Trivia / Yo Videogames

• Approval of God: As noted on the main page, many people in the game industry are very fond of Max thanks to his honesty and passion for games:
  • Capcom sponsored the Ultimate Assist Me series (with Yoshinoro Ono putting in a cameo in the last episode).
  • Tekken's Katsuhiro Harada has retweeted Max's videos (including his reaction to Geese Howard being added to Tekken 7) and personally given him free merch, including the infamous "Don't ask me for shit!" T-shirt. Besides that, Bandai Namco Entertainment loaned him an early build of Soul Calibur VI so he could play it on his stream, and director Motohiro Okubo recognized him at EVO 2018 and thanked him for everything he's done to spread the word about the game. At EVO 2019, Harada even surprised Max by showing up when he reacted to the reveal of the 2020 Guilty Gear game.
  • Devil May Cry 5's director Hideaki Itsuno watched Max's reaction to the game's debut trailer and was reportedly so moved by the crew's enthusiasm that he cried Tears of Joy. Max found out about this because Reuben Langdon, the actor who plays Dante, personally told him about it at E3 2018 (and he was the one who showed the video to Itsuno in the first place).
  • Nobuyuki Kuroki, the creator of Rock Howard (one of Max's favorite fighting game characters), personally thanked him for the videos he'd made celebrating the character.
  • At E3 2019, Yoshinori Kitase (director of Final Fantasy VII Remake) told Max that the staff working on the game used his reaction to the debut trailer as motivation when they were feeling down, since his unbridled joy reassured them that they were doing the right thing.
  • In a more direct example, Hidetoshi "Neo_G" Ishizawa (the man behind Street Fighter III) specifically sought Max out at EVO 2019 for a picture and later tweeted it out, outright describing Max to Japanese fans as a streamer and influencer known for being honestly passionate about fighting games.
• Missing Episode: The Fighting History episode for Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero was this for the longest time. As noted on the main page, Max had to cancel the series since Benny would no longer behave on camera, meaning he couldn't film the Angry Video Game Nerd-style "host segments" anymore, despite having already played through and beaten the game on livestream already. In late 2019, Max just went ahead and combined the host segments he'd already filmed with footage from the livestream, then released it to the public.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: In early 2017, most of the Boss Rage videos on Max's Youtube channel went private. As Max explained at EVO, the library of copyright-safe music he'd used to make the videos got bought out by another company that went copyright-crazy. Thankfully Max got advance warning from his friends at Warner Bros. and Machinima and made the videos private before they could get copyright claimed and get the channel shut down. However, that still meant that he had to re-edit the videos to remove the offending tracks, and even then he could only do that for the videos where he still had the raw footage. In mid-2018, a bunch more of the Boss Rage videos and some others got taken down for the same reason, which prompted Max to look into moving these videos to Twitch since they'd be safer there.
  • Finally subverted in January 2019. Max ended up being fired from the creator network which he'd been affiliated with for almost ten years due to changes in Youtube's copyright policy. However, this ended up being a blessing in disguise, since Max didn't really need it anymore and it opened him up to working directly with Youtube. After clearing things with the bigwigs, he was allowed to restore all the videos that he'd previously had to make private; since they contain copyrighted music they just can't be monetized, but Max has said that he's perfectly fine with that because he considers the content far more important than making money off of it.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: The guys have a Running Gag in their Soul Calibur VI "Rate the Create-a-Souls" videos where they pretend not to know where certain anime characters come from (such as claiming that Ichigo Kurosaki is from Naruto). While most people understand that it's just a joke, the Youtube uploads were apparently so full of angry fans complaining "How dare you not respect my favorite show!" that Simmons (who runs the YoVG YT channel) had to disable comments on all the videos.