracula'' review.
* FailedASpotCheck: In the ''VideoGame/{{Alien 3}}'' review, he complains that the game doesn't tell you how many people you have left to save before you can proceed to the next level, when part of the HUD periodically switches back and forth between displaying the timer and the number of people left.
* FakeCrossover: The crossover with ''TheNewAdventuresOfCaptainS''.
* FakeDifficulty: The biggest reason why the games the Nerd reviews suck.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: To the nerd, ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' is this trope. Out of a six and a half minute video, exactly one minute and 12 seconds is actually spent playing; the remaining time has the Nerd [[TakeOurWordForIt going on about how horrible it is]], [[INeedAFreakingDrink chugging back his beer several times]], and essentially begging not to have to play it or that the viewer not play it. And it really is that bad.
** Another time, when Jason Voorhees is forcing him to play the ''VideoGame/FridayThe13th'' NES game and say good things about it, the Nerd at one point gets caught badmouthing it and runs away before Jason pins him in a corner. At first, he pleads for his life...then Jason takes out the cartridge, and the Nerd begs to be killed instead.
* FightSceneFailure:[[invoked]] [[StylisticSuck Intentionally]] used in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' review, where a shot show him jump-kicking a wall for no reason, which Kirk actually [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHCNTELFI8 did once]].
--> "And I am dead fucking serious. Dead. Fucking. Serious." *breaks into laughter as video cuts away*
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Seen in the "Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle" review.
* FireForgedFriends: The Nerd and CaptainS in the crossover Christmas special.
* {{Flanderization}}: Kinda. His earlier reviews (back before his Screwattack partnership) had him act much calmer, with some swear words popped in at times. Now he swears much more often, and he's more over the top angry. Beer drinking was also a one-time action in his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde review, now being a staple of his series.
** Another way to put it is that before, he was simply an "Angry Video Game Nerd" who became angry at the constant suckage of the games he played. Now, he's an ''insane'' muthafucka. Compare his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reviews.
* FlashbackCut: Demonstrated in his ''Rambo'' review when he briefly flashed back to a satirical remark he made in his ''Chronologically Confused'' video about what the next Rambo movie might be called.
* FlippingTheBird
* FollowTheLeader
** Inspired a glut of profanity-filled internet video game reviews, with WebVideo/TheIrateGamer being among the most prominent.
** He also has some imitators in other countries, like the WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier ("The Attic Gamer") in France.
* ForegoneConclusion: In his ''Die Hard'' review:
--> '''Nerd''': So is this game gonna be great, or is it gonna suck? Well take a wild fucking guess!
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Nerd mentions Richard Daluz's Nintoaster in passing during his review of the Atari Jaguar CD. It is the console he plays ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' on in THAT video.
** Also overlaps with BrickJoke: [[spoiler: In his earlier review of the Film/BackToTheFuture games: he stuffs the cartridge in a toaster.]] This overlap was lampshaded.
** In the Making Of special, when James demonstrates how he has hooked up so many consoles to a single TV, he uses the CD-I as the example and shows us how he activates it, but adds "[[TemptingFate I don't know why I'd ever want to play CD-I again.]]" Guess what console he uses in the ''Dark Castle'' review?
* FountainOfExpies: He got a lot of them!
* FrankensteinsMonster: The "Franken-Nerd".
* FreakOut: The Nerd goes completely fucking loco at the end of the Dick Tracy review. He starts ''screaming'' about the NintendoHard aspect of the game, coming closer and closer to the screen, screams, starts drinking beer like crazy (''wetting his clothes'' in the process), starts shouting muffled nonsense while pushing his face into ''a pillow'', [[ClusterFBomb a brief montage of him screaming "FUCK" in various parts of his house follows]], and even then, he pierces the cartridge with a drill. ''[[ButWaitTheresMore Then]]'' he looks at the cartridge, spinning because he wasn't holding it and it was still on the drill, [[NightmareFuel with a demented stare]], at that, and the screen ''finally'' cuts to black as he destroys it with his hammer. ''While the cartridge is spinning''.
** It's been noted the sheer ire of this particular FreakOut concerning ''Dick Tracy'' was because this was one of the few games the Nerd owns that he hasn't been able to beat for over 20 years and actually harbors [[SincerityMode sincere animosity for]]. Projecting real-life frustration via the Nerd persona equals one of his most ''batshit insane'' rants ever in the series.
** Done again in his second revisit of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''. After too much time playing the game (and, arguably, too much liquor), the Nerd goes [[HulkingOut on a rage-blinded mission]] with a cape, top hat, and a cane to dig up Robert Louis Stevenson's grave for making the book that inspired the game; after the skeleton somehow comes back to life, proclaiming it's the devil and commanding the Nerd to play the game some more, [[AllJustADream the Nerd wakes up]] with the game still in the toaster-turned-NES. He has an {{e|urekaMoment}}piphany...
