Headscratchers / The Angry Video Game Nerd

• From the Ikari Warriors episode: Where did their hair go?
• Perhaps more suitable for the James Rolfe page, but it's regarding The Nerd's game collection. What kind of day job does Rolfe have that he can a.) afford so much obscure and valuable merchandise (like, one episode he says he blew 700$ or so on consoles that didn't work) and b.) make hundreds of videos, which are significant effort and time investments, that are viewable for free, on what was for a long time a fairly regular basis? (Over 200 decent to great quality videos over 18 years!). Obviously, one has to admire his dedication and how much he cares for his fans. The logistics are just puzzling.
  • Fan donations make up a good part of his collection, although much of it is indeed just a testament to the Nerd's passion.
  • AVGN is James Rolfe's full-time job. Presumably he makes damn good money doing it too, if he can afford all of the expensive consoles (3DO, Neo-Geo, CD-i) and super-rare games (Cheetahmen II, Action 52, Swordquest: Waterworld, the Zelda CD-i games) that he reviews. I would find it hard to believe anybody would donate anything that extravagant to him, or that he would even accept such an expensive donation.
    • Don't forget that AVGN isn't his only series.
  • According to one of his Behind the Scenes videos (if I remember correctly) he says he has a contract with Web Video/Gametrailers.
  • It's impressive how he manages to do all of these reviews and everything he does on the website while also supporting a family and maintaining a social life.
• Why did the Nerd wait so long to make a significant jab at LJN? Before, all we got was a passing reference in the A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES) review to "Laughing Joking Numbnuts". Heck, he even discussed Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree before LJN.
  • Actually he made more jabs at LJN before that. One of them is in his Nintendo accesories review. But to answer your question, he said himself he just realized that most of the bad games he played were from LJN.
    • The Elm Street review came first. Besides, it was one of his early reviews.
• Wasn't the Nerd supposed to review the R.O.B. at some point?
  • Irate Gamer beat him to it.
    • And that matters...why? Like James would steal jokes from Irate; he's too good for that.
    • Regardless, every Irate Gamer fan would call him out for even reviewing the material after he did, which would proceed to more flame wars.
    • Can't wait to see the fireworks that must've occurred after the Ghost 'n' Goblins review, then. (I'm not being mocking or sarcastic to the above poster)
  • No, he never planned to review R.O.B. At the end of "NES Accessories", he said "I think you know what's coming next", puts on an Indy hat, and R.O.B. pops up in the background. Some people thought that meant R.O.B. was next; in fact, it was Indiana Jones, and R.O.B. was just a joke.
  • He also said that he can't cover everything in one go, and what he missed (R.O.B.) will have to wait until later.
    • Actually, according to his list of games he owns on Cinemassacre, he's missing a working copy of one of R.O.B's games. Since he's only compatible with two, there's no point in doing a review without both.
    • HE JUST REVIEWED R.O.B! http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/711094
• Is the Nerd recording things directly from his videogame console? It sometimes becomes very noticeable when he's splicing multiple videos together at once, like in the Ghostbusters review. Wouldn't it be easier if he used emulators?
  • On his FAQ page, he says he just connects the console directly to a DVD recorder. Seems easier than using an emulator to me.
  • No, it's not. Not when 99% of the games he endures are tolerable only with the Save State function of emulators!
  • Don't quite a few emulators these days have an AVI record function?
    • You can often see the flaws composite cabling leaves on video in his videos, and he has mentioned several times that he has the consoles wired up through a DVD player. For the ones with built in screen, like the Vectrix or Virtual Boy, he films on the screen with a camera. He probably uses a Super Gameboy for Gameboy games, and the later similar tools for later versions of the Gameboy.
  • He's never really addressed it, but James only reviews games he owns a physical copy of. Odds are he doesn't want the effort of actually acquiring the game to go to waste by doing the review with an emulated game.
    • Then there are the legal issues; ROM's are hypothetically legal to play in the U.S. if you own a legitimate copy of the game, and definitely illegal if you don't. Publishers can't do much about casual home use of ROM's, but they could do something about a guy who made money by playing pirated software. ROM's also don't have cases to show to the camera, nor a manual from which to learn the controls (though he rarely seems to read the damn thing anyway).
