The Irate Gamer Timeline Part 5: 2014-2015

Chris launches the new year with a review of Lego Marvel Superheroes. It was boring. It’s no longer on the channel.

What follows is kind of rough.
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?
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).
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.
Years later, Chris claimed he was taken out of context, yet never apologized.

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

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.

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.
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?

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.
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.

Now for the story bits, hoo boy…
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.
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.
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.
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.
But it runs out of power and the video ends on a cliffhanger. Fans would not have to wait seven months for the conclusion.

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.

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?

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.

… 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.

In April, the storyline finally came to an end. One last Mighty Morphin Power Rangers game, the one on Sega CD.
The review part was all “It’s too hard and I hate having to play on Hard for the true ending”. That’s it.
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.

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.
As for the Shadow Overlord? He just gets crushed by debris. Irate Gamer never even met the guy.

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.

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.
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.
He posted part of the “Making-Of” video on YouTube. It’s still up.

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.
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.

On the bright side, this was the last E3 he attended. No more painful interviews or obvious questions about series he knows nothing about.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.
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.
Like the Ebegging Spoof, it’s still up. Even with the event that happened in 2020.

With a newly engaged audience, Chris decided the best course was to upload more Pursuit of the Paranormal.
Some ghost videos are still up, one an “EVP” and two others being local news appearances.

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.

Outside of some more Skylanders and an update video, there was really nothing else to the year.

2015:

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.

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.

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.

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.
The horror movie is called Gore Orphanage. Based on an Ohio urban legend about a haunted home.
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.

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?
This video is no longer on the channel.

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.
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.
Not the first comeback video though. Where it shows the Irate Gamer sitting in front of the old man from the first Zelda.

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.

Leading into his first review for this return, DuckTales on NES. Wait what?
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.
The video was nothing but cringe, badly edited sprites, and poor gameplay.

Following that was his first video about amiibo, where he begged his fans to give him extras. It’s no longer on the channel.

Then a short St. Patrick’s Day video where a Leprechaun kicks him in the balls. It’s no longer on the channel.

Then a Skylanders Trap Team video. It’s no longer on the channel.

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.

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.
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.

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.
It's no longer on the channel.

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.
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.

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.
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.

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.

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).
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.

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.

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*

Then a video about a then-new Calvin & Hobbes book. Nothing much to it. It’s no longer on the channel.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Then he posted some of the bloopers from the Season 4 DVD. It’s no longer on the channel.

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…

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.

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.
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.

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.

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?
It’s no longer on the channel.

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.

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.
In 1974, a Letter People television show premiered on PBS. It only lasted two years, but the educational programs would continue in various ways.

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.

Back to the Irate Gamer channel, he reviews a board game. *coughs* It’s no longer on the channel.

Then a video recorded in his car where he shows off new amiibo. It’s no longer on the channel.

Oh hey, more History. This one solely about the Magnavox Odyssey 2. It was about as boring you can imagine.

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.

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.

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.

Now we come to… his Splatoon review.
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.
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.

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.

Bringing us to his review of Spy Hunter, another beloved classic that he’ll bash for no reason.
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.
This did not get a Let’s Play. He gave up after Punch-Out.

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.

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.

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?)
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.

More Skylanders…no longer on the channel.

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.

A video on Skylanders Superchargers. This one is surprisingly still up.

Followed by a review of Mega Man.
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?
At least he didn’t destroy the game.

Some more filler. First a video on Minions Mega Bloks.
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.

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.

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?
I just remember he did a dumb sketch with his toys. It’s no longer on his channel.

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….

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.

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.

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.

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.

Then he did an interview with a local radio show about his ghost stuff. This is no longer on the channel.

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).
Anyway, the video is just a few minutes of him pulling stuff out. That’s it. That’s the video.
It’s no longer on the channel.

Some filler with a review of phone chargers. No longer on the channel.

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?

Then another video shilling VidFall. No longer on the channel.

But then, he would announce something big. He’s going to be writing a book. About ghosts. … No joke.
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.

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.

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.

A video about a TMNT book. Boring. It’s no longer on the channel.

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.
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.
It’s no longer on the channel. Strange, I figured he would want to keep that one.

Now I’m sure you’re curious, what’s in the book?
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”.
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.

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.

Next video he looked at some crappy tech products. It’s no longer on the channel.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
He claims it was his most requested game. I seriously doubt that.
Remember the short video with IG and Ronnie in Castlevania mentioned above? That’s how the video opens.
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?
The ending has another cereal reference with him turning Dracula into Count Chocula.

Around Thanksgiving he posted a video on Assassin’s Creed. Rather, an Assassin’s Creed artbook. Play the games? Pfffft.
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.

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.

More tech reviews, more Skylanders, even more dislikes from his fans.
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.

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.

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.

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.
It’s no longer on the channel.

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.

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.

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.
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.

Next time: 2016-2018