* FreezeFrameBonus: In the ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' review, when the nerd is attempting to see just how fast the truck can go while reversing, as it goes beyond ludicrous speed, you can briefly see images of Franchise/WinnieThePooh, [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy]], [[Film/StarWars Darth Vader]] and [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] appearing on-screen.
* FridgeBrilliance:[[invoked]] The Nerd has an extreme case of this himself when he revisits ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde''. Toward the end of the review, he begins to think it is actually a clever game, as [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory it makes sense that Jekyll's weapon doesn't hurt people since he symbolizes good, how you get a game over when Hyde physically passes Jekyll since in that instance it would mean evil triumphs over good, and many other bits of symbolism in the game.]] Of course, even after realizing this stuff, he still hates the game for being awful.
** His "evidence" for VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 being possessed had to take forever to come up with, and it's truly a spectacle of nerd theory-dom.
** He doesn't use his 'Beat-a-Game button' on the original Ninja Gaiden, but on Ninja Gaiden 2 instead. Why? Because he never beat the first one so he wouldn't be able to use footage of the ending cutscenes.
* FridgeLogic: Invoked in his ''Ricky 1'' review:
--> '''Nerd''': Oh my God. An exploding doormat to keep burglars out!.... I always thought burglars came in through the window. And what if it was a neighbor or a mailman or something?!
* FromBadToWorse: The Tiger Electronics episode is basically one long case of this trope, with each of their products only serving to piss off the Nerd more and more. It says everything that when he gets to the Game.com -- widely regarded as one of the worst handhelds ever -- he actually considers it a ''respite'' from the other Tiger products, since it at least has actual console-type games and some features which were innovative (if badly executed) for the time.
* FrothyMugsOfWater: WordOfGod says the Rolling Rock bottles are actually filled with water. Justified because James shoots the footage in the morning and doesn't want to drink alcohol that early.
** In the 'Spiderman' episode, you can see that it [[http://youtu.be/omW1E7rv7IM?t=3m30s is indeed water in the bottle]] (as Spidey tips it away claiming it to be 'corporate bullshit' and 'Shit Rock'), although this might be purely because of the nature of this shot; who the hell would actually tip perfectly good beer away like that?
** It's also visible to anybody who has seen enough bottles to realize the tint of the liquid should be darker if he were actually drinking beer, but it's a lot less indefinite and an actual admission.
** This is a common practice in the film business, as filming often requires multiple takes; using real alcohol get actors very drunk very fast. Also, it would be a lot more difficult to chug like the Nerd does it if it were real alcohol.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the Winter Games review, the Nerd eventually goes on a rant about how the control setup is essentially [[PacManFever frantic mashing of random buttons]]. He does an example of this while saying so, facing the camera and using the controller plugged into the NES behind him. Viewers looking past him during this moment will notice the figure skater in the game doing several (relatively) impressive moves; all of which the Nerd previously noted he couldn't do when he was ''trying''.
** Much the same happens when he tries to beat Zelda II with the Power Glove. The Nerd is busy talking about the NintendoHard nature of the game and the shittiness of the Power Glove while lamenting how he's never been able to beat the game. All the while behind him, Shadow Link is handily defeated by the Power Glove's random movements, something he was never able to do when he actually tried his hardest.
-->'''AVGN:''' ''[while Link goes to the far-left corner, crouches and swings his sword repeatedly]'' In conclusion, it's still a great game. But many considered it the black sheep in the ''Zelda'' franchise. And understandably, it's very different from the first game, but obviously Nintendo didn't want to rehash the same game over again, ''[Link completely drains Shadow Link's health, defeating him]'' so they tried something new. Some people were confused, and admittedly it had some mixed results. [[spoiler:''[Link grabs the Triforce of Courage from the elder]'']] But it had a legacy of its own. ''[Link is next seen [[spoiler:slowly spreading out the Triforce of Power, Wisdom, and Courage in front of the sleeping Zelda]] while the AVGN is still talking]'' It was the first ''Zelda'' game that had towns to visit, and they had a magic meter, and many games copied its style such as ''VideoGame/TheBattleOfOlympus'' and even ''VideoGame/{{Rambo}}''. Bottom line, it's a good game, but a very frustrating one. [[spoiler:''[the incantation of the Triforce wakes up Zelda]'']] I'll never beat it as long as I live. Nope.
*** This is of course PlayedForLaughs and an EasterEgg for those aware of the famous glitch (crouching in the corner and stabbing) used for beating Shadow Link in Zelda II.
* FutureLoser: During the 2007 ''A Christmas Carol'' parody, the Nerd sees his future self playing various shitty Wii games and [[spoiler:the future Nerd eventually has a heart attack while playing Boogie to the tune of "[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Walking]] [[Music/KatrinaAndTheWaves on Sunshine]]"]].
* GainaxEnding: The ending to his Franchise/StarWars review, in which [[spoiler: a buffalo shits through his window and covers his floor in buffalo dookie]]. For no apparent reason.
* GenrePopularizer: Of the "angry video game reviewing" kind, if you're not going to call those others copycats.
