tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44327711885316292312024-02-20T12:33:14.627-06:00Irate Gamer SucksAn in-depth look at one of the worst video game reviewers on the Internet.BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.comBlogger486125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-80288256164415284882022-04-28T10:54:00.001-05:002022-05-28T11:22:17.904-05:00The End<div style="text-align: left;"> That was the Irate Gamer timeline.<br />As of this writing, IG is seemingly dead again. Perhaps for good.<br /><br />Chris has done a few things outside of IG. <br />Pushing more Ghost Doctor, including symbols that rip-off the Green Lantern Emotional Spectrum, and his “classification of spirits” that sounds more like a bad TTRPG.<br /><br />In November 2021, he published another book. It’s about the Sandusky Mall in his hometown. <br />It’s harmless. Nothing to say other than his marketing skills are still garbage (saying it covers the “scandals” when I couldn’t find anything about Sandusky Mall scandals). <br />But if he wants to focus more on this, that’s fine. Less likely he’ll run afoul of another community. <br /><br />This year, there hasn’t been much.<br />On Facebook, he posted another rant about the gaming industry, adding them to his list of “people and groups that caused my channel to fail”. When he once again claimed he could write a book, his fans called his bluff and demanded to hear what he knew. He backed down hard, stating “it’s all in the past and God will punish them”. All the comments calling him out were deleted. Since then, he hasn’t brought it up. Not until he needs his remaining fans to fellate his ego.<br /><br />He's also planning to remaster Season 4. The one that’s already HD. Feels like he’s purposely going out of his way not to make new IG content.<br /><br />As I said at the beginning, I made the timeline for a couple purposes. To help content creators if they want to do a “Rise and Fall” video, and to give material to the lost media community. But there’s another reason, and I imagine some of you have figured it out.<br /><br />I am done.<br />This time for good. Even if he comes back, I will not. Doing this is just boring now. His videos have no redeeming content to them, they’re just a slog. It’s clear he’s never going to improve his videos by this point.<br />So, I am done. Thank you everyone for reading.<br /><br />If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me. I may not answer though.<br /><br />I will leave comments open for a month. Afterwards, they are closing.<br /><br />Once again, thank you everyone for reading my garbage writing. <br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com65tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-10789657607026613992022-04-27T11:40:00.001-05:002022-05-28T11:22:31.207-05:00The Irate Gamer Timeline Part 7: 2019-2021<div style="text-align: left;"> 2019:<br /><br />At the start of the year, he claimed there would be “no reviews until Summer”. Of course, he still refused to bring up Puppet Steve.<br />He also said he can’t do “old style reviews” as the YouTube algorithm has changed. No further explanation. <br /><br />He would post an angry rant on Facebook about Tessa Thompson being in Men in Black: International. Crying that it should be the “Men” in Black. Even though it was established in the first movie that women serve too. The third movie even revealed the person running the MIB is a woman. Seems a little misogynistic to me.<br /><br />It did not help when I received an e-mail about a comment posted on CommonSenseMedia’s video. A woman stating that her fiancé used to be married to Chris’ current wife, Nicole. One day out in public, Nicole spotted her, ran up to her and slapped her. This led to Chris grabbing her by the shoulders and punching her in the face. Her fiancé did something that scared him so bad, he keeps a bat by the front door.<br />In another comment, she revealed she filed a police report.<br />How have we not paid more attention to this? It sounds like a big deal. How did I just sweep it under the rug?<br />Of course, like any story like this, take it with a grain of salt. But I doubt someone would make up a story like that about Bores in 2019. Long after his star faded. <br /><br />Continuing…<br />He went to ToyFair again, and his editing had gotten sloppy. At one point he runs into Todd McFarlane, and Todd says into the camera “listen to Chris” and in a panicked whisper tells him “Puppet Steve! Puppet Steve! They know me as Puppet Steve!” Why Chris left that in the video I do not know. It’s still up too! One of the Fortnite videos.<br />He also recorded a video that ended up showing his face. He deleted it but it lives on at DailyMotion.<br />Interestingly, he acknowledged his work on Puppet Steve on an Irate Gamer social media page. Why now and not in 2016 I don’t know.<br /><br />In April, he would announce the “Irate Gamer” would return in the Summer. <br />He showed on Puppet Steve that he bought a Switch. I’m sure that lead to all sorts of content on both channels. … Right?<br /><br />Summer comes and goes, and no Irate Gamer. Around August he starts asking his fans about podcasts.<br /><br />Also in August, he would angrily accuse Grant Wilson of plagiarism. Ironic, I know. <br />Claiming that Grant looking at the “emotional” side of a ghost is stealing what he does. Chris’ ego regarding his paranormal work was starting to spiral out of control. <br /><br />Why did Chris bring up podcasts? Because he started one. Joined by his friend Tim Warner (remember him from the TMNT cereal video?), we got GeekTime: The Next Generation. <br /><br />What was the original GeekTime? It was a feature on the Howard Stern Show hosted by Ralph Cirella. Basically, talking about all things nerdy, likely with the sardonic bend that Stern is known for. It was cancelled when Stern’s chief operator, Marci Turk, removed all non-Stern programming. This is going by old Reddit comments. <br />Chris decided to start the podcast because he felt current “geeky” podcasts weren’t good anymore, calling out Kevin Smith in particular. He was upset that he kept talking about his life-saving weight loss and not focusing on geeky stuff.<br /><br />It was not good.<br />Neither Chris nor Tim have charisma, a helpful skill for talking nonstop for 2-3 hours. They kept interrupting themselves with sound clips like a shock jock. <br /><br />The first big mistake was posting them on Podbean before YouTube. <br /><br />The second big mistake was the preview clip he posted to YouTube. The podcast starts with an annoying 90 second theme song that lists off various “geek” stereotypes. I think it was from the original GeekTime since it sounds cynical and sarcastic (fitting for Stern). Chris included the entire thing in the preview. That song alone turned off a lot of his audience.<br /><br />The third mistake was the next preview they posted. Where Chris declares the 2019 Joker movie sucks. Except he admits in the video he was only going by the trailers. In fact, neither of them had seen the movie. It was heavily disliked. <br /><br />He would post several clips on YouTube, but people didn’t really care for them. Only one that got substantial views was a segment where the two talk about the Nostalgia Critic’s terrible review of Pink Floyd’s The Wall.<br /><br />The other subject matter was either uninteresting or littered with ill-informed takes. Tim asking about the point of the PlayStation 5, Chris upset that Terry Bogard got into Smash Bros instead of Peter Pepper from BurgerTime, and a lot of basic takes on Star Wars and Marvel. <br /><br />Eventually he posted the full episodes on YouTube, but by then, nobody cared. In fact, the first five were removed, leaving only the sixth and final episode. He even closed the Podbean page. <br />Though some episodes were preserved on the Internet Archive.<br /><br />Over on Puppet Steve, he talked about Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled. He was ill-equipped to talk about it, making mistakes like referring to Coco as Crash’s girlfriend. There was a gameplay segment at the end, however he did not record it. He stole it from YouTube creator MKFireAndIce. You can tell because in CTR:NF, your gamertag is always displayed. <br /><br />His anger towards other ghost hunters would continue, ranting about Jason Hawes using the term “confused spirit”. <br /><br />He would bring up watching HBO’s Watchmen, calling it so bad it made him want to ‘quit geekdom”. Calling it confusing and boring. But the actual reason likely lies deeper. Chris is the type that gets annoyed at media that “pushes their politics into everything”. Given the race-driven nature of HBO’x Watchmen, this likely set him off. Prior to the show’s premiere, he would mention on GeekTime that making the show’s villains white supremacists would “alienate white comic readers”. A line that says so much.<br /><br />Around the end of 2019, the Federal Trade Commission found YouTube in severe violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). They were collecting data on young children without parental permission and ended up paying a hefty fine. In response, YouTube would implement some drastic changes to children’s content. No comments, no favoriting, and severely reduced income. <br />Somehow, Chris was not affected by this for Puppet Steve. No idea how he managed to circumvent it. But the channel still carries all the bells & whistles normal channels enjoy. Even though it’s clearly a kid’s channel.<br /><br />The year would end with Chris screwing over one of his longtime fans. A man named Mike wanted to get the IG DVDs after losing his copies. Getting the first three seasons was easy but getting 4 & 5 took longer. Chris told him he needed to get more DVD-Rs, which Mike understood.<br />Eventually Season 4 & 5 arrived, but the marathon feature on 4 didn’t work. He contacted Chris who told him “I’ll fix it”.<br />Mike ordered History of Video Games Volumes 1 & 2 and they also took way too long. He tried contacting Chris but no answer. He put in a fraud notice to PayPal, and Chris quickly shipped them out. Including Pursuit of the Paranormal as a bonus (though he just threw the disc in a HoVG case).<br />Finding GeekTime, he asked Chris in the comments about Season 4. Chris tells Mike he hasn’t forgotten and is rebuilding the menu. <br />Then, close to Christmas, Mike ordered a Minecraft playset for his kid off eBay. A few hours later, he got an alert from PayPal that Chris Bores sent him a refund. Confused, Mike thought it was for Season 4. Instead, it was for the playset, and Mike realized the person he tried to buy from was Chris. Infuriated, he sent him a message that he crossed the line and was going to inform me. Chris told him he already gave away the playset and he forgot to remove the auction. <br /><br />This did inform us that Chris has a side business selling toys on eBay. Specifically, the stuff you see on Puppet Steve.<br /><br />2020:<br /><br />At the start, something shocking happened. <br />Over on Puppet Steve, he posted a video looking at some Street Fighter figures and manage to get James Rolfe to voice Ken.<br />It’s not entirely out of nowhere. Chris was not-so-subtly hinting that things were resolved. Though we wouldn’t see the full realization of this until later.<br /><br />Another year of ToyFair, getting in just in time before everything went to shit. <br />I don’t remember much about these. He did look at My Hero Academia toys because “the fans asked”, but a lot of the videos were potato quality and hard to hear.<br />He did the Top 15 Baby Yoda toys. The Mandolorian was blowing up around this time.<br /><br />Some craziness over at Facebook. First was a clip from Ghost Adventures that showed a shadow that looks like an alien. It’s incredibly phony. You could almost see the guy in the background moving it. Yet Chris claims this is what his research was talking about. … We’ll get to that.<br /><br />After that, when E3 was cancelled due to the pandemic, Chris gloated, claiming the show used to be great until GameSpot came in and “took over”. That they pushed out “the little guy” as they realized they could make money. I have no idea what he’s talking about. It makes less sense when you consider GameSpot has been around since 1995. <br /><br />Chris started making himself something of a pariah in the paranormal community. In a Facebook group, he got salty at someone for not doing a ritual “his way” and ended up getting banned for being a total dick. He couldn’t seem to accept that there’s different methods to ghost cleansing. It is a pseudoscience after all.<br /><br />On April 23rd, the channel’s 13th anniversary, Chris would announce the return of the Irate Gamer. Not Chris Neo, but the original version. There was some rejoicing. <br />Announcing that his big comeback would be about Ghostbusters on NES. <br /><br />It would be a while before the video would go up. Until then, he started yet another channel. The Ghost Doctor, his third attempt at ghost stuff.. <br />The first video was an introduction. The second video caused psychic damage.<br />Chris stopped caring about his image and spouted a lot of nonsense about a “Woke paranormal pandemic”. Bringing up ideas like lizard people, claiming certain celebrities are Satanists, that you don’t have to believe in Satan to be a Satanist, that aliens are really deformed ghosts (which is what he was referring to in the Ghost Adventures clip), how we no longer have picnics in cemeteries, and so much other craziness. The mask was off.<br /><br />A few days before the comeback video, Chris held a stream providing an update. It’s about 10 minutes long and answers questions. I didn’t really watch any of these.<br /><br />The comeback arrived.<br />Starting up right after the Duck Hunt video, IG explains his absence as “stuck playing Zelda II for four years”. Though he contradicts that with the “Five Years Later” title card from Avengers: Endgame.<br />But rather than half the population getting wiped out, it’s… angry reviewers. Showing missing posters for retired creators like Armake21, Jedite1, Spoony, UrinatingTree (who switched to sports commentary), PlayItBogart (who now streams as a drag queen) and for some reason Sly Dog Studios (he wasn’t even an angry reviewer). Then an article on how the AVGN went to hunt for them, and a missing poster for the Irate Gamer but it uses the edited picture from Encyclopedia Dramatica where his head is shopped onto an adult baby. An attempt at being self-aware?<br />It spoke to me that in 2020, Chris was still stuck in 2007.<br />The reason for picking Ghostbusters is that Ernie Hudson told him to do it. Using the site Cameo, he paid for a video of Hudson and plopped it in. For Hudson you could tell this was just standard procedure as he mentions some of his other non-Ghostbuster roles.<br /><br />The review portion was a lot of the same stuff, but with more semen jokes. He says the game gave him trauma “20 years ago”, but that would have been 2000. Did he mean 30 years ago? Or did he first play Ghostbusters when the PS2 was about to come out?<br />Eventually he resorts to Game Genie, and yells at the audience as he mentions the AVGN, having wanted to avoid using Game Genie like him. For some reason he references Shit Pickle. <br /><br />After that he did a 40-minute stream talking about the next episode. <br /><br />Then came the trailer for the next episode. It was Dick Tracy on NES. With the AVGN.<br />All that hinting and winking lead to this. A crossover.<br />The internet went… “meh”. It wasn’t the big earth-shattering event he thought it would be. The reaction was either “It should have happened years ago” or “Irate Gamer is still around?”<br />But it also brought a lot of IG fans out of hiding to crow about how they’re friends and that means he’s immune to criticism. <br /><br />He’d host another stream to talk about the crossover and how it happened. He claims that James is the one to suggest he go back to doing Irate Gamer. Personally, I have my doubts.<br />Either way, he says they’re friends now. I find that hard to believe since both the Ebegging Spoof and the Opening Up video are still on your channel. The latter especially since you made several baseless claims against James with no evidence. <br /><br />On July 15th, the crossover arrived. Except it wasn’t really a crossover, it was more a glorified cameo. All that hype, including selling t-shirts, and it was nothing more than a few minutes. <br /><br />The first six minutes has him talking about the Dick Tracy movie, the merch, a slam towards the Nostalgia Critic for no reason, until finally getting to the game. It’s about what you expect, it’s hard, it’s hard, there was a Genesis version that was so much better, until eventually he gets a call from “the chief” to get him a partner. Said partner being the Nerd. Then an awkward scene of cursing and screaming that ends with Shit Pickle. <br />Then they challenge each other to see who beats the game first. IG clearly uses Game Genie (but doesn’t say it) and still loses as the AVGN used the “beat a game button” from a previous video. IG declares revenge, but it’s never followed up on. <br /><br />Afterwards, he would do one more stream. The last one he ever made.<br />I know one of these streams had some awful Smash Bros takes. He pushes Peter Pepper again, then gets angry that Joker from Persona 5 is in is and claims that Smash Bros should only have characters older than 20 years. By that logic, and using Ultimate as a base, only characters from 1998 or older would be allowed in Chris’ dream Smash roster.<br /><br />Screenwave’s Justin Silverman would hold an AMA and reveal that the plans for the crossover were much different. It was going to be about American Gladiators, and they would have been in the same room. Ending with the two settling their differences and beating up the fans that kept the feud going. Like everything in 2020, it was cancelled due to COVID. Honestly, I’m glad we didn’t get that version. It sounds really cringy. <br />Justin did sound upset that the crossover was posted on Chris’ channel and not Cinemassacre. <br /><br />With newfound popularity, Chris clearly had to take advantage of this. First with a compilation of Season 1 with some commentary. <br /><br />The real follow-up was a video on Nintendo cereal.<br /><br />Bringing back I Rate the 80’s, Chris decides the best course following a seemingly impossible crossover was to talk about a discontinued cereal. He really pushes “Breakfast is Ruined”. It was a meme years ago, trying to push it now seems desperate. <br />He actually takes a bite at one point. No disgusted reaction though. Either the cereal is still good after a few decades, or it wasn’t the Nintendo cereal. <br />The video ends with a painfully cringy reenactment of the old commercial. <br /><br />Over on Ghost Doctor, he would post a video where he claims to have heard the ghost of George Floyd. Seriously. Even though he’s in Ohio and Floyd was in Minnesota when he was murdered. <br /><br />The cereal was a misstep, but surely, he’ll recover with the next vi- It’s TMNT again…<br />A 20-minute video about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade game. He made sure to emphasize that it was 20 minutes all over his socials.<br />To make this special, he went to Cameo and paid voice actor Rob Paulsen to record a couple videos for him.<br />He gushes over the Arcade game and once again talks about the first NES game. He brings up what he calls the “Phantom Menace Effect”, the idea that people convince themselves something is good, and you weren’t allowed to badmouth it, like the Phantom Menace. I don’t think that’s how it happened…<br />After he finishes talking about the game again, he moves onto the sequel AKA the port of the Arcade game. Where originally Chris claimed “it sucks” from the start, here he acted like he was uber-hyped, and praised the addition of two new levels. Maybe he learned his complaint about them in 2007 was horribly ignorant? <br />There was a bright spot. He finally acknowledges that Turtles in Time was an Arcade game first. Only took 13 years. Though I wonder if he did the research, or just learned about it when he bought the Arcade1Up machine. <br /><br />Following that was as video on… Urkel-O’s.<br />For context, during the Nintendo cereal video, he brings up the existence of Urkel-O’s, a cereal tie-in with the popular sitcom Family Matters. Chris erroneously refers to him as the “I didn’t do it” kid, when his catchphrase was “Did I do that?”<br />Because several people thought it was a joke, Chris decided to make a video showing it was real. He seemed surprised that they thought it was a joke, like he doesn’t understand that his years of editing in fake moments would somehow backfire.<br />He replays the joke from the prior cereal video but poorly dubs himself with the correct catchphrase. <br />He also said the comments wanted him to do a “Family Matters rant”. I don’t think Chris understands what his own channel was at that point.<br /><br />Another cereal video so soon after the first ended up hurting his channel. Despite the high of the crossover, the views plummeted after that. <br /><br />He would follow with a video that’s obvious to anyone. Going over how console ports of Arcade <br />games are often inferior. It was almost 17 minutes long.<br />The video was about what you’d expect. Poor research (admitting he had no idea Contra was originally an Arcade game), terrible takes, no understanding of console limitations at the time, and of course it was boring.<br /><br />Ever since Arcade1Up started sending him cabinets for Puppet Steve, Chris has gone deep into Arcade gaming. He set up his basement to look like an old Arcade, and basically got rid of all his current consoles. Even though they’re just as capable of playing the same emulated Arcade titles as these replicas. Much cheaper too. <br /><br />I suspect he got rid of his current consoles because around this time, Steve was announced for Super Smash Bros Ultimate. I feared that Chris was going to be insufferable on the Puppet Steve channel. Make 100 videos all about Smash. But… he never did. He never even brought it up. I know he had a Switch; he made a Puppet Steve video about it. It’s possible he sold it to pay for more of those cabinets. <br /><br />He follows up the console port video with RoboCop. For the third time. Sort of…<br />Chris decided to talk about various RoboCop games, and that included recycling clips from his 2011 RoboCop reviews. I don’t just mean the game footage and audio; he recycles sketch footage too. Switching between his rooms, his clothes, his camera quality, and he doesn’t address this at all. He mentions in the description it has a “little bit of old” but the video ignores it. <br />Interestingly, one part he recycles from the original is done with new footage. Likely due to Eric Allen being the one to say line. Makes me wonder what happened.<br />Oh, and he paid for a Peter Weller video on Cameo. <br /><br />Afterwards a video on Punisher games. This was the first video to have help from fans. Chris asked on Facebook to get assistance on videos. Hopefully they were paid.<br />This one was boring but had lines that showcased they were written by someone else. Though the constant mispronunciations (LGN, ESREB) raised some eyebrows.<br /><br />Remember Pursuit of the Paranormal? The big pilot episode that he screened in a small Ohio theater? The whole thing is on YouTube now. Only it’s under the Ghost Doctor banner. He posted it on the main IG channel as well. <br /><br />He would post two Halloween reviews. The first was on Ghouls n’ Ghosts, the sequel to Ghosts n’ Goblins. It was mostly complaining about how hard it was, how the graphics are better (because it was on Genesis), and incredibly awful jokes. There was also a bit where Chris throws the cartridge, and it hits the fan that helped produce the episode. I’m bringing this up for later.<br /><br />The second would cover The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror for Game Boy Color. It was an utterly boring video that Chris attempts to spice up with Simposns clips, but to no avail. <br /><br />Over on Facebook, following the 2020 election, Chris talks about the “lying media” and uses it to bring up the “backroom meetings” he had with YouTube and the gaming industry back in 2011-2012. But he’s too scared to reveal it because he thinks he’ll get killed like the guy that outed Tom Hanks as a pedo (which is based on outdated info). <br />Just tell us Chris. What horrible secrets did you hear? It’s been 10 years; I doubt it matters now.<br /><br />He posted a video about some NES book. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then for the final video of the year, he would talk about a Dragon’s Lair replica Arcade cabinet. By the way, this was the new Irate Gamer Neo. Not talking about new games, but overly expensive emulators. <br /><br />2021:<br /><br />The year started off with a video on the NES launch titles. What would be an interesting video under a better creator was a boring mess with the butchering of Japanese names and incorrect information (he calls Super Mario Bros a launch title when we don’t know when the game came out in North America).<br /><br />He followed with a Flintstones review, talking about the two NES games. It was mostly an excuse for him to talk about old Hanna-Barbara cartoons. <br /><br />Then Chris tried to launch another new series over on the Ghost Doctor. He was so confident in this one, he cross-posted it to the Irate Gamer channel. “Pop Culture Paranormal”, a series where he explores media with paranormal aspects. First episode is about The Ring. He says he had to watch it a second time to understand it (how?) and believes the events of the movie can happen in real life. He barely gets into the Japanese mythology of it though, something I feel is important considering the source material is a Japanese book.<br />This was the only episode. <br /><br />Then some coffee table books about the NES. He says a friend made them, while also taking the time to toss some bizarre criticism at Pat Contri’s book. <br /><br />Then a video he was proud of; one he claims calls back to 2008. Godzilla vs Kong. This was the highest viewed video of 2021 as it came out close to the release of the movie.<br />There’s no actual Godzilla vs Kong game, so he just looked at a bunch of Godzilla games and a couple King Kong ones (there’s not many). <br />He used a confusing scoring system, grading them for things like “second-hand value”. <br />Interestingly, he looks at some Japan-only Godzilla games. He doesn’t say much, but they’re there.<br />He revealed that he has an insane bias against strategy games, calling them a “waste of time” and how you’re always waiting. How a turn takes 10 minutes. That tells me that he didn’t know strategy games have an “End Turn” option and simply sat there picking his nose until the game kicked over to the enemy.<br />But the ending is likely what Chris meant by “like 2008”. He’s attacked by the Mecha Irate Gamer, a super-jank Mechagodzilla recolor with his face. At least the animator got his weird jaw movement.<br /><br />More recycled content as Chris once again talks about discontinued Kool-Aid flavors. It was incredibly dull, full of recycled footage from this 2009 Kool-Aid Man review, and a blatantly fake interview with the Kool-Aid Man’s stuntman Tom Anthony. He never published the full interview so I’m calling fake until he shows otherwise.<br /><br />Remember the Chris Neo videos about Mario and Game Genie? He compiled them all into one 25-minute video, with a dash of new footage. <br /><br />Then the second (and last) episode of the revamped Irate Gamer Neo, talking about another Arcade cabinet. This one lets you download ROMs on it. He also brings up the yet unreleased game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. Saying he’ll put the game on the cabinet.<br /><br />Because 2021 was about “Irate Gamer nostalgia”, he brought back the summer movie list. Claiming the last one was made 11 years prior (he’s wrong, he made one in 2015). Two of the movies ended up not coming out in 2021 (Top Gun Maverick and Mission Impossible 7), and for some reason he mentioned superhero movies that he didn’t put on the list. I guess so people in the comments didn’t ask where they were?<br /><br />After that was a video about a very unexpected game. Stinger. The English version of the second TwinBee game. Weird enough, this feels like something he DID play as a kid. But the info was still off, and he called it a scandal because a lot of the TwinBee games didn’t come out here. As well as a cartoon, but it was an OVA and clearly not made for TV. <br /><br />Instead of something new, Chris would post compilations of the first three seasons. Even though he already posted a Season 1 compilation. I have no idea if anything is different between the two.<br /><br />After those was a video on Gremlins. What should have been a Christmas episode was posted in May.<br />He covers just about every Gremlins game, including the ones on Commodore 64. Though most of the video was about Gremlins 2.<br />There’s a horrid bit where he repeats the cartridge throwing gag from Ghouls n’ Ghosts with the fan that helped him. He dodges it, only for the cartridge to hit him twice then go up his ass as he moans in pleasure “daddy cartridge”. Yes, this is real.<br />Chris does pay for another Cameo, this time from the movie’s lead Zach Galligan. After he finishes talking about Gremlins 2, we get a video of Zach giving his experience with the game. It was the best part of the video, and even Chris’ fans thought so. Most of the comments were about Zach’s testimony. <br /><br />After three months of nothing, one last Irate Gamer video was posted. Micro Machines. <br />He contradicts himself about beating the NES game multiple times in the past (later saying he “never beat this level”), randomly references Armake21 for no reason, confuses a Micro Machines PS2 game with Duke Nukem Forever (I have no idea how), and re-enacts the ending of The Breakfast Club to close the video. Because he mentioned it once earlier.<br />Though the part that really baffled me is that he said he jumped ship from Nintendo to Sega (NES to Genesis). I found this odd because in all the years he’s done his show, he never showcased this. He was always talking about Nintendo, sometimes Atari, he didn’t talk about a Genesis game until the second Power Rangers episode in 2014.<br /><br />And that’s where things end off.<br />Next time, the epilogue.</div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-37967659000182901432022-04-26T15:20:00.002-05:002024-01-21T14:48:34.176-06:00The Irate Gamer Timeline Part 6: 2016-2018<div style="text-align: left;"> 2016:<br /><br />Man… 2016 feels so long ago.<br />He opened the year with Gravity Falls figures. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />He followed that with a tech review that was bad even by his standards. Disliked to hell. It’s no longer on the channel. <br /><br />Following that was a review of Lego Dimensions. Surprise surprise, he didn’t beat the game. It’s no longer on the channel.<br />This would end up being the final episode of Irate Gamer Neo. In a way, it’s a good bookend. He started with The Simpsons Game (he didn’t beat it) and he ended on Lego Dimensions (which features The Simpsons, and he also didn’t beat it).<br /><br />Around this point, Chris seemed to realize that his Irate Gamer fans did not enjoy his toy content. Can you blame them? They subscribed for video games and you’re not giving them that.<br />In secret, Chris started another new channel.<br /><br />Remember when he made that “rebooted” Letter People channel? Since that failed, he figured kids don’t want educational content, but videos about toys. Taking two of the puppets made for the Letter People, he would start his own toy channel. The Marty & Muffin Show. <br />He would make two videos with this duo, one on Minions Mega Blox (at one point Marty wonders what the Union Jack is) and the other on Gravity Falls.<br />In the third video, the series would end up getting hijacked by another character. Steve from Minecraft. Introducing Puppet Steve.<br /><br />Realizing Minecraft was crazy popular, Chris created Puppet Steve (or at least bought him from someone) and the channel would be all about him. Despite the Minecraft theme, he wouldn’t play the game. It’s 99% toys.<br />He started with Minecraft toys (while also showing he knows nothing about the game), but he also tried throwing ideas at the wall to see what worked. Including a “crazy” review of Zootopia (like his crazy review of Inside Out), a video where he mocks the Enderman, a reaction to the trailer to Sausage Party where he seemingly claims to be a kid? <br />However, the channel wouldn’t grab much attention, until he found his golden goose. Five Night’s at Freddy’s. Seeing the large number of views his first FNAF video received, he began to push out constant Freddy content. It helped grow his channel far past anything the Irate Gamer ever accomplished. <br /><br />At one point, he did have his stepdaughter on to talk about girl’s toys as Puppet Alex. But because I said she was a better critic than Chris, he kicked her off the show. *Disclaimer: I do not have any proof of this, just speculation and circumstance* <br /><br />But the transition to Puppet Steve wasn’t instant, he still put some stuff out on the main channel.<br />A lot of filler though. Crappy tech, crappy apps, an artbook, supposed Lego Dimensions leaks. All of it is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then came a review of Excitebike. All I remember about this one was a running gag with a drunk Link. It wasn’t funny.<br /><br />Chris started making some odd changes. Changing of the name of the channel multiple times, from Irategamer to Chris Bores TV to The Irate Gamer. <br />He deleted a lot of videos (hence why I keep bringing up the missing ones).<br /><br />He would then promote a bloatware phone app. People REALLY hated that one. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Output slowed further as Puppet Steve videos started appearing more and more. With more Skylanders and a Skyrim artbook. It was very dull. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Around the end of March, he announced on Facebook that he was “semi-retired”. Complaining that his channel barely saw growth in 2015. I wonder whose fault that was. *looks at Chris’ output* Clearly it’s YouTube.<br /><br />On April 22nd, Chris would upload a review of Duck Hunt, claiming it was the start of Season 6. <br />It was a weak video. Less a review and more a tract on how the Dog is annoying. It did not need to be six minutes long.<br />The video ended with Irate Gamer going into the game and chasing the dog through a multitude of other games. It was pure, unadulterated cringe. It ends with the two arriving in Mortal Kombat and IG uppercutting the dog into the Pit.<br /><br />And that… was the last Irate Gamer video. For now.<br />He quickly reversed his stance on Season 6, making this the Season 5 finale. As Puppet Steve began uploading more and more, Chris began to neglect the channel with actual content. <br /><br />Instead, he looks at more tech, more terrible apps, and started a new series about subscription boxes called Box Wars. He buys a bunch of boxes (like Loot Crate, 1Up Box, etc.), opens them and shows the contents. Where other creators simply use these for sponsorships and opens them at the end of a video, Chris thought “this is the content”. People didn’t like it. Yet he still made multiple Box Wars videos. I guess even Chris realized it was stupid, as they’re no longer on the channel. <br /><br />More and more filler, until he released a new I Rate the 80’s. It was about Bazooka Joe. A lame video covering something that wasn’t even from the 80’s.<br />Like Duck Hunt above, this would be the last 80’s video. For now.<br /><br />More and more filler that’s no longer on the channel. Including a Tennis game that has a busty player for Chris to put in the thumbnail.<br /><br />Then another app video that was literally a scam. He swiftly removed it, but only to delete the negative comments. Though now, it’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />On July 20th, Chris made it official. The Irate Gamer was no more. It wasn’t the first time he announced retirement, but this was likely the one that stuck. For now…<br /><br />Though that didn’t stop him from posting another tech review. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Over the week following the announcement, he revealed some details. The reason for stopping was time & money (money for what?) He considered crowd-funding Season 6, no longer anti-crowdfunding (he never went through with it), and when asked to do Patreon, he refused saying “it’s not for me”. He didn’t elaborate on what that meant.<br /><br />Despite the “retirement”, Chris still used the channel to sell out. Like a video talking about Soylent, or a video promoting a Wisdom Tree run Kickstarter. Seems rather hypocritical considering the reason the Ebegging Spoof was made. Both videos are no longer on the channel.<br /><br />This was around the point I learned about Puppet Steve. Part of me does wonder if my discovery is what lead to its exponential growth. Probably not.<br /><br />It became clear to me that the shilling videos were done to fund the toys for Puppet Steve. Maybe his ghost hunting habit too.<br /><br />In October, he started posting gaming content again. … On Puppet Steve. Keep in mind that at this point, he didn’t have as many subscribers as Irate Gamer.<br />First one was gameplay of Lego Diimensions’ Ghostbusters 2016 pack. Best part about this one is that he exposed his PlayStation Network handle and for a brief period of we could see his Trophy status. It revealed quite a few lies about the games he reviewed for Neo. Like how he barely played them or lied about beating them.<br /><br />He also played Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location. Revealing that he can indeed play PC games. He just chose not to for Irate Gamer.<br />He never beat the game.<br /><br />Around the end of the year, he changed the name of his channel again to the “CB Network”. Going for an “all-purpose” channel rather than Irate Gamer focused. <br />He also posted a snippet of Pursuit of the Paranormal. The opening made it clear that Chris wanted this to be a successful reality TV show. It was never picked up.<br /><br />Rest of the year was shilling videos and Puppet Steve. <br /><br />2017:<br /><br />This was a dead year. Not much happened.<br />At least on the Irate Gamer side. Puppet Steve was very active.<br /><br />He did change the Irate Gamer channel description to outright say he’s retired. No final video, no big goodbye, just some text hidden away in the “About” page. <br /><br />A little spark of activity appeared in September when he made a Facebook post about Toys R Us going bankrupt, believing that the end of Skylanders is what killed it. Not even remotely close to how that works.<br /><br />The month after that, a post about Machinima trying to bury him because he didn’t want to join them. Calling them “YouTube’s gaming division”. Chris cannot accept responsibility for his own channel’s failure.<br /><br />When talking about ghost content he “can’t show”, fans keep asking for more Irate Gamer, but he claims to have no time. He refused to come clean about Puppet Steve, pretending it doesn’t exist. In fact, posting about Steve on his Facebook would result in a deleted comment and blocked account. <br /><br />He also got super salty when someone posted a picture of his book in a toilet. <br /><br />2018:<br /><br />I told you 2017 was a dead year.<br /><br />January started off on a hilarious note as he made an unhinged Facebook post about the Kids Choice Awards promoting the Illuminati. I am not kidding.<br />All because they showed the Eye of Providence in the background. You know, the one that’s on every US Dollar bill? That was enough for him to ban his family from watching Nickelodeon. Yet he still talked about SpongeBob on Puppet Steve… rules for thee not for me.<br />All this made me realize how far off the deep end he was. I saw signs of it with his support of Alex Jones, but this really pushed it.<br /><br />Chris also showed up in a small indie film called “Black Friday”, and unlike Gore Orphanage, his scene wasn’t cut. Though it wasn’t much, he shows up at the very end in front of his greenscreen. He looks out of place compared to the rest of the movie too.<br /><br />In February, Chris got to go to ToyFair and did coverage… as Puppet Steve. His videos were full of errors. He also tried doing some “live” segments, but his phone is so shitty that they came out poorly.<br /><br />As March was closing out, Chris dropped one hell of a surprise. He was coming back to the Irate Gamer. Except not quite.<br />He changed his channel name once again from CB Network to Chris-Tube, and over on Twitter he changed his handle to “Chris Neo”.<br /><br />Shortly afterward, he would drop a new review. On Sewer Shark for the Sega CD.<br />And this was no longer the Irate Gamer show, this was the Chris Neo show. What is his obsession with that word?<br />In the time since, he moved from Sandusky to Toledo, so he was filming in a different location. He also started wearing these neon glasses. What purpose did they serve? *shrugs*<br /><br />How was this big comeback video? Boring…<br />Like, way more boring than usual. But it did have some issues. Like claiming this was the first Sega CD game he ever looked at, somehow forgetting that he talked about Power Rangers in 2014.<br />Otherwise, it was like a real slow Let’s Play with some brief reviewing thrown in.<br />But hey, he’s back. … Right?