"Hi there people! Welcome to my channel! I make videos on games! Mostly Nintendo games. But I also make videos on other stuff! A lot of different things, really."
— The description for Akfamilyhome's channel
Akfamilyhome is a YouTuber from Hong Kong that mainly makes videos on Nintendo games. His reviews, trivia videos, and other major productions make up his "Core Videos" series, but he also uploads Let's Plays, live reactions, high quality video game rips, and more. His core videos and live reactions are posted on his main channel, Akfamilyhome, while his livestreams, video game music cover and rips, and unscripted videos are posted on his second channel, Akfamilyhome Plus.
Akfamilyhome's main channel can be found here
, Akfamilyhome Plus can be found here, and his Twitter, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp can be found here, here, and here respectively.
Akfamilyhome provides examples of the following tropes:
- April Fools' Day:
- In 2019, Ak released a Super Mario Odyssey video parodying Super Mario 64 Bloopers.
- His 2020 core video subverts this; while he did concept doing his video on Nintendo's publishing history in Hong Kong entirely in Chinese, he quits a minute in due to not wanting to film the same video twice.
- Author Avatar: He has an avatar of a glasses-wearing Bob-omb Buddy that appears on the intro of his videos.
- Author Appeal: Loves referencing games like Rhythm Heaven (and rhythm games in general), Warioware, HAL Laboratory's library (particularly Kirby, BoxBoy!, and Part Time UFO), and smaller Nintendo titles like Pushmo.
- Brick Joke: At the start of the R.O.B. review, Akfamilyhome comments that he was expecting R.O.B. to talk to him in an obligatory The Angry Video Game Nerd reference. R.O.B. stays radio silent... until the very end of the video, where he inexplicably begins talking, freaking out Akfamilyhome.
- The Cameo: In the R.O.B. episode, AK calls up Scott The Woz to play 2-player Gyromite on his Famicom, only to be turned down since Scott only plays the NES version.
- Cover Version: Akfamilyhome frequently posts music covers that are made in WarioWare D.I.Y. Some of these covers are of Rhythm Heaven, Splatoon 2, LazyTown, and more.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Akfamilyhome's earliest videos were about funny Windows errors and Super Mario 64 content. He didn't even upload his first Let's Play series until four and a half years after the creation of the channel.
- Extremely Short Intro Sequence: His intro sequence is about 10 seconds long.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- In the beginning of "A look at the Virtual Boy", he watches a Virtual Boy meme on his laptop. In the bottom left, the uploader is shown to be "A Doofus" with Akfamilyhome's profile picture, and the description reads "Unpause the video and continue watching you dummy".
- Later in the same video. After he took a Jab at Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash, it cut to a comedy show-style credit sequence listing things such as "God Himself: Virtual Boy" and "The guy pausing the video: You".
- In the beginning of "A look at the Virtual Boy"
- Gilligan Cut: His PDI Check video shows Ak initially hesitant to even discuss the game, as after all, who would pay 99 dollars to make a video about a utility that he can't understand to its fullest extent? ...cut to him purchasing the app.
- Instrumental Theme Tune: The short, retro-style instrumental theme tune was composed by Toxic Geek.
- Level Editor: In "Old Mario Flash Games", he mentions that he used to have a lot of fun making custom levels in the Mario fangame Super Mario Flash. Some of the levels he made were titled "Maths Lesson", "Pipe And Die", and "Original World 1-1".
- Mood Whiplash: In the AR Games episode, he finds a globe that he can shoot to spin around. He shoots it one too many times, and...BOOM!
(The planet explodes, leaving a "Preserve our planet." message in a red text box.)
[Beat]
(Cut to AK, solemn and crying in his bathtub.) - "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: He includes one in the PDI Check episode to say that yes, this is a real, non-joke game that was sold for 99 US Dollars.
- Shout-Out: In the intro to "How Many Times Have I Paid For Super Mario Bros.?", he references jan Misali's video "how many Super Mario games are there?"
- Squee: His reaction video on the Super Mario 35th anniversary announcements is titled "AK freaks out about Mario games for 15 minutes", and its thumbnail has a picture of his avatar vibrating uncontrollably.
- Sturgeon's Law: This is discussed in "Old Mario Flash Games":
- I still wanted to see how well these games have held up, and whether or not some of the games have aged over the years. Spoiler alert, most don't.
- Zeerust: In the Famicom 3D System video, he meets a version of himself from a future where the Power Glove, the Virtual Boy, and other "next-gen" gaming equipment of the past is actually in use.
