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Angry Video Game Nerd
''Angry Video Game Nerd'' (''AVGN''; originally known as ''The Angry Nintendo Nerd'') is an American retrogaming review comedy web series starring and created by James Rolfe. The series centers on Rolfe's titular skit character, often simply shortened to "the Nerd" (sometimes just "Nerd"), a short-tempered and foul-mouthed gamer who delivers commentary on List of video games notable for negative reception, retro games of poor quality. While the series began with Rolfe simply playing games while providing retrospective commentary, the show has grown in scope to encompass sketches featuring guest characters, reviews of gaming consoles and peripherals, and short lectures about video game history and culture. Starting out as an amateur filmmaker, Rolfe intended his earliest videos of the character to be a joke privately shown amongst friends and colleagues. In May 2004, Rolfe, at the suggestion of future series producer Mike Matei, put the ''Angry Nintendo Nerd'' videos on his web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Review
A review is an evaluation of a publication, product, service, or company or a critical take on current affairs in literature, politics or culture. In addition to a critical evaluation, the review's author may assign the work a content rating, rating to indicate its relative merit. Reviews can apply to a movie, video game, musical composition, book; a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or software such as business software, sales software; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert, play, musical theater show, dance show or art exhibition. Online review platforms also aim to provide a space where buyers can share authentic experiences—positive or negative—and businesses can use this feedback to improve their services. In the cultural sphere, ''The New York Review of Books'', for instance, is a collection of essays on literature, culture, and current affairs. In academia User review A user review refers to a review written by a use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joueur Du Grenier
Le Joueur du Grenier (literally "The Attic Gamer") is the main character and title of a web television series of farcical retrogaming video reviews created by French filmmakers Frédéric Molas () and Sébastien Rassiat () in 2009, starring themselves. Similarly to the ''Angry Video Game Nerd'', which is the direct inspiration for the show, it generally revolves around retro game reviews that involve rants against games of particularly low-quality or poor design. On September 13, 2012, the channel created a new series called Papy Grenier ("Grandpa Attic"), where on the contrary, Le Joueur du Grenier talks about good video games for a period of 5 to 8 minutes per episode. They created later the Bazar du Grenier ("The Attic Bazar") channel which is including more diversified videos (including playthroughs or cinema critics). They have more than 3,6 million subscribers on YouTube on their primary channel, and more than 1,8 million on their secondary Bazar channel. Therefore, it is o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott The Woz
''Scott the Woz'' (stylized as ''Scott The Woz'') is a gaming comedy review web series created by American YouTuber Scott Wozniak. The series, starring Wozniak, covers video games and gaming history. Episodes are written and directed by Wozniak, with recurring characters played by his friends. Compilations of episodes were syndicated on the 2021–2022 revival of the TV network G4. Premise ''Scott the Woz'' is a video game review web series, with a focus on discussion and retrospective of video games topics such as consoles, accessories, merchandise, history and subculture. Most episodes adhere to a structure where Scott explains or analyzes a video-game related topic, interspersed with cutaway skits and some recurring jokes. Some episodes deviate from this structure, and feature the video-game topic as interludes between scenes, or are simply just an extended skit with video-game references and themes. These reviews show his opinion for entertainment, but are often res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angry Joe
Jose Antonio Vargas (born June 18, 1984) is an American media commentator and YouTuber. He is notable for his portrayal of Angry Joe, the titular host of his media review-oriented YouTube channel ''AngryJoeShow''. YouTube Vargas launched his YouTube channel ''AngryJoeShow'' on October 4, 2008 with the video "Shit that Pisses Me Off - Madden 2009 Hardcore Gamers". The show features Vargas' character "AngryJoe" reviewing a video game with a scale from 1-10. These reviews typically use sketch comedy and clips from his streams on Twitch. The channel was well-received by the YouTube community; as of April 2021, it has accrued over one billion views and amassed more than 3.2 million subscribers. In addition to game reviews, Vargas produces movie reviews on his channel. He and his channel have received mention in media covering YouTube, most notably for Vargas' opposition to copyright overreach on YouTube. His interest in copyright on YouTube stemmed from an incident in which Nintend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arin Hanson