  • Emulators aren't 100% accurate. When he wants to review a game, he wants to play it just the way it would have been played back when it was made. Glitches, bad controls, and the lack of save states all included.
  • He mentioned it on his Sega CD review on why he left out a review for Snatcher.
  • His 'Making an AVGN episode' episode explains everything the original question asks for.
• Did the Nerd switch to Yuengling? What the fuck?
  • Huh? What the hell is that? If it's about his website fucking up from time to time, the Nerd made a video explaining that the sheer traffic forced him to get creative with his server and on occasion the site splits between two different servers.
  • He's talking about The Nerd's beer of choice. His penchant for Rolling Rock is iconic amongst his fans, so a switch is a bit jarring.
  • The Nerd explained on his site that it was cheaper than Rolling Rock at the time, so he went with a local beer.
  • And this matters...how? Is he actually drinking real beer on camera? I thought that it was supposed to be a sight gag and nothing more; that he needs a Quick Nip every now and then. Fill Rolling Rock bottles with water and who'd know the difference?
    • Of course he's drinking real beer on camera. Why wouldn't he? It's not like he's gonna get smashed off one beer. I mean, yeah, its a sight gag, but still.
    • Apparently, it's usually just water he's drinking, since he records in the morning and that's a bad time to get drunk.
  • His Spider-Man video references this, where he offers the despondent Spidey a beer, specifically Rolling Rock. Spidey pours the drink onto the floor, not wanting "this corporate bullshit", instead "stick(ing) to the local brew" in his words, complete with showing off a bottle of Yuengling. That said, James still has a sip of the old RR from time to time (Especially the NES accessories vid. ROLLING ROCK ON THE ROLL N ROCKER)
  • In the commentary of the Spiderman episode, James explains that he simply did not have any Rolling Rock at hand when they were filming the episode. They initially considered just going with it and hoping that people would not notice, but ended up making the little In-Universe explanation for why he did not drink Rolling Rock that time.
• Is it just me, or did the Nerd seem a hell of a lot less vitrolic towards Castlevania II: Simon's Quest in his Castlevania marathon? It was like he only did an Accentuate the Negative towards the game just to stay in character and even that wasn't that much more accented than his comments on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. Heck, he even said that it had a lot of nostalgic value and retained the classic Castlevania atmosphere, and while he practically declared Fanon Discontinuity on it in the first video, he gave the game equal footage with the rest of the classic games in subsequent videos and even the ending montage.
  • The AVGN persona is just that; a persona. When he does tribute pieces like this, he tends to act more like his real self, and James has said numerous times that Castlevania II is one of his favorite games. The original video he did with Simon's Quest was actually just a joke he did for some friends, where he pretended to be a raging fanboy tearing a game apart by nitpicking tiny flaws.
  • He still pointed out its flaws, such as the unskippable "WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE/THE MORNING SUN HAS VANQUISHED THE HORRIBLE NIGHT" text boxes, the useless hints given by the townspeople (Then again, the manual does say they're just plain liars), the pathetic ease of which Death and Dracula can be beaten (Death can be beaten by WALKING THROUGH THE ALREADY OPEN DOOR) and other such problems.
    • When he's talking about it in the tribute video, he's a lot less in-character.
• How come, during his CD-i three-parter with his reviews of Hotel Mario and The Legend Of Zelda Cd I Games, he did not once mention their use in Youtube Poop? Does he hate YouTube Poop, or was he just trying to resist referencing it?
  • It's not his style? He's not trying to be some hip internet figure (he doesn't need to), he's just making some videos? The jokes had got so lame (apart from maybe the Little "No" from Hotel Mario) by 2008 anyway.
  • Remember that the Nerd rarely mentions something recent. Back when the CD-i games came out, YouTube wasn't invented yet.
  • The cutscenes of Hotel Mario and the Zelda games are really what make them So Bad, It's Good. The Nerd wanted to portray the games as horrible, so he only focused on the gameplay, which is probably a lot more flawed than the hideous-yet-hilarious cutscenes.
