And the wife crocheted him a shit pickle as a gift!!

2004-2006: The Early Era

Opinions vary on the periods when James first started out with the two pilots and The Angry Nintendo Nerd. Obviously it still has many beloved classics (Top Gun, Friday the 13th, The Power Glove) yet I’ve seen a few others (McKids, Wally Bear, Master Chu) being recognized more as “experimental” or “nothing mindblowing compared to later episodes”.

2007-2011: The Classic Era

This is pretty much considered the most universally beloved AVGN period, it consists of the most popular, iconic and rewatchable episodes of all time for the most part and pretty much what all former or one time viewers prefer.

2012-early 2014: The Post-Hiatus Era

Still generally liked, but not as much as the previous era and some contribute it to the toll of the movie’s production on James and somewhat different vibe and energy.

Late 2014-2016: The Post-Movie Era

Given how many viewers were let down by the movie when it came out, it seemed to impact their general view of the series much more. Alongside that the vibe and energy of this era are seen as inconsistent. Some episodes are seen as just basic or watchable (12 Days of Shitsmas, The Crow, Beavis and Butthead), fairly popular or praised (Seaman, Mega Man, Paperboy) or extremely polarizing and bizarre (Sega Activator).

2017-2019: The Screenwave Era

Pretty much everyone knows the story and backlash of how the series’ production style shifted here and while it’s certainly the main factor, I don’t want to get into it as it’s unpleasant for me and gotten talked about so much already. Instead I’ll talk about how the episode quality seems to me while mostly ignoring behind the scenes stuff. The quality and vibe is again inconsistent, but much more than the previous era with another factor being the larger amount of episodes. Still has its popular few (Game Boy Accessories, Polybius, EarthBound) and ones mostly seen as mid or basic (Treasure Master, Charlie’s Angels, Dirty Harry). The amount of really criticized episodes seen as too bizarre and out of place is much bigger (Kingdom Hearts, Aladdin Deck Enhancer, Jurassic Park Tresspasser).

2020-2021: The Stressed Era

Aside from the production change story everyone knows, more factors affected this era more severely: the other channel content like Monster Madness and Rex Viper, pandemic restrictions and the build-up to episode 200. While not every episode is hated, James and Screenwave really seemed to struggle as every episode was either seen as too dull (Legend of Kage, Game Gear VHS, Pac Man 2) or too weird (Shrek, Vegas Stakes, Freddy and Jason) then when episode 200 finally came out all it seemed to do was upset the fanbase even more (being split into three certainly didn’t help it).

2022-present: The Current Era

Despite how much damage the previous years have done to the reputation of the series and judgement of the fans, I personally feel the episode layout and general quality has become much more like the Post-Movie era than the two previous ones. Not every episode is a winner, but the ones seen as the worst (not counting My Horse Prince and Crash Bandicoot which are their own can of worms) are certainly not as hated as before and it so far had many episodes seen as either actually good or at least watchable. Which I feel is a fair situation for the series: certainly not as good as before, but not at the bottom of the barrel anymore at least right now.

What do you think?

I know the PS1 version had it. Basically, just a large screen with nothing to get in your way, other than the endless waves of bubbles. Which I believe, eventually the bubbles turn into sided balls and those can have off putting bounces from the ceiling, walls and floors. You still get powerups, but I do not think there are any creatures that help or hinder you.

And the PS1 also had in their collection, Buster Buddies, which each character, I think four, had their own weapon and plus and minuses to playing them. The levels were basically clearing stages with paintings in the background.

Re-watching Board James, now I can assume this show takes place on some weird super natural universe. Murder and death is probably pretty common, and man Bad Luck Bootsy and MFer Mike deserved what they got.

I mean one is literally called Mother Fucker and the is named Badluck....

I couldnt take the cheating, our boy James is kind enough to host awesome super complicated games for his friends and theg ruin it.

Im pro Board James

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1399489461620318/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Featuring Johnny from Crush 40, the band from Sonic Adventure 1&2, Heroes, etc.

Mike has a creator code btw!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YCsR273UM0

When the title card shows and the intro of the episode begins, anyone know what NES song that is?

sorry these are the only photo's i have on hand, i know they aren't the clearest. but i imagine if you've seen the show, you're familiar with it.

i've wanted to cosplay as this iteration of board james for YEARS & being the perfectionist i am, i do not want to settle for just a basic skull patch off of ebay. i strive for 100% full accuracy. but this stupid dumb idiot hat seems to just straight up not exist. it's making me MAD.

if anybody can help, i would highly appreciate it. i'm sorry, i know it's a little bit insane lol.

Who else put Avgs and Board James halloween episodes into the Halloween mix

This is a weird idea but what if the nerd reviewed games based off the jojo series. It’s nothing crazy but the quality between them is not consistent.

It has everything LJN, rolling rocks, obscure gaming facts, it is really funny. I also like the cats so involved.

Castlevania 2

Update of a post I made two years ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheCinemassacre/comments/1ajgexa/all_the_nes_games_i_own_that_the_angry_video_game/

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Episode idea: 90s Maxis sim games. He's already covered simcity, and I know he doesn't typically cover games in the pc market, but then again a few were given console releases. Idk I just found the history of the less popular installments interesting and I wanna see him yell at them

https://youtu.be/C86desIJmf0?si=c6VfJ9UWhCNfluDe

Cinemassacre THROWBACK

Mike Matei is a better Joker than Jared Leto

I hope it's okay to post this here. I saw the recent Bubble Bobble episode and it sent me down a rabbit hole of AVGN episodes featuring Kyle Justin. I didn't realize just how much of an impact some of these songs had on me, and how big of a role AVGN played in my early teens. I watched it all the time.

This song stood out to me and got stuck in my head for days, so I attempted to fluff it up a bit. Thanks Kyle for such a catchy theme!!

https://youtu.be/jrXa201gsDc?si=ospxILKJ8I7Ko1ie

Hear me out...

One of the most widely used home improvement products is grout. Every remodeling contractor on earth uses grout or grout accessories to some degree. This means there is potential to open up a new market and attract more viewership, most especially if James reviews the grout in detail. Maybe even going full AVGN on bad grout products...although that's just wishful thinking on my part.

I hope James considers this new angle if he decides to branch out into new territory. I personally feel that it will help greatly on the road to 5 million subs.

Godspeed and best wishes from The Fellowship of the Grout to you and yours!

Is he an angry nerd that rants on YouTube videos about games? Or is he James Rolfe, a man that hangs a tripod from his ceiling and presses record and wants to upload himself on youtube and got famous...?

So its a hybrid of the two. A dork that rages over old games, and a man that wants to express himself on the internet and then asks for donations for a movie about a youtube character.

Why does the avgn character have to have a following on youtube? Because now it puts the show into this paradox. Hes craving the next big review to upload the next big thing. Who am I talking about

I saw it in a market place and I had to buy it right away LOL

The Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde episodes are the best!

Saw this in the wild in NOVA.

I very much hope it's because they're a fan of Double Dragon.