History AVGN / Tropes0ToG

** The Atari Porn episode was rereleased on [=YouTube=] in November 2023 as “Atari Pork” in the style of an old-school television edit, complete with the “modified from its original version” disclaimer and all language and sexual references crudely dubbed over.

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* CausticCritic: Note that this is very much just the Nerd's exaggerated persona - when James reviews media as himself, he's actually more generous than most Internet critics. He is apparently rather soft-spoken, which comes as a shock to people used to him as the AVGN. Contrast with WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd, who inverts James' concept and even has gotten James' seal of approval -- by subscribing to Happy's Website/YouTube account.
** Exaggerated in his review of ''VideoGame/{{Ghostbusters 1990}}'' for the Sega Genesis, when he declares that the world is coming to an end due to him liking the game.
** And up to '''twelve''' after reviewing ''VideoGame/SpiderManAndVenomMaximumCarnage'', when he [[spoiler: finds out that it was a LJN game and gets a HeroicBSOD as a result.]]
* CensoredForComedy: Discussed in the ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' review:
--> Whoever came up with this is an ass***! Ass! ...Hole? ...Ass***! ...[[SarcasmMode Television makes a lot of sense.]]
* CerebusRetcon: It is implied that the "TV Game Guy" was forced to host Pepsiman instead of willingly chugging Pepsi and engorging snacks.

** And up to '''twelve''' after reviewing [[ComicBook/MaximumCarnage Spider-Man& Venom: Maximum Carnage]], when he [[spoiler: finds out that it was a LJN game and gets a HeroicBSOD as a result.]]

* ChristmasMiracle: [[spoiler:Finally, the Nerd discovered an LJN game that is not a steaming pile of fucking shit (namely, ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage''). Appropriately, this happened on part 2 of the 2013 ChristmasEpisode.]]

** In his ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer'' review, the Nerd says that just thinking about the game makes him feel like having an anal evacuation. He says the same thing about the Power Pad in his NES Accessories review.

* CountryMatters:
** During the NES Accessories video he tests a voice-controlled contraption using VideoGame/DuckHunt. The "c" word is among the swears he uses as he attempts to shoot a duck down.
** The Amiga CD32 episode has him drop a C-bomb here and there as part of [[ItMakesSenseInContext his attempts to swear like a European]].

** {{Discussed|Trope}} in both of his ''VideoGame/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' videos, where he begs the viewers not to use this as a reason to play it.

** In ''Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Re-Revisted'' the Nerd mentions that the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' had different stages but the U.S. version removed a few and replaced them with repeats of previous levels. he says it probably made the Japanese version better like eating a turd vs eating a chocolate covered turd.

* CloningBlues:
** None of them want to play ''[[Videogame/ANightmareOnElmStreetNES A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' with him. Though you can hardly blame them.
** The Nerdy Turd is cloned from the Nerd's feces.

** On the ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' NES game:

** One of his descriptions of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' for the NES is "diarrhea coming out of my dick." Fast-forward seven years, and ''VideoGame/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' for the NES is [[SerialEscalation "diarrhea coming out of an old woman's bleeding vagina."]]

** He was horrified with some of the games in his ''Amiga [=CD32=]'' review. In the intro to ''Beavers'', it shows a rabbit taking a gun straight to one of the female beavers while ''Kang Fu'' not only is a [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs train wreck to look at,]] it has a jarring game over screen that shows a kangaroo carcass in the desert.

** The Sega Genesis Accessories episode. Instead of being a traditional episode with the Nerd in his game room doing a traditional review of each of the accessories, it features the Nerd with his friend Keith unwrapping each accessory as a present on Christmas morning and playing with them and making a mess of the fake living room in the course of the episode.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Nerd doesn't appear on screen in the first episode of the series and in the second, a review of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', he plays the game for only about a minute because it's so bad. While the third episode (''The Karate Kid'') is the first to identify him onscreen as "The Angry Nintendo Nerd", the first version of the current theme song doesn't appear until episode 7 (''[=McKids=]'').