• Why did they show such little actual gameplay in the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde review? Really, about 90% of that review was just him mumbling about how God-awful the game ones. He hardly said anything about gameplay, mechanics, etc. It was really more of a drunken rant than his typical style.
  • His typical style didn't exist when he wrote it. He didn't even intend to make a series at that time.
  • His revisitation of it fit the now-established formula a lot better and had one Funny Moment after another.
  • The whole point was that he was so traumatized by the game, he couldn't bring himself to play it. It was that bad. Even in the "Re-Revisited" episode, it takes him a while to gather the courage to play the game, struggling mentally and physically to overcome his resistance to inserting the cartridge and turning the NES on. We should consider ourselves lucky he showed us any footage at all.
• Why did the Nerd, a big Transformers fan, have no idea who Trypticon was?
  • Maybe he know about Trypticon but calls him Mecha-Godzilla as a joke and hey, he does look like Mecha-Godzilla when I first saw him.
    • It was entirely a joke - if he didn't know who Trypticon was, he would have mentioned it when he was saying that the bosses were recycled (because really, decepticon logo? Three times?). And to be exact, everyone would expect either Galvatron or Unicron as the last stage boss, so Trypticon there is just weird (not that he isn't powerful), and most people would think of it as of Mecha-Godzilla.
• The E3 2010 videos by GameTrailers have James acting in-character as The Nerd. However, it mainly seems to manifest as him just interjecting curses into his speech instead of actually directing it at things that might warrant an angry response.
  • Possibly justified in that the Nerd is a fictional character and the dialogue in the AVGN reviews is scripted; at E3 there very likely wasn't time to prepare scripts for every game on show so James essentially had to ad lib his dialogue.
• How does he record his Game Boy reviews? Does he use Super Game Boy / Game Boy Player and put a layer that looks like his GB on top of it?
  • Only in his Spiderman review did he just put the Super Game Boy screen on his Game Boy in post. Later reviews had him record the footage from the Super Game Boy itself.
• Why exactly is Jame's "Console Wars" video only accessible on Myspace? It doesn't bug me, but I find it odd. It's not on Screw Attack, Cinemassacre, or Youtube. Just..Myspace.
  • It's on all those sites, but its title was changed to "Wii Salute".
• After seeing his "Back to the Future and Other Games Revisited" review and hearing his soliloquy on LJN's logo, don't you think James would have learned by now that LJN didn't actually make the games they put their name on? They were just a publishing company; it was Rare, Acclaim, Beam Software, Software Creations and Pack-in Video that were actually making those travesties. The only thing LJN can really be blamed for is failing to test the games out and make the developers do it over.
  • If your name is on it, you can be blamed for it.
    • How is that a Hard Truth Aesop, anyway? Companies should and MUST care for the quality of the products they plaster their names on.
  • I still think the Back to the Future part should've been one video, with the Other Games Revisited part as a second. More updates, more revenue, more views. Why did he combine them again?
  • On his "Beetlejuice" review, he said that he is aware that LJN is just a publisher and not a developer.
    • And then handwaves it by basically saying, "Fuck it, it still has LJN's name on it. It's an LJN game."
• Does AVGN have a "life"? He's a persona of James, but it seems the character is just a grouchy guy who plays bad games all day.
  • Nope. The Nerd pretty much spends all of his time reviewing shitty games. Its all part of the "You/I Suck" routine and is lampshaded in several episodes. Of course its all just a friendly gag and is meant to be funny rather than insulting.
  • He makes other stuff, too.
  • Apparently, we are going to see more of his life outside his basement in the movie.
  • Yep, the movie revealed that the Nerd essentially plays himself in his videos, and is aware of his rabid fanbase in real life. He also has a job working at a video game store called GameCops.
• Why do his longer episodes on GameTrailers get a glitchy band of colors in the middle of the screen near the end? See◊ some◊ examples◊. What is causing this problem? This ruined the "Back To The Future Trilogy" and "Star Wars" episode for me, and while "Action 52" at first was working fine, it got this problem too as I went to watch it again recently. Why does this happen?