* GenreSavvy: The Nerd created a FrankensteinsMonster, but also added a way to shut it off.
* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when The Nerd shows clips of what his earlier videos would be like [[TakeThat if he went back and added new special effects]], then reveals that he was just messing with his fans and that he'll simply shoot new reviews that expanded upon his older videos instead of going back and altering previously released videos.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: All the time, but there are particularly plenty of examples in his ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'' review:
--> '''AVGN''': There's ''dogs applauding''!! I didn't even know that dogs were fucking watching!!
--> '''AVGN''': [[HeroicBSOD Bu... th... uh... wha...]] A fucking ''chicken mask''?! ...An '''[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment UPSIDE DOWN FUCKING CHICKEN MASK!]]'''
--> '''AVGN''': WHY IS IT NOW JUST A HEAD OF A PANDA?!
** In "Wish List Part 2", the Nerd judges ''Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage'' to be a decent game. Not great, but not bad either. Then he takes a look at the box to see who made the game. [[spoiler:And finds the '''LJN''' logo.]]
* TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation: James is an admitted fan of vintage animation, to the point where even goes out of his way to ''collect the original prints of those cartoons and watch them at home with his own movie projector.''
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Used in a few examples in his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEXpsDB2XQ review]] of ''[[VideoGame/{{Pitfall}} Super Pitfall]]'' when an angel and a devil fight over Harry's body every time an enemy kills him. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Even funnier is that when Harry falls into spikes at one scene, the game would freeze up while the angel and devil are hovering for a few seconds before Harry finally "dies".]]
* AGoodNameForARockBand: "Cunt-thrust", inspired by the ladies who "restore Link's health", so to speak, in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''.
* GoshDangItToHeck: In the crossover with CaptainS, the Nerd's foul language got humorously toned down.
-->'''AVGN:''' Home Alone in the Nintendo Entertaiment System, ''what a buttload of crud''.
** Also happens while reviewing the SNES ''Terminator'' game, but still manages to retain some profanity.
-->"Holy mother, and fucking god, shit, holy mackerel, gosh dangit, how is it not over yet? How long could this first level possibly go?! Unless maybe the whole game is like this. I just can't fucking believe it!"
** And again in the review of ''Lester the Unlikely'' while trying to get past the cave stage:
--> "The next level's inside a cave, and now things are becoming very labyrinth-like. On top of bad control, I don't even know where to go." (Lester falls down a pit) "Aw, doodoo!"\\
''A little while later...''\\
"Oh, no, why do so many games have to have bats?!" (Lester dies) "AW, DOODY!!"
** In the "Schwarzenegger games" review:
--> '''Nerd''': This game blows ass, sucks duck cunt fucking shit munching bunch of pile of.... poop.
** In the "Dracula" review, he does this but then "corrects" himself:
--> '''Nerd''': (after dying in the game) Aw, F! I mean, ''fuck''!
* GrammarNazi: James does this to the credits for the NES ''Ghostbusters'' game. Though in fairness to James, those were really obvious errors and deserved to be corrected.
* GratuitousGerman: Slips into this during his ''VideoGame/DeadlyTowers'' video ([[FourthWallMailSlot the one where everything was written by the fans]]).
--> "Well, I gave that a try..."
** According to the comments on the video, it translates to "This game is shit! This game fucks you harder than life!"
* GrossoutShow
* GuestFighter: Bugs Bunny, who intrudes the Nerd's reality just to kick the crap out of him.
** The Nerd and Kyle Justin were the guest characters (...and Ma-Ti from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'') that were not part of the TGWTG.com crew that appeared in the [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover Anniversary Team Brawl]].
* GuideDangIt: Really, ''really'' pisses him off. Justified, in that when NES games were first released, not everybody had access to guidebooks and video game magazines for help. But perhaps the granddaddy of examples is when he played ''Little Red Hood'', and discovered that in Stage 8, the key to exit the level doesn't appear unless you first buy one Invincibility Potion and three Slingshots!
-->'''Nerd''': ''(aghast)'' '''How would anyone know to do that?!''' It's like, you're playing the game, and all of a sudden the game throws you a curve ball and ''[[FlippingTheBird changes the fucking rules!!]]'' It would be like if you were playing SuperMarioBrothers, and there was one level where you couldn't jump on the flagpole unless first you collected EXACTLY 29 coins, stomped on 3 Goombas, and got 1 Fire Flower!
* GuiltyPleasures: According to his review of "The Making of WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour," he had a cassette of the tour, which he would listen to all the time, but is ashamed to admit it.
** He also admits to liking "TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze" as a guilty pleasure, despite (or perhaps because of) thinking it's cornier than the first movie.
* SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike: The main purpose overall of his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' and ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series reviews. This is especially prevalent for ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV'', since he had criticisms for the other games, but that game garnered nothing but praise.
** He also sometimes gushes about features he likes, like how the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis controllers use the same type of plug as several other game controllers, so that when he encounters one he doesn't like, he can just swap it out for either of those two and it will still work.
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