<br /><br />It did not take long for awfulness to set in as he posted a clickbait video talking about a Sewer Shark Easter Egg. Put the game in a CD player and it plays a creepy message. A guy answers a phone and hears some backwards speak. Play it backwards and he’s just saying, “Number 9”. It’s a Beatles reference. <br />He claims the hasn’t seen that message anywhere else. That was, of course, a lie, as a simple Google search found a YouTube upload 8 years prior to the video’s posting.<br /><br />Following that was a look at… mini-Arcade cabinets. Cheap trinkets that play NES ports of Arcade games (rather than the actual one). What makes this worse is that he already talked about these on Puppet Steve, so even here he’s recycling content. If you think Chris Neo would escape the eraser, you are wrong. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Afterwards, he would look at a game he’s promised to look at for a looooong time. How long? He brought it up in the comments of his Where’s Waldo video. <br /><br />Deadly Towers. Claiming multiple times to have played this as a kid and says “30 years” over and over. Otherwise, it’s boring, and he openly cheats to get to the end. He’s also blatantly using an emulator as the footage is far too clean. Despite having the cartridge and the system.<br /><br />Chris never learned his lesson about false copyright flagging. In 2017, CommonNonsenseMedia produced a video debunking the many claims shown in his big Opening Up video. There were no issues with it, when out of nowhere, Chris decided to take it down for copyright infringement. Not even under a company name, just as “Chris Bores”. <br />One of Chris’ own fans confronted him, and it was made clear Chris had no idea what he was doing, or at least played ignorant and kept deflecting away.<br />Thankfully, the video was reinstated and can still be viewed today.<br /><br />He talked about more mini-Arcade cabinets. Noticing a theme?<br /><br />Then came the videos that killed Chris Neo. A pair of videos about Mario. The first one has him gushing over the NES trilogy, and attempt to damage control his Mario 2 video (to little success). Then he claims he’s going to “blow our minds” by showing there’s a World 9 only accessible through Game Genie. Except not really, Game Genie alters the existing assets and makes something new. These aren’t secret or hidden. <br />He posted a follow-up with more Game Genie codes.<br />Only the first one is still up on the channel.<br /><br />Chris made a video in response to the ending of Infinity War. A month after it came out and it became common knowledge.<br />It was a skit where after seeing the movie, he returns home to play Maximum Carnage (as you do) and finds Spider-Man is no longer in the game. Somehow Thanos erased him from games too.<br />Then he checks other games and finds missing characters all over. Except the Duck Hunt Dog because he never gets tired of hating that dog. It’s so old…<br /><br />He ignored E3 on “Chris Neo” but made one video over on Puppet Steve about Super Smash Bros Ultimate. It was lazy and poorly researched. Referring to alternate colors as “new characters” and being surprised that female Pikachus exist. <br /><br />Back on the main channel, more Mario Game Genie… It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Followed by looking at an Atari artbook. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />It almost seems like he forgot about the channel, neglecting to post anything for a month.<br />He did post a rant on Facebook claiming that his site went down not because he forgot to pay the fees, but due to the “paranormal elite” trying to silence him as his views are so controversial. That was an actual claim he made.<br /><br />Then three months after the last Mario Game Genie video, he posted the finale. He explained his absence as a “summer hiatus” (not an excuse for YouTube). This video is also gone. But there is a reason why most of the Mario Game Genie videos were removed. We’ll get to that in 2021.<br /><br />The final Chris Neo video, a 13-minute look at Arcade1Up cabinets. <br />Chris Neo was an absolute failure. But Chris was not discouraged as he would find another route. Next year.<br /><br />Before the year went out, he posted another conspiracy about YouTube and Machinima. Saying he could “write a book” about all the stuff he’s seen and heard in “the system”. Where is that book Chris? Come on, stop leaving us in suspense.<br />He also makes some bizarre claims about PewDiePie rejecting Disney and that somehow connects to Felix’s fans attacking a teacher that didn’t like him? Except he didn’t reject Disney, Disney rejected him. For making a video where he paid two guys to write “Death to All Jews”. It’s not that hard to look up.<br /><br />Next time: 2019 to present <br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-18314246975699381682022-04-25T11:05:00.002-05:002022-05-28T11:46:03.475-05:00The Irate Gamer Timeline Part 5: 2014-2015<p>Chris launches the new year with a review of Lego Marvel Superheroes. It was boring. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />What follows is kind of rough.<br />January 2014, content creator Justin Carmical, better known as JewWario, took his own life. Creators all over the internet mourned as they saw him as a nice and positive person. When someone asked Chris about it, he said he didn’t know who he was and that by taking his own life, he’s going to suffer in the afterlife. Sounds rude, doesn’t it? <br />Four years later, it was uncovered that Justin was a sexual predator. Having gone after underage teens at conventions. It painted an awful new picture of the guy and broke the hearts of his friends (except for the people that knew all along like Holly Brown, Rob Walker, Mike Michaud, and some others at the then-imploding Channel Awesome). <br />However, this does not vindicate Bores. These details were not public, and he still rudely said that Justin is going to suffer in Hell without knowing him. It shows he thinks this way when genuinely good people take their own life. <br />Years later, Chris claimed he was taken out of context, yet never apologized. <br /><br />A lull in activity occurred. He did post a vlog in February that the end of the storyline would be two parts. That’s about it<br /><br />Oh wow, I forgot about this one. Over on his site he posted a picture of a big wave (that’s it, that’s the post) and a user called him out for posting boring content. Rather than delete it, Chris edited it to make him say “this is interesting”. Nobody likes an Orwellian editor, Chris. <br /><br />A new 80’s video appeared, this one about the General Mills Monster Cereals. Wait, didn’t he already do a video about Fruity Yummy Mummy? Another instance of recycled content.<br />It was a cringy self-indulgent video. It included a kid version of Bores tasting his own poop (it was related to Frankenberry turning your stool pink), all the mascots showing up in his room, and a bunch of pointless cameos from cartoon characters. By the way, he posted this in February. Months after Halloween. How was this not a Halloween episode? <br /><br />Rolling into Match, he finally releases the continuation of his storyline. With Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on the Sega Genesis. The very first time he covered a Genesis game. In terms of the review, it was a lot of weak complaints over an average fighting game. One “issue” being that all you do is fight.<br />I should mention that the video begins with a clip of Jason David Frank saying, “Thank you for watching”. Chris claimed he had to “pull a lot of strings” when really, he likely just paid him to say a greeting. Keep in mind, he doesn’t say Irate Gamer or Chris Bores, or anything related to his channel. It’s almost like he could have taken it from somewhere and pretended he made it.<br /><br />Now for the story bits, hoo boy…<br />Following up the end of the last review, the “Sage Elder” takes Chris into the base from Power Rangers where he’s met by Wise Sage, Tony, Ronnie, and Wilson. I am not calling him Wilkins.<br />In order to stop the giant robot, they must use the Megazord. But it’s only powered by the Irate Gamer’s anger, and he has to review a game to power it up. <br />After he finishes reviewing, it’s all powered up and they do the roll call. He purposely does it in the wrong order to end on Wilson getting annoyed at being the Pink Ranger. <br />What follows is an action scene that even the editors at Saban would reject. Splicing the giant HAL-powered robot into Zyuranger footage to make it look like they’re fighting it. It’s painful to look at.<br />But it runs out of power and the video ends on a cliffhanger. Fans would not have to wait seven months for the conclusion. <br /><br />Until then, he put out a review of South Park: The Stick of Truth. It was filmed in a different room and used facecam at points. It was also released the same day as the game so clearly it was rushed. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Another 80’s video, this time on McDonalds Changeables. They’re basically Transformers but cheap and shaped like McDonalds’ food. Reading my recap, there was a Max Headroom ending?<br /><br />Then something good happened. Hearing the large amounts of criticism and anger over his constant Skylanders content, Chris made a separate channel dedicated to it. Known as TheSkylanderC. With the main channel free of that plastic, it can get back to what the fans want.<br /><br />… Until he went back to posting Skylanders content on the IG channel after two weeks. He would blame YouTube claiming that the site was “very different” now and that’s why TheSkylanderC “isn’t working”. He never elaborated on what that meant. Don’t bother searching for the channel, he nuked it from orbit.<br /><br />In April, the storyline finally came to an end. One last Mighty Morphin Power Rangers game, the one on Sega CD. <br />The review part was all “It’s too hard and I hate having to play on Hard for the true ending”. That’s it.<br />As for the story, the Genie shows up to distract the robot while Chris *sighs* plays the game to recharge the power. After that’s done, he summons the Power Sword, no sorry, the “Sword of Inferno” and cuts down the giant robots.<br /><br />What follows is Chris’ attempt at getting his viewers in the video. A cheering scene where all his fans applaud him. However, because he barely had fans at this point, only like seven people appeared, and only two of them were genuine fans (the others were either his friends at GotGame or known trolls). Granted, Chris demanded that they stand in front of a greenscreen so that really limited his options. The rest of the crowd was either Bores in different costumes, video game sprites, or toys. <br />As for the Shadow Overlord? He just gets crushed by debris. Irate Gamer never even met the guy. <br /><br />And that was the storyline. Took three and a half years when someone competent could have done it in one. I’ve received testimonials from former fans that the story arc was where they jumped off. They hated how long it took, and the ending was not worth the wait. I completely understand where they’re coming from.<br /><br />After even more Skylanders, he announced the Season 4 DVD (Season 4 being the storyline). Titled “The Rise of Red”. Red being the first HAL powered robot. Not sure why he got top billing, he didn’t do anything.<br />And I know what you’re thinking, he DID include all that Power Rangers footage. Without the permission of Saban Brands. This wasn’t free either, he was selling it. The only reason he didn’t get in trouble is that he’s barely noticeable. <br />He posted part of the “Making-Of” video on YouTube. It’s still up.<br /><br />It’s E3 again, and the majority of his E3 2014 videos are gone. Only two left. One is an interview with voice actor Richard Horvitz for his work in Skylanders, and one is a short video showing the empty hall after dark. What’s the point? For some reason, he labeled it as E3 2016. That’s a baffling error. <br />As for the stuff that was deleted, there was so much Skylanders. Like 12 videos. He also made a lot about Sonic Boom: The Rise of Lyric (now that’s painful). When looking at Hyrule Warriors, he said it’s what he’s wanted out of Zelda (in the past he said it should be more like God of War). He did an interview with an EA rep about Dragon Age Inquisition where he just kept pointing out the obvious, and in the comments, he said he thought the game looked cool and asked to do the interview. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. There were also points where he’d do interviews with his phone instead of a mic. <br /><br />On the bright side, this was the last E3 he attended. No more painful interviews or obvious questions about series he knows nothing about.<br /><br />Sometime after E3, he announced that he retired the Irate Gamer. The first of many. But there would still be 80’s and History videos.<br /><br />Case in point, an 80’s episode about…. Looney Tunes baseball cards? Oh right, that did happen… I remember thinking his skits made him seem super jealous that his friends had the same things he did. <br /><br />Following that was more Skylanders videos, then his first video about Minecraft. Action figures, not the game. By the way, as of this writing, this is the most recent Irate Gamer video to get a million views. It was posted in 2014. <br /><br />Chris essentially killed the channel at this point by slowing his output. Seeing only an artbook “review” and Skylanders. Leading to what I can only describe as a “hail mary’.<br /><br />On October 2nd, Chris posted his longest video to date. A 39 minute tell-all made in response to former-critic-turned-brownnoser TheArchfiend. In it, Chris talks about his YouTube career, how he started, and how nothing was ever his fault. It was either James Rolfe going out of his way to undermine him, or YouTube burying him. <br />His arguments were flimsy, inaccurate, or even outright slander. Yet somehow, people came out in support of him. I have no idea why as he had zero evidence of any of this. Only thing he did show was a picture of how he was once the 55th most subscribed YouTuber. <br />Like the Ebegging Spoof, it’s still up. Even with the event that happened in 2020.<br /><br />With a newly engaged audience, Chris decided the best course was to upload more Pursuit of the Paranormal. <br />Some ghost videos are still up, one an “EVP” and two others being local news appearances. <br /><br />Then out of nowhere, after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, History of Video Games returns. This one about the launch of the Atari 2600. It was boring, full of inaccuracies, and didn’t go very deep. As per usual.<br /><br />Outside of some more Skylanders and an update video, there was really nothing else to the year.<br /><br />2015:<br /><br />How does Bores start the year? Strobe lights! A video looking at strobe lights that are meant to react to the actions in a game. What’s the point of these? It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />The next month, more History. Talking about more early Atari games and the rise of Midway. Space Invaders too. Again, I do not remember anything about this.<br /><br />In March, the world lost brilliant actor Leonard Nimoy. Beloved by millions and forever in our hearts. Chris, having met Nimoy at E3 one year, decided to pay tribute. A kind gesture. … If not for the fact he placed ads on the video. He was profiting off a tribute video. Thankfully, it’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Now, the prior few months, Chris had been talking about appearing in a horror movie and a popular reality show. He would post an update video talking about both. <br />The horror movie is called Gore Orphanage. Based on an Ohio urban legend about a haunted home.<br />However, Chris wasn’t in it. Sort of. He shows up in the post-credits scene, but you don’t see his face and he’s in the distance running away. That’s an odd cameo, he even gets listed in the credits. I managed to ask the production company behind the movie, and they told me that they did shoot a scene with him, but the footage was unusable, so they scrapped it. Why they didn’t reshoot it I don’t know. Interesting to note, Chris has never brought up this movie again. Compared to the next paragraph.<br /><br />The reality show was TruTV’s Hardcore Pawn. He was brought on for his ghost hunting skills. Except I don’t know if that’s true because the episode never aired. The show ended with Season 9 in March 2015. If Chris’ episode was meant for Season 10, then it likely only exists in the Turner Networks archive. That is, if it’s real, and the photo he keeps parading around with him and Les Gold isn’t just a photo op he got when visiting the shop. No idea why he keeps bringing his non-existent appearance up. Does he not realize people can easily fact check?<br />This video is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />A big change was going to happen to the channel. He wanted to post three videos a week. From what I could gather, Chris joined a multi-channel network, and it’s possible one of the stipulations was to post regular content. <br />Meaning 2015 was by far his most active year. But you wouldn’t know that if you looked at his channel, he deleted sooooooo much of what he posted.<br />Not the first comeback video though. Where it shows the Irate Gamer sitting in front of the old man from the first Zelda. <br /><br />He would post a video about the DuckTales reboot (it was just announced at the time), mostly about how he’s a big fan of the Don Rosa comics and he should work on the new show. Thankfully that did not happen, or else it would have been cancelled after the first season. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Leading into his first review for this return, DuckTales on NES. Wait what? <br />For “Season 5”, Chris decided the best course of action was to look at beloved classics and bash them for stupid reasons. I do not understand his logic.<br />The video was nothing but cringe, badly edited sprites, and poor gameplay. <br /><br />Following that was his first video about amiibo, where he begged his fans to give him extras. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then a short St. Patrick’s Day video where a Leprechaun kicks him in the balls. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then a Skylanders Trap Team video. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Eventually, the return of I Rate the 80’s with an episode on Captain EO. You know, that Michael Jackson movie that was only at Disney parks? Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, written and produced by George Lucas? Anyway, he talks about it. Not much to it.<br /><br />The DuckTales love isn’t over yet as Chris releases his first Let’s Play. In his big tell-all video, he accused James Rolfe of ripping off PewDiePie when he started doing LP videos. Never mind that Let’s Plays have predated PewDiePie by several years.<br />Here he plays on Easy mode, then partway through pauses to run off and grab his copy of Mickey Mousecapade for…reasons. Its no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Next, he tried to launch a new series, “Best of Irate Moments”. It would have shown a moment from one of his videos, and he would talk about it. This one was about a joke from the G.I. Joe video where Flint shows up. The weirdest part is that he says finding pictures of him was tough He does not explain how. He never made a second “Best of Irate Moments”. It kind of felt like he was throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. <br />It's no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then came a pair of Mario Party 10 videos. One about the amiibo and one a “review”. All his Wii U videos going forward would use a camera pointed at his TV to capture footage. Claiming it was “too hard” to capture. Even though he did so in the past. <br />He ended it claiming the Wii U was for “family experiences only”. Whatever that means… not like it matters now. The Wii U bombed, and the Switch is making money. Both videos are no longer on the channel.<br /><br />You remember when I mentioned that it was strange that he kept the IG Game video up? At the end of March, he posted a tell-all video talking about it. From how the idea formed to the years of delays and the eventual release just plopping onto the App Store. Followed by its delisting.<br />He was not clear in what he wanted, asking for an “8-bit game in a 16-bit world”. Communication with them was sparse, only getting updates every three months before just losing contact altogether. <br /><br />Then they contacted him before the start of “Season 4”, and Chris had a better idea of what he wanted. A four-player beat-em-up like the TMNT Arcade game, using elements from his planned story. However, updates were still slow until eventually they showed him the final product, and it was the 2D sidescroller we got. Chris admitted he was disappointed but allowed them to release it. It was bad, it was taken down, and Chris admits that people told him it looked hastily thrown together. How it mostly used assets from another game, and this is true. <br /><br />The developers used the game Commander Cool as their basis as they offer assets for a fee, and simply added Irate Gamer elements. Even if it didn’t make sense (like how he has a hang glider).<br />It's strange that he took this video down but kept the announcement video up. I feel people are owed an explanation on what happened with the game. <br /><br />He put out a short video talking about his green screen and how he only pays for $3 tablecloths at Target. It’s no longer on the channel. <br /><br />Next review was Kid Icarus, which he claims is one of his favorite games, yet he spent the video crying about how hard it was, did not do any research into the lore (referring to the Reaper as a woman, referring to Pandora as a man, referring to Palutena as a princess) and showed his “love” by throwing the game onto his garage floor and hitting it with an eggplant. Why hurt it if it’s a good game? *shrugs*<br /><br />Then a video about a then-new Calvin & Hobbes book. Nothing much to it. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then a look at the website LeapTrade. Where you trade in games for points and spend those points to get other people’s games. I tried going there and my ad blocker told me not to go.<br />Chris mentions in the video that he got The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures from it, claiming he “traded it in a long time ago”. I find that hard to believe. Especially since he’s never been shown to have a GameCube. Not even a broken one just to display for “gamer cred”. It’s no longer on the channel. <br /><br />Like the last main IG review, he would do an LP of Kid Icarus. He was a bit more active compared to DuckTales, but it still wasn’t good. He brings up how he doesn’t understand why people think he hates the games he talks about (zero self-awareness), brought up KI Uprising, how he played it at E3 and felt it was a “departure” from made the first game ‘iconic”. Except anyone that has played both games can tell you that’s wrong. He also mentioned that after putting out the review, he learned that his childhood friend that introduced him to Kid Icarus died. Yeesh… It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then a 27-minute video about amiibo. I didn’t bother with that one. At the end of it he announced new site for amiibo news. It’s more than likely dead so don’t bother finding it. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />After that was a minute long short with Irate Gamer and Ronnie in Castlevania. That’s it… it’s not on the channel, but I think that’s because it was integrated into a later video.<br /><br />Clearly desperate for content, Chris made his first LootCrate unboxing video. *shudders* I just remembered something coming later… It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then he posted some of the bloopers from the Season 4 DVD. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />After that, a review of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! This was a painfully long video where he does a nearly two-minute montage, mispronounces names, horrid acting, destroying the game by throwing it against a punching bag, and ending on a pointless Inception reference. It was hard to watch…<br /><br />He would follow-up the review with a Let’s Play. This one in two parts! He addresses the criticism he got while pretending to play over pre-recorded footage. Claiming the mispronunciations are because “it’s how I said it as a kid”. He also admits Punch-Out is the “perfect type of game” to review because he can nitpick a lot. Basically, revealing he has no clue how to do a proper review. Both parts are no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Several months after the game came out, Chris finally looked at Super Smash Bros for Wii U. But not the 3DS version, he doesn’t even acknowledge its existence. In a prior video he claimed he would only review it once all the amiibo came out. That did not happen.<br />The review was poorly edited, with Chris repeating lines, stating the obvious, claiming he showed all the “cool aspects” when he only showed like 5% of what it offers, and spent the end of the video plugging his amiibo site. As this one got nowhere near the same number of views as his Brawl review, it is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then some more Skylanders…. Though this one I should bring up as he misgendered one of the Trap Team Skylanders, Spotlight. Referring to her with male pronouns. The comments called this out, and Chris (using his mom account) said “I was confused because she didn’t have breasts”. She’s a quadrupedal dragon, she’s not meant to have breasts. <br /><br />Another Wii U review would follow with… Rayman Legneds? Wait, he already did that. For some reason, Chris decided to look at Rayman Legends a second time. Why? Who knows?<br />It’s no longer on the channel. <br /><br />After that came a now-deleted update. He said his output would slow down as his stepkids were starting school. Seems reasonable. However, there’s likely a different reason he was slowing down. On May 1st, he started a new channel, but kept it secret from his current audience. What was it? This is going to need some context.<br /><br />In 1964, teacher Elayne Reiss-Weimann and child coordinator Rita Friedman created a literacy program to help children learn. A series of flash cards featuring anthropomorphic letters that help teach the alphabet. They were named the Letter People. They sold the program to New Dimensions in Education Inc, and they started distributing it around the country.<br />In 1974, a Letter People television show premiered on PBS. It only lasted two years, but the educational programs would continue in various ways.<br /><br />Why am I bringing this up? Because that’s what Chris decided to pursue. A “reboot” of the Letter People with his own handmade puppets. Likely due to Bores seeing the immense success of “YouTube Kids”. However, the new Letter People (renamed Alphabet Bunch likely for copyright reasons) did not catch on and only a handful of videos were made. But that wouldn’t be the end of Chris’ puppet adventures. Just wait until 2016.<br /><br />Back to the Irate Gamer channel, he reviews a board game. *coughs* It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then a video recorded in his car where he shows off new amiibo. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Oh hey, more History. This one solely about the Magnavox Odyssey 2. It was about as boring you can imagine.<br /><br />The week after that, he posted a Walking Dead panel he filmed at the MotorCity ComicCon in Detroit. It’s no longer on the channel and if you were interested in an outdated panel, I’m sure there’s way better recordings out there.<br /><br />Afterwards he showcased the first 5 NES games he owned. Not his favorites, but the first ones. He claims Super Mario Bros was his first, that he was the first on his block to get an NES, and that he hated Mach Rider. Not much to it… It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Following that was the return of the Summer Movie lists. Though by the time he got to it, the “season” already started. His list included Pixels. I think that says everything. But he also made sure to point out that he excluded Fant4stic from the list because Johnny Storm was black. Utterly shameful… It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Now we come to… his Splatoon review. <br />Rather than do a standard Neo episode, he chose to make this a “CRAZY” review. What does that mean? Schizophrenic editing, jumping all over the place, somehow more mugging to the camera than usual. It was an experiment that clearly didn’t work.<br />The part I remember the most is when he tries to use a Pikachu amiibo in the game and it doesn’t work, so he tells Pikachu to go to Hell, throws it, then growls at the camera with a dumb face. It’s a shame this one is no longer on the channel because you have no idea how bad this was.<br /><br />Following that he posted a video about the Charlie Charlie challenge. A playground game where kids try to summon a ghost called Charlie. It isn’t any different than Candyman or Bloody Mary. Yet Bores thought it was serious and said it really works. No… and as embarrassing as the video sounds, THIS he decided to keep up. <br /><br />Bringing us to his review of Spy Hunter, another beloved classic that he’ll bash for no reason.<br />The conclusion is by far the worst part. He believes there’s an ending and he’ll get to it. Spy Hunter doesn’t end, it’s about points. He figures it out and decides to make up his own ending. The car falls off a cliff and the game ends, and Irate Gamer responds by… throwing the game out the window. Hang on, you’re angry at the ending you made up? Sounds like the modern conservative mindset.<br />This did not get a Let’s Play. He gave up after Punch-Out.<br /><br />Next was his review of the 2015 reboot of Poltergeist. This was another attempt at a style change, and this one was horrid. It was like the crazy Splatoon review, but with more jump-cuts and filters. He said it was bad but didn’t elaborate on why. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Next was another list, his Top 5 favorite Arcade-to-NES ports. For some reason he put Tetris in it when that’s not an Arcade port. He stated that the NES port of Gauntlet could support four players (it can’t), and for some reason put TMNT II on the list despite bashing it years prior. He did not apologize for his original statements. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />It’s E3 time, and as I mentioned before, Chris did not go.. He claimed in one of the videos that he was busy with “business dealings” (was he trying to sell his Letter People remake?)<br />Only two videos were made. One about the toys (Skyalnders, amiibo), and the other was his Top 5 “best in show”. Not much to say about these. They’re no longer on the channel.<br /><br />More Skylanders…no longer on the channel.<br /><br />His top 5 80’s toys that I didn’t bother covering due to how boring it was. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />A video on Skylanders Superchargers. This one is surprisingly still up.<br /><br />Followed by a review of Mega Man. <br />The entire video is “It’s hard it’s hard it’s hard it’s hard”, and then he cheats to show the rest of the game. Using Game Genie or other people’s footage. It also has a “joke” where Mega Man threatens to *sighs* rape Dr. Wily. Why?<br />At least he didn’t destroy the game.<br /><br />Some more filler. First a video on Minions Mega Bloks.<br />When asked why he looked at a Mega Bloks set, Chris responded “because they rock”. Is that a joke? It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Then another “crazy” movie review, this one for Inside Out. I remember this one being so much worse than the Poltergeist one. The “wackiness” was worse, and the jokes were rancid. It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Then a tech review for a security system. No not Ring, that was only just getting started. This was *checks notes* Color Video Door Phone. What?<br />I just remember he did a dumb sketch with his toys. It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />I was informed that at the time, there were Chinese spammers scouring YouTube to find content creators to send shoddy products if they feature them a video. It’s likely that’s what Chris did. If only we knew how bad it would get…. <br /><br />Then a video about how he got the Dark Pit amiibo that doubled as a promo for a site that no longer exists. Cool. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />That was followed by a “crazy” review of a Lego Minecraft set. It wasn’t as crazy as the other ones but still bad. It ended with him getting blown up a by Creeper, and when he falls over, he doesn’t do it naturally. He uses image rotation and like the Kirby’s Epic Yarn review, he doesn’t have legs. He couldn’t film himself doing a natural fall? You can go see it for yourself, the video is still up.<br /><br />Then, to celebrate the release of Pixels (seriously), he reviewed Donkey Kong. Rather, all the Donkey Kong games released in the 80’s. The first NES port, Donkey Kong Jr, the obscure Game & Watch Donkey Kong 2, Donkey Kong 3, and Donkey Kong Jr. Math. All I remember is that he claimed to be proud of the ending gag (it was the shoulder angel & devil bit but with two DKs), and that people praised this review just for telling them about Donkey Kong 2. Still boring.<br /><br />Another Skylanders video, about the characters in Superchargers. That one is still up. Reading my recap, I brought up a comment that said they hope it’s the last Skylanders as they felt Activision was milking it. They were close, it would die with the next game. Bores responded with an ignorant comment on how Activision pulled Guitar Hero “at the right time” and are “testing the waters” again. Not understanding that the death of the rhythm game was essentially self-inflicted by Activision flooding the market with multiple games a year. With Rock Band and some others, there was just too much unsold plastic. As for the “testing”, that was the failed Guitar Hero Live. By this logic, we should have seen a comeback for Skylanders by now. *looks at how Microsoft bought Activision* Don’t count on it.<br /><br />Then he did an interview with a local radio show about his ghost stuff. This is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Followed by a look at a bag that was being crowdfunded. Chris has a very wishy-washy position on crowdfunding. Either it’s a big scam (the Ebegging Spoof), it’s good for education (referring to the return of Reading Rainbow on his blog) or he’s fine with it (this bag).<br />Anyway, the video is just a few minutes of him pulling stuff out. That’s it. That’s the video. <br />It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Some filler with a review of phone chargers. No longer on the channel.<br /><br />A text review of Batman Arkham Knight… the novelization. Instead of playing the game, he read the book and posted a text review on his site. Why?<br /><br />Then another video shilling VidFall. No longer on the channel.<br /><br />But then, he would announce something big. He’s going to be writing a book. About ghosts. … No joke.<br />He made a video asking for help. I think it was for cover art or something? I don’t remember. The announcement video is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Looking at my posts, he flooded his channel with Skylanders content close to the release of Superchargers. Yeesh. All of it is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Another History of Video Games, on early Atari 2600 titles. I mostly remember this horrid bit where he pretended to be Superman (in the absolute worst costume) and look through the pixelated Atari Lois Lane’s dress.<br /><br />A video about a TMNT book. Boring. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then came the announcement that his ghost hunting book is out. It’s titled “Ghost Hunting 2.0”. The 2.0 likely comes from being the “successor” to Grant Wilson’s 2007 book “Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society”. Good sign of a big ego.<br />The video had him saying some laughable stuff. He calls himself a “deep thinker” and believes that his findings could create a new branch of psychology. As well as revealing that one of his main sources for conducting his “work” is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. In actuality, it’s a poorly translated self-help guide. <br />It’s no longer on the channel. Strange, I figured he would want to keep that one.<br /><br />Now I’m sure you’re curious, what’s in the book?<br />Opening to the first page already shows a formatting issue. He indented the first sentence. You do not indent the start of a chapter. When called out, he defended himself with “I did it my way”.<br />As for the actual content, it is a joke. He tries to claim he’s serious yet references Batman and Scooby-Doo. At one point, he admits to singing the alphabet in front of a crowd to attract, I assume, a ghost, and claims “(his) stupidity paid off”. He admits to using peanut butter baits, despite ghost hunters discrediting that (and that says something). His evidence is either contradictory or non-existent. With various levels of “just trust me, bro”. By the end of it, he outright claims he created a new branch of psychology. <br /><br />The book came out nearly seven years ago. Last I checked, his findings have not been added to psychological journals. But they were added to TVTropes “So Bad It’s Horrible” page. A high honor indeed.<br /><br />Next video he looked at some crappy tech products. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then a review of the NES title Kung-Fu. At no point does he reference that it’s loosely based on the Jackie Chan film Meals on Wheels, nor mention that it’s a port of an Arcade game. <br />The video opens with him recycling the prior video where he sits in front of the Old Man from Zelda, and it closes with an “everybody laughs ending” that randomly includes Geoff Mendicino. No idea why he was there.<br /><br />I noticed that the Amazon reviews of Chris’ book seemed fake. Like a bot generated them. I can’t say for sure, but it was suspicious. <br /><br />Chris began to “get serious” about his ghost hunting and claimed he was planning to retire from YouTube. This may have been a cover for something he had planned to start in January.<br /><br />After three weeks of nothing, he posted an update video that was mostly about ghosts. How he went to a convention, met Grant Wilson, and then claimed he isn’t retiring after all. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Even though it was November and Halloween was over, he put out a review of Castlevania. At least he promised this back in his Top 5 NES Games.<br />He claims it was his most requested game. I seriously doubt that.<br />Remember the short video with IG and Ronnie in Castlevania mentioned above? That’s how the video opens.<br />This was a weird one. It had a lot of references to then current culture (including a popular song at the time) and did a Scooby-Doo style montage where he “jams out” with Ronnie and Satan. He was strumming on a Guitar Hero guitar. What’s odd is that there’s a photo of him with a real guitar, which makes me wonder why he didn’t use that. Did he get rid of it?<br />The ending has another cereal reference with him turning Dracula into Count Chocula.<br /><br />Around Thanksgiving he posted a video on Assassin’s Creed. Rather, an Assassin’s Creed artbook. Play the games? Pfffft.<br />What was odd about this one is that he opened the video saying it was “review week”. Like he doesn’t always do reviews. Granted, his output had considerably slowed down by this point. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />On November 20th, 2015, Chris’ Twitter account saw a lot of activity. Ghost Hunting 2.0 was free for Kindle users, so Chris saw it fit to spam as many paranormal writers as he could. I imagine it did not work.<br /><br />More tech reviews, more Skylanders, even more dislikes from his fans.<br />Speaking of Skylanders, he briefly returned to TheSkylanderC and posted new content there. But the views were weirdly high in comparison to prior videos. I suspect he took advantage of view-botting, but I can’t prove it. Other than noting how the new videos had much higher views than the old ones.<br /><br />Out of nowhere, he posted a video on Tales of Zesteria. Most of it was an annoying joke about the protagonist’s name (Sorey). It’s clear he barely touched it, especially when he got Alisha’s name wrong (calling her Ashley). Also saying that the gameplay was inspired by Kingdom Hearts. Never mind that Tales predates Kingdom Hearts by seven years. It’s no longer on the channel. <br /><br />A scummy video promoting LeapTrade where he tells fans to sign up so HE can get $5 USD. Not the fans, him personally. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />A video on Star Wars Battlefront. Though it was more of a promotion for VidFall, the site that provided him amiibo in the past. Interesting to note, this is the only time he’s ever talked about a PlayStation 4 game. At least on the Irate Gamer.<br />It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then the final episode of History of Video Games. On Mattel’s Intellivision. He didn’t even make it to the 1983 crash. What a joke of a series.