  • Site glitch? It might be the GameTrailers site doing it to the videos.
  • In my experience, it's almost certainly a problem with Game Trailers. I've never had the same problem watching the videos on Cinemassacre.
• How come in his Independence Day review, it looks like James blue-screened the footage from the game onto the TV?
  • Probably because the camera recording looked really bad and he thought he might as well take some footage from the DVD recording instead.
• Has James gotten worse at acting? His Nintendo World Championship video is really... Yea, the acting is So Bad, It's Good, maybe So Bad Its Horrible. His older material seemed better though.
  • I didn't mind it, myself. To be fair to James, I like to think his attention is elsewhere, like his other projects - and the AVGN movie. I didn't expect to see ANY more AVGN videos until the movie came out so I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.
  • I guess YMMV, I thought the acting was okey and the episode was very funny, considering the cartridge didn't give a lot to review about (since it was just three levels of other games). It was fun to see the Nerd interact with other gamer for a change.
• While we're on the subject of World Championships; he takes a sledgehammer to a pair of the games (a gray cartridge and a gold cartridge, not the blue reproduction copy). Yet at the end of the credits, he and Pat are seen holding extra copies of the games. So does that mean they actually had two copies of both cartridges, or were the destroyed cartridges fake, or is it something else entirely?
  • They disguised the cartridges. The gold one was most likely The Legend of Zelda, since if you look closely it has a battery in it, which NCW doesn't need.
    • Confirmed, and the gray cartridge was Top Gun.
  • What I'm curious about is who owns which one. I know Pat was known for owning a grey version of the cartridge, where did the gold one came from? Is it Pat's too?
    • Yes it is Pat's
• Wasnt the nerd supposed to finally review ET licenced game AFTER the spilberg games review? like more than 3 months as passed since
  • That was a red herring to tease the fans, he'll be saving that game for the movie.
  • At the end of the video it said "to be continued in the AVGN movie". We won't see that review until the movie is out. So, it would take some time.
    • The Movie is about the ET game? Why? When I thought back then that he was going to review it I was guessing that he would say it's a piece of shit for the WRONG reasons like: 1)the expectations of having ET in a video game could not live up, 2)THIS is the second game that ATARI releases in a Christmas (the one was the arcade port of Pac Man the year before) and the fact they make more cartridges than consoles means that they didn't learn their lesson, 3)The fact that those games marked the Video Game Crash makes a post crash hate as the worst games ever existed when in reality (for the ET at least) it wasn't any different as the other Atari games (Indiana Jones for ATARI anyone?)
    • Well, he probably decided to use the ET game for the movie because is the game that everybody is asking for, he's just exploiting the fact that there's a lot of anticipation for it. In many occasions he has commented that it's the game that most people ask him to review. And remember the movie is not a 2-hours long review or a documentary. I guess all the points you mentioned are probably going to be addressed in the movie as part of the plot. In one interview James commented that he picked it for the movie because of all the history that's behind the game, and in another interview he said the movie could be classified as a Road Movie. I'm starting to think it has something to do with the Nerd traveling to that infamous landfill in which supposedly the unsold ET cartridges were buried, but your guess is as good as mine.
    • The ending credits for the movie contain his actual review of ET, and he says pretty much the exact same thing you're saying here. It's not the worst game ever, only the most infamous one.
• There haven't been any new title cards since the ROB episode, not even for Board James... I wonder if Mike is just too busy.
  • Mike got tired of it.
  • He is also too occupied with editing James & Mike Mondays as well as Monster Madness, so he doesn't want to focus too much of his valuable time on drawing admittedly arbitrary title cards (even though they were great and fun to look at).
• Exactly how in-character is James Rolfe while he's doing the AVGN episodes? I understand that some of the little sketches, like when he fights Bugs Bunny, are all AVGN, but some of his discussions of the video games themselves seem fairly normal. I don't really have a reference point, so... how much of the videos are James Rolfe and how much are the AVGN?
