Testeur Alpha
is a video game reviewer from Quebec, Canada. Inspired by the Angry Video Game Nerd, he reviews both good and bad games along with his long-suffering sidekick Beta.
Games reviewed so far, chronological order
2012
- The Flintstones (NES)
- NARC (NES)
- Winter Olympics (Genesis)
- The first Christmas Special:
- Home Alone and Home Alone 2 (NES)
- Dazed Before Christmas (SNES)
- Elf Bowling (GBA)
- Batman Forever (SNES)
2013
- Carmageddon 64 (Nintendo 64)
- Rascal (PlayStation)
- Shaq Fu (SNES/Game Boy)
- Booby Kids (NES) and 'Booby Boys'' (Game Boy)
- V.I.P. (PlayStation)
- Defenders of Dynatron City (NES)
- A few Shoot 'Em Up games:
- Metal Fighter (NES)
- Earth Defense (Genesis)
- Sub-Terrania (Genesis)
- A few Hockey games:
- Ice Hockey (NES)
- Blades of Steel (NES)
- Hit The Ice (SNES)
- A general review of the Sega Master System, ending with a detailed look at Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
- The first Halloween Special:
- Haunting Starring Polterguy (Genesis)
- Monster Bash (PC)
- Monster Party (NES)
- Three Pac-Man games for the SNES:
- Pac-Attack
- Pac-In-Time
- Pac-Man 2 : The New Adventures
- The second Christmas Special:
- Santa Claus Saves the Earth (GBA)
- James Pond II Codename: Robocod (Genesis)
2014
- Largo Winch .// Commando SAR (PlayStation)
- A few Rugrats games:
- Rugrats Studio Tour (PlayStation)
- Rugrats in Paris and Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt (Nintendo 64)
- Games for the NES Zapper: Gumshoe, Chiller, Baby Boomer and The Lone Ranger.
- A few homebrew games:
- Battle Kid; Fortress of Peril (NES)
- CrazyBus (Genesis)
- Titanic (NES)
- Revenge of the Sunfish (PC)
- Fishing games:
- The Blue Marlin (NES)
- Bass Hunter 64 and Bassmasters 2000 (SNES)
- The second Halloween Special
- The Gilligan's Island game (NES)
2015
- Two Ace Ventura games.
- Some E.T. games.
- Some The Blues Brothers games.
Tropes associated with Testeur Alpha:
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: The hockey episode is presented by Beta, with a depressed Alpha taking the back seat.
- Big Eater: Beta eats a lot, especially in the more recent videos. He's also an Extreme Omnivore. In one episode, he eats patience calendars.
- Butt-Monkey: You thought Seb had it bad? Beta gets it way, way worse. In every episode, he's beaten up at least once.
- Caustic Critic: Subverted. As anger prone as Alpha is, he is quick to give credit to a game where credit is due.
- The Chew Toy: Beta is abused in every episode.
- Continuity Nod:
- In the Carmageddon episode, Beta accidentally shoots someone through the window. In the following episode, Alpha gets a phone call about Lambda having been shot in front of his house.
- In the VIP review, he yells when one of the game's characters compares herself to Shaquille O'Neal.
- In the same review, he gets aggravated because of a message where the word "tire" is spelled "tyre". In the following episode, a tire is visible in the background with a note pinned to it saying "TYRE for sale".
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Beta. Big time.
- Couch Gag: Every opening sequence ends with Alpha and Beta playing a game, Beta punching Alpha and Alpha retaliating. Alpha's payback for the punch changes every episode.
- Every Episode Ending: Every episode ends with "Beta's chronic puns": Beta tells a story full of very, very bad puns.
- Evolving Credits: When the episode features Lambda or a guest who stays for the entire episode, they are shown in the opening sequence alongside Alpha and Beta.
- Gratuitous English
- Identical Grandson: Lambda and her great-grandmother.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Due to Alpha, Beta and (formerly) Lambda playing all secondary characters. They include:
- Herr Doktor: A German Mad Scientist (played by Alpha), who is apparently behind some of the worst games Alpha reviews.
- The Igor: Herr Doktor's assistant (played by Beta) named Gertrude.
- A simpleton neighbor (played by Alpha) who drives a jumping car.
- A snobby French couple living nearby (played by Beta and Lambda)
- A constantly annoyed postal worker (played by Alpha) who Beta mistakenly believes to be his friend.
- And many more...
- Metalhead: Alpha
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: How the third episode starts:
- Alpha: Hello my friends. And Beta.
Beta: (gives finger)
- Nigh-Invulnerable: According to the homebrew games review, Beta is this. It explains why the abuse he's put through never leaves any permanent mark.
- Put on a Bus: Lambda apparently left for Japan.
- Separated by a Common Language:
- The differences between the dialects of French spoken in Quebec and in France are sometimes noted by Alpha.
- He did his Rugrats review while imitating the French accent and speaking in French dialect after Joueur du Grenier challenged him to do so.
- Sidekick: Beta, to Alpha.
- Take That!: Lots to Justin Bieber.
- Theme Naming: Alpha, Beta and Lambda.
- Odd Name Out: You could have expected the third member to be called Gamma.
- Trademark Favorite Food:
- In-Universe, Alpha's is... Windex. Yes, the window cleaner. Some videos have disclaimers stating that the viewers shouldn't try it.
- Beta's are timbits.
- Unexplained Recovery: Lambda, after having been shot, prompting a very appropriate reaction from Alpha.