<br /><br />A board game review hated by his fans. You can tell they were getting tired of the half-assed content. It’s no longer on the channel. <br /><br />The year would end off with an 18-minute video talking about the four toys-to-life products. Skylanders, Disney Infinity, amiibo, and Lego Dimensions. It was loaded with poor research and terrible takes. I’m amazed this one was left up on the channel. <br />Funny enough, 2016 was essentially the year toys-to-life died. The last Skylanders came out while Disney and WB announced they were discontinuing Infinity and Dimensions. Nintendo is still releasing amiibo, but not much now. <br /><br />Next time: 2016-2018</p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-72948490887200424572022-04-24T11:06:00.002-05:002022-05-28T11:46:14.274-05:00The Irate Gamer Timeline Part 4: 2012-2013<p>2012:<br /><br />The new year crawls in with another 80’s video. The Bud Bowl ad campaign. A series of Budweiser commercials that showed beer bottles playing during the Superbowl. Not much to say there.<br /><br />Around this time, Chris flew down to Florida to film the relaunch of Haunted Investigators. Despite the original version failing, he thought it would work this time. Spoiler alert: It didn’t.<br />While down there, he met with a young fan. The fan filmed the meeting and posted it on his YouTube account. Since he’s ten years older, I wonder how he feels about it now?<br /><br />Through his mother sock-puppet account, Chris revealed that the contests are rigged. He only selects the most ardent of fans. Glad he doesn’t do these anymore.<br /><br />Chris tried another new idea. IG Shorts. Skits where he interacts with a game sprite. First one involved a Lakitu.<br /><br />After over a year, History of Video Games returns. Talking about the Fairchild Channel F. It’s been almost three years and he hasn’t even gotten to the 80’s.<br /><br />We arrive to the first flag signaling the death of his channel. His Neo review of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. Though reading through, he didn’t gush over it. Something changed though… What’s weird is that this one is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />He put out a short video promoting DatBoiDrew’s iOS game Up Up Ubi. I would later learn from Drew himself that Chris only played the trial version, not the full game. You couldn’t even do the whole favor Chris? It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Shortly after that, a review of Ninja Gaiden III (2012). Despite being a terrible installment derided for its lack of difficulty and content, Chris had nothing but adoration for it. Praising it for being a “mindless button masher”. It would almost feel like he’s trolling us if I didn’t know any better. <br />He also made a comment along the lines of “Don’t compare it to something epic like God of War or Gears of War”. Did Chris think Gears of War was similar to God of War? They’re nothing alike. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />He put out a rant about the Michael Bay produced TMNT movie. I do not remember this at all. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then the second and final “Irate Short”, this one about Boos (the Mario ghost). What’s weird about this is that he re-uploaded it 8 years later. It’s just slightly shorter. He didn’t even delete the first upload.<br /><br />He posts nothing for a month, then puts out a Men in Black III review. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />He would continue the storyline in May with Silver Surfer. Interesting thing to note, Chris wanted to do Silver Surfer back in 2008, but stopped because “The Nerd beat him to it”. Except AVGN’s Silver Surfer review was released June 2007. It’s like Chris didn’t know that he posted videos on another site first (those were the days).<br />The whole video is just Chris whining about how hard the game is. Never going into design failures, graphical failures, or pointing out how other shmups operate.<br /><br />As for the story bits, he introduces a new character called Johnny Newscaster, guess what he does! The Genie returns but now he’s played by Chris (just like everyone else). When asked about Brad Harp, Chris said he moved away and “couldn’t do it”. He couldn’t get him for a weekend or something? <br />Leading up to the video, Chris started posting about the “Pixel Demon” all over his social feeds. When asked what that was about, he only responded with “PIXEL DEMON”. <br />In the episode proper, the Pixel Demon appears in Silver Surfer as he was sealed in a game that was “impossible to beat”, but IG beat it (with Game Genie) and now he’s coming. The Pixel Demon looks like a goblin.<br />IG uses his “Power of Inferno” to generate a surfboard, goes inside the game, throws a Bob-Omb at the Pixel Demon and leaves. All that build-up for nothing.<br /><br />What came next wasn’t noticed by many people, but it was still a controversy. A Neo video on Sonic Generations. <br />He praised the game, said it’s just like the classics. But he claimed that you can’t skip the cutscenes. That’s odd, because I’ve played Sonic Generations and you can skip them. What happened here?<br />It turns out, Chris didn’t play the game. Rather, he stole footage from YouTube creator Cyberman65. We know this because Cyberman65 places a watermark on all his videos, and it was present on IG’s. <br />Chris got called out for this, with GotGame attempting damage control by crediting the footage to C65, while Chris (through his mother account) claimed he “sorted it out”. It’s unknown what went down as C65 has never opened up about the incident.<br />I’d say, “it’s no longer on the channel”, but Chris never put it on YouTube. <br /><br />E3 happened again. All that remains of his 2012 coverage is a blooper reel. <br />He harped on Nintendo being “kiddy” after the Wii U reveal, called South Park: The Stick of Truth one of the “worst in show” because he couldn’t get an interview, and a baffling moment where he asked a Sony representative if God of War Ascension would contain “the humor” the series is known for. <br /><br />After E3, he released a review of Lego Batman 2. Another one I don’t remember. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Next… This one is going to require some context.<br />At the time, James Rolfe had been going through controversy involving crowdfunding campaigns. The first one was his personal IndieGoGo fundraiser for the AVGN movie. His goal was $50k. His fans quickly surpassed it and by the end he got $325k. Some very ill-informed people with substantial followings started making asinine claims. From ignorant takes like “James should pay for the movie out of pocket” or “Filmmaking is not that expensive” (one person even cited the Jackass movies, even though the first movie still cost $5 million before marketing), to outright malicious claims like “James is scamming you, he’s pocketing the money”. There was no evidence to any of that.<br /><br />It would eventually blow over, but it would flare up again after James agreed to appear in a promotional video for someone else’s Kickstarter campaign. One for a “fixed” version of Cheetahmen II. Despite having zero involvement in the actual project outside of appearing in the promo, and the presence of other content creators like Pat Contri and The Game Chasers, James got all the heat.<br /><br />Seeing a moment of vulnerability, Chris pounced and released “Ebegging: The Spoof”, an annoyingly smug parody with Chris criticizing the concept of crowdfunding and people that do it are really crooks that just want to take your money. Though most critics called this out, some of them changed their opinion on Bores, calling him “officially cool”.<br />The weirdest part? It’s still up. Even with a certain event that happened in 2020.<br /><br />Following that, Chris would release another 80’s video. This one on Colorforms. Barely remember anything about this one. I think he only had one set of Colorforms so he had to pretend he had multiple or something…<br /><br />Then a rant about The Hunger Games, and how the movie’s camera is terrible. He acted like he was a film expert; claiming he would film it better. He also had an awful clickbait thumbnail that had Jennifer Lawrence on it, but a large banner that reads “Down and Dirty” covering her chest (implying she’s topless). It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Over on GotGame was a review of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. I don’t remember much of it, but a later event indicates that he didn’t get far and the footage was likely stolen.<br />As well as G1 Megatron jokes. Someone at GotGame seemed to really like that inclusion as it’s used in the promo video on their YouTube channel. By the way, the site is still alive. <br /><br />Speaking of GotGame, the next video was a sketch Chris made for them. Real Real Gaming. It’s that old joke you’ve seen in cartoons involving video games so realistic that they come out of the TV. <br />This one prompted a big WTF from viewers when GotGame founder Steve Masters introduced Bores and welcomed him on the show. To which Bores responded “Welcome”. It was a strange moment that I’m surprised they didn’t try to fix.<br />Video is no longer on the IG channel, but it is on GotGame’s YouTube channel.<br /><br />If his review of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure was the knife, his preview video on Skylanders Giants was the hand pushing it into the channel’s heart. A four-and-a-half-minute video showcasing what he knew about the then-upcoming sequel. This got views. A lot of them. It was the main factor that convinced Bores to go into overdrive on Skylanders content. <br />By the way, I didn’t chronicle every Skylanders video, just a few. There will be a lot of them passed over as he deleted so many of them.<br /><br />Afterwards, he put out a short video on Dead or Alive 5. It was notable for coming out the same day as the game. However, the video felt unscripted and rushed. Mostly focused on the women in the game. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then a short video on Resident Evil 6 that, like DOA5, came out the same day as the game. Like before, it felt unscripted and rushed. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />I also uncovered that his contests were still rigged. Not only picking the most loyal fans, but also making them repeat winners. <br /><br />After another long wait, the next IG review came out. X-Men for NES. This one was annoying as Chris decided to dress up like all six playable characters. No other actors. That included Storm (who received a lot of weirdly misogynistic jokes). At least he didn’t wear blackface…<br />Not much to say about the review. The game is legit trash, so it was easy to talk about even for him.<br />As for the story bits, Chris basically turns into a Mary Sue when he has the X-Men cowering in fear after he easily swats Wolverine away. Just for annoying him. Then he uses the “Power of Inferno” to attack Cyclops and shatter Iceman. How is this supposed to be our hero? He’s eviler than his evil twin.<br /><br />There’s a Skylander unboxing still on the channel.<br /><br />A trailer for the Haunted Investigators relaunch. Now going by Pursuit of the Paranormal. We’ll get into that when the time comes.<br /><br />Then came another 80’s video, covering TMNT comics. Didn’t he already do that? No, that was only the Archie line, this is going to cover Mirage. … Then he talks about Archie again. This is a problem Chris will run into much later, re-reviewing media he already talked about without acknowledging the original. Perhaps that’s why he deleted the first TMNT comics video.<br /><br />Following that was his 300th video. Wow, if getting 200 is a tall order now, 300 is an absolute pipe dream. Unless he does daily Let’s Play videos, but that’s never going to happen.<br />It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Then his second Skylanders game review. A six-minute video on Giants. The longest Neo video on a single game. It wasn’t the worst. Surprisingly, it’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Remember how he remastered the first History video? He did it again for the second. Both parts. Only where the first episode had very few changes, this one was far more drastic. It was much shorter and changed some jokes. I have no idea what he was trying to go for with this series. <br /><br />As the year closed out, Chris would release more Skylanders videos and a new DVD. I Rate the 80’s. I imagine it’s full of illegal copyrighted material. <br />He also posted a “making of” on the channel that’s still there. <br /><br />2013:<br /><br />The year opens with the last History remaster. The changes weren’t as drastic, and some were even an improvement. Like getting Al Alcorn’s name right and removing the watermark from his “exclusive footage”.<br />I guess Chris was proud of all these remasters as the original versions were all taken down, while these new versions are still up.<br /><br />Oh wow, I forgot he did a video on New Super Mario Bros. 2. That one must have been extra boring. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />He put out the History of Video Games DVD he promised when he started revising the first three episodes. He calls it the Silver Age because he believes the Golden Age comes after. That is not how that works. <br /><br />During an activity lull, a fan on Facebook asks if Sonic Generations would ever go on YouTube. Chris says it won’t and claims “someone put that together while I was at E3.” Who? He never says. It also sounds like a fake excuse as the Sonic Generations video was uploaded before E3 2012. <br /><br />In celebration of the fifth Die Hard movie, A Good Day to Die Hard, Chris looks at the NES game. Another boring review. Story bits? Here’s the odd part. The next few videos do not feature anything from the storyline. Except for R.O.B. They’re basically just standard IG videos in HD. There was this gag involving Sgt. Powell but he keeps calling him Carl as that was his character on Family Matters. His fans attempted to turn it into a meme but failed. <br /><br />The next video on the channel is about the characters in Skylanders Swap Force. There were probably others, but I didn’t catalog them.<br /><br />After that is a new 80’s video about *checks notes* Uncle O’Grimacy? Oh right, the short-lived Grimace variant made to promote Shamrock Shakes. I should mention that Chris is obsessed with McDonaldLand and its characters. He doesn’t bring it up much on the channel, but it’s clear from some of the gags, and being part of a “Bring Back McDonaldLand” group on Facebook.<br /><br />In celebration of G.I. Joe Retaliation coming to theaters, Chris looks at the first NES game. It’s not really a bad game so Bores just complained about the difficulty. <br /><br />Bores did an interview with a small channel about Skylanders. However, it seems to have been deleted. But the channel name was “thetitainumdrago”. <br /><br />A Neo review of Injustice: Gods Among Us, where Bores claims he “took his time”. A weird change since he never does that with Neo. He complained about Wonder Woman’s boobs and that Harley Quinn’s supermove was not as cool as The Flash’s. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />In celebration of Star Trek: Into Darkness (seeing a pattern?), Chris looks at the 25th Anniversary game released on NES. I remember it being full of annoying jokes and his own OC Starfleet member, Lieutenant Drunkard. <br /><br />Time for E3 2013, and Chris completely scrubbed this year from the channel. Not even a blooper reel.<br />Reading through my recaps, I couldn’t really find anything horrendous. Just a lot of boring interviews and uninformed moments. Par for the course.<br /><br />After finishing up his E3 coverage, Chris unveiled a major overhaul of his website. Turning it into a blog. Would it provide informative thoughts and important news? Nope. Enjoy Chris finding random nerd stuff and gushing on how cool it is. That’s basically 99% of it. He didn’t even give status updates on his videos.<br />He did post a video announcing the site change, but that’s gone now. In fact, the Irate Gamer website no longer exists. I’m surprised he hasn’t tried to get it back.<br /><br />Nothing but Skylanders and a vlog about Man of Steel since E3… <br /><br />Eventually, he puts out a new review. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for SNES. By the way, the storyline is back. No idea why it was halted for three videos.<br />The review itself was just a lot of nitpicking. No actual points.<br />But why Power Rangers though? Well… this is the beginning of the end for his story.<br />Shadow Overlord and Evil Gamer unleash their ultimate weapon. A giant robot with HAL controlling it. You probably see where this is going.<br />Throughout the episode, various characters show up to bother IG. Then it ends with the robot attacking and the monk that gave him the sword back in He-Man shows up to “take him to his friends”. To be continued! In seven months.<br /><br />About a week after the Power Rangers video, a major surprise dropped. The Irate Gamer Game was real, and it was on iOS. <br />Released on the App Store as “TIGG”, the game would set you back $4 bucks, or you could play the “Lite” version for free. To put it nicely, it was a garbage fire. Bad controls, very few enemy types, boring levels, the only saving grace was the art in the comic book style cutscenes (which were littered with bad jokes and pointless references).<br />Did Chris make a video on it? He did… two months after release. We’ll get there.<br /><br />But first, his review of Disney Infinity. It was boring. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then he talked about Diablo III. There was an Evil Gamer appearance. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then Rayman Legends. Evil Gamer appears again. He also says it’s “good for a kid’s game”. It’s no longer on the channel but keep this video in mind for later.<br /><br />Almost a year after he posted the trailer, Chris finally talks about Pursuit of the Paranormal. Turns out he was shopping the pilot to various networks, but none of them wanted it. Even saying he emptied his bank account. Instead, he settled for a small theater and premiered it the same day as Pokemon X & Y. Oops.<br />The DVD would be out shortly after that. When talking about the content, Chris would say over and over that he got a “90-minute conversation” with a ghost. The special is only 53 minutes long. It was also edited like a reality show. It showed me that Chris really wanted to be on TV. <br /><br />Well, he kind of got to be on TV. Around October he appeared on a local morning news show. Talking about the screening. That’s still up on YouTube.<br /><br />We have reached the video where he talks about the Irate Gamer Game. He claims the reason it took so long for him to talk about it as that there were still bugs to iron out (except that didn’t happen). For some bizarre reason, he claims the game is just like Angry Birds. Clearly, Chris never played Angry Birds. <br />What’s weird is that the video is still up on his channel. Two reasons why I find it odd. First, the game no longer exists! It was delisted from the App Store a month after the video went up. He does indicate that in the title saying “(Now Defunct)”, but that only leads into the second reason. A video he made in 2015 talking about the game. I’ll get to that when we get to that year.<br /><br />He then posted a vlog about the Pursuit of the Paranormal premiere. Claiming it had a great turn-out but doesn’t show any evidence to this. Even doing a contest to give away DVDs. <br />There’s a moment where there’s applause but it sounds like a stock effect. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Over on his site he posted some text reviews. They were poorly written.<br /><br />His Sonic Lost World vlog. Not review, a vlog. All he did was complain that the game gave him motion sickness. That’s it! Though some people noticed that the copy he was holding was still sealed. Strange… It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Around this point I found Chris was still plagiarizing others. Though it was on his blog and not on video. Since the site is gone, the evidence vanished too.<br /><br />The year would end with a Skylanders stop-motion short. It was basically Toy Story without the conflict. The Skylanders come to life when nobody’s looking and go see the new Swap Force toys. The video also features Chris’ stepdaughter, Emmy. I wonder if she remembers doing this. Considering she’s likely a teenager now, I could see her looking back and cringing.<br /><br />Next time: 2014-2015</p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-43230817287389874202022-04-23T12:23:00.005-05:002022-05-28T11:46:23.290-05:00The Irate Gamer Timeline Part 3: 2010-2011<p>2010: <br /><br />The year launched with the sophomore outing of I Rate the 80’s. It was about discontinued Kool-Aid flavors, trying to establish some synergy with the last IG video. The idea that I Rate the 80’s was a retooled Breakfast Rant became stronger when Chris ended the video with “beverages are ruined”.<br /><br />Despite his computer issues getting solved, Chris would not post anything until March. <br /><br />Next video was another two-parter, covering the maligned Mario educational games. Mario is Missing and Mario’s Time Machine.<br />Chris chose to format this review like the movie Sliding Doors, a romantic comedy that uses the “nail”, as in the concept where a single decision can have massive consequences. Showcasing two different timelines. See also the Frasier episode Sliding Frasiers, and the Malcolm in the Middle episode Bowling. <br />Chris’ nail was deciding if he wanted to review Mario is Missing or Mario’s Time Machine. However, the intent of stories like this is to spot all the big differences between the timelines. Here, the only change is when Ronnie shows up, Chris either tells him off or lets him stay. The first part ends with him throwing a cartridge and breaking an exposed gas pipe in both timelines. Making it obvious what’s going to happen in the second part (Ronnie saves him in one, IG blows himself up in the other).<br />By the way, the video opens with him saying he only has time to review one of the games, and yet Part 2 has him looking at the SNES versions. It feels like he didn’t think this through.<br /><br />Then he reviewed the 2009 Ghostbusters game. He liked it. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />I should mention that the Educational Mario video had a gag with Luigi urinating on the street. I bring this up because he would post a blooper video with an “alternate take” of that gag where Chris parodies the old MasterCard “priceless” commercials. Ending on Luigi urinating in the streets. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />The 2010 summer movie list. He put The Last Airbender at #3. Nuff said.<br /><br />A Neo review of Dante’s Inferno. You know, the 2010 action game from Visceral? A company gone too soon…<br />He “warned parents” that the game has nudity. Seemingly unaware of the concept of the ESRB and the game being Rated M.<br />It ended with a Grapes of Wrath joke where grapes flood a city.<br /><br />History of Video Games Part 3 dropped after that, and this one was a doozy.<br />He referred to the creator of Pong, Al Alcorn as “Al Acorn”, and claimed that Nolan Bushnell seeing the Magnavox Odyssey at a trade show was an “urban legend” (it wasn’t, both Bushnell and Baer confirmed this). <br />What made this one stand out was prior to release, Chris bragged that he got footage of old games that exists nowhere else on the internet. In the video itself, he pasted a watermark in the corner to ensure nobody takes it. However, people managed to find footage of four of the games, with the others animated by Chris himself. He never admitted to this.<br />Like Parts 1 & 2, it is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Following that was another video that lost him a lot of fans.<br />Due to his request backlog, Chris decided to review three games in one video. Brutal Legend, Tekken 6, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled. <br />He admitted to only playing an hour of Brutal Legend, and his only issue with Turtles in Time is that the enemies were different (comparing them to the SNES version when Re-Shelled is based on the Arcade version. Once again showing he didn’t know it was an Arcade game first).<br /><br />But the part that really angered people was his look at Tekken 6. More specifically, the scenario mode. Not the fighting game that everyone loves, but the tacked-on story mode that plays like a beat-em-up. Calling the controls bad and ending the review saying, “Tekken 6 sucks”.<br />He reads the back of the box and complains about the quotes praising the game. <br />There was a rather tone-deaf complaint about the lack of English voices, including his attempt to dub the game (with fake lines). Not knowing that Tekken operates by having characters speak their native language (Japanese characters speak Japanese, American and British characters speak English, Korean characters speak Korean etc etc)<br /><br />The heat towards this one was immense, to the point that GottGame mods shut down comments. When Chris eventually uploaded the video to YouTube, he altered the end of the Tekken segment to comment on the backlash and look at the Arcade mode. Blaming it on the developers “burying it in the menu”. Though he said it was fun, he still didn’t like it because “I prefer Mortal Kombat”. Likely saying that so he wouldn’t have to remove the “Tekken 6 sucks” line. This did not smooth things over.<br />Alas, the video is no longer on the channel, but there should be plenty of commentary/reaction videos out there (it was that bad). Many of them wondering how he didn’t know Tekken was a fighting game.<br /><br />Despite all that, Chris marched on with a review of Iron Man 2. No longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then an 80’s video about Garbage Pail Kids. It was boring.<br /><br />Then a video on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time the movie. Oh right, that exists, but the video no longer does. <br /><br />Before going into E3, Chris released a new video promoting a site called DealDash. It was a giant scam. That video is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Onto E3.2010. Four videos from the event still live on his channel. One for Yoostar 2 featuring Leonard Nimoy, one for Bonk: Brink of Extinction (a cancelled game and likely one of the only videos to have footage of it), one on Sonic 4, and one on the Nintendo 3DS. I get why the first two stayed up but not the last two. Views perhaps? <br />Reminding myself of the missing videos, there wasn’t that much. In a segment on Lego Harry Potter, he mispronounced Hermione’s name. It would be justifiable if he only read the books, but he didn’t, he only saw the movies. <br />He also planted the seeds for his hate of Kirby’s Epic Yarn. We’ll get to that later.<br /><br />It was around here that a strange IG defender showed up. A user called LsdyBuggin777. They claimed to be Chris’ own mother. Now that’s lame, isn’t it? Needing your own mother to defend you from online criticism. Except there’s a lot of evidence to indicate that it isn’t his mother, it’s Chris pretending to be her. Incidents like forgetting what account he was on and replying with the wrong one, or how they use the exact same insults (one they love is “daddy issues”). <br /><br />Around this time, GottGame officially changed to GotGame. Bores “celebrated” with a review of God of War III. It was less than two minutes long, barely said anything, and just felt like an excuse to have a joke about the game’s sex scenes. It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Prior to the next video, Chris was heavily hyping it up. Saying it will be a new direction, the show would be in HD, and it would reach new heights. <br />It’s a storyline. Because it was popular at the time, Chris added an on-going story where he’s the hero with many supporting characters. <br />It opens by revealing the Evil Gamer works for someone called the Shadow Overlord and they want to take over the world, and to do that they need Irate Gamer’s “special” Magnavox Odyssey. Because it has the HAL 9000 in it. The rest of the video is Evil Gamer trying to get it while IG plays three different 7-Up Spot games as various side-characters bother him. Also, Goro from Mortal Kombat lives next door to him now.<br />There’s a line where Evil Gamer refers to the “haters and trolls” he sent after Irate Gamer as “so stupid, they couldn’t make a peanut butt & jelly sandwich”. Chris’ critics saw that as a weak insult. <br />Remember the Wilson gag from Home Improvement? He returns in a scene where Chris goes outside (obvious green screen) and talks to him. Only now he’s “Wilkins”. When asked why he changed it, Chris claimed it was to “make him an original character”. The exact same mindset as Sonic OC creators. <br />The video ends with HAL going into a “robot” body (Chris wearing nothing but black all over).<br /><br />Despite being a storyline, it would be several months before the next installment. Instead, a video where Chris compares the original Xbox 360 and the 360 S. He didn’t go into any major changes, and at one point says, “What a bunch of BS”. Between this and 7-Up Spot, it felt like he was trying to tone down his cursing (years before the Ad-Pocalypse). It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Then his review of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, where he complains that there’s no Simon Belmont. They eventually did add him as DLC, but he never followed up on that. It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />One review that is still on his channel is Donkey Kong Country Returns. It was mostly an excuse to have a dumb joke where bananas fall on him, and bash Kirby’s Epic Yarn again. <br />He also admitted in the comments that he only played for half an hour, but he deleted it. He said too much.<br /><br />2010 ended with Chris pushing out trailer reactions just to have content. They are no longer on his channel.<br /><br />2011: <br /><br />The year started off with History Part 4, going over “Atari vs Magnavox”. I only remember an overly long gag where Bores imitates a horse race. It just kept going….<br />This one is still up, and we’ll get to the reason the first three parts were deleted soon.<br /><br />After some more filler videos, he gave in to viewer demand and reviewed Kirby’s Epic Yarn. People really wanted to know why he hated it.<br />Turns out he thought it was too easy. Ironic, don’t you think?<br />When he posted it on YouTube, he added a scene of an angry Kirby sucking him up. Without taking his legs (seriously, it’s just his torso). Maybe he hated how Epic Yarn removed his ability to eat enemies? It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />More pointless videos before a video on Marvel vs Capcom 3. This one was bland, had a few moments where Chris didn’t know what he was talking about, it wasn’t interesting. When he posted it on YouTube, he added Satan when bringing up Arthur from GnG.<br />He also posted a gameplay video and trailer reactions. I think he referred to Crimson Viper as Jean Grey at one point. All MvC3 content on his channel is gone.<br /><br />We have arrived at the point where Chris chose to delete the first three History episodes. For some reason he decided to remaster the first three episodes. Only delaying the already slow series. The only change in the first episode I recall is that he toned down the cursing. <br /><br />A Neo episode on Sonic Colors. Not much there. YouTube version added Sonic sprites that run across his table. It’s no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Turns out the reason Chris remastered the early History episodes was so he could put out a DVD. It wouldn’t come out for a while though. To tempt viewers into buying it, he posted a “Making-of” video.<br /><br />Around April Fool’s Day, he posted an entry to the YouTube NextUp contest. Partners could win $35k and a trip to “YouTube Creator’s Camp”. Considering he never followed up on it and the entry is no longer on his channel, I can assume he didn’t win.<br /><br />Afterwards was his Top 10 Summer Movies. Listing them in order of release date after he kept getting mocked for putting crap at the top. It’s on longer on his channel.<br /><br />Then came a milestone. 200 Irate Gamer videos. This one is notable as it’s the first time he voluntarily mentioned the AVGN. <br />Interestingly, he also mentioned that his ghost hunting was going nowhere. Hmm… surely that won’t come back to bite him.<br />No surprise, this one is gone too. Funny enough, the mass deletion reduced the channel to far less than 200 videos.<br /><br />In March 2011, the late Gilbert Gottfried made several tasteless jokes about the Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami that left hundreds dead. These jokee resulted in the insurance company Aflac to fire him as the voice of their duck mascot.<br />Why am I bringing this up? Because Chris decided to do something really bizarre. <br /><br />Chris put out a video where he and his various characters audition to be the new Aflac duck. Ronnie, Satan, Shadow Overlord, Cousin Joey (now sporting overalls), Evil Gamer, “Wilkins”, Wise Sage, and Tony (now sporting a new non-Maplestory look) give it a shot, but they all fail. Irate Gamer tries, gets praised, then knocks over the mic when he learns it’s just an audition and didn’t get the job.<br />After this, he didn’t upload anything for a month. Only following up with a “deleted scene” from this skit where the Kool-Aid Man auditions. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then a review of LittleBigPlanet 2.I forgot he did that. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />After it seemed like Chris abandoned the storyline, it came back. With a review of RoboCop on NES. Even though he already talked about it with SWAGshow. Some of the jokes were even repeated from the first review. <br />R.O.B. returns but now he’s good because Tony reprogrammed him. Evil Gamer sends robots into “the city” and Irate Gamer sends R.O.B. to take care of them. Ending on a cliffhanger. <br /><br />It’s E3 time again! Only three videos left from that year. A Skylanders one (keep this in mind) some bloopers, and Chris’ audio edit of the Legend of Zelda Wii U tech demo. For those that don’t remember, Nintendo released a Zelda demo meant to show the power of the Wii U, but it didn’t have sound. Chris decided to add his own. The video went slightly viral. No wonder it’s still up.<br /><br />Deleted videos inclu- oh jeez, this is the year with Ubisoft. Due to a scheduling mishap, Chris couldn’t get into the Ubisoft press conference. Considering this was the year with Mr. Caffeine, he should consider himself lucky.<br />In retaliation, the Irate Gamer blows up Ubisoft’s HQ. No, it’s not funny to do that. I’m amazed he never got in trouble.<br />Looking through my posts, he claimed to have a lot of “exclusives” that weren’t exclusive. Did he believe that E3 was private and that nobody else would talk about the games?<br />He also released some Top 5 lists. Praising Kinect Star Wars in one of them.<br /><br />As E3 videos dripped out, someone going by “Cry Wolf Productions” was flagging YouTube videos critical of the Irate Gamer. Though Chris (through his mom account) claimed it was his other company, there isn’t anything to support that.<br /><br />After a year, I Rate the 80’s returned. To talk about TMNT Cereal. It ends with Chris eating it and spitting it out in disgust. No duh, it was 20 years old at that point.<br />The video features another one of Chirs’ friends, Tim Warner. I bring him up because he’ll be playing a role muuuuch later.<br /><br />He also got around to looking at Mortal Kombat (2011). Not a lot to say there… It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Followed by another 80’s video on Micro Machines. I remember people saying this one wasn’t too bad. I don’t really remember anything about it.<br /><br />Then out of nowhere, Volumes 2 and 3 of the Irate Gamer DVDs. Felt like he forgot about them.<br />Reading my post about it, the Scrabble DS “Scandal” video is on Volume 3. You know what to do lost media hunters.<br />The announcement video is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Around this point, Chris stopped giving a crap and put out a video with FOUR game reviews in one.<br />Known as either Video Game Roundup or Rundown, he quickly rushes out reviews of Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters (he barely played it but liked it), Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (said it had new stuff… that’s it), Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions (adored it) and Mario Sports Mix (hated it).<br />This one is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />After three months, the conclusion to the RoboCop video arrived. IG looks at RoboCop 2 and 3 on NES, while R.O.B. goes around killing the robots with zero resistance.<br /><br />Sometime later, he would change Y2B Productions into Irate Entertainment. With the new site promoting Irate Gamer, I Rate the 80’s, and Haunted Investigators. Waaait I thought he was done with that?<br /><br />Then a new 80’s video on the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toy-line. It had cringy jokes, and a bit where Chris dressed up as Skeletor. People praising the Micro Machines video took back a lot of it.<br /><br />He would do a reverse of what he did with Kool-Aid and the follow-up video would be about He-Man video games. The ones on the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. Nothing much about the reviews…<br />As for the storyline, the genre changes from being about robots to being about magic and swords. With Irate Gamer being the “chosen one” as he’s granted a sword that gives him the “Power of Inferno”. <br /><br />Then another Neo episode focusing on Mortal Kombat. Specifically, the Arcade Kollection. Barely remember anything about this one. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />For Halloween, he did an 80’s video about Madballs, a gross-out toy. I only remember the ending where he ends up in the video for A-ha’s Take On Me for no reason.<br /><br />For Thanksgiving, he reviewed Batman Arkham City. Wow, I forgot he did a video on this. It goes to show how forgettable a lot of his videos are. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Following that was an 80’s video on M.U.S.C.L.E., or rather, Kinnikuman. This was an annoying one. A gag involving a Kinnikuman toy falling on him multiple times, using footage of China when talking about Japan, complaining that the original show wasn’t dubbed in English. Is reading really that hard? The anime was too violent for American broadcast, and they didn’t have airbrushing technology. <br />He also kept mispronouncing Kinnikuman, saying it more like “Kenny-Kooman”.<br />He did hint that he was going to cover the sequel series, Ultimate Muscle, in a future video. That never happened.<br /><br />Ending the year with… Ronnie the Skeleton sings Deck the Halls? It’s even weirder knowing Ronnie uses a Woody Allen voice, and Allen is very Jewish. <br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">Next time: 2012-2013</div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-571095967564820622022-04-22T11:23:00.001-05:002022-05-28T11:46:31.495-05:00The Irate Gamer Timeline Part 2: 2008-2009<div style="text-align: left;">2008<br /><br />The year begins with IG putting out another video about a great game, Contra. This one got people mad and really showcased Chris’ belief that “difficulty is a flaw”. One infamous moment had him declare that he refuses to read the instruction manual to find the game’s story, then acts surprised when there’s aliens. <br />The episode introduced another new character, the Wise Sage. Unlike all the other characters, this one isn’t played by Chris. Instead played by his friend Eric Allen. Initially a Star Wars reference, people gravitated to Eric, as fans found his acting and line reads superior to Chris. He was also willing to talk to IG’s critics, and even had his own criticisms of the show.<br /><br />It’s around this point that the critical videos started to be too much for Bores, and he went on a copyright flagging spree. Abusing the system to take down negative videos. Claiming it infringed on the copyright of Y2B Productions. Even if it didn’t use any of his footage. Entire channels would go down, and several videos were lost. To this day, Chris has never apologized for it, or even admitted to it. <br /><br />Irate Gamer wasn’t done with Contra, as the next video would be about the other two NES games, Super C and Contra Force. Here he openly admits to using Game Genie to play them. Prior episodes had evidence of cheating (Skipping to the end of Goonies II and Temple of Doom, infinite lives in TMNT III), but this is the first time he admitted to it. <br />He ended on a cliffhanger, with one more Contra video left.<br /><br />As a bonus, Chris posted bloopers from the episode. He would do this for some videos throughout the years. They no longer remain on his channel.<br /><br />Before getting to Contra, he posted some other videos.<br /><br />A Neo video on WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008. Only thing I really remember from this one was Chris showing old wrestling footage and pointing out when he’s in the crowd. One clip revealing he was an Al Snow fan circa 2000. I’m amazed the WWE didn’t flag the video.<br /><br />Afterwards, he would start doing movie reviews. Though the first one was a Top 10 list about movies he was looking forward to. Specifically, summer movies (tentpole blockbusters). Chris put multiple comic book adaptations on the list yet kept saying “I never read the comics”. <br />People mocked this video when Chris gave the #1 spot to Dragonball Evolution (though the name wasn’t finalized at the time). He predicted that Ernie Hudson would be playing Mr. Popo. Make of that what you will.