Trivia / MandaloreGaming

• Colbert Bump:
  • Mandalore's reviews frequently generate a popularity bump in games that have gone largely under-the-radar, or revive interest in some older games. His review of Brigador, for example, where he described the game as "criminally underrated," created a spike in positive reviews for the game on Steam. In his UnReal World video he tells fans that scalpers snapped up Limbo of the Lost after he put out a video on it, so if fans are already interested in Mystery of the Druids they should get on it before his video on that game comes out.
    • The developers of Stasis games confirmed that after Mandy's reviews their sales were "like a 3X or 4X on our usual sales".
  • The music of lesser known rapper Nieve got a bump after the release of Mandalore's video on Anonymous Agony, largely due to the game using Playback as its overworld theme.
• Corpsing:
  • When covering Stronghold: Crusader Extreme, he can't stop himself from laughing at the sheer number of lions that spawned on one map he played.
  • Happens several times in the Total War: Warhammer review. Namely when he realizes he's wasted his time doing a challenge run as the Warriors of Chaos and can't even use the reward he did the run for in the first place. ^note For context, he tried to claim the Sword of Khaine while playing as Kholek Suneater, but a bug at the time prevented any Warriors of Chaos lords from taking the blade.
  • Also occurs in his Project: Snowblind review, where he talks about the game's absurd Video Credits-style ending cutscenes, which show a bunch of moments that aren't in the game and depict several incredibly minor side characters as if they were close friends of the protagonist. He absolutely loses it at the scene with the war memorial, which has a placard saying he had to take a fifteen minute break from recording.
  • Mandy does this frequently during his Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 video, and it was because of how nonsensical the story had become by that point that it was impossible for him to stay composed.
    Mandy: I can't get over it. 10 years on and I still cannot believe this is what the game is.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Due to not streaming often, Mandy's streams don't usually remain for long on his twitch account, meaning his streams often are lost because of that. Many of his streams only exist now because of fans who upload it to youtube. While most of his major streams (as in ones he makes videos on) are uploaded, some have been lost due to this.
• Similarly Named Works: A lot of people assumed that the origin of his name was from Star Wars. In reality he had never heard of the Mandalorians until years later, having simply heard the name "Mandalore" from a friend and thought it would be a good username. Which is why he tends to go by "Mandy" as a nickname.
• Trolling Creator: Mandy frequently messes with his fandom and friends, purely for shits and giggles, one notable example being his attempt to gaslight viewers by hiring voice actor Gianni Matragrano to dub in the line "I've got a bone to pick with you" on an enemy skeleton in Pathways Into Darkness, and playing it absolutely straight as the single voice line in the entire game. This goes through the roof whenever he's drunk, as numerous stories of his friends have recounted, as he will troll himself by preparing stuff for his sober self to be surprised by. The apex of this was his build up to his Cabela's Dangerous Hunts video, after covering more traditional horror fare throughout October, making the implications that his Halloween video will be the scariest of them all, which is technically still accurate if only because the game's desperate attempts to be Call of Duty midst trying to pretend to be hunting simulator leads to a mind-warping experience that even Mandy can't handle, much less the audience.
• Troubled Production: His video on Ring and Ring 2 was easily among the hardest videos Mandy has made. Part of the issue was because the first game's save system didn't work, meaning if he got a game over, he had to restart the entire game and try again. Then he had to find a way to play Ring 2, which was nigh impossible at first, and took adjusting his PC details to much, that it was practically impossible to ever replicate it again. Worse, doing so damaged his PC so badly, he had to get a new one after. This doesn't even include all the times he got stuck trying to beat both games. Tellingly, it took nearly three years for a review to come out.