Arin Joseph Hanson (born January 6, 1987), also known as Egoraptor, is an American YouTuber, actor, rapper, and animator. He is well known for his Flash cartoons, as well as being the co-founder and co-star of the popular YouTube Let's Play series ''Game Grumps''. Hanson has created numerous shorts and web series on Newgrounds and YouTube, including ''The Awesome Series'', which parodies video game franchises like ''Pokémon'' and ''Metal Gear'', and ''Sequelitis'', a series of animated video essays in which he humorously compares a video game and one of its sequels. He has also voice-acted for television and video games. He regularly collaborates with Ninja Sex Party, a musical comedy duo consisting of ''Game Grumps'' co-host Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht, with whom he formed the nerdcore/parody musical trio Starbomb. Early life Arin Hanson was born to Lloyd and Maurette Hanson on January 6, 1987, in Margate, Florida. For a few years, his family lived in New Hampshire, howe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Walker (comedian)
Douglas Darien Walker (born November 17, 1981) is an American comedian, film critic, actor and YouTuber. He is best known for creating and starring in the satirical film review web series ''Nostalgia Critic'', wherein the titular character reviews Nostalgia, nostalgic media in an exaggeratedly angry manner. After an initial run on YouTube, Walker co-created the website That Guy with the Glasses (later merged into Channel Awesome) in 2008, where he and the series gained wider popularity. The site also presented other media critics who created similar content, including Lindsay Ellis and Angry Joe. Walker and his series returned to YouTube in 2012. As of 2025, Walker still creates the show but with less of an angry or profane approach. Early life and education Walker is the son of Barney Walker (b. 1946), a United States Navy, naval officer and musician, and Sandra Ruth (née Polkow) Walker (1947–2016), a therapist. Both parents, as well as Walker's older brother Rob (b. 1979), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JonTron
Jonathan Aryan Jafari () (born March 24, 1990), better known online as JonTron, is an American YouTuber. He created the eponymous YouTube web series ''JonTron'', where he reviews and parodies video games, films and other media. Jafari is the co-creator and former co-host of the Let's Play webseries ''Game Grumps'', and co-created the video game entertainment website Normal Boots. , his YouTube channel ''JonTronShow'' has 6.5 million subscribers and 1.39 billion views. Early life Jonathan Jafari was born in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on March 24, 1990, to Afshin and Irene Jafari. He is of Hungarian descent on his mother's side, and Iranian descent on his father's side. He attended Palos Verdes Peninsula High School from 2004 to 2008. Career Early career Jafari created a Newgrounds account under the name "BirdmanXZ6" in 2003, and uploaded five animations depicting anthropomorphic onions. In 2006, he made a YouTube account under the same name. Jafari uploaded vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sketch Comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches" or, "skits", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. While the form developed and became popular in music hall in Britain and vaudeville in North America, today it is used widely in variety shows, as well as in late night talk shows and even some sitcoms. While sketch comedy is now associated mostly with adult entertainment, certain children's television series such have used it, too. The sketches may be improvised live by the performers, developed through improvisation before public performance, or scripted and rehearsed in advance like a play. History Sketch comedy has its origins in music hall and vaudeville, where many brief humorous acts were strung together to form a larger programme. In the 1890s, music hall impresario Fred Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue, and in 1904 he produced a sketch called ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company to produce handmade ''hanafuda'' playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business and becoming a public company, Nintendo began producing toys in the 1960s, and later video games. Nintendo developed its first arcade games in the 1970s, and distributed its first system, the Color TV-Game in 1977. The company became internationally dominant in the 1980s after the arcade release of ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'' (1981) and the Nintendo Entertainment System, which launched outside of Japan alongside ''Super Mario Bros.'' in 1985. Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, including the Game Boy (1989), the Super Nintendo Entertainment Syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cult Following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium. The latter is often called a cult classic. A film, book, musical artist, television series, or video game, among other things, is said to have a cult following when it has a very passionate fanbase. A common component of cult followings is the emotional attachment the fans have to the object of the cult following, often identifying themselves and other fans as members of a community. Cult followings are also commonly associated with niche markets. Cult media are often associated with underground culture, and are considered too eccentric or anti-establishment to be appreciated by the general public or to be widely commercially successful. Many cult fans express their devotion with a level of irony when describing such entertainment. Fans may become involved in a subculture of fandom, eith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
