Say anything you want about the show itself, but you can't deny that The Opening Song to The Irate Gamer is just awesome! It was royalty-free stock music from the defunct Digital Juice company.
In his Top 5 NES Picks video, when he says that he uses a Game Genie for Kid Icarus, he says, "I'm sure there's gonna be some 'elite' gamers out there complaining about how I'm using a Game Genie for this game. Well, you know what? Fuck 'em! Because even with a Game Genie, this game still proves to be very challenging."
Him beating Silver Surfer (1990) when AVGN couldn't even beat one whole stage. Granted, he needed to use the unlimited lives cheat, but he deserves praise for beating something not even James Rolfe could beat, and without an invincibility cheat to boot.
Back in 2011, at E3, Nintendo released a soundless Wii-U tech demo for The Legend of Zeldanote that would eventually evolve into the Wii's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011) or the Switch's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017). Chris flexed his creative chops on the demo by painstakingly giving it music and sound effects. This led to the video going viral at about 1.8 million views at the time of this writing. Most notably, even hardcore Irate Gamer critics admitted in the comments and their blogs that it showed Bores' strengths when it came to editing.
Perhaps intentionally, he made sure it had barely anything to do with the Irate Gamer show. He never advertised Puppet Steve on his main Irate Gamer channel probably to prevent his haters from catching wind of it and leaving hate comments on his newer videos.
Nevertheless, there were still several dedicatedpeople who noticed the connection.
Puppet Steve eventually overtook his original Irate Gamer channel in terms of subscriptions, making it the most popular channel under his belt.
Him getting past all twenty-two floors of stairs in the NES Ghostbusters game without a turbo button or other cheats. Even if his main reason to not use cheats was to spite potential claims of his video ripping off AVGN's, it's still a worthy achievement nonetheless.
Ever since his crossover with the Nerd where they seemingly buried the hatchet, the Irate Gamer has ended up with a much healthier channel ratings-wise. Even though he only gets a fraction of his views back in his heyday, the ratio of likes to dislikes of his latest reviews have significantly trended to the positive compared to the more mixed reactions of his past reviews (some of which still have the comments section disabled). He has become more of a positive figure in many a former hater's eyes.
to The Irate Gamer is just awesome! It was royalty-free stock music from the defunct Digital Juice company.