While I'm still retired from covering Bores, I will still post former fan testimonials. Here's one from Prince Mario.
If you have a testimonial you wish to submit, please let me know.
Hello to all of BatDan's readers I'm a somewhat popular youtuber by the name of PrinceMario (You can view my channel right here https://www.youtube.com/
It
all started back in 2009. I was just 10 years old at the time and we
still had dial up because we couldn't afford wifi. Back then there were
certain sites like YouTube that I had just discovered and found it to be
the most amazing thing ever. I started looking up videos on Super Mario
Bros 2 because I always wanted to know how the NES Mario games were
(keep in mind that Mario 64 was the first Mario game I played so I
didn't know a whole lot about NES) and the first result was Irate
Gamer's Super Mario Bros 2 video. At the time I loved it because I was a
huge Mario fan and I loved random humor. I also found his jaws and back
to the future reviews and found them funny,
At
that point I was an Irate Gamer fan. I wasn't the kind of IG fan who
would go and attack AVGN fans (I didn't know who AVGN was at the time)
but I was just a casual fan who enjoyed his work. I would show my
cousins at family gatherings Bores' reviews and they would find them
funny. Just keep in mind I didn't know as much about retro gaming as I
do now so at the time I thought Mario 2, Ghost and Goblins, and Contra
were bad games because Bores said it.
This all
changed about a year later when I discovered the AVGN. I discovered his
Ninja Turtles review and saw the date it was posted and thought that
Bores directly stole from that video. Then I went and watched more
videos by James Rolfe (Back To The Future, Mario is Missing, etc).
However at the time I still enjoyed both Bores' and Rolfe's works and
just thought they were similar.
Then in 2011
Bores posted an E3 video on him blowing up Ubisoft because he wasn't
allowed to attend the conference and that was the first video by him
that I hated. Then it got even worse. In 2012 James Rolfe posted a video
promoting a Cheetahmen II kickstarted that got a lot of hate. At the
time I didn't care too much about the video because I try not to get
involved in internet wars (I didn't with the war between IG fans and
AVGN fans).
However right when the whole flame
war was going on Bores posted a video titled Ebegging The Spoof and I
hated that video so much I unsubscribed from IG and totally lost all
respect for him. After that I completely forgot about him.
That
is until 2014 when he posted a 40 minute video attacking James Rolfe
and this point is where I found the IG sucks blog. I started reading
every post on the blog and going back to Bores's videos and thinking
'how did I find this funny." I then found I can't believe it's not AVGN
and DoubleEdgedSowrd's take on the videos and that was where I found
Bores entertaining to watch again. The guy's text commentaries were s o
enjoyable. I also found the Third Rate Gamer and loved him and I wish he
could make more stuff.
Then afterward I
started reading the blog until Bores called it quits. Now will Bores
come out of retirement or put something that's worth ripping on. We
don't know. That is my full story thanks to Batdan for letting me share
this.