<br />The video was split into two as this was the era of “views are most important”. However, the first half is no longer on his channel.<br /><br />Chris would once again dive back into cereal with “Rice Krispanese”, a pseudo-documentary about “the language of Rice Krispies”. Pretty sure George Carlin did that bit a long time ago.<br /><br />Eventually he released the third Contra video. It was mostly about Contra III: The Alien Wars, with a very brief mention of Contra 4 on DS. No Operation C or Contra Hard Corps or either of the terrible PS1 games.<br />It was more complaining about difficulty. As well as jokes on how Red Falcon was angry about Contra Force, even though Contra III came out before it.<br /><br />An IG Neo episode on Battalion Wars II. All I remember is that he drooled all over one of the NPCs, and complained it was too hard. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Chris would then dip his toe into another medium, comic books. Releasing a video on Archie Comics’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. I just remember it being very boring, and I’m surprised it’s no longer up. I do recall him saying in the comments he wanted to cover X-Men comics. That did not happen. <br /><br />He put out an April Fool’s Day video talking about Q*Bert. The “Fool” part is that he gets replaced with Michael Buckley of YouTube’s WhatTheBuck show. The fact his first major collab wasn’t with another creator in the gaming sphere, but a gossip channel about celebrities, showed how he didn’t care for the video game aspect.<br /><br />Next came Predator. It opened with him in a “jungle” that was literally just close-ups of fake plants in his house. It ended with a Predator fight that… copies the ending of the AVGN’s fight with Jason Vorhees from Friday the 13th. A lot of plagiarism accusations were stretches, but this was really blatant. <br />Speaking of plagiarism, he didn’t just steal from the Nerd. There’s a line about his “Fists of Fury” that’s taken directly from oldschool content creator WizWar100.<br /><br />Then he talked about the first Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. He called it “Mario vs Sonic” and didn’t like it. But the part that really stuck out is when he opened the episode claiming the Sega Genesis was made to compete with the Super Nintendo, and not the other way around. In the comments, he would double down when someone said Wikipedia says differently, claiming that Wikipedia is wrong. Remember this for 2009.<br /><br />After that came his first movie review, on Iron Man. It’s short and barely says anything. Expect this to be the tone for movie reviews going forward. Gone from his channel.<br /><br />He would release a revised version of his MUSCLE episode. Removing the line about “no special moves” (but never acknowledging that they exist), an alternate take of his ending rant, and over-explaining the suggestive sprites of Ring King. <br /><br />Then came something Chris claims he had been working on for months. A review of R.O.B., the plastic Trojan Horse Nintendo used to bring home consoles back to market.<br />This one also caused some controversy as shortly before IG put out the teaser, the AVGN released a video on NES Accessories that ended with him teasing that he would get to R.O.B. another day (and he would three years later). Chris defended himself with this argument years later, stating he was already working on it, and you would know if you saw the R.O.B. footage in the theme song. <br />Starting with this video, Chris attempted to give IG an “iconic outfit”, wearing a blue button-down shirt.<br />At one point in the video, he cracks a joke about R.O.B. “getting jiggy with it”, with sped-up footage of R.O.B. dancing to Will Smith. It’s very possible he lifted this from FarFromSubtle and their old series “Awesome Video Games”, where the episode on R.O.B. had a sped-up footage of R.O.B. dancing (though to Gyromite’s music). <br /><br />Despite the alleged months of work, he only put out Part 1, with the follow-up taking a month.<br /><br />Between that, he put out a review of Super Smash Bros Brawl, which to this day remains his most popular video at 6.4 million views. Despite clear evidence that Chris had no idea what he was talking about.<br /><br />As well as a review of Superman Doomsday, the first animated adaptation of The Death of Superman.<br /><br />It was also during this R.O.B. lull that Chris got his first major interview. On the radio show Uncensored Net Noise. Prior to the show, prominent Irate Gamer critic TheArchfiend warned UNN about his plagiarism. The hosts confronted Bores about it live, and he stumbled his way through half-hearted answers and weak excuses. The mockery of Irate Gamer only intensified after that. <br /><br />Despite the humiliation, Chris would put out the second R.O.B. video. When he was playing Stack-Up, he messed up and R.O.B. knocked over some blocks. Yet he blames the robot for his mistakes. <br />Like Predator, the video ends in a fight. <br /><br />Next, he released the start of a new series. The “Chris and Scottie Road Trip”. Partnering with his friend Scott Mitchell, they would stand in front of a green screen and “travel the world”. Chris would provide facts about the location (often inaccurate) while Scottie served as comic relief. Interesting to note, this was made three years prior to release. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Next Neo review would be about Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barabros’ Treasure. A highly overlooked Wii title that reveals Chris had no idea what a point & click adventure game was. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />After that was a review of the second episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Incredible Hulk. No longer on his channel.<br /><br />Then came the recently filmed second episode of Chris & Scottie Road Trip. On his old Y2B Productions site, he would have a page for Chris & Scottie, implying he planned to make this an on-going series. There were no more episodes. Like the first, it’s no longer on the channel. <br /><br />But what is still there is his next review. E.T. for the Atari 2600 (as well as E.T. on GBA and E.T. and the Cosmic Garden on GBC). Between this and R.O.B., it felt like Bores was attempting to encroach on a certain reviewer’s territory as, at the time, they were two popular requests.<br />The video was two parts, but unlike R.O.B. both were released on the same day. The bicycle sequence at the end of part 1 became a small meme.<br />Part 2 has him flush the GBA game down the toilet, a rare case of legitimate destruction. <br /><br />Afterwards he posted reviews of the movies Jumper and WALL-E, a review of Harvey Birdman on Wii, and reviews of The Dark Knight and Stepbrothers. All of them are no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then there was this odd “Meditation Ritual Gone Wrong” skit where clones of Bores are all mediating and… one of them farts. That’s it. That’s the video. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Eventually he would release his next main review. Home Improvement on SNES. He spent the entire video stuck on the first level then rage-quit because the second level is also jungle-themed. Somehow missing that the first level was labeled “Level 1-1”.<br />The video ended with another case of legitimate destruction when he cut the game in half with a table-saw.<br />One gag involved Wilson (Tim’s next-door neighbor) showing up in his room with the fence in front of him. Remember this for later.<br /><br />A video about The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Wow, I forgot that existed. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Around this time, DiretTV were running commercials featuring actors in movies breaking the fourth wall to tell the viewer about the benefits of DirecTV. These included Sigourney Weaver in Aliens and Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future. Chris chose to emulate them and make his own version where he promotes DirecTV while fighting R.O.B. It wasn’t a parody.<br /><br />Then out of nowhere, a review of the DS remake of Final Fantasy III. He very clearly cheated as his footage shows the party having max HP. It’s a long grindy process to get that in FFIII.<br />He seemed to imply that III was the first of the Japan-only Final Fantasies to get an English release, when II and V came out long before that.<br /><br />Hidden away on another channel, Chris would do his first gaming crossover. Partnering with Nick Hugget AKA SWAGshow (now going by Aristocards) to talk about RoboCop on NES. If you’re wondering why Nick chose to crossover, they were both part of GottGame. It ended with a skit where Chris orders “RoboCop” (Nick wearing tinfoil) to kill Ocean Software, then to kill Billy Ocean.<br /><br />As October came in, Chris decided to really start pushing Haunted Investigators on the channel. Posting his episode on the Haunted Hydro, an Ohio amusement park. <br /><br />Following that came the legendary Monster Party video. It gave us the ever-so-exploitable Bores n’ Doors meme. The premise of the episode involved Chris getting multiple visitors believing it’s the location of a Halloween party. He would go to the door and tell them off. Giving us the quotes “Uh yeah, ya thuink?!” and “Get the fuck off my property!” <br />The funny thing is that thanks to the meme, the black & white shirt he wore is far more iconic than the button-down blue shirt he pushed.<br />The episode reintroduced the Evil Gamer, now sporting long hair and a beanie. He was responsible for Monster Party appearing in Irate Gamer’s room. <br /><br />Afterwards was a Neo episode on Mario Kart Wii, where he spent most of it complaining about the intro. <br /><br />Then something rather different. A video about a Scrabble DS game that had inappropriate words. Even including “Scandal” in the title. It was a very minor scandal as it didn’t get attention in comparison to Mass Effect having “hardcore orgies”. The video is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Following that was IG listing his Top 5 NES games. Just a standard list. Though when he brings up Kid Icarus, he mentions using Game Genie to play it and cusses out all the critics that call him out on his excessive cheating. <br /><br />Then a bizarre episode of IG Neo where the Evil Gamer takes over to talk about Order Up, a shovelware game on Wii. I’m certain the only reason he did this was to make a joke regarding the developer’s name “Supervillain Studios”.<br /><br />Irate Gamer would end the year off with another list, Top 5 Nintendo DS games. With some odd choices like Mr Driller Drill Spirits (because Dig Dug is in it) and three Lego games that are better on console. Though the weirdest is when he talked about Castelvania: Portrait of Ruin and claimed it was just like Diablo because, “you travel to new areas and kill enemies to level up your skills”. I am not making this up.<br /><br />2009:<br /><br />The year started with one more Top 5 list, his Worst Video Game Movies. It was a strange list as it didn’t include any Uwe Boll. It felt like he just put a bunch of adaptations in a hat and picked them out at random. At least Mortal Kombat Annihilation made it.<br /><br />There was also a video where he talks about the announcement of a Green Lantern movie and how he’s such a big fan of the comics. I don’t remember if this was 2009 or late 2008. It is no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Chris started to get desperate for subscribers and began running contests. They were all the same, just subscribe and write “Pick Me” in the comments. He would hold several of these contests over the next few years. Don’t bother looking, they’re all deleted. <br /><br />Then came another legendary video. The 1-2 punch of this and Monster Party is likely what mortally wounded his channel. Aladdin on SNES.<br />Chris was hyping this one a lot. Even commissioning an artist to do a title card. At one point it was supposed to be out Holiday 2008 but that didn’t happen.<br /><br />What makes this video legendary? Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. He bashes a beloved classic with very poor reasons (he spends around 90 seconds complaining about Abu following you), he outright lies about it (he doesn’t mention the cloth used for hovering, and admits in the description that “it was funnier” if he excluded it), badly written dialogue even by his standards (“My rug is double-parked outside”, “Somebody call 911 cause I was ROBbed” [holds up R.O.B.]), an ending involving a CGI snake, and he wasn’t alone in this. He was joined by Eric Allen as the Wise Sage, and his friend Brad Harp as a genie. While Eric worked with what he could, Brad did not have a single care. Giving an amazingly wooden performance that became a meme. <br />It was basically a microcosm of all his flaws in an 11-and-a-half-minute package. Lead to a lot of lost fans too. <br /><br />Following that he put out his Top 10 Summer Movies of 2009 list. He still put Dragonball Evolution high on the list, even with trailers and pictures out. Though only at 2 as G.I. Joe took precedent.<br /><br />Watchmen was also on the list, and he would end up reviewing that. Where he complained about the non-linear storytelling (also complaining about Pulp Fiction doing the same thing) and the movie’s length. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />That brings us to his Neo review of Sonic Unleashed. He claims to be a big Sonic fan yet has complaints that contradict that. It’s still up on his channel, where the title still reads “Sonic Unleashed – The Hedgehog” like people would be confused about which Sonic. As well as saying it’s a Wii review when he played the Xbox 360 version. I don’t get it either.<br /><br />After that was a review of the Nicolas Cage movie Knowing. I don’t even remember this one. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Chris announced a project that made everyone roll their eyes or let out an exasperated sigh. The Irate Gamer would be going over the History of Video Games. A multi-part series chronologically covering, well, the history of video games. <br />Remember his doubling down on the Genesis being made to compete with the SNES? A good reason to be worried.<br />First episode talked about Spacewar and Computer Space, early Arcade games. That’s it. It set the tone for this series, short videos that barely cover anything. He didn’t even mention Bertie the Brain or Tennis for Two.<br />Chris wanted this to be taken seriously, yet he still littered the video with jokes<br /><br />The series was announced with a teaser, and it set off another controversy. A week or two prior to the release, the AVGN made a video on the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console. One comment pointed it out, and Chris claimed, “I don’t watch him”. Chris would later defend himself complaining that James normally didn’t cover stuff like the Odyssey. <br />However, the video is no longer on the channel. There is a reason, and we’ll get to it later.<br /><br />Then came his long-anticipated review of Dragonball Evolution. After hyping it up on two lists, he ended up not liking it. Complaining about aspects that were clear from the trailers or even in the manga (like Bulma having guns), concluding that “it’s for kids”. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Next came a review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Though he titled it X-Men Legends. He lavished the movie with praise, despite the common consensus was that it was terrible (killing the planned Origins movie line). I remember people speculating that he saw the leaked workprint cut and not the theatrical movie. I can’t prove it though.<br />The video is gone, but a small snippet of it remains in RedLetterMedia’s Half in the Bag (Episode 59). RLM even left a sarcastic comment on it, but Chris deleted it.<br /><br />Another surprise, a review of Resident Evil 5. Likely his first foray into the series as he gets basic details wrong (“the drug that turns people into zombies”), while also complaining about it being too hard (“Why couldn’t the easy setting just be a little more easier?”) He complained about the controls but showed that his Xbox controller wasn’t even on. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />He also did a review of Star Trek 2009. I don’t remember anything about this one. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Then Chris’ critics got a major shock. GottGame took Irate Gamer to E3 and let him create video coverage. Almost all the 2009 coverage is gone, except for a single video about New Super Mario Wii that I imagine only stayed up for the high view count (over a million). But the other videos included obvious statements, weak predictions, and subpar interviews.<br /><br />Around this time, he put out a review of Boom Blox Bash Party on GottGame, posting it to YouTube months later. Only thing I remember about this was a bad fake text joke where an in-game character tells Bores to make him a sandwich. It’s no longer on the channel.<br /><br />Now here’s a video I’m surprised he didn’t remove. A review of a portable NES clone from the now defunct thinkgeek.com (before they were absorbed ty GameStop).<br /><br />Afterwards, his review of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Don’t remember much of this one either, but I guess he liked it? No longer on the channel.<br /><br />Next was a review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He hated it, so he’s not always a weird contrarian. No longer on the channel.<br /><br />His output started to slow down a bit around this point. He claimed it was computer issues (though I recall rumors about his GF leaving him). <br /><br />He released a review of Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince where he complained about the lack of battles. No longer on the channel.<br /><br />Eventually he would release Part 2 of the History of Video Games, covering the Magnavox Odyssey. With a built-in HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The video ended up being two parts, with the second covering the light rifle. I recall one of his fans acting surprised that HAL was evil. Like Part 1, it’s no longer on the channel.<br />Surprisingly, Odyssey creator Ralph Baer saw the videos, and he did not like them. Saying they were full of misinformation. Chris somehow ignored that and simply cheered at the fact Baer saw them. <br /><br />Since GottGame fixed their site around this time, I was able to watch Neo reviews when they initially came out. Starting with a video on Guitar Hero: Van Halen. Where Chris was pleased to get some “Irate Gamer clout” because the game wasn’t out yet. Except Activision had an offer that if you bought Guitar Hero 5, they would send you a free copy of GH: VH. It wasn’t as exclusive as he thought.<br />He also confused Billy Idol with Billy Joel. It’s no longer on the channel.<br />Going forward, the Neo episodes will be chronicled by their GottGame release.<br /><br />Remember when he made a revised version of his MUSCLE video? He did it again for Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Only changes I remember were over-explaining another dirty joke and adding a scream to a picture of Aaron Spelling when referring to him as a zombie.<br /><br />The real Halloween special was the start of another new series, I Rate the 80’s. For a time, a lot of his fans spelled his name as the “iRate Gamer”, under the belief he simply rated games rather than a synonym for anger. It’s possible he picked up on that and went with it.<br />Though from the start, it felt like a reboot of The Breakfast Rant, as the first episode was about the discontinued General Mills monster cereal Fruity Yummy Mummy. They took it off store shelves because it wasn’t good.<br /><br />Then he would post a Neo review of DJ Hero. Had some pointless Happy Days references. Amazingly, this one is still up on YouTube.<br /><br />The year would end with one last Irate Gamer episode. Kool-Aid games. A duo of vintage licensed trash that could only be obtained through mailing in proofs of purchase. This episode felt like an excuse for Chris to show off his Kool-Aid Man costume. With Kool-Aid Man “bursting” through his walls a total of four times. Ending with IG murdering him and drinking his blood.<br /><br />Next time: 2010-2011</div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-8651509734012804512022-04-21T13:46:00.005-05:002022-05-28T11:46:38.109-05:00The Irate Gamer Timeline Part 1: Pre-YouTube to 2007<p> Pre-YouTube:<br /><br />Born and raised in the Sandusky, Ohio area, Christopher Bores attended Ashland University gunning for a degree in Creative Writing. Hoping to release his fantasy novel, The Dark Chapters. Chris would drop out before finishing his degree, pursuing a career in video production.<br /><br />He produced multiple episodes of Haunted Investigators, his take on a Ghost Hunters style series. He partnered with his friend Alan Cicco and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Schippel. The series aired on Sandusky public access TV. <br /><br />2006:<br />Chris would join the up & coming video sharing site, YouTube, under the account “y2b2006” in January. Y2B being the name of his production company.<br />He would use the channel to promote Haunted Investigators DVDs with self-made commercials, along with showcasing some of his other original content. Including a Mythbusters parody that was less a parody and more a low budget knock-off, and his original time travel film Back to the Past.<br /><br />Over in New Jersey, fresh-out-of-film-school James Rolfe, on the advice of his college friend Mike Matei, created the YouTube account “JamesNintendoNerd” in April. The sole purpose was to showcase a trilogy of satirical video game reviews about NES games he disliked as a kid. While putting all his other content on “Cinemassacre”. These NES videos ended up being popular, and once again on Mike’s advice, James would turn it into a regular series known as “The Angry Nintendo Nerd”, later renamed “The Angry Video Game Nerd”.<br /><br />Rolfe’s series would inspire a multitude of gaming enthusiasts into doing their own “rage-induced retro reviews”. Including Marcus “Armake21” Sparacio and UrinatingTree, among many others.<br /><br />2007: <br />When Y2B2006 wasn’t blowing up like Chris wanted, he searched out what was popular. Finding the “angry game reviewing” scene, Chris decided to do something similar. Buying up various game lots on eBay, he opened the “Irategamer” channel in April, with his first video on Back to the Future coming a few days later. <br /><br />Highlights included the only theater in 2007 to show Back to the Future, the line “Now it’s time to pop in this video game and play the game”, some other oddly familiar lines, comparing the number of enemies you need to kill in the soda shop to levels in Mario, weapons in Zelda, and bosses in Mega Man, and an ending where the Irate Gamer goes back in time and murders the CEO of LJN. With jelly blood. <br /><br />Over the next few months, he would release multiple Irate Gamer videos.<br /><br />Where’s Waldo, looking at games on NES and SNES. He referred to Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country as “NES games”. It was also the first video with game “destruction”, putting the games into a paper shredder. <br /><br />Goonies II. Most of the video was spent wondering about the title and comparing it to Donkey Kong and its sequels Jr. and 3. It was oddly familiar. This video revealed his obsession with game endings, and how he gets upset when he doesn’t get a satisfactory one.<br /><br />Mission Impossible. Chris would claim this was the video where he came into his own. However, it set the tone that many of his videos would complain more about difficulty rather than poor design choices. The video is infamous for his utterance of the phrase “what a shitload of fuck”.<br /><br />A video about The Sopranos series finale where he talks about TV finales in general. Deleted, and got an entry on the Lost Media Wiki (it has been found).<br /><br />Ghosts n’ Goblins. Chris struggled with the NES version so much, that he silently switched to the Arcade version and activated invincibility. The only acknowledgement was in the description where he claims to have done it because he needed to show off the ending.<br />This episode began his trend of recurring side characters with Satan (Chris in a devil mask putting on a deep voice) and Cousin Joey (Chris pitching up his voice, wearing a baseball cap, and making himself look smaller).<br /><br />Jaws, a video remembered for how Chris suddenly stops talking about Jaws to talk about another NES game, then goes back to Jaws like nothing happened. As well as an out-of-nowhere ending where he shoots the Duck Hunt dog.<br /><br />Hotel Gaming, a short video where Chris decides to look at games offered at the hotel he’s staying in. But he learns they cost money and ends the video.<br /><br />Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In the original description, Chris stated that doing the “shoulder angel & devil” gag was one of the hardest things he’s ever done, claiming he “literally put his blood, sweat, and tears into it”.<br /><br />On August 7th, the Irate Gamer would post the video that would get him noticed by the gaming community. Super Mario Bros. 2. It acted like the fact it wasn’t originally a Mario game was a big secret and he was exposing this “scandal” to the world (even using “scandal” in the title). Not helped by him claiming Mario 2 was a bad game (it has “ass” written all over it) or showing some real questionable English ([Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels] is the perfect predecessor to the first Mario game). The episode introduced another recurring character, the Evil Gamer. It’s Irate Gamer, but evil. <br />It was also the first video with his theme song. It wasn’t something he created or paid someone to create, but a royalty-free track taken from Digital Juice’s now defunct StackTraxx program. <br /><br />Shortly after the Mario 2 video went up, YouTube found it and featured it on the front page. For those unaware, YouTube used to feature videos they deemed acceptable on the front page to boost their views and drive subscribers to them. It’s been speculated by creators from the time that YouTube wanted a “less sweary AVGN”, and while IG did drop f-bombs, he wasn’t as vulgar (Though he still made a lot of toilet jokes).<br />Chris’ views began to skyrocket.<br /><br />The next IG episode would go up only 10 days later, talking about MUSCLE (or Kinnikuman). It gave us the now immortal line “What the fuck is a muscle?” As well as claiming the game did not have “special moves” (it did). He also talked about Ring King even though that’s a boxing game. I imagine it was for the suggestive looking sprites. <br />It would introduce another recurring character, Tony, a Maplestory sprite designed to resemble the Irate Gamer. He ends most of his sentences with “Bang-a-lang”. No, I don’t know what it means, and it’s never explained why he says it.<br /><br />MUSCLE would also end up getting featured on the front page, and more viewers piled in. However, not all of them were positive. People were quick to point out how he’s far too similar to the Angry Video Game Nerd. From the mannerisms to the game destruction, to even outright using lines he said. <br /><br />Outside of the unoriginality, people noticed that Chris didn’t seem to know anything about video games. Often complaining about aspects that were commonplace in games from the NES and SNES era, making extremely obvious mistakes, or nonsensical comparisons. Though these were all overshadowed by the “plagiarism” accusations. Chris would ignore all these problems, never addressing them, sometimes blocking people that bring them up.<br /><br />Rather, he would put up a (now deleted) “Thank you” video where he would tell all his new viewers and subscribers how grateful he is. It gave us the notorious quote, “I’ve been playing these games for 20 years; I know all the ins & outs of these games.” A line that would haunt him forever. <br /><br />Behind the scenes though, Chris was feeling the heat of the accusations. Rather than address them publicly, he chose to send a private e-mail to James Rolfe. Praising him and noting how he was a big influence, while also apologizing for “supposedly” using some of his lines, and he won’t do it again. That… did not last.<br /><br />On September 10th, the Irate Gamer would upload an episode on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It would cover five games. The first Arcade game, the first NES game, the NES port of the Arcade game (where he showed a lack of understanding on console limitations) and very brief looks at The Manhattan Project and Turtles in Time (incorrectly referring to it as a Super Nintendo exclusive).<br />The episode attracted a firestorm of controversy as people noticed his review of the first NES title was very similar to the AVGN’s notable video. Right down to using the same spotlight effect when pointing out an impossible to reach pizza. <br /><br />Annoyed by this, James forwarded the letter to Mike, who chose to post it on the ScrewAttack forum for all to see. The internet increased their mockery of him after that, with more people taking notice. Chris was silently very upset about this, and for the longest time refused to acknowledge the AVGN.<br /><br />It was also this point where videos critical of the Irate Gamer began to pop up. Most were about the lack of originality, but some did point out the incorrect information (including BigAl2k6 calling out his MUSCLE review). Remember this for 2008.<br /><br />He also put out a censored version of the TMNT video because “parents asked him”. That has since been deleted. <br /><br />Chris pressed on, releasing an episode on Yo! Noid. Despite the Mario 2 video, he didn’t make this a “scandal expose” even though Yo! Noid is a reskin of Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru.<br />It ended with him promoting the Irate Gamer t-shirt.<br /><br />According to the internet archive, he uploaded a Haunted Investigators episode around this time. He has deleted it, only to upload it later.<br /><br />For Halloween he talked about Zombies Ate My Neighbors, another beloved title. People started to notice that Chris may not understand the idea of “angry reviews.” They’re normally reserved for bad games, or games with glaring issues. Irate Gamer covering whatever game he wanted completely missed the point. It makes people think Chris has terrible taste if he claims Zombies Ate My Neighbors is bad.<br />The episode also introduced fan-favorite Ronnie the Skeleton (Chris in a skull mask and robe sporting a Woody Allen-esque accent). <br /><br />Shortly after Halloween, Chris surprised everyone when he announced the first Irate Gamer DVD. Containing everything from Back to the Future to Yo! Noid; labeled as “Season 1.” The announcement video is gone though. <br />While fans were excited, critics pointed out how quickly this came out. Not even a year into his YouTube show and he’s already trying to push DVDs. With a few believing he released it to “compete” with the AVGN Season 1 DVD coming out around the same time.<br /><br />People that got their hands on the DVD noted the slipshod quality of the package. The disc was a burned DVD-R, the cover art was cheap paper, and some copies didn’t work. The blurb on the back compares his show to Family Guy and Penn & Teller’s Bullshit, while erroneously stating that the latter was on HBO instead of Showtime. On top of that, it contained copyrighted material that could have gotten him in legal trouble. But he managed to evade it.<br /><br />Following ZAMN, Chris chose to expand out a little and talk about something near & dear to him. Breakfast cereal.<br />Titled “The Breakfast Rant”, the video had Chris complaining about Lucky Charms having different marshmallows from when he was a kid. Ending with the over-dramatic “Face it, breakfast is ruined!” The video was heavily mocked and even turned into a meme for a brief period.<br /><br />Despite all the controversies, Chris would end up in a partnership with small gaming site GottGame to produce Irate Gamer Neo. A “spin-off” where IG looks over modern games. The first episode covering The Simpsons Game from 2007. It was notably shorter than his retro reviews and was clearly done in a hurry as he admits to only reaching Level 3 (out of 16). This would be a trend.<br />He did promise to review the three Simpsons NES titles, but he never did.<br />I should note that the first couple years of Neo videos premiered on GottGame first before hitting YouTube. As their website was poorly put together and hard to use, I went by the YouTube uploads until the end of 2009.<br /><br />Afterwards, he would put out a video about Tetris. A baffling choice as Tetris is beloved and wasn’t worth an “angry review”. It mostly felt like Chris’ excuse to compare puzzle game addiction to drug addiction. This became clear when he talked about Dr. Mario, a game fundamentally different from Tetris.<br /><br />Chris ended 2007 with the second (and last) Breakfast Rant, talking about Cinnamon Toast Crunch having only one baker mascot instead of three. This one didn’t catch on as much as the Lucky Charms video. Oddly enough, this has been removed.<br /><br />Next time: 2008-2009<br /><br /></p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-46553996456690278392022-04-20T15:48:00.005-05:002022-05-28T11:46:45.797-05:00The Irate Gamer Timeline: Introduction<div style="text-align: left;">It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I imagine you have been curious on what I’ve been working on.<br /><br />This week is the Irate Gamer’s 15th anniversary on YouTube. A monumental occasion that he will ignore as he’s basically done… again.<br /><br />I was looking through what I’ve written, and a lot of it just hasn’t aged well at all. But besides that, it’s a large quantity of writing. So I figured, why not compile it into a timeline?<br /><br />Going through my posts and his channel, I put together what I believe is a comprehensive timeline of events. I wanted to do it in one post, but it ended up being way too long. It will be split over 7 posts cover 2-3 years each. One per day until we get to the present. <br />I believe this would also be useful for anyone that does “Rise and Fall of YouTube stars” videos (like Fredrick Knudsen or InternetAjay or wavywebsurf) to have something concise and not insanely long to read. As well as give the Lost Media community a treasure trove of videos to hunt down.<br /><br />Part 1 will go up tomorrow. <br /><br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-38355427408166990722022-03-08T12:23:00.006-06:002022-05-28T11:46:56.403-05:00It's the gaming industry's fault that my channel failed!<div style="text-align: left;">I've been working on a big project for the blog. I'll try to post it some time next month.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But now, we have more "tinfoil Chris". </div><div style="text-align: left;">Posted on Facebook.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZ2jfg06o7jhbvyejh6r98rfgui9FHGtzU2yBuCntj2B4EkVZPSN0pUQvWBKRIoYEtil83Zxita1yKzSwViI118vWe-mzRHzodDuRypTS1K3xOygaUwpU-Ah82EkC1vrM9zp6e_HaI8hJJrJzWuCKNZGrsflDJ4mtetcmz24nx589qlQrvyZEhOwSw=s1189" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZ2jfg06o7jhbvyejh6r98rfgui9FHGtzU2yBuCntj2B4EkVZPSN0pUQvWBKRIoYEtil83Zxita1yKzSwViI118vWe-mzRHzodDuRypTS1K3xOygaUwpU-Ah82EkC1vrM9zp6e_HaI8hJJrJzWuCKNZGrsflDJ4mtetcmz24nx589qlQrvyZEhOwSw=s320" width="194" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Wow. That is a lot to take in.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Chris once again blaming someone other than himself for his channel going downhill. So that's James Rolfe, Machinima, YouTube being different, and now the entire gaming industry. What next? The NWO?<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Let's break this down.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"The media taking money from the government to talk about what they want". Do you have a source for this? Are you talking about Russia or the US?</div><div style="text-align: left;">It's obvious that billionaires control the media along with the government. This isn't a shock.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Video game world just as guilty" ... No shit. Have you not been paying attention to the news for the last several years?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Employees are subjected to horrid work conditions (months of crunch), incomplete games are shipped out in a broken state to appease shareholders, live service games taking over to the detriment of quality, racism is rampant, sexual misconduct is rampant, reviewers are bribed, etc etc. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There is so much wrong with the industry. You are not surprising anyone.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"One of the main reasons I stopped going to E3" Bullshit. The likely reason is that GotGame didn't have the money to fly you out. Your E3 coverage wasn't even that popular outside of a couple videos. They probably weighed the costs vs the benefits. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"ultimately hung up the Irate Gamer" I guess this is admission that he's done again? Even though a few days ago he asked his fans if they want another episode. Who knows...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"I could write a book about what I saw" This again? Just write the fucking book already! Expose all those dirty secrets you've hidden away. Or post them on social media, I feel that would get more eyes on it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Look at my career around 2010 and see I was heading to the top" No you were not. You stagnated around that point. Making mistakes that were your own fault. A combination of poor quality reviews (notably Tekken 6 and God of War III) along with a slower upload schedule resulted in subscribers jumping off. When a review would come out, fans would state it was not worth the long wait.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I know you like to think this, but there was no larger conspiracy to end your career. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"There are reasons why that path didn't continue" Can I get you a mirror?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"The entire video game industry is tainted, and if you choose not to believe me, here's a small nugget to start making you think that you can research yourself" DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH! Never a good sign when someone says this.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">His evidence? E3 manipulates the attendance numbers. ... All events do that. There's never an exact number of how many people attend. This isn't a big deal.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Why do you think they let regular people in..." Because the people wanted it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"..top game developers decided to pull out" Because year after year, it becomes apparent that E3 is getting obsolete. Why put together a massive trade show when you can put out a 40 minute video and generate way more hype. If anything showed us that E3 is pointless, just look at the 2021 event. Everyone was digital, and we got the news anyway. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Ask why hundreds of media outlets would suddenly stop covering an event" I'm sorry, what? Do you have names of these media outlets? If anyone stopped, it was due to the site shutting down, not thinking it's "morally wrong" or whatever. E3 is covered every year by every major outlet. What are you even talking about?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Once again, Chris takes a scandal he likely read on a far-right Facebook page and made it about himself. It's just like during the pandemic when E3 was cancelled, and he called out GameSpot for "taking over the show" and pushing him out. It still doesn't make sense.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Please Chris, tell us what you know. Gaming enthusiasts are willing to listen. There's no need for a book. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Update: Chris explains why he never came forward, and why he still won't.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmpumwOjytuvVNa3xU4CsMhFMxtZHvKL6CRgjDXPNKo88XwyNYa7557fVjh9ckI20z_flJdIpO3IaEDAUHMthwnMoQbbOb0jAMFHuDNrScEpftMguLLbYnnqiopvG04JSF3JX3aKOd3mOUD3hSzrOWu4h-zuvp_YYGRBlH-9WN754xSBaqyBE5aIKv=s652" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="652" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmpumwOjytuvVNa3xU4CsMhFMxtZHvKL6CRgjDXPNKo88XwyNYa7557fVjh9ckI20z_flJdIpO3IaEDAUHMthwnMoQbbOb0jAMFHuDNrScEpftMguLLbYnnqiopvG04JSF3JX3aKOd3mOUD3hSzrOWu4h-zuvp_YYGRBlH-9WN754xSBaqyBE5aIKv=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">So he didn't come forward because they are "so very powerful" as shown by his revenue stream suddenly cutting in half. I find that very hard to believe. I'm wondering who "they" is referring to. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Update 2: More responses, and Chris tries to backpedal.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQdp-gzzCWChWbFUsW7x9ZWTG4tt7owGmhPx6I-E8l6xcLFCmPMJ5FaKELQTu25edpGYYimwSQ5ZIGI7fUxQICFo16Pag2_AMA-wAUM8XzsSyJ8bD9frcm0t6vCv37s8M8qzRAI8xWKmH7PNZZ0Pml3VvAaABEsozKn-b7PYFX93n-69MkiwpNEsws=s819" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="635" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQdp-gzzCWChWbFUsW7x9ZWTG4tt7owGmhPx6I-E8l6xcLFCmPMJ5FaKELQTu25edpGYYimwSQ5ZIGI7fUxQICFo16Pag2_AMA-wAUM8XzsSyJ8bD9frcm0t6vCv37s8M8qzRAI8xWKmH7PNZZ0Pml3VvAaABEsozKn-b7PYFX93n-69MkiwpNEsws=s320" width="248" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Let me get this straight. You claim to have this Earth-shattering information that could blow open YouTube and the gaming industry, but you won't share it because you "moved on" and claim God will sort it out. That is cowardly. Assuming he does have incriminating info and he's not just talking out of his ass.</div><div style="text-align: left;">For those curious, here's Steven's full statement that Chris is responding to (that I doubt he read)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg37Ur94vwr16wBOdmYJFDzTPY1bvbH84ama0MrcRv9WQSOx_Aryen1LXUyoaFJQ31_zmZwhwpAOuTCMHboZY2cfO03oemd-qdw3vvr8V2vp2ktNZmJy1VA6nTvpBzir5qeGMxSMzDKE3whmkh41GWKTJZBVPp67K_F4B9CqTqAr2WxvBrWgrIj-E6S=s893" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="602" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg37Ur94vwr16wBOdmYJFDzTPY1bvbH84ama0MrcRv9WQSOx_Aryen1LXUyoaFJQ31_zmZwhwpAOuTCMHboZY2cfO03oemd-qdw3vvr8V2vp2ktNZmJy1VA6nTvpBzir5qeGMxSMzDKE3whmkh41GWKTJZBVPp67K_F4B9CqTqAr2WxvBrWgrIj-E6S=s320" width="216" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com73tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-79570539660096730582022-01-26T22:24:00.003-06:002022-05-28T11:47:02.687-05:00Chris Has a New Book Out<div style="text-align: left;">*emerges from hole* Ugh, winter is the worst...</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hm? No, he hasn't put out a new Irate Gamer video. I think he quit again. Nothing in four months.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Puppet Steve has been the same shit. Algorithm chasing with Squid Game (again, not suitable for kids), along with Roblox and Sonic. Meh...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Instead, I'll bring up something that was shown to me last week. Chris has a new book!</div><div style="text-align: left;">No, it's not the long awaited sequel to Ghost Hunting 2.0 (would that make it Ghost Hunting 3.0?)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Instead it's a photo book about the Sandusky Ohio mall. ... Huh.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I mean, it's pretty harmless. Just pictures of an old mall from Chris' home city. The reviews on Amazon seem to like it. Though I have to wonder where they came from as Chris hasn't promoted the book on any of his main social feeds (according to my informant at least). Maybe he has a private account?</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Amazon page says it was published November 2021, so somehow he managed to avoid promoting it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Otherwise, there isn't much to say without reading it, and no way in hell am I going to pay $21 to get it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">However, Chris just can't help himself in the description. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The first paragraph is just Bores waxing nostalgic about various shops in the mall.</div><div style="text-align: left;">The second though, this one is a doozy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000;">Gathering more than 200 images, the original floor map, and the