  • It's just something that happens. The Nerd may be a character, but James Rolfe gives him a lot of his real life opinions and interests, so you can expect this "Out of Character moments" to occur. You can think about it as: the character getting better defined(It turns out that the Nerd can act like a normal person too!); James trying something different for the day(You can only go so far with "fuck" and "diahrrea" jokes, after all); or he just didn't care. It's up to your opinion, really.
• Why is it that James has a beard but The Nerd always has to be clean-shaven?
  • Why does the Nerd always wear white pressed shirts, a pocket protector and pens in his pocket? Because it's his trademark outfit. The clean-shaved image of the Nerd is part of the character now. People identify those traits with the character, they expect to see them. It works, despite the fact that James has aged some since the start of the series, the Nerd is still easily recognizable. James hasn't always had a beard, he's a real person, he can change his look if he feels like it. But when you see him clean-shaved and wearing his white shirt, you know he's the Nerd. Or that's the way I see it.
    • I thought the question was how James can have a beard at the same time as the AVGN being clean shaven. This is only assuming that segments as himself and segments as the Nerd are filmed around the same time, though...
    • Well, if that was the question then, James answered this in a comment in a video :)
  User: What's with the disappearing and appearing beard on James? Do you always shave it for AVGN filming and let it grow otherwise or what?
  James: You pretty much got it right. Lately, I've only been shaving the beard for AVGN and Board James. Been too busy to care much. And the videos are barely ever released in the same order that they are shot, so you might see it going back and forth a lot. It's like my evil bearded twin, like in the Star Trek episode. What's the episode title, Mike?
  Mike : Season 2 Episode 33 Mirror, Mirror
• In his review of Milon's Secret Castle, the Nerd begins the review by saying he fucking hates this game. So why does he react with genuine surprise much later when he finds out you have no continues without a button combination? Wouldn't he already be aware of this if he states at the top that he hates the game?
  • When he does the reviews, he's pretty much re-enacting his experience while playing the game. He's just showing the viewers how he reacted when he found out about the "no continues" thing.
• I've noticed that during the episode intros you can often see the Nerd fiddling with various obscure consoles, peripherals and games. (The Sega CD episode and the Double Vision episodes are good examples.) Are these things all going to be reviewed at some point?
  • It does depend. They may get reviewed eventually.
• In the Nerd's Castlevaniathon, he's briefly seen playing (the proper) Rondo of Blood on his PSP, yet he seems to be unaware that the SNES game is wildly different afterwards; many of his complaints about the latter are exclusive to that version, and when he discusses Castlevania 64 he complains about playing as a little girl, despite Rondo of Blood doing that years earlier.
  • He said in the first Castlevania episode that it was a retrospective, recounting on how he experienced the games for the first time. At the time Dracula X came out, He probably didn't even know Rondo of Blood existed.
• How does James/AVGN get all those games and consoles? He has a ton of rare, expensive, and obscure ones. I know he sometimes receives donations but I doubt he gets everything from donations.
  • Ebay, I assume. You'd be surprised what you can find there.
  • While he does have some rare stuff it wouldn't shock me at all to find out that a combination of him keeping his eyes open and having a lot of people helping probably lets him get all sorts of things. As the above Troper pointed out Ebay has all sorts of stuff, you just have to keep checking it but you'd be floored at the things that people sell at garage sales because the kids moved out and Mom doesn't know that a copy of Earthbound shouldn't be in the box of $5 dollars per game or $75 dollars for the box. I know I've personally picked up a copy of Marvel vs Capcom 2 that was just in a box of PS2 and Xbox games. Couple that with fans who are apparently willing to part with rare consoles (that's how he got his Jaguar if I remember right after complaining that he couldn't find a functional one).
  • In the review of the Sega 32X he mentions buying it at a flea market for $2.50 so he does go places.
• From an in-character perspective, how did he ever find the "Bimmy" typo in Double Dragon III to mock? That typo only happens in a two-player game, and he's usually hesitant about having other players.
  • He probably already knew about the typo beforehand, and wanted to include it to have a funny moment for the episode.