* ContinuityPorn: The dream sequence in the ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' review is fueled by this. [[spoiler:The Nerd finds himself in his own version of Magicant where he comes face-to-face with the destroyed copy of ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII'', [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Bimmy]], the trucker from the fake ''[[VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing Big Rigs]]'' commercial, and even the cluster of shit from his ''UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar'' review. Other brief character cameos include the Glitch Gremlin, [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Joker]] and [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Cowardly Lion]] (as played by Mike Matei), [[VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy R.O.B.]], Shit Pickle, [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], and the ninja from the ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' review, to name a few]].

** There's his exploration of various NES accessories, one of which was a headset Zapper with voice activation. He then found out that he didn't have to shout "Fire!" to make it shoot. HilarityEnsues as he goes on into a literal PrecisionFStrike.

** In the ''Seaman'' review, the Nerd puts in another game called ''Explosive Fighter Patton'' for the Famicom that gives him a message that has "fuck" in it. The Nerd promptly loses his mind knowing that there's a game, released ''earlier'' than ''VideoGame/HongKong97'' (which had the famous "herd of fuckin' ugly reds" PrecisionFStrike), '''''on a Nintendo console''''', that uses the word "fuck".

* BaitAndSwitch: In the ''Pepsiman'' episode, the Nerd makes us think this episode is going to focus on ''Yo Noid!'' for the NES. This goes as far as having a ''Yo Noid!'' title card at the beginning of the video and fishing the game out of a litterbox filled with cat turds. Then Pepsiman himself shows up and transforms the game into the ''Pepsiman'' game (along with several other product-placement games the Nerd would rather review) getting the episode back on track.

--> "I remember playing it for the first time as a kid. It was a Friday night, my homework was all done, my mom took me to the video store, I rented this game, I took it home, man, I played it, and it just FUCKING ''PISSED ME OFF '''AND RUINED MY WHOLE GODDAMN WEEKEND!"'''''

** "Home Alone Games" (2018)

* CoolPet: Boo/Death Kitty, his pet black cat. Just see the Atari Jaguar review.
--> '''AVGN''': "Yeah! That's the REAL Jaguar!"

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** In the ''VideoGame/DieHard'' review, the Nerd jokingly suggests the idea of a ''Film/LethalWeapon'' game where Riggs's powerups are dog biscuits. This really does happen in the [[VideoGame/LethalWeapon Super Nintendo game]] based on the movies.
** The peeing fountain that the Nerd mocks in ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''? Actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis real thing]].
** In his video on ''Super'' and ''Virtual Hydlide'', the Nerd frequently reads from a book titled ''On Bullshit'' by Harry G. Frankfurt. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit It's a very real published text.]]
** While reviewing the NES game of ''Film/HudsonHawk'', the Nerd discovers that the health meter is hidden in the pause menu and likens it to if you had to pull over and turn the engine off to see how much gas in your car. Before the advent of fuel gauges [[note]][[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer (yes, there was a time when cars did not have fuel gauges)]]; the fuel gauge was invented in 1917 by John G. Collison who took it to General Motors. By 1920, every car rolling off of assembly lines had one.[[/note]], cars had a long stick attached to the underside of the gas tank cap, which was typically on top of the tank, called a dipstick. The less gas the dipstick had on it when pulled out, the lower the car's fuel level was.

--->"A couple [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces has just got done having sex in a cemetery]]. I'm not even kidding! What else does this look like?! He's not wearing clothes! Next thing: Satan shows up as if saying 'Yeah, [[HornyDevils I wanna get into some of that]]!' and takes her away. That's the plot. [[RefugeInAudacity Is that the greatest opening to an NES game, or what?!]]"

** In ''Commodore 64'' he is impressed by how the Commodore 64 port of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2'' has the same graphics as the arcade version since that is what is pictured on the box. He later finds that the game is indeed a decent 8-bit port and they actually grabbed the pictures on the box directly from the arcade version.