history of every store at every location, author Chris Bores delivers a
trip down memory lane as well as never-before-told stories of the
scandals and struggles--and the triumphs--that made the Sandusky Mall
the place to be.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Scandals?! What scandals?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>I actually tried searching "Sandusky Mall scandals", and all I got was articles about Jerry Sandusky (the Penn State football coach that sexually assaulted a multitude of young boys throughout the 90's and 00's), and... links directly to Chris' book. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>So either these aren't really scandals, or Chris' idea of a scandal is really minute and pointless. Then again, you could have figured that out when he called Super Mario Bros 2 a "scandal". </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>But hey, I'm sure this book appeals to the 75k people that live in Erie County. Maybe the people in the surrounding ones too.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>... Yep. That's about it. </span> <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-78265976471424379132021-12-18T08:18:00.005-06:002022-05-28T11:48:19.445-05:00No List This Year<div style="text-align: left;">Wow, the year is almost over. Where did the time go?</div><div style="text-align: left;">As the title said, there will not be a Year End List. I just feel there's not enough to talk about.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Like all his previous comebacks, this one ended in failure. He may have gotten a view boost from working with James Rolfe, but clearly people didn't stick around as his views cratered. Hard.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Following up the big crossover with a video on cereal was a massive mistake. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This year showed he still had no idea what to do. Following up a video on Godzilla vs Kong (his highest viewed video of the year) with a retread on Kool-Aid flavors just screams "I don't have much knowledge of anything. Please let me keep doing the same shit over and over".</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's been three months since he posted a video, and he has given zero indication that he's going to keep going. Other than a Facebook post about a "custom Arcade cabinet" that hasn't been followed up on. Maybe someone convinced him that this midlife crisis shit isn't worth the hundreds of dollars he's spending?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He's still doing Puppet Steve, and the views have cratered there too. Though a video he posted earlier this week managed to score a lot of views. A video on... Squid Game toys. Oh yeah, that very child-friendly Netflix phenomenon. The series that opens on a brutal game of Red Light Green Light where over 200 people are gunned down all for a chance to pay off their crippling debt. Fun for the whole family!</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes I know that a lot of channels are talking Squid Game, and kids know about it through cultural osmosis, basically the same way as kids in the 80's and 90's knew about Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger or Rambo or Mortal Kombat, despite all of that not being appropriate. Still though, if Chris is trying to make this a channel for kids, shouldn't he stick with stuff for kids?</div><div style="text-align: left;">And to those wondering if there are actual Squid Game toys? No. He bought them off Etsy, meaning they're fan-made. I doubt Squid Game would actually get toys as it would go against the show's scathing criticism of capitalism. ... *remembers The Lorax movie* Fuck...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Anywho, I think that's enough. Who knows if we'll even be back next year. Chris seems content just vanishing off the internet, hiding behind his puppets and his eBay store where he makes money off bootleg Letter People DVDs and CDs. While also lying about the toys he's selling as "Brand New" when they're clearly out of the box (and somehow more expensive than legitimate new toys).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh yeah, go see Spider-Man No Way Home. It is that good.<br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com73tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-74531419972661216702021-09-04T13:36:00.002-05:002022-05-28T11:53:10.366-05:00Tiny Brain Talks Tiny Cars<p>Man, Shang-Chi was so good. If you’re in a safe area, try to go see it. <br />What’s that? Bores finally uploaded a new video? Wow, wonder what took him so long. This must be something intensive to take three months.<br /><br />It’s Micro Machines. Okay, not something he’s done before. Yes, there was the 80’s video which is now 10 years old, but this is on the video games. Plus, he did say before he wanted to talk about this. Surely this is worth the wait! … PFFFFFFF<br /><br />I should note that this was uploaded on September 3rd, but it got taken down due to copyright strikes and he had to reupload it. According to my informant, it was due to showing an entire Micro Machines commercial, and now it’s just a short clip. Rather odd thing for the algorithm to take down but whatever.<br />So, I’ll be watching the reupload which may be different from what some of you saw.<br /><br />This one is a little over 16 minutes long. Here we go.<br /><br />The video opens with IG pouring Micro Machines into a bowl like it’s cereal. Man, he just can’t get enough of cereal can he. What is his deal with it?<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“A whole bowl of nostalgia!”</span> Uggggggggh<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“Breakfast will NOT be ruined!”</span> Get it? He said the thing, only it’s the opposite. Hur hur hur… in the comments, someone brought that up, and he responded, <span style="color: #660000;">“I’ve gone meta”</span>. There’s another instance later in the video of something like this happening, and I’ll address the issue with all that there.<br /><br />Theme song, and it’s the same animated intro. It’s still terrible.<br />It was changed up at the end to insert IG into the Micro Machines character select screen, followed by a “realistic” pixelated version of him looking… angry? Honestly, he looks like he’s doing the soyjak face. His mouth hanging open like that.<br /><br />We cut back to him talking about how he loved to collect the Micro Machines toys, and said it was like collecting Ninja Turtles. Random drop-in from a TMNT toy. Stop doing that.<br />He compares them to Hot Wheels, only they were smaller, cooler, and downright rad. That feels redundant. Also, most of your audience isn’t familiar with 80’s slang Chris.<br /><br />He continues talking about the toys, the commercials, okay this is just repeating what he did 10 years ago. Why is he doing this? Does he think remaking old videos somehow makes them better? It’s not like he acknowledges that he’s talked about this stuff before, he just pretends it never happened. At least when other content creators take another look at something they talked about before, they acknowledge it and reference what they did wrong back then. Like when SomecallmeJohnny did his recent Sonic marathon and acknowledges his old videos weren’t as good, or when Chuggaaconroy replayed Earthbound and provided a much more detailed and higher quality experience, even acknowledging that he isn’t too fond of his original Earthbound playthrough (which to be fair, was his first).<br /><br />Sorry, let’s move on.<br />He brings up their appearance in Home Alone, complete with movie clip. I’m surprised he wasn’t taken down for this part.<br /><br />He then notes how Galoob entered the video game market with the Game Genie in 1990. Ah yes, his best friend. <br />Then he suddenly explains how Game Genie works, and then starts playing Commando. Why? First of all, you’ve already explained how Game Genie works before. Second, why are you talking about Commando now? Are you trying to “capture that old Irate Gamer spirit” where you randomly went on tangents about other games? That was dumb back then, and it’s dumb now.<br /><br />So, he quickly beats Commando with the Game Genie, and remarks he waited 30 years to see how it ends. Why didn’t you beat it back then? Oh right, he’s lying.<br />Basically, this whole bit is to get “mad” at how the game has a poorly translated ending. We know Chirs, Capcom NES games had poor translations. This is nothing new. Your obsession with NES endings is beyond stupid.<br /><br />He brings up the Nintendo lawsuit that Galoob won but hurt their relationship with Nintendo. Since they wanted Micro Machines on NES, they turned to “Codebreakers”. It’s Codemasters you idiot! My god, this isn’t hard to look up!<br />Anyway, he brings up how it’s unlicensed, how it has a switch in the back to bypass the lock-out chip (with a jump cut for some reason), and how the cartridge is gold like Zelda. He speculates it was to trick people into thinking the game is as good as Zelda. No, it’s because they wanted to stand out among all the gray carts.<br /><br />He also points out the label is upside down. Then follows with “Alright, enough nitpicking like an angry nerd”. Seriously? We get it, you’re on better terms with the AVGN.<br />By the way, I’m aware that James read a letter from him on a mailbag video. Yeah, that exists. <br /><br />He starts the NES game and says it’s actually enjoyable. Once again, Chris forgets what the “Irate Gamer” is supposed to be about.<br />He claims it’s better than <span style="color: #660000;">“other racing shits”</span> like Mach Rider, City Connection, and “Bill Elliot’s Racecar Challenge”. Hoo boy, a lot wrong there. Mach Rider isn’t a racing game, and it isn’t bad, you just suck at it. City Connection isn’t a racing game either, I don’t know how you got that. While the last one is a racing game, it’s actually called Bill Elliot’s NASCAR Challenge. Were you afraid NASCAR would sue you if you mentioned their name? No, he obviously didn’t do the research. <br />Seriously, what has he been doing for three months?<br />Then we get a padded sequence where he plays the last game and finds it boring. Get someone to edit your fucking scripts! <br /><br />Anyway, he says he played the game a lot as a kid and enjoyed it, despite its “flawls”. <br /><span style="color: #660000;">“Now the controls at times, may suck ass worse than a five-dollar whore”</span> Religious man everybody! <br /><span style="color: #660000;">“This game definitely drills you in”</span> Was he trying to say “draws”? Because it sounds like “drills” instead.<br />He lists off the various vehicles you can race, all based off the toy line. He gets to the muscle cars and acts surprised at the game’s depiction of them. NES game Chris.<br /><br /><span style="color: #660000;">“What the fuck is that muscle?”</span> *breathes in* Okay. This is what I wanted to address earlier with the “Breakfast is not ruined” line. Chris trying to be meta. He is far far too late to be going this route. It could have worked a decade ago, but now that nobody cares and there’s not many people left that would get these “jokes”; it’s cringy as hell. Not to mention trying to be self-aware of how bad you are tends to backfire more often than not. Like how Birdemic 2 was way worse than the first movie because it tried to be self-aware, or how everything Tommy Wiseau did after The Room was hard to watch because he was trying to be meta about his status as a cult filmmaker. <br />Acknowledging your mistakes is one thing, but Chris’ way of doing it is painful to watch. Like an old out of shape rockstar still trying to perform his crazy stage moves 20 years after his peak.<br />It could be worse though. He could be Linkara raging like a madman anytime somebody brings up Lightbringer or OneyPlays or that running scene from the Nostalgia Critic Bloodrayne review. Not a pretty sight…<br /><br />Anyway, he goes over the characters in the game. He lists them off, the traits they have, and randomly references Armake21. Chris, do you seriously think anyone watching now is going to know who that is? Learn about new talent! Stop living in the past!<br />Then he compares the characters to The Breakfast Club, editing their portraits onto the movie poster, with Armake in place of Emilio Estevez. Laaaaaame.<br />You can also hear Don’t You (Forget About Me) playing. How the hell did the copyright bots not catch that?<br /><br />He notes how the game’s racetracks are designed after real life areas, like one is a kitchen table or a “breakfast table” and losing means <span style="color: #660000;">“breakfast is ruined”</span>. Uggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggh<br />He shows the school stage and how the obstacles are supplies and refers to pencil sharpeners by their Spanish word “Sacapuntas”. So he could make stupid jokes about how it sounds like “punting you in the ballsack” along with a death montage. Hur… hur… hurl…<br /><br />Interesting to note, before the video went down, he said “Sacapuntas” meant eraser and not pencil sharpener. He got called out in the comments and he noted he did get it right the first time but “rushed it”. Hold on, you rushed it? But… you’ve been working on this for weeks, maybe months. What the hell is your process? Well, that comment is likely gone as it was in the first upload. Though my informant did manage to catch it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZGPsBj67zIqILQ8oz7kEbmnGmEKZ0d3DupvplPPhwzpMnLTsu1F43fdVbjvmZ3YcWvZF7OfcB9wKAampBw1vq7GLFeYDIDq81Xh8j1Ccz5oqLckeqawoIg0dplIE-2hXV0DFRca4KIE/s992/Joke.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="992" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZGPsBj67zIqILQ8oz7kEbmnGmEKZ0d3DupvplPPhwzpMnLTsu1F43fdVbjvmZ3YcWvZF7OfcB9wKAampBw1vq7GLFeYDIDq81Xh8j1Ccz5oqLckeqawoIg0dplIE-2hXV0DFRca4KIE/w400-h180/Joke.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Still, it is surprising to see him fix a mistake like that. So… a point for that.<br /><br />He moves onto the garage and points out how the oil slicks slow you down. Uh no, the oil slicks make you skid. Then he questions the gray obstacle in the floor and wonders what that is. Looking it up, a guide on GameFAQs states it’s glue, and that’s the obstacle that slows you down. I am not sure how they figured that out, but it makes sense. <br /><br />He briefly goes over the bath level, then moves onto a sandbox level where he says the difficulty really goes up.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“You may have played those first couple of levels and thought ‘Hey, this game is a piece of cake’”</span> Didn’t you already have a death montage? You’re not exactly making a good argument here.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“Now it’s time to take that cake, and ram it up your piehole of an asshole!”</span> … What?<br />And another death montage. This did not need to be 16 minutes.<br />He complains that you can’t just go “pedal to the medal” and you have to “balance” between accelerating and de-accelerating. Sooo, a racing game. This isn’t a new concept. <br />Then a Speed Racer reference, another death montage, an alliterative insult with “bunghole” in it, he slaps himself with the controller, and says he’d rather sandblast his anus into silly putty. I’m sorry, am I supposed to be laughing? How am I supposed to react to all this?<br /><br />He wonders how he can’t beat the level anymore because as a kid, he could beat the whole game without breaking a sweat. Is that right? Perhaps you had Game Genie helping you?<br />He then tells a story about how he and his cousins beat the game over and over again and knew every twist and turn. Hmmmm… I don’t buy that.<br />He then takes out Game Genie. Of course he does…<br /><br />He gets past the level and makes it to the billiard table level. He comments on how you can drop into a pocket and end up on another part of the track, and that was “rare” at the time. *looks at Super Mario Bros.* Huh?<br />After the billiard table, it’s back to the kitchen. <span style="color: #660000;">“All these levels have been bumped up in difficulty level”</span> Proofreading? What’s that?<br />He remarks that you drive over a box of “Toppies” cereal. He questions it, saying he never saw it as a kid. He believes it was between Breakfast with Barbie and Booty-O’s. That would be impressive considering Booty-O’s didn’t come out until 2016, and it’s a tie-in with The New Day wrestling tag team that didn’t debut until 2014. You just wanted to flex your stupid cereal knowledge, didn’t you?<br />He also clarifies they’re real. At least he understands that some people don’t realize that he’s making something up with his stupid photoshop gags and is willing to clarify when something is real.<br /><br />Then another death montage. Jeez, this video doesn’t need to be any longer.<br />He ends it by pouring his Micro Machines into a bowl and “eating” them with Cookie Monster sounds. Painfully unfunny.<br /><br />He notes how the game gets harder the further you get along, points out the chopper stages. Randomly puts in the Predator clip. Again, how did that not get caught by the bots?<br />He claims they’re the jankiest vehicles to control. Oh hey, he learned a new word.<br />Then he moves onto a board game level where he finds the checkerboard annoying to get around.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“Damn it Galoob, FOCK you and your FUCKING checkers!”</span> It’s not Galoob that made the game, it was Codemasters. <br /><br />Eventually he fills up his toy case, racers drop out (random reference to Punch-Out as well), and he gets to the end. A level which he claims he never beat. Wait… but you said earlier you beat the game over and over with your cousins. Was that a lie?! How did you miss a contradiction THIS big?! What the hell?!<br /><br />So, he goes through the time trial challenge and gets upset that the Monster Truck doesn’t get added to his toy case. I looked it up, and he had to beat it in the allotted time to get it for his case. I figured he would know that since he “beat the game over and over again” derpa derpa derp<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“What a bunch of big asses” </span>… Huh?<br />Anyway, he beats the game, complains about the ending, and complains that he doesn’t get a car. Whatever…<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“You turkey dicks”</span> Stop. Just stop.<br /><br /><span style="color: #660000;">“While I was doing research for this game”</span> HAHAHAHA that’s funny. You doing research. <br />He claims that “four years later”, Galoob released Micro Machines on SNES. So so wrong! It was three years later not four, and it wasn’t Galoob, it was Ocean Software. You didn’t research a damn thing.<br />He looks over the SNES version, notes how it looks better, controls better, thinks it’s easier but dies so it’s not… blah<br />Then he says something really odd. That this was around the time he jumped ship from Nintendo to Sega. What? When did you do that? Throughout the years you’ve been doing this show, you have NEVER brought that up. Are you making stories up again? Especially since the majority of what you’ve covered were Nintendo titles. You didn’t talk about a Genesis game until 2014. What are you trying to get at?<br /><br />He moves on to Micro Machines 2, which he claims was released on SNES and Genesis (there’s others). <br />He notes the graphics are better and there’s been changes to the characters, then he gets horny over one of the returning ones. Ew…<br />What Chris neglected to mention is that the console versions of Micro Machines 2 were only released in Europe. The only version America got was on MS-DOS. That seems like a pretty important detail to overlook.<br /><br />He briefly talks about Micro Machines V3 on Playstation 1, and I do mean brief because he doesn’t say much. Just a comment about the graphics and a joke about eating your vegetables. Dull…<br /><br />He brings up Micro Machines 64 Turbo, which is just a port of V3. He seems to understand that as he notes that it’s basically the same game. Then he gets mad at how they changed the character he got horny over. <span style="color: #660000;">“What am I supposed to do with this?!”</span> … Touch grass.<br /><br />He jumps to Micro Machines V4 on PS2. It has been brought to my attention by Jack Cravens that the gameplay footage has been taken from the YouTube channel xTimelessGaming. As made clear by the XTG name above the car. Of course, no credit in the description. In fact, he didn’t even credit Eli Bruner for the opening animation either. Still stealing and refusing to give credit. No number of meta jokes will fix that Chris. <br />Anyway, he doesn’t really say anything about the game, just that he believes the toys weren’t available in stores, so this was just quietly released. No, they were there. The initial Micro Machines line kept going until 2008, and this game came out in 2006. It had a brief Star Wars revival in 2015, died again, but now it’s back under Wicked Cool Toys & Jazwares. Just a quick search. <br /><br />Even though he’s clearly not playing, he says it’s good. Then he says, <span style="color: #660000;">“3D Realms took 12 years to release this”</span>. … I’m sorry what? Where did that come from? Did you somehow confuse this with Duke Nukem Forever? 3D Realms didn’t even work on this game, it was developed by Supersonic Software. Are you high?!<br />He’s also mad because the girl isn’t in the game. I don’t even care anymore…<br /><br />Then he moves on to Micro Machines World Series for Playstation 4 (as well as Xbone and PC). He says he hadn’t even heard of it until today (which means he likely stole this footage from someone else) and compares it to Skylanders. It’s nothing like Skylanders, it’s not toy-to-life. Get a bigger pool of references.<br /><br />Despite the “polish” of the newer games, he prefers the NES one because of nostalgia. Then a really dumb Breakfast Club reference to end the video. How does your mind get here? You reference it once, and somehow you think that gives the right to re-enact the ending? Is this just more “I LOVE MUH 80’S!” pandering? <br /><br />What a mess of a video. How did this take so long? Barely any effects, but a whole lot of errors. Didn’t you have help with all this? Maybe the people he got to help wanted to get paid, he didn’t pay them, and now he’s stuck by himself again. There wasn’t even a fake sponsorship this time around.<br />I swear, Chris does not respect the few fans he has left. It just feels like he’s throwing shit at the wall with no regard to what they want.<br /><br />And that is everything. We may not be able to stop the ignorance, but we can curb COVID. Go get vaccinated if you haven’t. <br /></p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com179tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-42728986916267375492021-08-01T12:43:00.002-05:002022-05-28T11:53:03.800-05:00It has been quiet.<div style="text-align: left;">What do you mean it's August? Man, this year is going by rather quick.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I imagine you've all noticed that there hasn't been any updates. Simply put, there is nothing to talk about.</div><div style="text-align: left;">He has not released anything to the Irate Gamer channel since the Gremlins video. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The only thing over on the Ghost Doctor has been a video about "Demon Classification". Sorry, I already play Shin Megami Tensei, I have all the demon classification I need there.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But as you can see, nothing has come out of IG. Why the silence?</div><div style="text-align: left;">He's been dead quiet on Facebook. Weirdly enough, earlier in the Summer he said that he had tons of projects lined up and that "this will be a big year for Irate Gamer". And yet... nothing.</div><div style="text-align: left;">He also mentioned wanting someone to help him create an Arcade Cabinet. Nothing seems to have come from that.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My theory? He's discouraged. Back when he was working on the Gremlins video, he was boasting on Facebook about how hard he was working, and how proud he was of it. However, most of the comments were praising Zach Galligan's testimony about the game rather than Chris' "reviews". On top of that, the views for it were abysmal. Over two months later, and it has only achieved 26k views. In fact, his views in general have been terrible. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The only video that came out in 2021 that did decently was Godzilla vs Kong, and that's thanks to the algorithm and Search Engine Optimization. Basically, the right video at the right time. He did the same over on Puppet Steve, releasing a Godzilla vs Kong video the day the movie came out. It got him a lot of views. So he foolishly keeps doing Godzilla videos on that channel despite getting less and less views. He even posted one today where he gets things wrong (like claiming Space Godzilla is new).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So really, it kind of feels like Chris is giving up... again. The views aren't coming in, nobody cares about what he thinks, he's probably beyond discouraged. But who knows, he may surprise me by posting something the next day. I know he reads this.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">UPDATE: As I was working on this, my informant sat through Chris' "demon classification" video. And hoo boy...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">It is pretty nuts, but a lot of it feels like Chris' failed
Dungeons & Dragons campaign. He lists a type of "demon" and then
tries to use movies and shows made in the last decade to "prove his
point". When all he does is sound like an ill-informed shallow idiot. He
doesn't go into various mythologies or religious ideals, and tries to
act like what happens in the movies happens in real life. He sounds like
someone that can't distinguish between fiction and reality. At no point
does he showcase his process in finding all this out. It sounds like
he's just making it up.</div>I may actually have to do a deeper dive into it... Because it sounds beyond batshit. Sometime down the line.<br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com86tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-86942279830228320652021-05-26T08:56:00.002-05:002022-05-28T11:53:18.527-05:00Don't Watch This After Midnight. It's Really Boring...<p>It’s been a while, hasn’t it? That’s because Chris hasn’t submitted anything worth a damn.<br />The last three videos were all compilations of old videos. Season 2, Season 3, and then Season 1 again. Even though he already did a Season 1 compilation last August. <br />Interesting to note, Chris complained that these videos weren’t getting views and brought up his hesitance to continue IG. Does he not realize that compilations of old content will never do as well as new content? Plus, the videos are over an hour long, people are less likely to click on videos that long unless they’ve proven themselves (and you certainly haven’t Chris).<br /><br />Oh, and he posted a new Ghost Doctor that he claimed was the clearest evidence of spooks ever recorded. I didn’t watch the whole thing because fuck that noise, but I did look through the comments and someone timestamped what they claimed was a “hand”. I looked at it myself, and it looked more like the reflection of a car’s headlight. Not helped in that the “hand” showed up in a window. Is Chris serious with this shit? I would think it’s a parody of Ghost Hunters if not for how much time and money he has invested into this crap.<br /><br />Anyway, the new video. It’s about Gremlins, the movie duology from the 80’s that mostly gets brought up by people that can’t stop talking about the 80’s. It got some games. Frankly, not enough to result in a 26-minute 33-second-long video. Oh, but this is special because he got Zach Galligan, the star of the original movies. Why yes, Mr. Galligan does have a Cameo.com account. For $39.99 you can buy a video clip from him. Probably the most affordable cameo Chris has paid for.<br />The title indicates he’ll be looking at games on NES, Atari, Game Boy Advance, and Commodore 64. Oh hey, an old computer game. He does know they exist. How about that.<br /><br />Buckle up everyone, I get the feeling this will hurt.<br /><br />The video opens on stock footage meant to represent “Downtown ChinaTown”. Redundant. I haven’t seen Gremlins in ages, so I don’t know if it’s footage from that movie. We cut to IG in a “shop” (clearly his basement) looking at what they have.<br />Turns out the shop is run by the Sage Elder from the stupid movie. Probably the closest he could think of to match Mr. Wing. And yes, Bores reprises his role. I know there’s still the threat of COVID, but things are getting better now. Though Chris does seem like the type to avoid getting the vaccine.<br /><br />IG says he wants something different, something that <span style="color: #660000;">“sucks but doesn’t suck too much”</span>. Does that describe the Gremlins games? I know people like the second. Also, that’s a really weird line.<br />Sage Elder opens a box and reveals Gremlins on Atari 2600 and Gremlins 2 on NES. He then says these aren’t “ordinary games” and to take the advice of an “expert”. Cue our Zach Galligan cameo! <br />It’s a simple recording of Zach telling Irate Gamer to review the games, but don’t play them after midnight. You know, like the movie. If you’re asking what “defines “after midnight”, then the sequel beat you to the punch. They made fun of that part too.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“Let’s do this, the Gremlins games”</span> and after he says that he grimaces to the camera. That doesn’t make you look angry; it makes you look stupid.<br /><br />Theme song, but this time something’s different. It’s animated! It starts with a pixelated Irate Gamer falling into Duck Hunt (god what is his obsession with that game), smacking the dog, firing a laser into the air from his fist (incredible how his “power” never looked that in the show), then he runs right and punches some Koopa Troopas. If you were expecting smooth animation, this isn’t the place because it gets janky. IG ends up in Super Mario Bros. 2 and punches some Shy Guys, then runs into the ED-209 and blows it up with a fireball. Then he runs across an original rooftop with an IG billboard, a Chris Neo billboard, a third billboard I can’t make out and “Mecha Irate Gamer” (oh god is this the same guy?) and he goes into a building with Mario sounds. <br />Then he runs into Abobo from Double Dragon (which Chris has never covered so… odd inclusion), punches him, a bunch of TMNT Foot soldiers show up, then the Ecto-1 runs over Abobo with a TERRIBLE blood effect (someone needs lessons from Roger Barr and poxpower). IG gets in the car and drives off into Dick Tracy. Then we get a view inside as IG sits next to some Gremlins. All while an 8-bit rendition of Blind Pass plays. It is all so… dreadfully amateur. <br /><br />Reading the description, the opening was made by Eli Bruner, who was the same guy that made the Mecha Irate Gamer art from the Godzilla video. Chris, can’t you shell out the money for a pixel artist that doesn’t look like he’s operating on Windows Vista? Someone that can make it smooth and actually look like a game. Not this janky shit. <br /><br />But first, a “sponsorship”. This one for a documentary about Garry Kitchen, the developer behind *checks notes* Space Jockey, the Atari port of Donkey Kong, two of the Simpsons games on NES, and Home Alone on SNES. Is that guy really worth a film? I can think of like ten developers more deserving of one. It’s produced by Carlos William Gonzalez. … Where have I heard that name? *looks up past posts* That’s right, it’s the guy that IG hit with a cartridge in the Ghouls N’ Ghosts video, who also helped with production. Is Bores trying to form his own (even worse) Channel Awesome? Sidenote, but I don’t really watch anyone from Channel Awesome now. Sometimes Cinema Snob. Everyone else has gotten too annoying or boring. <br /><br />We cut to copyrighted footage as IG explains the movie. You’re right Chris, I should be watching Gremlins instead.<br />Not much to it, he just describes stuff that happens. The three rules too.<br />He makes a bad <span style="color: #660000;">“Clean up on aisle 7”</span> joke when one of the gremlins dies.<br />He then claims the movie’s success came from “mixing up genres” as it has comedy, action, family (that’s not a genre), horror, even claiming it could have been pure horror if not for scenes like the gremlins caroling. <span style="color: #660000;">“Talk about an instant classic”</span>. I don’t think “mixing up different genres” is why it succeeded. It was likely a combination of good marketing, good reviews, good word of mouth, and kids wanting to see something gruesome before the PG-13 rating was created (look it up).<br /><br />IG then makes a comment about how seeing Gremlins makes him feel like a kid again. That kind of nostalgia is dangerous Chris.<br />He brings up the part where Mrs. Deagle is thrown out the window but says she “exploded out the window”. What? You could have gone with “burst out” or “thrown” or “tossed”, but exploded? That’s just baffling. <br />The movie was a box office hit, toys shirts and games were made. He starts with Gremlins on the Atari 2600. He puts it next to a Gizmo toy that hugs the cartridge because “LOOK AT MUH TOYS”.<br /><br />He praises the title screen, goes over the game, criticizes the appearance of Billy, notes how you need to catch the mogwai before they eat the burgers. He calls it “heavy shit”. Uhh no. No mention that it’s just like Kaboom?<br />Then for no reason he brings up BurgerTime. You cannot meme BurgerTime into Smash Bros. You’re literally the only person that cares.<br />If all the mogwai get the burgers, they hatch into gremlins and you fight them off a/la Space Invaders. <br />Then it all repeats, and he says this was the formula to the video game crash of 1983. Even though it came out in 1984. There were multiple factors to the crash, and it only effected console gaming in America. Arcades, computers, and Japanese consoles were still fine.<br /><br />He claims that online game reviewers have been bashing this game the last couple years. Which ones? Give us names Chris. They were more likely criticizing the game of being derivative of other games from the time (like Kaboom and Space Invaders). <br />He claims to have played this back when it came out and thought it was enjoyable. How the level design is better than E.T. What level design? It’s literally two flat plains. Also, bringing up E.T. is a bad argument. It’s like trying to compare a mediocre animated movie to The Emoji Movie, there’s no reason for it.<br /><br />IG brings up how there was also an Atari 5200 version in development that was meant to come out at the same time, but it was delayed to 1986 and ended up being the last game released on the 5200. Basically, stuff you find on Wikipedia. <br />Also, this line. “And finding versions of both these games are super hard to find these days” Smoooth writing Chris. Also, a random Gizmo toy because “fuck you”.<br />By the way, Chris clearly doesn’t have the 5200 game. It’s only represented by a floating image. Wow, you can do that. <br /><br />He claims that if you liked the 2600 version, you’d like the 5200 version, as he starts playing an emulated version.<br />The 5200 version is an action game where you cut down gremlins with a sword. He says the graphics are so good that it could pass as an early NES game. … Not really? It definitely looks like it doesn’t belong. <br />He goes over the game, wrangling mogwai, slicing gremlins, not much to it. Says it’s the best game from the Atari age. <br /><br />IG looks at his Kool-Aid watch because “LOOK AT MY STUFF” to see there’s still time to review Gremlins 2.<br />Before the game though, he has to talk about the movie. Cue the copyrighted footage!<br />He gushes about the movie, how it had more comedy, how it really appealed to kids because “multiple gremlin types”, he lists some of them. He gushes about the Bat Gremlin and how there’s Batman references and how kids were crazy about Batman and I don’t care.<br />He notes the game was made by Sunsoft, and how they had a spotty track record with great games like Batman and bad games like Fester’s Quest. At least it’s not Atlantis no Nazo.<br /><br />He looks at the title screen and compares the gremlin wearing a hat to Funky Kong from DKC. Can’t find who that’s really supposed to be…<br />He praises the cutscene, and praises that Billy looks like he does in the movie and way better than the Atari version. An NES game has better graphics than a 2600 game? Alert the media!<br />Anyway, Gizmo shoots tomatoes, there’s tomato enemies, they drop crystals which can be used in the shop. He likes it because there’s a “cool old Chinese guy”. You mean Mr. Wing? From the movie? <br />He notes the three items for sale, including a Gizmo doll that gives extra lives. He calls it cute, and a poorly edited word balloon saying “Fuck you” appears. That’s not a joke Chris! <br /><br />Then… something stupid.<br />He claims that if you enter the Konami code in the shop, you can access the hidden Frogurt. What?<br />Then he plays the Frogurt scene from The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror III because it’s a parody of Gremlins. He then claims that doesn’t happen, but he HAD to mention that scene. No you didn’t! You could have gone the whole video without bringing up the parody! <br /><br />He praises the music, has a bit where he listens to it.<br />Then he notes that the game gets harder the further you go. Why are you still complaining about that? You should realize that older games tend to get tougher the further you get.<br />While the game does look tough in places, it’s pretty obvious he’s dying on purpose. Including a death montage where he seems to intentionally walk into the pit.<br />He goes on and on about how hard it is, makes a really long analogy about getting caught in a pool, complains about Stage 2-2. You know, he’s not saying if the controls are a problem or anything. He does complain about enemy placement but that doesn’t seem game breaking.