  • Well, he did have Shit Pickle there to play with him.
• When the Guitar Guy plays the theme in the "Ikari Warriors" episode a little late into the episode, the AVGN still has the facial reactions that he would if he was playing a game, even though he isn't.
  • Well it might have been a little weird if he was just sitting there awkwardly staring at the floor while the Guitar Guy plays the song. Plus, it gave them new footage to use for the episode intros.
• Why doesn't James call himself the "Game Nerd"? That way, he can review both board games and video games. He doesn't have to make Board James and AVGN two separate characters. Bullshit Man, AVGN, and Board James should be the same person. All 3 characters are hot headed and like to rant a lot. Why not?
  • "Game Nerd" is a lot more vague-sounding, and not nearly as catchy. Plus, it has been explicitly shown that the Nerd, Board James, and the Bullshit Man are different people. Bullshit Man appeared in the Tiger Games video, and Board James showed up in AVGN Games, the very next episode. Not to mention, Bullshit Man is also a playable character in AVGN Adventures.
  • An episode of Board James reveals he becomes the AVGN after a psychotic break.
• In Pat the NES Punk's episode on Nintendo World Championships, he goes through trying to get a copy of the rare cartridges, and at the end, it turns out the Nerd is the one who got it first. But in the Nerd's episode on the same game, it shows that Pat got it first. Alternate continuities?
  • Unreliable Narrator at work?
• In universe, how does the nerd character pay his bills if he sits around the house everyday playing video games?
  • In the movie, he's shown to have a job at a Gamestop expy, and he does upload his videos in-universe and is a popular game reviewer (and probably receives some kind of compensation from it) just as IRL.
• I notice Mike Matei doesn't appear as himself in an AVGN episode. He appears in the Board James videos. We later find out that Board James and AVGN are two separate characters. Does that mean the AVGN character hasn't met Mike yet?
  • Yes. He says in the AVGN Games episodes upon seeing Mike as a playable character in one of the games. '"Who the fuck is Mike? I don't know any Mike."
  • This raises the question though as to why Board James isn't a playable character in the AVGN game.
  • Mike finally appeared as himself at the very end of the Lethal Weapon review.
  "I'm getting too old for this shit."
  • Board James appears in the second AVGN game as a boss.
  • An episode of Board James reveals they're actually the same character, Board James became the AVGN after a psychotic break. However, being distinct personalities could mean the AVGN identity doesn't have memories of Mike.
• Exactly how did the Guitar Guy end up dead? (as revealed in the Schwarzenegger video)
  • His song "I Live Behind the Couch" suggests death by starvation, since the Nerd was so occupied with his games he never took time to feed him.
• At the end of his Batman 2-parter, when the Batnerd is shoving the games up the Joker's ass, why wasn't the Atari Lynx port of Batman Returns included? He even gave it the official "Bat-Stamp of Shit" after the review.
  • He also left out Batman Returns on Sega CD, so maybe he only wanted to include games he spent more time reviewing.
• What did AVGN do with the headless body of Jason Voorhees (and possibly others)? After killing villains, does he bury them in his backyard and move on?
  • Good question. I'd be more interested to know what he did with his the bodies of his three clones that Freddy Krueger killed in the following episode.
    • The Nerd clones were a product of his dream. Therefore, they never existed in the first place.
  • Then again, it could just be a case of Negative Continuity.
  • I like to think that, in the Nerd universe, after a few seconds dead bodies flash and then disappear.
• So...did Board James escape from prison, or was he found not guilty of the murder of his friends? I'm assuming the "killer phone" was real since there is no evidence of Board James being a homicidal maniac.
  • He said he used a 'get out of jail free card'. I have to assume that could work in the shared universe of BJ and AVGN.
  • And, thanks to later developments, we now know that Board James is totally a homicidal maniac.
• In-universe, is the Nerd a real person or a split personality created by Board James?
• At the beginning of the Superman 64 review, the Nerd says this is the video everyone wants to see: "Superman... on Commodore 64." While it's a funny fake-out, this "miscommunication" doesn't make sense, because in the many emails shown and read on-screen at the end of the Superman review, some fans explicitly specify Superman on the Nintendo 64. So the Nerd shouldn't have been confused at what game they were referring to.
