Angry Video Game Nerd

The Angry Video Game Nerd, formerly known as the Angry Nintendo Nerd, is a video game reviewer. In real life, he is only a character played by James Rolfe.

The show started as joke in 2004 and he only reviewed two games - Castlevania 2:Simon's Quest and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, both of which were revisited later on.

The show initially was uploaded to YouTube on April 8, 2006. Mysteriously, the Nerd grew to be very popular, probably because of all the profanities, snarky comments and scatalogical jokes. This inspired tons of users to create their own video game reviews and post them on YouTube, in the vain attempt to even have a glimpse of what made the AVGN so popular to begin with.

ScrewAttack, who were virtually unknown before the AVGN, picked up the show a few months later. In 2007, GameTrailers later would host the show on their website, gathering them lots of web traffic.

The reviews themselves have become increasingly focused on characters that have (mostly) nothing to contribute to the review, aside from appealing to a demographic too young to understand any of his reviews.

In order to focus on other works, James decided to release episodes every first or second Wednesday of each month. Amongst these works, a movie is in pre-production (and has stayed in pre-production for quite some time).

Later on, there were virtually no new episodes being released. Sound familiar?