<br />Then more exaggerated reaction faces and complaining about difficulty. Makes a comment about using his ballsack to make tea (oh god…)<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“If you think that’s bad”</span> Tempted to make a South Park joke, but I won’t.<br />Death montage with lava. Some of it looks purposeful.<br />Then a really dumb bit where he says, “shit’s going to get real” and shits himself. Ew…<br /><br />Then, no joke, he basically pulls a “didn’t they test this game before they released it?” Not like that, but the intention is the same.<br />It’s so hard it makes you want to hang yourself. Then he chokes himself with the NES cord. How many times has he done that bit? Six times now? It’s not any funnier. Also, that’s not hanging yourself.<br />Despite all that, it’s still a good game. Then he goes into how there’s “crybabies” out there that complain when he mentions Game Genie. *gasps* He’s talking about me! Hi Chris! I know you’re reading this! Wait, aren’t you playing on an emulator? You have save states. Adding Game Genie just seems redundant. <br />He says the game continues to get good the further you go so it’s totally worth cheating. <br />He then brings up how licensed games of the era didn’t include more than the main characters, and then goes into how DuckTales was an exception as it included a lot. He suspects they didn’t want to “pixelize” a lot of characters into a game. It’s probably more like the developers had very little to go off of.<br /><br />For Gremlins 2 they include a lot from the movie. Then he just lists them… more padding, hooray. How are there 10 minutes to this left?<br />He gushes about the cutscenes and is happy that he gets a good ending. Whatever…<br /><br />Then we get something kind of interesting. Zach Galligan starts giving his thoughts on the game. Wonder how much Chris paid to get all that.<br />Zach gives a very sincere story about when he played the game when it came out (not a kid at the time, he was 26) and he thought it was really cool to see him animated in a cutscene. But he also thought the game was incredibly hard. Still, this was by far the best part. Shows the difference between a professional actor and a total hack.<br /><br />The video should have ended there, but no there’s still more. Gremlins 2 on Game Boy.<br />But before that, IG gives his own story. About how he once worked at a restaurant that had ice cream and you could make your own while on break. He tells us how one day he found what he thought was whipped cream and sprayed it all over his dish, only to taste it and find out it was butter. The point is that Gremlins 2 on Game Boy isn’t good. That story doesn’t sound real…<br /><br />Game Boy version is crap, bad controls, bad jumps, bad weapon, hard. Yep… good graphics and music. Whole bunch of comparisons about turds. Bored…<br />He sees it’s 11:30 and decides to talk about the Commodore 64 games.<br />First, he looks at Gremlins 2 on C64. A side-scroller. Looking up a longplay, it’s a short game at about 10 minutes. Meaning it’s very likely difficult. <br />Or not because he says it’s simple. And if he says that, it’s likely true.<br />He was upset that this game never came to consoles. Whatever…<br /><br />Then he talks about the other Gremlins game on C64, Gremlins The Adventure. Which he incorrectly calls “Gremlins Adventure”. <br />It’s a text-based adventure, and he already hates it. Bringing up Zork and calling that crap. Woooooow it’s like strategy games all over again. Though I imagine he doesn’t have a fake story about his grandmother like last time.<br />Then a long bit where he tries to find out what to do, eventually decapitating the gremlin. Boring…<br /><br />He moves onto Gremlins Unleashed for the Game Boy Color. It was only released in Europe.<br />He praises the animation saying they look really good now. GBC looks better than NES? Alert the media! <br />He then claims “gamers” won’t like it because finding the exit is confusing. That’s your takeaway?<br />He then stops, removes the cartridge and throws it. It ends up in the room of Carlos Gonzalez, now sporting a bandage from last time. He dodges it, only for it to hit him twice then… go up his ass as he moans <span style="color: #660000;">“Daddy Cartridge”</span>. ……………………..<br />……<br />Well, that was officially the worst thing Bores has ever put in a video. What the actual fuck? I’m not even mad. I’m just stunned that something so painfully unfunny managed to find its way into the video. What’s even the joke? What’s even the point? What even is this? Is this the anti-comedy equation? <br /><br />Anyway, he moves onto Gremlins: Stripe vs Gizmo for the Game Boy Advance. He claims this was also only released in Europe. No that’s not true, there’s an American version. Found the box art with the ESRB logo on it. Looking on Amazon I can see the cartridge with “E for Everyone” on it. Where did you get that it was EU-only from?<br />He claims this is the best Gremlins game because of the animations, the fun stages, the colors, and other Gremlins. Is the gameplay good though?<br />However, his big issue is that the game has dreadful camera pans. Ah, that sounds like a “you” problem Chris. You’ve always been going on about getting motion sickness from certain games. <br />And he throws up in a Question Mark block. As his Gizmo plushie falls over. This isn’t funny.<br />Weird thing, but he’s pretending to play the game on a DS. Even though he has a Game Boy Advance. Can’t really put my finger on why that’s weird…<br /><br />He then moves onto the last game, Gremlins: Gizmo for the Nintendo Wii. That’s a thing?<br />He says it was made to cash in on Nintendogs and he makes a bunch of gross milk analogies. It’s almost over…<br />He calls it boring and terrible in every way. Doesn’t go into why though, just a fast review because it exists.<br /><br />Then brings up the Gremlins Mountain Dew commercial that aired during this year’s Super Bowl. He asks Zach about it. He gives his response from a completely different location. Which tells me that this is a separate video he paid for.<br />That would be a good way to end it, but Bores wanted more stupid.<br />He remarks that he managed to finish before Midnight, only for Ronnie to come in and point out that it was Daylight Savings the other day and it’s actually 12:59. Then the Spider Gremlin from the game comes out of the cartridge. Dumb…<br /><br />That’s a good way of putting, dumb and boring. Everything after Gremlins 2 on NES was barely touched on, and the stuff he did talk about was a lot of the same shit. “Hard hard hard hard hard characters hard hard”. Zach Galligan’s appearance was the saving grace, but a minute long testimony from an actor shouldn’t carry a video. <br />What a mess. <br /><br />That’s all for me. I hope you’re still staying safe. Make sure to get vaccinated. <br /></p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com79tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-69550108313518764952021-04-20T20:13:00.001-05:002022-05-28T11:53:31.485-05:00Does Stinger Ring a Bell? How About TwinBee?<p>A new video already? Chris must be avoiding Puppet Steve and Ghost Doctor to get these out fast. <br />Right off the bat we have a problem, and it’s in the title. <span style="color: #660000;">Stinger NES Nintendo/Famicom SCANDAL! History & Video Game Review</span><br /><br />First off, Stinger? *looks up* Oh oooh, it’s TwinBee. Specifically, the second TwinBee game which got released overseas as Stinger because the first game didn’t see release until 2010 on Microsoft’s short-lived “Game Room” service, then getting a proper 3D Classics release on 3DS the following year. It now has a wider reach on the Nintendo Switch Online service along with its later sequel Pop’n Twinbee. This sequel though, only saw release on NES.<br />And right off the bat, you can probably guess what the big “SCANDAL” is going to be. That they changed the name when they released it overseas. It wasn’t a big shock with Mario 2 in 2007, and it’s not a big shock here. Especially since TwinBee is not that notable of a franchise outside of Japan. But Chris could surprise me. … PFffffffft<br /><br />Let’s dig into this 14:33 minute mess. Wait, before I do. Chris bragged on Facebook how Season 6 is four and a half hours long. That’s not something to be proud of, especially since so much of it is meandering nonsense. Also, he cheated by including I Rate the 80’s, Pop Culture Paranomral, teasers for the first two reviews, the compilation of Mario Game Genie videos, and the Summer Movies video. Look up “quality vs quantity” Chris.<br /><br />The video opens with IG walking in next to a Sonic lamp because “look at muh new toy!” and tells us he’s going to look at Stinger, which he refers to as a <span style="color: #660000;">“fly-em-up shooter game”</span>. I’m sorry what? Do you mean “shoot-em-up”? Because that’s the proper term. I have not heard anyone use “fly-em-up shooter”. Jeez, right off the bat we have problems.<br />Anyway, he’s going to look at the game’s history and the “shocking” backstory. Oh please…<br /><br />Theme song<br /><br />But first, a sponsorship message for intotheam.com, a site that sells T-shirts. Just regular ass t-shirts, nothing special. Again, I don’t think this is a real sponsorship. There’s no discount when you type in a code or anything. I also haven’t seen any other channel get sponsored by them. <br /><br />IG starts talking about how Stinger came out early and it’s a classic and it’s totally nostalgic. Then why are you talking about it? I thought you were focusing on bad games again.<br />He also says it cam out at a good time as third parties were really ramping up releasing NES games. Even though third parties have been releasing games for a while by the time Stinger came out (September 1987).<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“During the Christmas season of 1987”</span> I don’t really consider September to be that but go on.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“Capcom had just released”</span> Capcom? TwinBee’s by Konami. I know it’s a bit of a meme to confuse the two companies but if you’re trying to be educational… sorry, let’s see where he’s going with this.<br />He lists off games Capcom released, notes how SNK released Ikari Warriors, and how Konami released their own games. Okay… what does this have to do with anything?<br /><br />Then on Christmas 1987, he claims to have gotten two games. Castlevania and Stinger. Like all his other recent anecdotes, it sounds made up.<br />He says the first thing he always does is to look at the cover art. On a box, right? Because a new game would come in a box. <br />Then he starts going over the cover art. Whyyyyy.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“The iconic silver border on Konami games”</span> Learn what iconic means! That is not iconic! <br />He describes more of it, the colors, the ships, the enemies. Then it puts in his unplugged NES, doesn’t even push the game down. Why are you still making mistakes this obvious?<br /><br />He starts the game, shows the basic story, then gets into the shooting. He also refers to it as a “Shooter-Up”. Can’t he properly say Shoot-Em-Up? At least just go with Shmup or simply Shooter.<br />He makes some Beatles references, then points out the weird enemies like strawberries, sushi (that’s not sushi, that’s narutomaki, the fish cake that goes on ramen), grapes, ice cream, pumpkins (you sure those aren’t peppers? They’re green), and donuts that he refers to with the word “fucktations”. What. <br /><br />He wonders “why”, and notes that the instruction manual points out how the aliens want to turn the Earth into cotton candy. Not sure if that’s in the Japanese version, but TwinBee is classified as a “cute-em-up”, a shmup that uses surreal images and bright colors. Parodius is another example.<br />It’s clear he doesn’t have the actual manual (using a scan from online).<br />He then notes how the aliens don’t want money, natural resources, or slave labor as he imposes a UFO on a safe, an oil rig, and a picture of ancient Egypt forcing the Israelites to build the pyramids. Because that’s hilarious! What the actual fuck… oh and they’re naked. <br />He then curses the audience out for thinking too hard about this. … Reflection?<br /><br />He reaches the boss, which causes flashing lights and for IG to make another fucking Porygon joke. This isn’t funny. He also follows up by faking a seizure. Computer Soldier Porygon happened over 20 years ago, move on from making those jokes. The Simpsons and South Park already got them in ages ago.<br />He shows the boss and it’s a giant watermelon. <span style="color: #660000;">“She’s ready to pulp my ass into oblivion”</span> If Chris bothered to look further in the manual, he would know that the watermelon is named Willie, and is likely a guy. Smoooth…<br />He dies, prompting him to yell <span style="color: #660000;">“Aw fuckleberries!”</span> Urgh that is bad…<br /><br />He then assumes his audience thinks this game is bad (which he uses in a bunch of scatological words) but says it is actually good. You kind of spoiled that at the start Chris. <br />Then notes how there’s a 2-player mode (because of course).<br />He also points out how the background can be blown up for weapons. He dies at this point and says “fucktations” again. What even is that?<br />He brings up the bells which provide power ups like double shots and multiple ships (better known as “options”). He notes how having three ships has him easily kill a boss, but he still gets killed by regular enemies. Which he calls “fucktations”. Stop trying to make “fucktation” <br />happen. It’s not going to happen.<br />He notes getting the option is tough because it takes a long time to turn the bell pink. Git Gud m8.<br />Then he gets it but dies and hits himself in the face with a stack of NES cartridges. Real classy… Also, he keeps showing the Sonic lamp. It’s real tacky.<br />And how sometimes the bell falls off, then he dies again. He yells “For the love of Peter Pepper” and the chef from BurgerTime (Peter Pepper) comes out and tells him to “leave me out of this”. WHAT IS THE JOKE?! BurgerTime exists?! We get it, you want him in Smash Bros. But that has no chance of happening.<br /><br />He says Game Genie is good for it because you will die a lot. Like I said earlier, git gud m8.<br />Then a death montage, with a crooked jaw shot and then he yells “Fuck” a lot, causing the word to appear next to him and then he swats the “fucks” away…. You know, typing this out, it makes me wonder how Chris’ script reads. Because it probably looks like the ramblings of a madman.<br />He does note it’s possible to get them back if you catch the little ghost that come out after you die, but it’s hard to get.<br /><br />Then he goes on and on about the enemies and the stages and the backgrounds. It’s not interesting. <br />He reaches a boss that’s also a home stereo (Master Blaster according to the manual). Says it’s “real 80’s” and reminds him of the old cartoon Kidd Video. What? Then he plays the intro. What?! <br />It goes for a while. He says he loved this show (probably aged like dumpster cheese). He does mention the boss’ name and notes how it’s the same as the villain in Kidd Video. Probably a coincidence. I doubt Konami’s localizers knew about that show. But IG has to do a stupid “I’m on to you” bit.<br /><br />He zips through the game and reaches the final level and acts excited because it’s in space. Wow, he really knows nothing about shmups. <br />He reaches the boss, which is a snake. He kills it, it turns into bells, and he leaves through a sudden “excape hatch” that appears (yes that’s part of the game). Then it cuts to IG wondering “What the hell” as the hatch appears in his room and TwinBee flies by him. Pointless! <br />He sees the ending with the professor thanking him and he goes to Level 8, which annoys him because there’s no true ending and the game doesn’t get harder. Except it does, this is the Harder Mode. I looked it up. You should have done that as well.<br /><br />So I guess we get to the “scandal” part of the video now because IG goes on about how he thought Stinger was just some obscure NES game that just came and went. But he “just found out” (that I believe) that it was big in Japan and is part of a trilogy. He does an over-the-top “say whuuu”.<br />Then he says <span style="color: #660000;">“Dip my dingleberries into a deep fryer”</span> Ewwww…<br />He starts talking about the first TwinBee game, comparing it to Tiger-Heli. Really? That’s your example? There’s hundreds of shoot-em-ups out there…<br />He shows the Arcade version, then the Famicom version, and points out the second game has “Cinnamon” in the title and that’s why you’re fighting food. No, it’s in the title because the old man you rescue is “Cinnamon-hakase” or Professor Cinnamon. You probably should have consulted some Japanese experts.<br /><br />He emulates a Japanese copy, shows the intro with TwinBee, GwinBee, and WinBee, and notes how this “preludes” to the other big scandal. The Japanese version has a three-player mode. With dramatic stings and an OTT “What da fuuuuuuuck”. The NES wasn’t capable of three players in 1987 Chris, the Four Score and Satellite didn’t come out until 1990. They removed it because they knew it wouldn’t work. Also, the original Japanese version was on the Famicom Disc System, which allowed for a bit more space than cartridges.<br />He gets all “angreh”, says this “flips his shit” blah blah blah.<br />And then he goes into what I said above, how the NES wasn’t capable of more than two players. What the fuck? If you know the answer, then why are you mad? Were you that dedicated to making this over 14 minutes long? Quality over Quantity Chris.<br />He notes they had four-player adapters already made. I don’t know, I can’t find the when the adapter came out, and I have heard that the Famicom’s peripheral port could take a third controller. Someone with more knowledge please let me know.<br /><br />He’s still upset there was no three-player mode. I have my doubts you played this as a kid.<br />He also notes that the Japanese version has a real ending because there’s credits. That… what? How do credits make it an ending?<br />Also, I looked into it. He didn’t beat the Japanese version. In fact, the ending screen with the Professor is different in the two versions. Plus, the Japanese version does have a story, which he briefly mentions, but doesn’t mention that there’s ending text. Lending further credence that he didn’t beat it. Also, the credits in Chris’ video look different from the credits on the Longplay I found. Fan translation maybe?<br /><br />Then he says it “gets worse” because there’s a third TwinBee on the Famicom, and this one is better. You sure about that?<br />He describes what you see in the first level, but doesn’t explain how that makes it better than the last game. Just that it’s “awesome”. You’re a terrible critic.<br />He thinks the reason it didn’t get released was so Konami could make room to release RollerGames. He then goes on about how he doesn’t actually have the game, and he had to paste a picture of it. So you can do that. Also, if you don’t have it, how do you know it’s bad? Looking it up, it looks decent. At least bring up Snake’s Revenge. <br /><br />And the likely reason that Konami didn’t release the follow-up is that Stinger may have bombed. The shoot-em-up genre was heavily oversaturated, and the game likely got lost in the shuffle. On top of that, Nintendo of America had a five-game per year cap for third parties. That’s the reason Konami founded Ultra Games, to make it ten games. They still had to pick and choose which games to bring over as they had a prolific Famicom library. They probably didn’t see any financial incentive to bring TwinBee 3 over.<br /><br />He then brings up more of the TwinBee games, slowly listing them off. Then showing an Arcade game (I presume TwinBee Yahho) as he gushes over the graphics. Because of course…<br />Then he brings up the TwinBee cartoon (because he still refuses to say anime). He’s mad that we didn’t we get it. How would we? I looked it up, and the anime only consists of two short films and three OVAs. Not enough for a TV series, and back in the 90’s anime distributors wanted hard violent shit not light-hearted goofy stuff. That’s what TwinBee was, light-hearted and goofy.<br />Then he continues being mad about how we didn’t get anything else and takes his anger out by… eating Willie the Watermelon Head. With a cheap blood effect. Master Blaster sees it and runs. That’s it. No credit to anyone that helped, meaning all this shit was his idea.<br /><br />That was dumb. You know, I imagine there’s legitimate TwinBee fans out there, but I can’t see this video appealing to them. It says so little, and unless a brave E-to-J translator is willing to do the work, it will likely go unseen by those fans.<br />It kind of feels like he just found out about this game a month or so ago, did a little digging, and found that Stinger was more than just one game. I still don’t believe this was a cherished childhood treasure. <br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">Hell, the fans cared more for the Sonic lamp (which got so much screentime, was he really so proud of it).</p></div><p><br />He did mention on Facebook that this was the “season finale” so… I guess we’re going on break! Probably the end if he’s not happy with the views he got. Then again, he’s claiming he has “sooooo many” projects in the works so who knows what the hell he’s doing.<br />Stay safe everyone! <br /></p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-3697784524120986772021-04-16T20:05:00.002-05:002022-05-28T11:54:22.983-05:00Straight From the "Nobody Asked For This" Pile it's Summer Movies (now featuring Fall)<p>Yes, I know Chris posted some videos. I have my reasons for not touching those.<br /><br />The first was a compilation of all his Mario Game Genie videos back when he was doing Chris Neo. He added an intro, and supposedly some new voiceover (I’m not going to bother checking), as well as a new ending. <br />He also deleted most of the old uploads, only leaving the first. Are we going to get slightly modified versions of his Sewer Shark and Deadly Towers review soon?<br />The ending bit was really lame too. He points out an instance where Peach isn’t at the end of a castle stage and wonders where she really is. Speculating on Dracula, Milon (as in Milon’s Secret Castle) and Dr. Wily, before concluding it’s Wario because she’s screwing him on the side. Then he uses a Mortal Kombat “Toasty” for some reason. What’s the joke?! <br />Didn’t bother covering this because I already fucking did, and I’m not watching that garbage again.<br /><br />Then he posted a video shilling a cabinet from iiRCADE. Didn’t bother because these are pointless. He basically looks at an expensive MAME emulator running Android. You download games and put them on it. It’s far more worthwhile to put that money into a PC. He also briefly talks about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, the upcoming game that pays immense homage to Konami’s old beat-em-ups, and how he wants to put it on the machine. He likely brought it up so he could put TMNT in the title.<br />I also noticed he titled the video with “IG Neo”, which he also did with the Dragon’s Lair cabinet video from the end of last year. I somehow missed that. So, IG Neo has been repurposed from “games on modern consoles” to “overly expensive arcade emulators”. Man, talk about an immense downgrade. I thought IG Neo was bad before, but holy shit.<br /><br />And now the actual subject of this post, the return of “Top Summer Movies”. Again. Assuming any of these are still coming this year and not further delayed by the pandemic still raging. Even though I’m vaccinated, I’m still weary about going to the movies. Maybe in July things will be better… I hope.<br /><br />My informant found on his Facebook that he claims it’s been “11 years” since he did one of these. That’s a lie, you did one in 2015. Did you forget about that? Or are you of the belief that deleting it means it no longer exists. Here’s my post about that list <a href="https://irategamersucks.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-return-of-old-favorite-summer-movies.html">https://irategamersucks.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-return-of-old-favorite-summer-movies.html</a><br /><br />Anyway, here’s my recap of his new list. It’s… holy shit, 16:38?! Jeez, these videos used to be a lot shorter. <br /><br />Video opens with IG on his “80’s set” wearing a Top Gun shirt. He says he’s all about IG nostalgia and wants to bring back Top Summer Movies and claims he hasn’t done one in 11 years. You can’t hide from the 2015 list Chris.<br />Also, kind of weird that he’s calling this an Irate Gamer video. Even the old ones were “CB’s Summer Movies” or something. No IG or anything.<br /><br />First movie is <b>Mortal Kombat</b> which comes out next week (or if you’re not in the US, it’s already out). Then we get a really sloppy jump cut, like holy shit it’s so obvious. Remember when he was better about these? Now he just seems so lazy.<br />He’s hyped, he liked the original movie, calls it campy now but is excited for the new one because “effects and graphics” (yes he says graphics). The trailer was really cool, he’s excited to see Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Reptile (yeah about that…), and notes he saw people “ongline” asking about Johnny Cage. He notes how the director wants to save him for the sequel. Well, that’s only part of it. The other is that the director didn’t want a “white guy leading the charge” as MK is very rooted in Asian culture. Seems silly since they made it clear that Cole is the protagonist. Also, Kuai Liang would have been a way better sequel hook. Just saying.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“As a filmmaker myself”</span> PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF<br /><br />Next is <b>The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It</b>. Seriously?<br />Of course he loves the series because it’s paranormal. Please, it’s trash. Barely scary and the Warrens were frauds. <br />“Lots of jump scares” Jump scares are lame Chris. Effective horror is the unsettling, the macabre, the unknown, good horror sticks with you. Jump scares are just fireworks. They go off, and you forget about them.<br /><br />Next is <b>Black Widow</b>.<br />He notes how this was supposed to be out last year, but COVID, and they’ll start Phase 4 this year. Phase 4 already started with WandaVision, keep up.<br />He says he saw a lot of debate on if this will be good or bad. So you saw an internet forum… that’s nothing new.<br />It’s a prequel, it goes into her backstory, Tony Stark shows up. He mentions the villain will be Taskmaster and he first learned about him from “Capcom vs Marvel 3”. First of all, it’s Marvel vs Capcom. Second, read more comics Chris. Taskmaster is not an obscure character, he one of the Avengers most notable foes. He’s been around since 1980. <br />He’s excited for it... yep.<br /><br />Next is <b>Space Jam: A New Legacy</b>. Oh god are you serious? I don’t know why people are hyped for this. The first movie was a stupid amalgamation of 90’s culture that only works because it’s so stupid (and Michael Jordan’s charisma). You can’t repeat that schlock set-up now.<br />He liked the first movie (weren’t you 17 when it came out?), he’s unsure if this will be as good. He does mention Jordan’s charisma so that’s something. He gushes about the trailer having Hanna-Barbera characters. I should mention that on Facebook, he was surprised that Warner Bros could use them. Why is that a surprise? They’ve owned them for years. I thought that was obvious.<br /><br />Then he gets stupid and starts crying about how cancel culture is forcing out Pepe Le Pew because he’s a “womanizer”. Uhh that’s not it. Pepe Le Pew has had a reputation for years for being “kind of rapey”. Even Dave Chappelle made fun of this back in 2000. I don’t see the big deal for not including him, Pepe hasn’t been more than a cameo character in ages. The Looney Tunes already has a massive cast, plus… I’ll go into it in the next point.<br />He points out the hypocrisy of including the cast of A Clockwork Orange despite being violent rapists (he doesn’t use that word). Because for whatever reason, WB also made this a pseudo sequel to Ready Player One. Including so many of their franchises for whatever reason. It’s really dumb.<br />Anyway, he’s excited because they’re also making Bugs Bunny 3D. Whatever…<br /><br />Next is <b>The Suicide Squad</b>, except not because he hated the first movie. But this is by a different team. James Gunn is writing and directing, and the trailer shows he’s putting a lot more life into it than Warner Bros did with the first (I say Warner Bros because it’s clear they tore the movie to shreds without director input). Why are you even talking about this if you’re not looking forward to it?<br />He’s just wondering “Why”. Because the first movie made a lot of money, and they wanted to make something a lot better. Hence James Gunn (along with his temporary termination from Marvel but that’s a long story).<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“I think it’s just a pure money grab”</span> … Y-yeah. That’s what big budget Hollywood movies are. They exist to make money. Yes, even the ones you love.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“I think it’s going to be terrible”</span> Didn’t you say the same thing about Guardians of the Galaxy?<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“I want to see something more recognizable like Green Lantern”</span> WB is still recovering from that massive flop. We’re not going to get a Green Lantern movie for a long time.<br /><br />He’s just wondering what DC is doing and to be like Marvel, but then he notes how doesn’t think Phase 4 will hit as much as *jump cut* 3 did because the upcoming slate. They’ll be fine. DC will be fine too; they’re starting to figure things out. Kind of… Birds of Prey was a huge flop.<br />He says though it’s not on the list, he wanted to bring it up because it comes out in September. It’s coming out in August! Even the poster you’re showing says that. At least add little subtitles saying “I mean August” so that you don’t sound like a massive idiot.<br /><br />Though that was to segue him into <b>Venom: Let There Be Carnage</b>, which does come out in September. Also, really?<br />He does admit he didn’t like the first movie, but mostly because there was no Spider-Man. Please, that was the least of that movie’s problems. The tone was all over the place with Tom Hardy acting really goofy and over-the-top, and it tried to be an edgy anti-hero movie but had to restrain itself so the kids could watch. Could Spider-Man have helped? Probably not.<br />He thought the idea was stupid to make a villain movie, and also brings up next year’s Black Adam for having the same problem. You do realize that Black Adam has been portrayed as an anti-hero before right? Plus, it’s clearly going off the excellent Shazam. I’m sure it will be fine.<br /><br />Then he brings up Suicide Squad again and complains that Batman was only in one scene and that was the best scene. Okay first, not everything needs Batman. It’s also clear you completely missed the point of Suicide Squad. They’re villains forced by the US government to do dangerous jobs that they may not survive in exchange for certain freedoms. At least in the comics (the movie’s whole “we need a team to fight off a Superman level threat” excuse was sooo dumb).<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“But what do I know, I’m just a goofy YouTuber”</span> Quite a lot from where I’m looking.<br /><br />The reason he thinks this movie will be better is because Carnage, and he was big in the 90’s with Maximum Carnage and the video game. I doubt Carnage will change much.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“Carnage has teeth and he will put asses in seats!”</span> Ooooh that is way too cringe…<br />He’s still hung-up about Spider-Man. <span style="color: #660000;">“Another money grab”</span> You’re learning! <br /><br />He moves onto <b>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings</b> but it’s not on his list. Then why are you bringing it up?<br />Because it’s another “Why this character” complaint. Look, Marvel isn’t just going to rely on only their heavy hitters. They like to experiment, and a lot of their experiments have succeeded (Guardians of the Galaxy and Black Panther made bank). Just because you don’t know Shang-Chi doesn’t mean he won’t be a success. Hell, I imagine Asian markets are going to love it.<br />Then he notes that this would be like DC making a Red Tornado movie. Hey, Red Tornado is cool. I’d love to see them try a movie.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“I don’t even know who’s cast in this”</span> … You could look it up. Just look up the movie on Wikipedia and see who’s in it. It’s not hard.<br />He says it’s coming in August. No, it’s coming in September. Hopefully by then, we’re all vaccinated.<br /><br />Next, he talks about <b>The Addams Family 2</b>. Wait really? *looks up first movie* Holy shit, this movie made a lot of money. <br />He says he liked the first one (meaning the animated one from 2019) because it was an animated movie based on the comics. That’s pretty much it…<br /><br />Afterwards, hoo boy here we go, <b>Ghostbusters: Afterlife</b>. Which he calls Ghostbusters 3. <br />As you can expect, he’s excited, he wouldn’t be “opprosed” to delaying it to next year to make it a Summer blockbuster because “Ghostbusters has to be a Summer blockbuster”. I mean, Thanksgiving is a good time for movies too. Plus, Sony’s been sitting on this for a long ass time, they want to ensure a good release with the pandemic cooled down.<br />He brings up the recent sneak peek with mini Stay Puft, and he thinks it’s an amazing idea because it reminds him of Baby Yoda. I saw the clip, and I’d say they’re more like the Minions. He also claims Baby Yoda revitalized Star Wars and made it as popular was it was in the 80’s. Uhhh no? What are you talking about? There’s always been Star Wars media even when there weren’t movies. Books, games, comics, there was always something to enjoy. If anything, people are sick of Star Wars thanks to Disney saturating the market and the utter disappointment of Rise of Skywalker.<br /><br />He thinks the mini Stay Pufts will really help the franchise. We’ll see… they could be annoying, or Sony could try shoving them down our throats like Porgs.<br />Then he starts speculating on the plot, thinking that it’s about Gozer trying to come back and it’s using the “avatar” of Stay Puft to do it. Why would Gozer use Stay Puft again? The whole reason it used it was due to Ray trying to think of the most innocent thing possible. If anything, these miniature marshmallow monsters are nothing more than fanservice. They might not even play a big role.<br /><br />Moves onto <b>The Eternals</b> and like Shang-Chi it’s not on his list. Look, you don’t have to bring up every Marvel movie if you’re not interested in it. You could cut off like 6 minutes of this video if you stuck with the movies you want to see. If you want to rant, make a separate video. People eat that shit up.<br />Again, he’s upset because they’re not as well known. The Eternals play a big role in Cosmic Marvel and could really expand the scope started by Guardians of the Galaxy. Plus, put some respect on a Jack Kirby creation.<br />He then says he does know one of them, the character that Angelina Jolie is playing, and that her power is she can control her hair… and use it like a weapon... Holy fuck! That’s not Thena, that’s Medusa from The Inhumans! Not even the same thing! You edited this. You went through it to add posters. At no point did you think “Is that who she’s playing? I should check” and added some text to say “Oops I’m wrong”. Instead, you show what an ignorant blowhard you really are!<br /><br />He does bring up Guardians of the Galaxy at least. So he’s aware that obscure doesn’t mean bad. Then why are you acting like this?<br />Then he says he’s really worried about the casting of Angelina Jolie as he believes she’ll slow production because she’s such a “primadonna”. Do you have evidence? Nope! He says he just feels this will happen, that his “third eye” is telling him this. Sounds like old fashioned misogyny to me. If Jolie really is a pain to work with, wouldn’t she be blacklisted? Producers do not like actors that aren’t willing to work and behave, especially if they turn in bad performances. <br /><br />Looking ahead, there’s no more “not on my list” movies. Leading us into <b>Top Gun Maverick</b>. He makes sure to puff out his chest and show his shirt when he says the name. We can see it Chris.<br />He loved the first movie, thought it was really cool and never been done and he mentions the video game because “Me Gamer”. Not much else.<br /><br />Moving from one Tom Cruise thing to another with <b>Mission Impossible 7</b>. Wait… that comes out next year. That disqualifies it from this list. Did you even bother to check? Also, the poster he uses is weird. It says Mission Impossible Rogue Nation (the fifth movie) while putting a giant 7 on top of it. Did you just find some fan made trash because nothing about MI7 is available?<br />He claims that he didn’t understand the first movie when first saw it because he was too young. *looks up* Weren’t you 17 or so in 1996? Did you just somehow forget that some of these movies were from the 90’s?<br />He then mentions that he marathoned all six movies during the lockdown and really liked them and something something characters returning whatever…<br /><br />And now the final movie (thank fuck), <b>Spider-Man: No Way Home</b>, or Spider-Man 3 as he just calls it (because that’s not confusing). He uses another fan-made poster because it says “Spider-Man: Welcome Home” and has pictures of Tobey McGuire and Andrew Garfield (who are only rumored to show up, nothing is confirmed). Come on Chris, there’s actual material, go out and find it you lazy hack.<br />He thinks it won’t work in December because Spider-Man is “Summer blockbuster”. Christmas time is just as big. Look at the Star Wars movies (before Solo), they did huge numbers. Your “Summer blockbuster” obsession blinds you to reality.<br />He refers to Far From Home as “Spider-Man 2”. Again, not confusing at all.<br />He also brings up the rumor about McGuire and Garfield showing up. Right now, the only confirmed actors from past films are Jamie Foxx as Electro (sans the blue makeup) and Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus (in fact he just came out and confirmed it). Multiverse is possible as Dr. Strange is confirmed to appear. Just be patient.<br />He also brings up DC’s plan to use Flash to bring back old Batman actors. We’ll see… <br /><br />And that’s the fucking video. Holy crap that was too long.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“I’m all about nostalgia… for 2021”</span> You know, nostalgia was once a disease, right? Juuust saying.<br />And he ends with “Game On” even though this was about movies. Still has that bad habit.<br /><br />Oh my god… that was so bad. Terrible takes all around, and Chris is such a basic “consoomer” bitch. All about blockbusters and effects, he needs to try expanding to classier films. Find some dramas on Netflix or Amazon or Criterion. Cinema made with heart and passion, not to move merch or cash-in on nostalgia. <br />Sorry this was so long. There was just so much crap to go through. <br /><br />I’m going to go look at my theater listings and see if there’s anything worth seeing. Stay safe and healthy everyone.<br /></p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-63126220810009749642021-03-31T15:11:00.002-05:002022-05-28T11:58:15.127-05:00Utterly Bankrupt and Flavorless<p>Hope you’re all getting vaccinated. Make sure to schedule an appointment. <br />Oh? Bores posted something new, huh. *goes to check* … Are you serious? Kool-Aid again?! You can’t seriously be this creatively bankrupt. Surely, you can get outside your bubble and find a new topic. Are you hoping your fans forget you already covered this? Are you trying to appeal to new fans? It’s a pointless endeavor either way.<br /><br />The video’s a little over 12 minutes, it won’t be too bad. … I hope.<br /><br />We open on IG walking in front of his 80’s set. It still has Ren & Stimpy, it still has the Death of Superman, and he added Dragon Ball Z figures. Including Super Saiyan Vegeta, Mr. Satan, and Kid Buu, all of whom were not introduced until the 90’s. Is it that hard to fact check your stupid toys?<br />Anyway, he’s going to talk about Kool-Aid, and holds up a Kool-Aid Man toy.<br /><br />Intro plays. Okay here’s something I don’t get. The video opens with the explosive “Irate Gamer” intro, but then he includes another for I Rate the 80’s (featuring royalty free Van Halen). Why have two intros? <br /><br />He says Kool-Aid began in 1928. Incorrect, it’s 1927. Are you doing this on purpose?<br />He mentions flavored drinks were becoming commonplace. Okay, what were the other ones? … Not going to tell us?<br />He mentions the other “Kool-Aid” ventures while showing old photos, and eventually how they developed flavor packs. Listing the first flavors, then how they sold Kool-Aid to General Foods in 1954 (it was actually 1953, I am convinced he’s doing this on purpose).<br />More listing off flavors, the 60’s had more TVs with more commercials and newspaper ads. Claiming that kids gravitated towards one with a face on a pitcher. What’s your source on this Chris? <br /><br />He doesn’t mention “Pitcher Man” but shows an old commercial from the 50’s when he didn’t have limbs. He just jumps ahead to the 70’s when he officially became the Kool-Aid Man. Showing some commercials, describing what happens in them, then he uses the phrase “recipe for win”. How do you do, fellow kids?! <br /><br />He then brings up that he got to have a talk with Tom Anthony, the stuntman that played the Kool-Aid Man in the original 70’s commercials. Oh really.