  • I think what he did was intentional.
    • Perhaps he trying to avoid having to play the game or at least was hoping to delay the inevitable.
• In the "Mega Man Games" episode, present-day Nerd gets sent to the year 2004, when he was recording his ''Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" video, and it's shown he was talking into a teddy bear nanny cam.... that has the year 2015 printed on its foot. Um.... didn't James think at all to cover that up while filming? Or did he think no one would notice it, or was it just a complete oversight? Or done intentionally as a joke?
  • Probably either "oversight" or "eh, no one will notice." I certainly didn't notice until you mentioned it just now.
    • Did teddy bear nanny cams even exist in 2004?
    • Considering a whole episode of Baby Blues revolved around it, I would say yes.
• In-universe, how come the Nerd is not at all bothered that a homeless guitarist (Kyle Justin) is living behind his couch? For a short-tempered guy, Nerd doesn't seem to mind someone singing and playing the guitar while he's playing his video games.
  • Sometimes you need something to lighten the mood, or someone to talk to so that you don't go completely ballistic.
  • How many people would notice that? And out of those people, how many would actually care?
• In the Mega Man Games episode, why didn't the Present Nerd just review the N64 version of Mega Man Legends with the four Past/Dream Nerds? It's not like him telling the Past Nerds to change their name had any real impact, since the series' name didn't change until a couple episodes after the Nightmare on Elm Street episode.
  • Power Glove is implied to pick up just after where Elm Street left off. He probably didn’t have the in-universe time to rebrand himself for that episode.
• The "Shit Scale" that's presented in the Darkwing Duck episode. He puts the Virtual Boy in with the really bad video games, even though in his actual Virtual Boy episode he says, "Most of the games are ok", and his main complaint was that they're the sort of games you'd rather be playing on a regular TV. So, if most of the games are OK, shouldn't they have been in the same category as say, Ninja Turtles; "Debatably good games with some serious flaws"?
  • You have to remember that the main problem with the Virtual Boy is not only how hard it is to get in a comfortable enough position to play it, but that it causes eye strain after a few minutes of playtime. That's most likely why it's in the category that states "you'd be traumatized for life," because it could literally cause possible permanent eye damage.
• Why is there such a severe decline in comments for the Beavis and Butthead episode? There were a whole bunch of them posted when the video was first uploaded to YouTube, and then...nothing. Even the Sega Accessories video gets regular comments, so what's the deal with the B&B video?
  • Wild guess but since the J&MM video repeated basically everything in the AVGN video did the former become the one bombarded in messages?
• In the Dracula episode, he says that even though Drac's Night Out pisses him off, he can't really complain because it was never released. So why is it that he threatens to retire and end his entire series over Desert Bus, which was also never released?
  • Rule of Funny. To him, Desert Bus was that bad.
• One part of the Nerd's Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing review has him pressing and holding the Control key to infinitely decelerate his truck. After the resulting decelerating sound grows increasingly louder, he covers his ears with both of his hands...and yet, he lifts his hand off the Control button a moment later as if he were holding it the entire time.
  • That, my friend, is just how far the reality bending powers of Big Rigs' infinite speed can affect reality.
• Sure, the Nerd was pretty jarred in the Desert Bus episode, but was attempting to end the show and retire really a smart move on his part? Even when he knew that this was his 10th anniversary episode?
  • Rule of Funny
• Sure, the Nerd was able to slice the VHS tape with a katana, but then he brings up the freaking flamethrower for Amiga CD32 console... Was it the actual flamethrower?
  • Well, that's a bit of a loaded question; while he did indeed roast the Amiga with a Fire-Breathing Weapon (although he technically BBQ'd a broken model rather than the one used in the video), it's not a flamethrower per se; in point of fact, it's the Boring Company's patented Not-a-Flamethrower.
• So how did the Nerd get free of his robo armor in Sonic-06 part 2? At the end he just.. flies away and crashed.