Trivia / The Irate Gamer

• Acting for Two: Chris plays every character on the show except for the Wise Sage. Brad Harp played the Genie in his first appearance, but Chris played him for every other appearance.
• Approval of God: Bores has enjoyed the "Bores 'n Doors" meme that came from his Monster Party review, even the ones made by detractors.
• Ascended Fanon: Some spell his name as iRate Gamer under the belief that Bores intended a pun. His iRate The 80s videos show that he's now going along with this.
• Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: He has created a lot of non-Irate Gamer videos, including a series on ghosts, rants about breakfast and other esoteric topics, and a number of Skylanders videos. This eventually died down.
• Author's Saving Throw:
  • He attempted this with his Tekken 6 review. In the original version, he never talked about the main game, just the Scenario Campaign mode. In the YouTube upload, he added a part where he reviewed the Arcade mode thing and said it was good. It backfired when he forgot to remove the scene where he said it sucked. Or he didn't forget. He gives an arguably flimsy justification (that he prefers games like Mortal Kombat) possibly so he didn't need to edit it out.
  • During the midst of Bores' Skylanders obsession, he did attempt at creating a second channel exclusively for Skylanders videos. At first it worked, but then the plan fell apart as Bores continued to post Skylanders videos on his main channel, likely abandoning the Skylanders channel. Although he did upload several of his Skylanders videos on this channel as of November 2015, but still uploads new ones on his regular Irate Gamer channel.
  • The IG did a revisit of the TMNT games and this time around, he put more focus on the game. He also went into more details about the sequel games by focusing more on the gameplay and much less on the graphics, unlike in the original.
• The Danza: The Irate Gamer's first name has been stated to be "Chris" on multiple occasions. Instances of this include the "Home Improvement" video (where he straight-up states that his name is "Chris" as he introduces himself) and the "Monster Party" video (in which his younger cousin, Joey, addresses him as "Chris").
• Flip-Flop of God: Whether or not the Irate Gamer has been retired keeps changing under Bores' own admission.
• Follow the Leader: He is perhaps the most prominent follower of the Caustic Critic Video Review Show trend started by the AVGN, though Word of God claims it wasn't The Nerd but "100 other guys doing the same thing".
• He Also Did: Chris Bores also did Haunted Investigators/Ghost Doctor and Puppet Steve.
• Missing Episode / Keep Circulating the Tapes: Several smaller videos have been removed for unknown reasons, notably his Let's Play of Kid Icarus and his tribute to Leonard Nimoy.
• Orphaned Series:
  • The series began to die off after a while, with 2016 not having any real reviews. Bores seemed to have quietly moved onto a series called Puppet Steve, which is a show that reviews toys and games with a puppet modeled after the default skin of Minecraft. It shares much of the same humor and style as the Irate Gamer.
  • As of 2017, The Irate Gamer appeared to be dead, with only a comment that he was retired and had moved on to Puppet Steve.
  • However, in 2018 Chris rebooted the series, dropping the "Irate Gamer" tag and rebranding it as "Chris-Tube" and started the Chris Neo show. However, he abandoned that series and has started a podcast called Geek Time: The Next Generation with his friend Tim Walker.
  • However, he abandoned the podcast and is back to doing The Irate Gamer. Only time will tell when he abandons this revival again.
  • As of 2020, he's full steam ahead with The Irate Gamer show thanks to his crossover with the The Angry Video Game Nerd for the licensed videogame of Dick Tracy in 2020.
• Schedule Slip: For quite some time now, actual IG reviews have gotten rarer and rarer as he fills his channel with more non-IG videos. In 2009, he only released two retro reviews, three videos on "video game history", and five "Neo" reviews which required little effort because he doesn't care. In 2010, he's released even fewer.
  • Which is funny because he stated in his Q*bert review that YouTube would fire him if he doesn't post a video every month.
  • IG started the History of Video Games series in May 2009. As of December 2015, he's only released ten parts, covering up to Mattel Electronics' Intellivision.
  • He's uploaded more videos showing off Skylanders, more than iRate the 80's, regular and Neo reviews in the past few years. Word of God states this is because "my Skylanders video out perform my regular IG videos."
• What Could Have Been:
  • Bores originally planned a fantasy novel, but it seems to have been canceled in favor of his semi-autobiography "Ghost Hunting 2.0".
  • People have actually tried to help Bores before, such as giving him title cards and footage, only for him to accept and never use the stuff given to him. Guru Larry mentioned on Twitter that he offered to proofread Bores' scripts, only for Bores to decline. In a (now deleted) video, Asalieri mentioned he too offered to help Chris write his scripts, and got the same response.
  • Several behind the scenes info was given in his Season 3 compilation and commentary video:
    • The Genie from his review of Aladdin was to return sooner and would cause trouble for the Irate Gamer when he needed a Game Genie.
    • The Kool Aid Man review was planned for Season 2, but upon completion of a video for it Chris' computer crashed, moving the idea back a season.
  • The 2020 crossover with the Angry Video Game Nerd was going to be much different. According to an AMA with Justin Silverman, the plan was to actually get them together and review American Gladiators on NES, ending with a fight where they work together. But like everything in 2020, COVID-19 killed it, and IG instead talked about Dick Tracy on NES with the Nerd's role being a glorified cameo, and ended up on Chris' channel rather than Cinemassacre. Chris also tried to slip in a reference◊ to the "No time" and "Muh kidz" memes from r/Thecinemassacretruth in James' dalogue, but he didn't understand them so they had to be scrapped.

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