<br />He plays a bit, but I have my doubts that Chris actually conducted the interview. Mr. Anthony’s quality sounds really bad, like much older than 2020. Also, the context makes it clear that he’s talking about his time as Ronald McDonald's stunt double not Kool-Aid Man. Especially when he mentioned make-up. Can’t imagine there’s much make-up when you’re wearing a mascot costume. It’s possible Chris pulled this interview from somewhere else and dubbed his voice in pretending he was asking the questions. Unless Chris posts the full interview for all to hear, with Tom Anthony saying Chris’ name.<br /><br />He then shows a photo he claims he got from Tom with him in the costume, without the mouth as they animated it in post. Looking at the photo, it’s possible he got it from somewhere else. Especially with the writing at the bottom saying “Tom Anthony Played the Kool-Aid Man”. I can’t imagine that’s an autograph either. This is all fishy.<br /><br />He shows some more commercials, more catchphrases, then brings up the existence of the comic books and the video games. With what I believe is Mega Man music playing (please correct me because I’m probably wrong). Then he shows old footage of him as Kool-Aid Man. Wonder how many more of those we’re going to get.<br /><br />He starts with the Marvel comic, how Kool-Aid Man fights the Thirsties, IG uses the word “cottonmouth” twice. Wouldn’t “dehydration” be a better word? They’re the Thirsties, they make you thirsty. But I guess that’s the hick in him coming out.<br />He turns the comic over and shows the ad for the video game, noting how if you sent away 125 points, you would get a game on the Atari 2600, or the Intellivision. When he mentions the consoles, he shows old footage from the 2009 review. Making it clear he no longer has either console. In fact, I double checked the last video and when he was talking about King Kong on Atari, he showed a backwards compatible 7800. If it’s like the others, he only has the console and none of the cables.<br /><br />He claims he grew up playing Atari (bullshit) and thought this promotion was really cool. Uh huh…<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“I think this game was pretty much the only one that did something like this”</span> Incorrect. Remember Chase the Chuck Wagon? Send in proofs of purchase of Purina Dog Chow and you got an Atari 2600 game. It’s considered one of the most sought after 2600 games, often fetching exorbitant prices on second-hand markets.<br /><br />He briefly talks about the games (using recycled footage from the old video), and I do mean briefly because it doesn’t even last 30 seconds. Then why did you put “video games” in the title if you were barely going to talk about them? He even said on Facebook that this video was “part History of Video Games”. Bullcrap! You barely went into them! <br /><br />He moves onto other prizes you could get, showing his own Kool-Aid watch, Kool-Aid canteen, and a Kool-Aid baby bottle. Then a dumb bit where he wonders what he’ll do with it and then blows air into it. Is this where all his money goes? Buying dumb shit from the 80’s?<br />He shows off the rest of them, claiming they came out annually. I don’t think that’s entirely true. The first three issues were published by Marvel from 1983 to 85, then Archie Comics published the rest from 1987 to 1990. That doesn’t seem like “annually” to me.<br /><br />He brings up the villain Scorch, how he had a life outside of the comics with a toy and appearances in a commercial. Said commercial promoting a sweepstakes for more Kool-Aid items. Including another baby bottle which annoys IG. You… you do realize these promotions are for kids, right? That includes babies. Just saying.<br /><br />Then… lists. He just lists flavors. I don’t give enough of a shit to see if he’s right about the year they came out. He also shows commercials for some them. How the “great” thing about them was the wacky commercials. I feel my brain melting.<br />IG gushes over how “wacky” the 80’s commercials were. Notes the inspiration from MTV, asks if the creators were on drugs, he’s not really saying anything of substance.<br />He makes a big deal of how the packaging changed from his face to the Kool-Aid Man taking part in athletic feats.<br />Then another ad campaign about a Kool-Aid factory. Do any of his fans actually care about this?<br /><br />Onto the 90’s, and Sharkleberry Fin. I recall him talking about this in the old videos. He must really like this one.<br />Then a dinosaur one, then a crocodile, then a flamingo… this is so dull. He shows the commercials too.<br />More flavors… more gimmicks… <br />Then I guess they stopped doing gimmicks and thus they weren’t as memorable. Dude, it’s a powder you make into a drink. Who gives a shit? Were your parents’ investors in General Foods?<br />He mentions how sometimes they bring back old flavors, but they’re “not as cool” because they don’t have the original packaging. There’s also discontinued flavors that are hard to find… yep… I don’t care.<br /><br />As the video closes, he mentions that he got the old 80’s packs with the help of someone named Jimmy Tucker. No credit in the description?<br />Then he recycles the old Kool-Aid Man footage from 2009, while acting like he’s in the same room and throws the bottle at him. We can tell it’s not the same room! Stop thinking we’re stupid Chris.<br /><br />Then he pays tribute to Tom Anthony who passed away last year. Specifically, on May 30th, 2020. Soooo either Chris has been sitting on this interview for over a year, or he faked it. Unless Chris posts the whole thing to his channel, I’m going with “fake”. Especially since his little tribute doesn’t even get his birth-year correct. Tom Anthony was born in 1926, Bores claims he was born 1922. How did you make an error that bad?! <br /><br />That was really damn boring… You know, I get the feeling this was nothing more than excuse to show off his collection of old unopened Kool-Aid packs. For a history lesson, he barely goes into it. He doesn’t mention the creator of Kool-Aid, Edwin Perkins, how he made Kool-Aid in his mother’s kitchen, how it used to be a drink called “Fruit Smack”, he doesn’t mention the creator of the Kool-Aid Man, Marvin Potts, he doesn’t bring up how Kool-Aid Man became CGI in later years or his many voice actors. Even by Chris’ standards, this was lazy as balls. <br /><br />Before I go, I want to address something. To my critics, the ones regurgitating the same talking points over and over. You say I have “no life” for doing this. How much time do you think I spend on this? Because truthfully, I don’t spend a lot. This is just something I can do to kill an hour (maybe more if it’s a longer video). This really isn’t the time sink you think it is. <br />And everyone going “You’ve been doing this for X years” … what’s your point? People like what I write, so I’m going to keep doing it. <br /><br />That’s all for now. Stay safe, get vaccinated, and eventually we will overcome this pandemic. <br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">Sources:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-anthony-mascari&pid=196305246">Tom Anthony's obituary</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Kool-Aid and Kool-Aid Man Wikipedia pages. <br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-73984933410515574262021-03-20T20:32:00.002-05:002022-05-28T11:58:28.070-05:00Godzilla: Destroy All Cringe<div style="text-align: left;"> Are you guys doing okay? Hanging in there?<br /><br />There’s a new video up and it’s a BIG one. But first, I want to talk about the video released last week.<br />Bores talks about coffee table books about the NES. Basically, a bunch of big books that provide information on the system’s library. I was going to make a post, but I didn’t feel like it.<br />It’s basically an excuse to talk about a group of books a friend of his wrote, and how he wrote an article in the second volume. These books do not look that impressive.<br />He brings up Pat Contri’s book but has a couple of odd criticisms. Like how he says it’s “too big” and should be in volumes like his friend’s books (probably thinks he can juice more money out of it) and he claims Pat missed a few games. What games? He doesn’t say!<br /><br />Chris also says that the “Ultimate History of Video Games” was sooo helpful with his own history series, claiming he read the book 50 times. Yet somehow you still got so much wrong. <br />At one point, he says that if he had these books as a kid, he would have been a <span style="color: #660000;">“pig in heaven”</span>. … What the hell does that mean?<br />The dumbest statement by far is his claim that when he was starting out with Irate Gamer, a lot of this info was very hard to find. That is absolute bullshit. What about MobyGames? GameFAQs? VGMuseum? They all existed in 2007. And I know Chris knows about VGMuseum, the screenshots of the alternate Aladdin ending he showed were from that site. He didn’t capture them himself.<br /><br />The comments provide some … interesting insight. In one, Chris claims to prefer the “visual aspect”. Then you don’t want a book Chris, you want a magazine. <br />A lot of the comments were shitting on Pat Contri. Seems unneeded. But also some comments were claiming Chris is now the “new AVGN”. Excuse me what? I know AVGN has gone down in quality (partly COVID partly Screenwave) but do not start suddenly claiming that this idiot is a “better replacement”. <br />Then it hit me. I know what the majority of Chris’ fans are. They are not gaming enthusiasts interested in retro titles (otherwise they would know Chris is full of it), they’re not people looking for comedy (because Chris isn’t funny), most of his fans are drama whores. People that seek out drama and go into YouTube comments to shit on others. The people that subscribe to Keemstar and go out and attack anyone he bitches about. These are people far more interested in stirring up shit than actual content. Chris likely knows this and allows it because it gives the veil of people actually watching him.<br /><br />Anyway, the new video.<br />Chris has really hyped this one up, claiming it’s just like his 2008 videos. So, it will be utter nonsense and full of poor information? <br />The subject this time? Godzilla vs Kong, in celebration of the upcoming movie. So basically, Godzilla and King Kong games. Mostly Godzilla because there’s not a lot of King Kong games (and no Donkey Kong doesn’t count).<br /><br />It’s a whopping 22 minutes and 38 seconds, might want to get something strong to drink.<br /><br />The video opens with IG… playing with his toys. Hoo boy…<br />He goes on how it’s a momentous occasion, how monster fans have wanted this and it’s finally happening. Except it did happen already, in 1962 with King Kong vs Godzilla. Produced by Toho and is the third official Godzilla film. What fans were waiting for was a modern interpretation.<br />He’s going to pit the games against each other, holding up copies of Godzilla: Monster of Monsters on NES and King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch on Famicom. Yes, an actual Famicom cartridge. There’s a good chance it’s a bootleg.<br /><br />Theme song.<br /><br />We return to copyrighted footage! Paging Toho. IG then starts talking about how he watched Godzilla movies a lot when he was a kid, how they ran on TBS after the Saturday morning cartoons, he didn’t care they were low budget or in black & white or poorly dubbed. He lists off various notable kaiju Goji fought, even mentioning the original King Kong vs Godzilla. Okay, so he does know about it. Weird to say “finally” in in that opening.<br />He specifically points out Mecha Godzilla as “really silly”. If what I hear about GvK is true, then I don’t think Chris will like it.<br /><br />With so many movies, it would only be “a matter of time” until the king found his way on the NES. Which he demonstrates with a Godzilla toy looking at his console. Why does Chris feel so immature at times?<br />He points out how Godzilla got two NES games in North America while King Kong got zero and takes out a chalkboard to show how this is a “competition” by putting a tally under Godzilla. What’s the point? Godzilla wins by virtue of having way more games. Sure only a few are decent, but at least they exist.<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“If we judge a book by it’s cover by looking at the cover art here”</span> You could have said that a lot differently. Anyway, he thinks Monster of Monsters is going to be great because of the cover art. Whatever…<br />He puts the cartridge inside and holy shit there’s a jump cut! Did Chris poorly splice two different takes of this? How do you mess up something this basic?! It's not even plugged in!<br /><br />He starts up and gets upset that it looks like a board game (constantly bringing up Checkers). Angry that they wrapped a “turd” in a shiny package (the cartridge) and flashy intro. Boy, he’s really obsessed with intros isn’t he? Honestly, this game isn’t even that bad. There are better Goji games for sure, but it could be worse.<br />He goes over the story and gets mad that Godzilla is out in space because he wants to be in the city. You said earlier you watched the movies right? Planet X is from the sixth movie Invasion of Astro-Monster. Godzilla fights in space. There’s nothing wrong with that idea.<br /><br />A dumb “Uranus” joke… yep<br />He points out either an enemy or background element and claims it rips off Mother Brain from Metroid. That’s actually Matango, from the movie of the same name. Another Toho created kaiju that was later brought into the Godzilla universe. <br />He’s surprised that Mothra is the sidekick. Why?<br />He starts going on about how the controls on the board part are “really bad” because he thought you could only move up and down, but then learned you can move right but pushing diagonally. Because apparently Chris has never considered that D-Pads can go diagonal.<br />He goes on and on about the board and how confusing it is and how at one point he accidentally forfeits a turn (with Price is Right fail horn, seriously did Chris pick this up from 2006?). We’re over five minutes in and he hasn’t gotten to the actual game part.<br /><br />He finally starts playing with Mothra, and notes how she plays like “crystalized diarrhea” because every time you get hit, you get sent back. During this, we got a shot of him mashing his controller. Holy shit, you still can’t get this right?!<br /><span style="color: #660000;">“This moth is as big as a plane!”</span> Is that a line from the movies? Or did he try to quote The Giant Claw but got the line wrong. Also more unhinging his jaw.<br />He goes into how Mothra sucks, saying she’s not just shit, she’s <span style="color: #660000;">“triple shit between two Double Stuf Oreos also filled with shit”</span>. Aaah I think I see what he means by 2008 feel, bringing back the food analogies! I did not miss these.<br /><br />He gets Mothra into a fight with Gezora resulting in a long sequence where he can’t move and Gezora stomps on him. Is he not losing health? Is he using Game Genie? Eventually the timer runs out and Mothra doesn’t die. He adds a holy light and choir because…. Pffff<br />Then he starts playing as Godzilla, and he’s all “Now dat’s what I’m talking about!” Going over how he’s so much better and takes out the bosses really easily. He wonders why he’s so good but Mothra is so shit. Then he says, <span style="color: #660000;">“Didn’t anyone even playtest this game before releasing it?”</span> It’s official, Chris has become a parody of himself. I miss Irate Gamer parodies…<br />He also make a comment about the Nintendo Seal of Quality. He does realize that just means “You paid us the fee, you can release the game” right? Though it just leads to a bad joke about “sealing” someone’s ass shut. <br /><br />He dies at some point so he could shit on Mothra some more<br />He then claims there’s seven levels. Actually, there’s eight levels. Planet X is the last one.<br />Then there’s a weird bit where he brings up YouTube playthroughs and notes how one of them is four hours long. With his patented green circle of obvious on the video time. Going into a rant about how the developers wanted him to play for four hours. Did you somehow miss the other playthrough that’s only three hours? I think kids would have loved a longer NES game at the time. So many of them are actually really short once you get good. A no-death Castlevania run will net you about 20 minutes.<br />This just seems like a weird complaint.<br />He basically skips over the rest of the game, which I figure is just footage taken from YouTube. Mostly due to Godzilla using his atomic breath in one clip when IG didn’t use it at all.<br />Then he shows of a debug level when you type in the password GH1D0RA. Kay…<br /><br />After he’s done, we get long bit where he rants about the old Nintendo Power article promoting the game. Okay why?<br />He scoffs at the multiple planets, still mad that it’s Godzilla in space. Then he looks at the review score and saw they gave it a 4/5. He gets mad and says this game deserves <span style="color: #660000;">“Two turds in a barrel”</span>, which he shows with the iPhone poo emoji and the Donkey Kong barrel, followed by a pointless use of “Toasty!” What the fuck was that Chris? What was the point of that? What’s the point of any of this?<br /><br />He throws Monster of Monsters away and moves on to Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters. He once again praises the cover art and thinks it will be good because of it (stop). Also, a pointless Godzilla roar.<br />He likes the intro and the title screen, but then gets to the game and gets mad because it’s a <span style="color: #660000;">“piece of shit strategy game”</span>. He claims he always hated these and lists off all the NES strategy games he read off Wikipedia (Rampart, North & South which he mistakenly calls North VS South, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms) and calls them a <span style="color: #660000;">“shit-tacular way to pass the fucking time”</span>. Woooow, way to insult a beloved genre. Though, unlike Scott the Woz and his hate-boner for RPGs, nobody will care.<br />Then a comment about how each turn takes 10 minutes. Only if you suck.<br /><br />This is followed by an anecdote with Zelda music playing. Apparently, his grandmother had an NES but only had two games, Super Mario Bros and Rampart. He hated it and said it was so bad it made him lose his mind. I don’t know this game personally, but is it that bad? I have my doubts. It sounds like Bores was too young or too stupid to get it. Wait, didn’t your grandmother have Punch-Out? You mentioned that back in your review in 2015. Either it was his other grandmother, or he’s lying. Leaning heavily on the latter.<br /><br />Anyway, he plays and angrily explains how it works. When Godzilla one shots one of his units, it cuts to him going “This is supposed to be fun?” and when he says “fun” his jaw curves really hard. Is that supposed to be part of the joke? Look, I know that Godzilla 2 isn’t a good game, even for strategy fans. But maybe you shouldn’t have this giant bias towards it? <br />Then a random bit where he says this game is about as fun as <span style="color: #660000;">“date night with John McClane on the 20 millionth floor”</span>, followed by footage from Die Hard. … What? What building would have 20 million floors? Why even bring up Die Hard? Then he brags about it like <span style="color: #660000;">“Yeah, how do you like that Die Hard reference?”</span> Are you purposely insulting your audience now?<br /><br />He then brings up how Godzilla 2 is costly on eBay, wondering how that happened. It’s probably a rare game, it did come out in 1992, NES games after 1991 tend to be rarer. Then he brings back the chalkboard to give Godzilla another point for having a “rare game”. What is your scoring system?<br />He moves on from Goji to Kong as he takes he starts with Atari, and more showing off his stupid toys. Nobody cares about your action figures Chris!<br />He notes how King Kong got an Atari game, but Godzilla didn’t and figured he wasn’t popular enough. No, he was. Instead of Atari, they focused more on computer games on MSX and Commodore 64. Plenty of Big G games made before the NES one.<br />He also notes the game has a blue cartridge, which gives a point to King Kong on the chalkboard. You didn’t put a lot of thought into this huh?<br /><br />He starts playing and notices this is a complete clone of Donkey Kong. He seems to prefer it to the Atari port of DK until one of the bombs (which he calls a cupcake) goes up a ladder and kills him. Then he tosses it aside. Yeah, not much to say here, it’s just a weak Donkey Kong clone.<br />He notes how there was no King Kong on the NES in America, but there was a King Kong 2 in Japan. Which he’s so very clearly playing on an emulator since he’s looking at a fan translation. Come on, the game barely has any text, you can play this easily.<br />He says it’s actually pretty good. Then notes the title which he says translates out to “Ikari no Megaton Punch”. Wouldn’t a translation be “The Furious Megaton Punch”? All you did romanize the Japanese text. There’s a difference. <br />Lots of gushing about the game, says it’s really good blah blah blah. Gives a point to Kong on his chalkboard. He doesn’t know why it wasn’t ported (you mean localized?) Konami probably couldn’t get the rights in America, only in Japan.<br />More gushing… eventually he reaches the boss (a giant spider) and dies, making multiple comments about the spider eating Kong’s eyes. Was he trying to be funny?<br />Also, no mention that this was based on the 1986 movie King Kong Lives? It’s a rare tie-in licensed game that doesn’t suck.<br /><br />On post-NES consoles, King Kong didn’t reappear until the 2005 on “Xbox”, as he shows the Xbox 360 version. It also showed up on the original Xbox, and the PS2, the Gamecube, PC, Game Boy Advance, PSP, DS, it was on a lot of things. Also, no note that it’s based on the Peter Jackson movie? It’s right there in the title.<br />As for Godzilla, plenty of games there. Like one on Game Boy where he’s all small and it’s kind of a 2D puzzle game. He doesn’t really say much about it. Then he looks at Godzilla: Kaijuu no Daishingeki for Sega Game Gear, and he’s mad because it’s another turn-based strategy game. He really seems to focus on the waiting aspect. Kind of weird he’s focusing on a Japan-only game though.<br />Same with the Playstation 1 Godzilla Trading Battle (another Japan only release), which upsets him because it’s a card game. So? Card games can fun. I don’t know if this one is because all you do is get upset that it’s “not the Godzilla game you want”. Wait… this seems familiar. <br />Also, you’re skipping a lot Godzilla games. What about that fighter on Super Famicom? It’s clear that you don’t care about these being Japan only for whatever reason.<br /><br />He just wants something like Rampage but with Godzilla. That would be boring though, and you have Rampage. At least fighting games make sense.<br />More chalkboard nonsense.<br />Then he moves on to Super Godzilla on SNES. Says it’s weird and confusing, then pulls out a Nintendo Power magazine to show it agrees with him. Okay, people aren’t fond of this game, that’s not a new opinion. It’s slow and confusing.<br /><br />Though he said Super Godzilla was the only SNES game, he actually does bring up Godzilla Kaijuu Daikessen which he says was going to be called “Monster War”. Actually, it was going to be called Destroy All Monsters. Monster War is just a localization of Kaijuu Daikessen.<br />Anyway, he says the game is great, but he mentions he always wanted a platformer. Wait, that’s what you wanted? I don’t think that would really work for Godzilla.<br /><br />Then he gives the point back to Godzilla and they’re all tied. He goes back to the intro area (I don’t know the name of it) to have the sprites of the two monsters fight it out. It’s lame and he acknowledges it as such, hoping for something flashy. Oh no… it’s going to get worse isn’t it?<br />And it does! We get a stupid ending bit with… Mecha Irate Gamer. Oh dear lord… When he roars, his jaw does the same jutting thing Bores does so… points for that? But then when there’s a side view, it is REAL terrible. Like, how did you look at that animation and think “Perfect”. <br />At one point, one of his fireballs (ugggh) hits one of his cabinets and… does nothing. But I guess it made IG mad as he yells “My video game collection!” That’s not a collection! That’s just a bunch of replicas that you wasted money on.<br /><br />He wonders where John McClane is (no Chris, that’s not a brick joke) when suddenly Bomberman shows up. What? He pulls out a bomb with a Zelda sound effect because Bores hates you, and he takes it. It looks like officially licensed merch, maybe he plans to use it for Puppet Steve? Or already used it? <br />Then he refers to Mecha IG as <span style="color: #660000;">“You handsome Mecha Irate Gamer”</span>. Gotta show his ego!<br />Then he throws it and blows him up easily. LAAAAAAME!<br />He asks how the Godzilla and Kong sprites are, and then claims he “proved the justice of our culture” Wait what? Then we get the ending screen to the NES Ghostbusters game. WHAT?! WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS?! WHY?! Holy shit that was so dumb!<br /><br />We then get a special thanks to Eli Bruner who made the Mecha IG sprite. Look Eli, I’m sure you’re a good guy, but did you really look at the side-sprites and think that was completely okay? Don’t lower yourself to the standards of Bores.<br /><br />Again, that was so fucking dumb. Terrible humor even by Bores’ standards, a cringy ending bit (huh, I guess that’s another reason it’s “like 2008”), poor reviews of the Godzilla games, really inconsistent in what he covered too. Why not bring up the sixth gen ones? Oh right, he doesn’t have those systems, and he probably can’t emulate PS2, Gamecube, or Xbox. <br />Maaaan, this hurt my brain so much. It’s incredible that he can reach all kinds of new levels of cringe. It’s almost like he’s doing this on purpose. <br /><br />The light at the end of the tunnel draws near. Vaccinations are rolling out at a fast clip. Hopefully, we can all return to some normalcy. <br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-44696586825508523332021-02-20T10:56:00.002-06:002022-05-28T11:58:36.806-05:00Another New Series, Another Endeavor That Will Likely Fall<div style="text-align: left;">Is everyone staying safe? I hope so.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Got an update for you! Chris has yet another new series idea that will likely fall flat and die in seven days.</div><div style="text-align: left;">He calls it "Pop Culture Paranormal", and he plans to look at horror movies and see how they connect to his dumb paranormal beliefs. </div><div style="text-align: left;">He first posted it on Ghost Doctor, but now it's on his main channel for everyone to see and mock.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm not going to cover it in detail because it's over 18 minutes long and I can barely tolerate his other ghost stuff already. So, here's some highlights.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The first episode covers The Ring, specifically the 2002 American remake. He does briefly mention that it's a remake of a Japanese horror movie, but I feel he would have a better "understanding" if he watched the original in order to get cultural context and subtext missing from the American version. Maybe focus on that more instead of this version.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He claims he had to watch it a second time to really understand it. Really? It's not a hard movie to figure out. Samara (Sadako for fans of the original) had powers, she was abused by her family and thrown into a well, so she used her powers to spread her pain to a video tape, demanding people share it or else they die in seven days. That's why copying the tape prevents death.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">During it he constantly shows footage from Ghost Doctor like it's relevant. I'm guessing he did it so he can get his Irate Gamer audience to watch it since nobody still cares. I don't think it will work. Even though the two uploads are only a few hours apart, the one on IG has less views despite having more eyes on it. Face it Chris, nobody in your gaming audience gives a crap about ghosts! Even if you attach a popular movie to it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Chris continues to show off his toys, with barely related horror movie "icons". I think I know why this bothers me so much. While there are plenty of other collectors that will show it off somehow, they do it subtly. Like they'll change up the background to be something related to what they're talking about, they don't make it the star. Chris has the opposite problem, he HAS to show the toys, even if they have nothing to do with the topic at hand.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">As for the video itself, we get more of Chris showcasing his baffling beliefs about ghosts. Like his claim that curses are real and that what happens in the movie can happen in real life. Uhhh no? Unless you're one of those weirdos that believes something like Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv actually hurts people (it doesn't by the way). There's no such thing as a video that can kill you. The closest thing is if someone with epilepsy watches something with a high-frequency strobe effect, and that's an entirely different matter unrelated to "ghost girl in a video tape".</div><div style="text-align: left;">He believes that faces blurring on a photo means something spooky. Isn't that just a camera glitch? Or the person moving when they shouldn't have?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He brings up the sequel, and somehow needed it to conclude that "TV is the gateway". Pretty sure that was settled when Samara crawled through the TV screen.</div><div style="text-align: left;">For some reason, he compares Samara to the ghosts of dead Civil War soldiers. I really don't understand how the two are comparable. He also brings up "genie trapped in a bottle". I know common stories involve genies being bastards, but the two are nothing alike.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The video is utterly stupid and continues to show that Chris' ideas about the afterlife make no sense. Frankly, we don't know what happens after we die, and I know it's scary. But the best we can do is live day by day and do the best we can in life.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But yeah, I expect Chris will make like 3 of these and then give up and go back to trashy Puppet Steve or boring Irate Gamer.<br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com107tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-40932746512555688242021-02-11T16:53:00.001-06:002022-05-28T11:58:51.110-05:00Irate Gamer, a modern piece of mediocrity. From the town of Sandusky, he's about to bore you to sleep.<p>*looks outside, sees way too much snow in single digit weather* Welp… I’m stuck inside. Even if there wasn’t a pandemic, it is just too cold to do anything. Yay for cabin fever! Oh, of course Bores puts out a new video…<br /><br />Do I have an excuse for why I took so long to write this? Nope. None at all. Anyway, he’s going to talk about the two Flintstones NES games. The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy, and Surprise at Dinosaur Peak. Why those games? Because he clearly needs a popular IP to latch onto or else nobody cares. Plus, an excuse to make stupid reference jokes.<br />In the description, he notes that he got help from Jonas Roy Bjarnason. I hope you got paid Jonas.<br /><br />Onto the video. A little over 13 minutes long.<br /><br />The video opens with IG walking out (to Donkey Kong Country music) to tell us the subject of the episode. He notes how Surprise at Dinosaur Peak “retails” for $800. It doesn’t “retail” for that much, that’s a low-end price you find on second-hand markets like eBay. Learn the difference.<br />After he reveals that, he says “Good Night!” Is that a Flintstones reference I missed? I don’t remember much about the show.<br /><br />Theme song.<br /><br />But first, another fake sponsorship. This time for Seinfeld Funko Pop mini keychains. Seriously? Again, no link in the description or anything to indicate this is a real sponsor. Probably just an excuse to show off his mini-Seinfeld playset again. Also, if you’re going to have made-up sponsors, at least make it thematically appropriate. The Flintstones and Seinfeld are world’s apart.<br /><br />He gives an overview of the series, with some odd syntax strewn throughout. As per usual with Chris. Goes over how the show changed through the years by adding kids and the Great Gazoo, the latter which he dropped a “I guess dey can’t all be winners”. <br />We cut to his obviously unplugged NES as he mentions how publishers adapted old TV shows into games, citing The Three Stooges and Gilligan’s Island. Wow, both giant piles of plastic garbage! <br />He mispronounces Taito (as Tay-to) because he can’t go a video without showing how he’s completely ignorant about Japan.<br /><br />He starts with The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy, which some of you may know better by the title “7 Grand Dad”. <br />He calls it “DY-no and Hoppy” not “DEE-no”, which is how you’re supposed to pronounce their weird dino-dog. He actually gets it right in the next sentence.<br />He then gets mad that we have to save Hoppy, calling him lame and putting him below the garbage disposal pig. What’s wrong with Hoppy? Feels like Chris just wanted something to complain about here.<br />“Now I gotta figure out which controller to use” Wait what? Why? <br />Oh, it’s a dumb gag that ends on “rock controller”. Urgh… glad all those Flintstones reboots got shelved, I can easily imagine Chris try to get a job like with DuckTales.<br /><br />Starts the game. “…that iconic 8-bit rendition of that Flintstones theme song” This is a really weird sentence, are you saying the 8-bit version is iconic? Why use “that” instead of “the”? Maybe you should get people to proofread your scripts instead of relying on them for effects.<br />He watches the first cutscene, comments that the music sounds more like an Exorcist NES game. Meh…<br />He shows the game’s villain, commenting that he looks like the lead singer of GWAR. No he doesn’t! Do you even know what Oderus Urungus looks like? RIP Dave Brockie.<br />The villain steals Dino and Hoppy, blows up Gazoo’s time machine, and the objective is to find the pieces of it.<br />He praises the game, says it looks good, plays decently, has cool ideas… why are you reviewing this? Isn’t your schtick supposed to be bad games? You don’t even know what you are.<br />He comes across a wheel with platforms on it and compares it to the ones Reznor rides in Super Mario World. Then he complains that the game is ripping off Super Mario World. No it isn’t Chris, there’s no enemies on the Flintstones platforms. He’s already reaching for problems.<br />He also wonders why they didn’t steal Reznor and put it in the game. Because Taito can’t do that? I know this is an attempt at a joke, but it’s really lame.<br /><br />He fast-forwards to the first boss, a large sea serpent that refers to as “Puff the Magic Dumbass” (hur hur hur) and beats him, complaining that he’s easy. Then he complains about the Time Machine part having “TM” on it, calling out the game for thinking players are stupid. Really? You’re one to talk about treating the audience like idiots Chris.<br />He also refers to a cutscene as a “cut screen”. Are you doing this on purpose?!<br />He points out how Gazoo welding his time machine looks like he’s humping it. I don’t really see it…<br /><br />He complains again that the game is stealing from Super Mario World by having an overworld map. Uhhh no? What about Super Mario Bros 3? That came out long before this. Are you that desperate for something to talk about?<br />He brings up the basketball mini-game, not much said there. Gets a power-up from it, and he tries using it on a stage with rising lava. Only to instantly die because he clearly set it up that way. Prompting a pointless appearance from Scooby Dum, the seldom seen cousin of Scooby-Doo. BECAUSE HE EXISTS!<br /><br />He moves onto a city level with criminals from the show. He refers to them as “Antifa Banditos”. Oooh jeez… I feel like whatever I say here is going to result in a firestorm so I’m just going to move on.<br />Then he cuts to an ice level which he claims is just a recolor of the first level and calls them lazy. Says the man that reuses old footage without even trying to make it match…<br />Then a jungle level which he likes, but then sees a waterfall that looks “right out of Super Mario Bros 2”. Let it go Chris! This prompts a stupid bit where he hopes the fish (Trouters) don’t show up and guess what they do. Still has that bad habit of inserting sprites that don’t belong. That’s not a joke Chris.<br /><br />He reaches the boss, who looks like a sasquatch though IG keeps calling him a caveman. This prompts a pointless rant where he wonders why that wasn’t Captain Caveman, while he holds a Captain Caveman toy. Because nobody cares about Captain Caveman and looking into it he’s more connected to Scooby-Doo than the Flintstones. He does admit he doesn’t know how the licensing works. Maybe consider that they just didn’t care to use this obscure cartoon character?<br /><br />He likes the controls, how there’s a lot to do, how you meet up with other characters. He notes how once you find them, they follow you around the map like a Final Fantasy game. That’s more of a Dragon Quest trope, Final Fantasy never really did that with a few exceptions. But he said that so he could do a stupid bit where the Flintstones cast fights Tiamat in Final Fantasy II. Why II? I guess that’s what Jonas added.<br /><br />Anyway, he notes multiple aspects that make the game easy to play (while also bringing up Gazoo “humping” again, it’s still not funny). At least he’s not complaining about it being too easy. <br />He gets to the final level in the future, while also mispronouncing Dino’s name again. For fuck’s sake Chris, are you really a Flintstones fan?<br />He gets there and recognizes the music being the theme from The Jetsons, then runs into George Jetson. This results in a pointless history lesson. He brings up the crossover movie The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones. Funny enough, he gets the order wrong (calling it The Flintstones Meet The Jetsons) while showing the movie poster. Did Jonas add that? Clever if he did.<br />He then complains that they should have called the game “The Flinstones Meet The Jetsons” and promoted it like mad. Did you ever consider that it’s meant to be a big twist? That part of your reward for reaching the final level is SURPRISE it’s a crossover?! Then he complains “TAY-to” didn’t add Captain Caveman (enough with the stupid caveman). <br />Then his rant is oddly cut off. Apparently, some of the dialogue got lost in editing. Why he couldn’t go back and fix this I don’t know. Instead the missing line is in the description. Lazy!<br /><br />He keeps complaining, wondering why there’s no Scooby-Doo or Snorks (pfff) or Chan Clan though he scratches that one because he doesn’t want “Chan Clan bullshit”. Instead he wants Hong Kong Phooey, with a pointless cut to the theme song. We get it Chris, these cartoons existed. Focus on Flintstones.<br />He beats the final boss, comments that the ending is rather violent as Fred keeps beating him, and they live happily ever after. Until they get attacked by Grape Ape. Fuck off with the lazy references!<br /><br />Pulls the game out and starts talking about “TAY-to’s” follow-up, Surprise at Dinosaur Peak. He notes how since the game came out in 1994, and the line got lost in editing. It’s in the description too, but looking it, something is off. “…and since this game came out in 1994, this made copies of the game very hard to come by, and years later…” The syntax still feels off. Again Chris, you need proofreaders. <br />Anyway, he brings up the game’s obscene price in modern times. He doesn’t seem to bring up the reason why it’s so high. There’s an urban legend that the game was a Blockbuster exclusive. However, there’s no evidence to back that up. I feel that’s important to address. But no, instead get him saying “Yabba Dabba Damn”. Hur…<br />If you’re wondering about his copy, it’s either a reproduction cart, or he took a spare NES cartridge, printed the cartridge label and taped it on. I doubt he has the money to drop on an average NES game. Since the footage he uses is all from an emulator, the cartridges are just for show.<br /><br />He starts the game, notes how it’s really good and is much different from the shitty games he plays, while also making a reference to LJN. You’ve barely talked about LJN-published games. Only Back to the Future and X-Men. Don’t act like they’re your archenemy.<br />He brings up how you can play as both Fred and Barney, switching between the two on the fly. Then he says “Bless my demonic shit with holy water”. Jeez, this script is a dumpster fire.<br />He reaches the end of the first level and oh hey he says cutscene correctly this time. What was his excuse the first time? You know, I’m noticing that he’s getting a lot of basic terms wrong in this revival. Does Chris have some cognitive issues that result in him mispronouncing things? <br /><br />Once again compares the overworld to Mario, shows the Hockey mini-game, shows a surfing level, shows Fred riding a giant wheel that IG calls a donut (this isn’t The Simpsons)<br />More “cameos” with him excited to see Mr. Slate. Okay…<br />Then he complains that “TAY-to” didn’t include any other Hanna-Barbara characters, referring to the action as “opening a Pandora’s Box”. I don’t think you understand what Pandora’s Box is. <br />Then he references more old H-B cartoons. What’s even the point? To show off to the kids that more than likely don’t know what these cartoons are? <br /><br />He brings up that the game is easy, except for a part where you run from a giant red wheel. He gets angry that they dare put in a difficulty spike. He hates when they do that, an easy game with some sudden difficulty. Come the fuck on Chris, grow up.<br />Then a death montage which ends with him choking himself on his NES controller cord. Didn’t he do this move so many times before? <br />Then he starts listing off games with difficulty spikes. Like the Cave of Wonders in Aladdin, no not the SNES version, the Genesis version. Odd to go with that one. Then the race with Metal Sonic in Sonic CD (I seriously doubt he played that), the seaweed in TMNT on NES (I swear, he’s only played like 4 games in his entire life and keeps going back to them), and a Ren & Stimpy game? Okay, I get the feeling Jonas added that one, same with Sonic CD.<br /><br />He once again summarizes that he hates when “easy peasy” games suddenly hit you with bullshit. My god, he is such a casual fuck.<br />He wants to destroy the game, but since it’s so expensive (oh please, we know that’s not a legit copy), he’s just going to put it on his shelf and glare menacingly at it. He then puts it on a… tiger holder? Oh, it’s just an excuse to do the “It’s a living” gag. Blaaaaah<br /><br />That was… boring. So very boring.<br />It felt more like an excuse to show off all the old cartoons he knows. Just make a video about Hanna-Barbara cartoons instead, you clearly care more about those than video games. <br />Once again, I apologize for the lateness. I’ll try to be better going forward. Stay safe everyone, and hopefully this pandemic finally slows down. <br /></p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-87049308067023148232021-01-16T14:38:00.001-06:002022-05-28T11:58:59.723-05:00A Total Failure to Launch<p>It’s a new year everybody! A time for renewal and refreshing. Let’s make this year a wonderf- *terrorists attack the Capitol demanding blood* … I’m going back to bed.<br /><br />Despite that major road bump, let’s hopefully do better all around. Unfortunately, Bores would rather retread old ground.<br />After taking some time off for “reasons”, Bores returns with a new video covering the 17 launch titles for the NES. While this could work for a better content creator, we know IG does not have the talent to pull it off. Especially since he’s already covered six of the games in previous videos (Duck Hunt, Excitebike, Kung-Fu, Donkey Kong Jr. Math, and both ROB-compatible games). I sense there will be some form of padding even though it’s only 15 minutes long (meaning some games are going to get a glance at most).<br /><br />Let’s begin!<br /><br />The video opens with IG walking in and telling us the subject, with a few of the titles in front of him. Along with Super Mario Bros, which wasn’t a launch title. The only Mario game at launch was Wrecking Crew. A mistake already?<br />“Strap yourselves in, this is gonna be a long one” Are you sure about that?<br /><br />Theme song. Interestingly enough, there’s no more “Inspired by AVGN”. That’s a plus but it makes me wonder why he removed it. Trouble in paradise?<br />But first, he has a sponsorship from Ekster, a site that makes high-end wallets. Not entirely sure if it’s a real brand deal though. While he links it in the description, there’s no discount provided. Don’t these deals offer special discounts to make you sign up? 10% off your purchase, a free month, this just seems like Chris saying “Hey check out these cool wallets, they exist”.<br /><br />He starts with history, how the NES came to America in 1985, how breaking in was difficult due to the crash, and how they marketed it as a toy not a video game. Didn’t he already talk about this in the ROB videos?<br />He starts with Gyromite. Oh hey, he gets the protagonist’s name right! Professor Hector. Here’s a gold star. No acknowledgement that you got it wrong the first time? Pfft of course not.<br />He brings up Duck Hunt, yells “FIRE!” a few times, and the dog laughs at him and of course he still gets angry. GET NEW MATERIAL! I’m not kidding, he shows the ending to the Duck Hunt video again where he uppercuts the dog into the Mortal Kombat pit. Is he just damn proud of that scene or something?<br /><br />The NES launched, had 17 titles, shows an old advertisement, and starts with… Super Mario Bros. Again, not a launch title. Gaming historian Frank Cifladi even wrote an article for Gamasutra on how we can’t pinpoint the exact date Super Mario Bros came out in North America (in Japan we know it’s September 13th 1985). Then he starts gushing on how great it was and how it was different from Atari and for the love of Miyamoto you’ve done this already! Are we just pretending Chris Neo didn’t happen? Why not include that as a weird experiment so that you don’t discuss the same things over and over again? God, imagine if he does a review of Deadly Towers again...<br />More gushing and he refers to the Fire Flower as a “bonus item”. I’d consider a power-up different from a bonus but whatever. Then a really weird comment about how the first time he found a Warp Zone, he had to grab a new pair of underwear because he “literally flipped (his) shit”. I’m sorry, what? What the hell is “flipping shit” meant to be? Is it the act of defecation? Is it a slang term in Ohio? This joke makes no sense! I thought you were getting help with writing these Chris?<br /><br />After referring to the secrets as “easter eggs” (I feel the two are different), he moves on to Stack-Up. Then, no joke, it cuts to old 2008 footage of him pulling Stack-Up off his shelf. Does he think we’re stupid? It’s so obvious! The footage looks worse, and he’s wearing a long-sleeve light blue shirt (his shirt in the new footage has short sleeves). Did Chris sell his copy of Stack-Up and that’s why he did that? No, it’s stupid to do that either way. He really has no faith in his audience. I do notice that he hasn’t shown either of his ROBs (neither the Japanese or International versions), makes me wonder if he sold those too.<br /><br />Oh that’s not even the end of it. He shows the old 2008 footage of him playing with ROB! Not even acknowledging that it’s old. What’s even dumber is that he shows footage of ROB playing Gyromite not Stack-Up. I’m now convinced he no longer has a ROB and that’s why he did that. If you have to use old footage like this, then maybe you shouldn’t do the video at all. Stretch your creative muscles. Try something different! <br /><br />After saying Stack-Up isn’t fun, he moves onto Hogan’s Alley. It becomes apparent that his NES isn’t plugged in, doesn’t even try turning it on.<br />He explains the first mode, gets some lame bits where he dramatically aims his gun, then he complains that it gets faster as he keeps missing. Then a cringy bit where one of the gangsters shows up in real life and hits him.<br />Onto the second mode in the town, where he doesn’t say much. Then the third mode with the cans which he doesn’t seem to like. He doesn’t explain why, he just looks annoyed then says “Come on what else you got?” Great reviewing skills, totally not the sign of a hack.<br /><br />He moves on to Wild Gunman. Of course, we get a dumb bit where he takes the Western aesthetic seriously with close-ups and letterboxing the screen. Shooting the guy and spitting on the ground. Boring. Then he says “these light gun games were the absolute funk” … What? Who says that? My god, he really is a boomer…<br />He gushes about the game, claims the music and sound effects are really great, then he refers to the enemies as banditos, but also gringos. Does Chris not know what those words mean? Banditos refer to Mexican bandits, and most of those sprites don’t reflect that, while gringo refers to non-Hispanic or Latino people, usually Americans. Maybe they’re gringos in the game, but really they’re what Japanese developers remember from old Western movies they watched.<br />He comments that he’s glad there’s no civilians to mess you up, and I know when he says that something pops up. It does, and it’s fucking Ronnie. Just a pointless bit where he shows up while New Super Mario Bros music plays. NEXT!<br /><br />IG starts talking about the sports games that came out at launch. Starting with 10-Yard Fight, claiming he loved playing it as a kid (major doubt). But he thinks the sounds in it are really bad and five minutes of playing gave him tinnitus. Because that’s… funny? Ugggh. He also makes a comment about John Madden having greasy Cheeto-covered mitts. That didn’t become an issue until much later when EA (not John Madden) secured exclusive rights. Also, he shows the cover for Madden ‘92 like it’s the first game, when the actual first game was simply John Madden Football for MS-DOS in 1988.<br /><br />He moves onto Baseball, comments at how generic the name is, then complains that there’s only six teams. “Talk about a bare-bones game” It’s a launch title, of course it’s bare bones! <br />He then brings up that the game was developed by the legendary Shigeru “Mai-ya-moto”. Are you fucking serious?! It’s “Me-ya-moto”. How did you make a mistake THAT bad?! What the hell?! He did mention on Facebook that this video was similar to History of Video Games. In that case, this is a good clue at how dreadful the later installments would have been. Jeez, considering the countless number of Japanese developers, it would have been a disaster. <br />He also brings up a quote he allegedly said in 2016 about wanting a baseball. I say allegedly because he doesn’t source it. Cool. <br />He mentions it can be challenging, and when he gets an out, the Price is Right horns play (more boomer evidence), then he yells that he was “struck out”. Uh no, you were tagged out. There’s a big difference between the two. I don’t even care for sports and I know that!<br /><br />He moves onto Soccer and right off the bat he notices it has 7 teams. He says “up your baseball”. You do realize that Soccer was developed two years after Baseball was right? Baseball came out in Japan in 1983, Soccer came out two years later. Nintendo likely had a better handle on things, plus it was developed by Intelligent Systems.<br />He doesn’t say much, just comments on the noise made when you score a goal and how likes the cheerleaders during half-time. Really?<br />Wait hold on… Soccer wasn’t a launch title. At least according to an article on Wired. While Wikipedia says differently, they cite the instruction manual for some reason. Bleh, I wish information about this era was better preserved.<br /><br />Onto Golf. He notes how it didn’t seem possible to put all 18 holes in the game, but they managed to do it thanks to… oh my god “the legendary Satoro EYE-O-wata”. Wow, I thought the Miyamoto bit was bad, but this is next level fucked. You couldn’t take five minutes to ask yourself “Am I saying this right?” Surely you remember all the tributes to Iwata after he passed away. Surely you could have heard them pronounce it. Lazy lazy LAZY<br /><br />He also brings up how the golfers resemble Mario and Luigi, but then says they look more like Captain Lou Albano’s version. You do realize that Albano playing Mario was years after this right? Also, going by the obscure Wii game Captain Rainbow, the golfer is actually called Ossan, though that was an internal name for Mario used during the development of Donkey Kong<br />Anyway, he says Mario in two launch titles was surprising as it never happens. Then Professor Hector shows up in IG’s room and complains that he was in two launch titles too. IG takes off his shoe and throws it at him. … Is this meant to be funny? Also, is Chris not wearing pants?<br />He claims to have played the game hours (again, major doubt) and complains about the wind messing up his shots. Then says “talk about an asshole in one”. My head hurts now…<br /><br />Moving onto Tennis, but he stops to point out the intro music is the same as Pro Wrestling and gets mad about it. So? Nintendo made both games. They’re free to recycle music and sounds all they want. It’s not like they stole it.<br />He doesn’t say anything about the game, just noticing how Mario is the referee. He then tells the Professor that it’s another point for him. He throws IG’s shoe back at him, and he yells “Hey, don’t be a sore loser”. Between “hey” and “don’t”, there’s an obvious jump cut. You couldn’t do that in one take? This guy seriously wants to be on TV…<br /><br />Onto Kung-Fu, which he doesn’t talk about for long, instead telling you to watch his original review from 2015. Which he defines as “a couple years ago”. Six is not a couple Chris. It’s even worse because he shows the release date it for in the video (including the fact that after nearly six years it still hasn’t exceeded 100k views)<br /><br />He continues on to Clu Clu Land, as he wonders what a “Clu Clu” is. He thinks it’s the character in the game. No. If you a took a minute, you’d find that “Clu Clu” is an anglicization of “Kuru Kuru”, the Japanese onomatopoeia for going “around and around”. In fact the player character’s name is Bubbles. Really, a proper title would be “Round and Round Land”., but I’m not 80’s Nintendo.<br />He calls the game confusing, compares it to Pac-Man because of the maze aspect (not really), then he ends it commenting how the game flickers causing a “Pokemon Porygon episode sized seizure” … Really? Porygon references? In 2021? Also, faking having a seizure isn’t cool or funny Chris. That was pretty awful. Oh, and he has Porygon show up because of course… this is almost over just a little bit more.<br /><br />Onto Ice Climber. Mentions their appearance in Smash Bros, comments on the enemies, claims you can “tell” this game was made in the 80’s because the polar bear has a speedo and sunglasses (whatever), and complains about the jumping and how the screen moves up. Then a failure montage, then some forced cursing and a polar bear from the game appears next to him and tells him to chill out. Where’s the joke?<br /><br />He very briefly talks about Pinball. Only bringing up how there’s birds, and a bonus game with Mario and Pauline. Followed by more of the dumb running gag with Professor Hector who screams “Noooo” when told Mario is in more games.<br /><br />He then moves onto the final game, Wrecking Crew. Wait hold on there’s a few missing. Where’s DK Jr. Math? Where’s Excitebike? Where’s Mach Rider? Those were all launch titles. I know he talked about the first two before, and has said multiple times he doesn’t like Mach Rider, but if this is meant to be about the NES launch titles, it should be about the NES launch titles. Hello? Am I alone here?<br />Anyway, Wrecking Crew. Brings up Mario being in the game of course. For some reason he refers to it as a “sleeper hit”. I don’t think you’re using that term correctly Chris.<br />Explains the game a little, gets annoyed at the enemies called “Gotcha Wrenches”. Why is that bad exactly? Fits Mario’s goofy aesthetic. <br />He ends it bringing up that there two sequels released only in Japan. Two? I can only find one (Wrecking Crew ’98). It came out in 1998 for the Super Famicom. It didn’t leave Japan because NoA was focusing on the Nintendo 64. He only brings up the fact it never came out in America, followed by a forced “wrench up the ass” line.<br /><br />And that’s all. He once again comments on Mario being in more launch games than Professor Hector, causing the professor to drop a girder on IG and ending the video. Uggggggggggggggh….<br /><br />Oh hey, seems Chris did get some help on this one as he thanks LineageView. My informant found his channel and found he posted a long video about the work he did. Apparently, all he did was the effects work for the sprites that show up in his room. … Really? You finally get people to help you Chris, and it’s just for the effects? Not the writing or the acting or any of the bigger issues you have? You’re that confident that you’re so witty that you don’t need anyone’s help in that aspect? And you wonder why the Travel Channel rejected you.<br /><br />That was mostly boring. Padded with nonsense. Again, a much more competent content creator could have made something interesting out of this. Maybe a deeper history lesson into the launch of the Famicom and their expansion westward, or how the NES had a soft-launch in New York that eventually got more and more popular, or talk about the people behind these games, preferably with the ability to properly pronounce their names. Seriously, he expected people to take History of Video Games seriously but he can’t pronounce Miyamoto?<br /><br />That’s it for me. Please fucking behave in the comments. I prefer if you didn’t spam or attack others.<br />Also be sure to wear a mask and wash your hands. Hopefully we’ll soon be vaccinated and find a way to get things to somewhat normal again. </p><div style="text-align: left;">Articles mentioned:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/167392/sad_but_true_we_cant_prove_when_.php">Frank Cifaldi's article on the true release date of Super Mario Bros</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wired.com/2010/10/1018nintendo-nes-launches/">Wired article on the launch of the NES</a> </div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com193tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-26130166510134605232020-12-31T08:53:00.002-06:002022-05-28T16:59:33.141-05:00The Top 11 Worst Moments of 2020<p> It goes without saying but this year suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked! Let’s put it all behind us and look ahead. But first, a look back at the worst Irate Gamer moments of 2020. <br /><br />Since Chris decided now would be the best time to come back to Irate Gamer with somewhat regular content, I can actually do one of these. I know some of you are quite happy about that.<br /><br />Without further delay, here is the list.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>11. The Abandonment of GeekTime </b></span><br /><br />Starting the list with something that isn’t really that bad but is mostly indictive of Chris’ inability to stick with a project. Last year, Chris had shown great interest in podcasts, and even wanted to start one. So he did, with his friend Tim Walker. Taking the title from a segment on Howard Stern (that’s likely where it’s from), the two started GeekTime: The Next Generation. Where they would talk about all things “geeky” like movies, comics, toys, and sometimes games.<br />However, there were problems. Turns out neither of them had much in the way of charisma and were not remarkably interesting to listen to. They also over-relied on soundbites like a radio DJ, which got irritating fast.<br />Chris really believed this would be his next hit, pushing it hard on YouTube with short segments that did not win over viewers. A particularly bad one was a segment about how the Joker movie sucked, but it was based on the trailer. They also didn’t like overly long theme song that played in the very first sample provided. Can’t imagine how they’d react to his baffling Smash Bros. views (ME WANT BURGERTIME IN SMASH)<br /><br />And so, after six episodes, GeekTime silently came to an end. No official word, nothing from Chris or Tim saying “it’s over”, just a quiet cancellation. GeekTime content was removed from his channel, apart from the sixth and final episode. Though he still links the Podbean page with all six episodes still there.<br />Maybe if Chris kept at it, he could develop some charisma and provide thoughts and ideas that didn’t make him come off like a total boomer. Too bad that won’t happen now.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>10. Simpsons Clips are not a Substitute for Content</b></span><br /><br />IG celebrated Halloween this year with something a little different. A Simpsons game, specifically the one based on the Treehouse of Horror episodes. It’s a mediocre game but it should have had plenty to talk about, right? Well, Chris decided to fill half his video with Simpsons clips. Many with little set-up or point. What little content he did have was… lame as hell. Like saying “fuck” and having it appear in text. Because that’s a joke somehow…<br />It does make me wonder how he’s making money from these. Along with the copyrighted material, he curses a lot. Only one video had a genuine sponsorship, the others seemed fake (no link in the description or anything). He still won’t open a Patreon either. It is a mystery.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>9. Stale Turtle Soup</b></span><br /><br />A strange theme with the Irate Gamer relaunch is recycling old material. The first example of this was talking about old TMNT games again.<br />In a video he bragged about getting to 20 minutes in length (which he had to really pad out), Bores either repeats many of his old points, or outright lies and contradicts his old points. Like his anger towards the “two new levels” of the NES port suddenly became total glee and excitement and “the reason” he bought the NES version. The only positive I can say is that he finally figured out that Turtles in Time was originally an Arcade game, though he never acknowledges that he made a mistake. I wonder if the Arcade 1Up machine is how he found out…<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>8. No Amount of People Can Help</b></span><br /><br />For the longest time, I have pushed for Chris to get people to help with his videos. Someone to veto bad ideas or add new ones or do something different. This year, he finally did that. It became clear to me that a video production is like a car. You can replace various parts and keep things running, but if the engine is bad then the whole thing falls apart. Chris is the engine. No matter how many people he gets to help, if his direction is still nonsense, then the videos will be crap. As shown with his video on Punisher games. He got someone to help him, but it suffered from a lot of the same problems as his other videos. Bad jokes, barely any “reviewing”, needless movie clips, all that changed is he got someone to do the heavy lifting. I can only hope all these people are getting paid, otherwise Chris will have a scandal that will destroy him.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>7. The Ghosts n’ Goblins Series is Supposed to be Hard</b></span><br /><br />Before the Simpsons video above, Bores did another Halloween episode. Following up his Ghosts n’ Goblins review from 13 years ago, he decides to look at the sequel, Ghouls n’ Ghosts, on Sega Genesis. What we get is a painfully stupid slog where he cries over and over again about how hard the game is, missing the point entirely. He mostly praises the graphics and some of the changes made (the golden armor being one) while complaining “Why this no in first gamme?!” The whole video reeked of someone that only just found out the week before that the game existed and doesn’t understand how sequels work. <br />Also, he had a bootleg copy. No idea why, the game isn’t that expensive. <br />Think he’ll talk about the new game that just got announced for Switch?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>6. Lazy Cameos</b></span><br /><br />When Bores announced his big comeback with Ghostbusters, he teased that there would be an appearance from actor Ernie Hudson. When the video came, he made sure we knew Hudson was in it with the title and thumbnail. When he showed up… it was a lazy cell phone video that felt really out of place.<br />Then people did a little digging and found out the truth. Chris went to cameo.com and paid $75 for Hudson to record a stock message (as it included Hudson mentioning his other roles like Oz and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). Chris just lazily pasted the message into different points of his video. Interesting enough, Hudson raised his rate to $135. I doubt it’s related to this though.<br /><br />This would be the start of a trend as Chris would continue to include lazily done paid cameos from 80’s “icons” in his videos. Including Rob Paulsen in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Peter Weller in RoboCop. While Paulsen’s cameo had a little more effort in it with him saying some lines as Raphael, Weller’s cameo was clearly done just to get it done. He filmed it while taking a walk, and barely bothered to learn Chris’ name (calling him Chris Irate… though knowing Bores he probably wanted to be called that).<br />Bores acted like these cameos were huge deals that his fans would love, when most people saw through the lame use of an online service. Can’t imagine he made enough money on those videos to justify the cost. Although, there is one cameo that deserves special mention. Leading us into…<br /> <br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>5. The Angry Video Game Nerd *ahem* “Crossover”</b></span><br /><br />2020 is the year of “what the actual fuck”. With everyone stuck at home, we bared witness to all sorts incessant insanity. What happened here… was not one of them.<br />Shortly after his big comeback video, IG put out a teaser for a crossover nobody saw coming. One 13 years in the making. A crossover with the Angry Video Game Nerd. The internet, known for reacting like animals over the smallest of news, went…. “meh”<br />For those somehow unaware, there are two reasons Bores became notable. YouTube featuring his videos, and people pointing out what a shameless Angry Video Game Nerd rip-off he is. The latter basically made him a joke (even though it was the least of his problems) and despite numerous accusations, Chris purposely avoided talking about it. Over time he would make brief mentions of the AVGN, like in his 200th video (that was deleted), the “E-begging Spoof” (that he still hasn’t deleted) and the controversial Opening Up video (which he also hasn’t deleted). But the two would never work together. … Until now!<br /><br />Promising a big “Summer of AVGN” (that never happened), Bores went all out in marketing the crossover. Banners on YouTube and Facebook, trailers, a live stream about the video, even releasing a t-shirt! I can’t imagine the kind of person that would buy that.<br />Wait, what game would they be talking about though? Surely something epically bad right? It was Dick Tracy. Wait, a game the Nerd has already covered? That doesn’t make sense.<br />The day finally came, and the truth was revealed. It wasn’t a crossover at all, it was a glorified cameo. All that hype for, at most, two minutes of screentime. Maybe Chris does have a future in marketing? Oh wait, the “meh” reaction came from the fact that most people didn’t know IG was still around and felt this crossover would have made more sense in 2009 when AVGN was still great. Though Chris claims James organized things, Screenwave giant Justin Silverman noted in an interview that he was responsible. Sounds about right…<br /><br />IG would continue referencing the Nerd in future videos, yet James has at no point referenced the video’s existence. This, and the above-mentioned videos still existing, calls into question a common thing a lot of people were saying when the video came out. That James and Chris were now friends, and we should stop making fun of Irate Gamer. Ignoring that the plagiarism aspect is only a small part of why he sucks. Are they really “friends” though? Chris says that, but Chris is a pathological liar. I doubt they have much of a working relationship outside of Justin forcing James to film that cameo (also the Puppet Steve voice work but I don’t know if Screenwave was involved in that). Who knows, maybe we’ll see more when COVID slows down. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>4. A Bizarre Obsession with Arcades</b></span><br /><br />This year, Chris has gone coo-coo crazy over Arcade cabinets. Rather, “affordable” replicas of Arcade cabinets. Though the signs were there at the tail-end of Chris Neo, it really exploded this year. He remodeled his basement to look like an Arcade, and most videos have to reference an Arcade game of some kind. The zenith of this was a video talking about how ports of Arcade games to Atari and NES were inferior, a concept that anyone with a brain could tell you. It felt more like Chris wanting to show off all his Arcade 1Up toys. Hell, his last video of the year was shilling a Dragon’s Lair Arcade replica. A game that you can easily play on your PS4, Xbone or Switch RIGHT NOW<br /><br />All these cabinets could not have been cheap. Where did he get the money? I have noticed that he doesn’t talk about Switch games, even on Puppet Steve. Did he sell his Switch? That would explain why he didn’t go crazy over Steve in Smash (a prediction I am glad I was wrong about).<br />Still, to remodel the whole basement? Makes me wonder if he’s going through a mid-life crisis. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>3. How to Make Cereal Annoying</b></span><br /><br />You thought Irate Gamer was the only thing returning this year? Surprise! I Rate the 80’s is back! For some reason.<br />However, he has only talked about cereal. Because he still doesn’t understand that “comedy” videos about cereal very rarely work.<br />He talked about the short-lived Nintendo cereal, spending 15 minutes gushing about it yet never saying if it was good or not. Ending off on a hyper-cringe reenactment of the commercial, adding verses to the jingle that really didn’t need to be added. It was absolutely awful. This is someone that wants to be on TV.<br />He followed up with a video on the Family Matters tie-in cereal Urkel-O’s because he referenced it in the above video, and was surprised people thought he was joking (and the fact he doesn’t understand why people thought that shows why he fails as a comedian). It was 9 minutes of “Family Matters was great, this cereal exists”. Along with poorly dubbing over an error he made about Urkel’s catchphrase. <br />Stop talking about cereal! There is no audience!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>2. Recycled RoboCop Rubbish</b></span><br /><br />With 8 IG videos, 2 80’s videos, and one shilling video, what was the worst out of all of these? Easily, RoboCop.<br />Making this the THIRD time he’s talked about RoboCop on NES, Chris expands on it by also talking about the Arcade game (yep), the Game Boy games, and RoboCop vs Terminator. You’d think that would make it better right? Thing is, he did a lot of recycling. As in, taking footage from his old 2011 RoboCop video and repurposing it with no changes. Ignoring the fact that 9 years ago he was in an entirely different house and room. Does he think his viewers are so stupid that they wouldn’t notice? He seemed more concerned with having Peter Weller than making a decent video. The only thing he seemed to try was writing around the Wise Sage, who had a comment about Macaulay Culkin and Mila Kunis in the original that was instead delivered by Bores. Making me wonder if Eric Allen (Wise Sage’s actor) had a falling out with Chris.<br />Either way, the sheer laziness and ineptitude on display here made this the worst video of the year. But not the worst moment. Oh no, that dubious honor goes to…<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1. The Absolute Insanity of the Ghost Doctor</b></span><br /><br />We have long established that Bores is obsessed with ghosts. Whether it’s hunting them or claiming to be a “behaviorist”, he can’t get enough. He’s also so dedicated to his own methods that he ended up getting kicked out of a paranormal Facebook group for being hostile to other members trying different ideas. <br />Hence, his endless pursuit of getting a TV show and constantly retooling his ghost material in the hopes of getting a deal. This time, Chris is now the “Ghost Doctor”. <br />Chris claims he had a TV deal in the works with the Travel Channel, but he was passed over for Jason Hawes’ “Ghost Nation”. He’s super bitter about it, making several angry Facebook posts about the show. I have serious doubts that he was even considered. They would rather invest in someone with history than some talentless nobody with zero charisma. TV is slowly dying anyway; streaming is the future.<br /><br />Deterred by this “setback”, Chris decided to open another YouTube channel dedicated to the Ghost Doctor, where he would post the pilot and several other ghost videos that the paranormal community tried to hold back (pfffft yeah right). But before he did that, he decided to showcase who he really is.<br />After an introduction video, he posted a video claiming that a “Paranormal Pandemic” is coming (in the middle of an actual pandemic), and that we’re not doing enough to stop it. Showcasing out of context celebrity clips where they “praise Satan”, claiming that negativity in general will send you to Hell, how you don’t even have to worship Satan to be a Satanist, how aliens are really just ghosts, how we no longer have picnics at graveyards, and all sorts of batshit lunacy that I’m surprised hasn’t been mocked more.<br />Then after that, he posted a video where he claimed to hear the ghost of George Floyd, likely to “cash in” on the Black Lives Matter protests and somehow make himself sound legit. I know I didn’t make a post about it, but it really needed to be mentioned. <br />He hasn’t done a video like that since. Mostly just uploads of his “hunts”, including one where he claims to talk to the Wright brothers. <br /><br />I’m surprised Bores is still trying with this shit. Ghost Doctor isn’t popular at all, only one video has over 10k views (not counting the Coast to Coast AM interview that he didn’t make). Though ghost stuff is super niche, Bores clearly can’t break into the market. Perhaps it’s time to try a new hobby? Or at least, keep it to yourself. Nobody wants to watch videos about it. Then again, this could also be part of his midlife crisis.<br /><br />Whew, and that is the list! A lot sure has happened this year, and that’s with everybody stuck inside.<br />What will happen next year? Will Chris stop gushing about Arcade games? Will he try modern games again? Is the James Rolfe friendship real or just a lie? Is Chris’ claim that he has multiple editors working on multiple videos true? Either way, I’ll be here to cover it. <br /><br />As we head into the new year, please be safe. Wash your hands, wear a mask, stay away from people, and be careful.<br /></p>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com124tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-50689571637257593812020-12-15T12:46:00.000-06:002020-12-15T12:46:01.540-06:00There will be a Year End List<div style="text-align: left;">I am aware Bores posted a new IG videos the other day, however it's really more of an advertisement than an actual video so I feel it's not worth covering. Just Bores gushing about an Arcade replica of Dragon's Lair. It felt like Chris Neo again. Dull and not worth it.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">He also did a short video for some no-name author about his book on NES games. In it he says "Super Mario Bros changed my life". *shudders* Moviebob flashbacks. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">But yeah, I will be doing a year end list for the first time since 2016.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Sorry for the zero-effort post. Also, quit arguing with each other. <br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com151tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432771188531629231.post-15719915277391099672020-11-16T15:19:00.005-06:002022-05-28T16:59:41.262-05:00Back into the Tinfoil Pit<div style="text-align: left;">It's been a couple weeks since a new Irate Gamer hasn't it?</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Chris did say on Facebook that he's been having some health problems. Okay, fair enough. Health takes priority over all. But I find it weird that a few hours later, he crowed about how great the upcoming episode of Ghost Doctor will be. </div><div style="text-align: left;">He even posted a new one where he claims to talk to the Wright brothers (pfffft). There's also several Puppet Steve videos (still no Smash Bros though).</div><div style="text-align: left;">But that's not what I want to talk about. Oh no no no no. As this hellscape of a year closes, Conspiracy Chris pops his head out once again.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">In case you've somehow avoided all news the past several months (and if you have, tell me how), the United States had their Presidential election. After a tense few days, Joe Biden has been projected to be the winner and coming January 20th, 2021, will serve as the new President. The supporters of Donald Trump were furious, calling the election rigged, full of fraud, claiming the media is lying, and finding all kinds of excuses to claim Trump was really the winner after all. It's a salty snowflake parade!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you aren't aware, Chris is a Trump supporter, and totally into conspiracy theories. Garbage ones of course. But that's fairly commen for people that support him. They'll believe all kinds of retarded crap.</div><div style="text-align: left;">All this talk of the "media lying" likely inspired him to post this.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizGdI9hhT3p6uQCI3Rg9Ums0J7U8hbWwkdp3mhj-UKc0MrmzX3-QYi6nyfH_tXV6UwhW6z3WUsxT3tqG8GPbHFrijRX8_7lABGU-OtxTtgfWyj1iuuKjNtd2ueGK9asB9SVCxPuMHOgw/s494/OG1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizGdI9hhT3p6uQCI3Rg9Ums0J7U8hbWwkdp3mhj-UKc0MrmzX3-QYi6nyfH_tXV6UwhW6z3WUsxT3tqG8GPbHFrijRX8_7lABGU-OtxTtgfWyj1iuuKjNtd2ueGK9asB9SVCxPuMHOgw/s320/OG1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Oooh wow. Basically, Chris had these big secret meetings 8-9 years ago that expose all the seedy underbelly of YouTube and the Gaming community. It's dire shit people! Oh, but Chris can't tell you what he heard. No sir, not at all.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">... Do it.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Just fucking do it.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tell us all about it.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What do you think will happen? Truth is, you're a nobody. Whatever it is, I doubt it's that bad. Especially if it's from 8 years ago. YouTube has changed DRASTICALLY since then. Clearly whatever horrors you claim to have seen, probably no longer matter.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Chances are, you don't actually know anything. You just want attention don't you? Considering this post got way more comments and reactions than he normally gets, it worked a little.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh, but Chris does have an excuse. As seen in this reply.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIg0ZaVUYAmxHI3gUQXwBaZJF3ksvYOqMHODLnBrPJFfhrXH5ogZOGGLN7wip1zY45H8FUlX2PZxhTIS-aY_rkFMihe8VC8Fvx7uknVfimaXaZt2mukJuqCGwuhcIrvDzhqMYZz0dDs4/s459/OG2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIg0ZaVUYAmxHI3gUQXwBaZJF3ksvYOqMHODLnBrPJFfhrXH5ogZOGGLN7wip1zY45H8FUlX2PZxhTIS-aY_rkFMihe8VC8Fvx7uknVfimaXaZt2mukJuqCGwuhcIrvDzhqMYZz0dDs4/s320/OG2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I'm sorry... what?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Okay, so I looked into this a little. Using incognito mode of course. Earlier in the year, someone accused Tom Hanks of becoming a Greek citizen because in Greece, they consider pedophilia a disability. Let's unpack that.</div><div style="text-align: left;">While Hanks did indeed become a Greek citizen, it was not for that reason. There is no credible evidence that Tom Hanks is a pedophile. This "connection" was made because in 2012, Greece considered adding pedophilia along with other behavioral disorders like compulsive gambling, voyeurism, and pyromania to their list of disabilities. There was a massive backlash in the country, and the plan fell through. So as of 2020, it's no longer on the list. I read up on this from USA Today.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fact-check-tom-hanks-greek-citizen-but-pedophilia-claim-false/3353055001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fact-check-tom-hanks-greek-citizen-but-pedophilia-claim-false/3353055001/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Looking a little further, these accusations of Hanks being a pedo go back to at least 2018. All stemming from .... *sighs* QAnon. Of course Chris believes that fucking garbage. QAnon is like a magnet for drooling dipshits.</div><div style="text-align: left;">All stemming from the cries of "Hollywood is full of pedophiles". While there is possibly a tiny morsel of truth in there, it's likely not as bad as these nutcases claim.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Chris, I'm going to say this as nicely as possible. You need to get off Facebook. It is not healthy. You need to expand your library of information. Having it tailored to you does far more harm than good. I got off Facebook years ago and I feel so much better for it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Sorry for the... different post today. But my informant showed me that Facebook post and I thought "No way I'm letting this slide".</div><div style="text-align: left;">Stay safe everyone. Wash your hands, wear a mask, stay inside, just don't act like a moron about it. <br /></div>BatDanNighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02654810198690066965noreply@blogger.com214