Angry Video Game Nerd

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Angry Video Game Nerd is an American retro gaming review comedy web series starring and created by James Rolfe. The series centers on titular skit character the Nerd, a foul-mouthed gamer who delivers commentary on retro games of poor quality. While the series began with Rolfe simply playing games while providing retrospective commentary, the show has grown in scope to encompass sketches featuring guest characters, reviews of gaming consoles and peripherals, and short lectures about video game history and culture. Starting out as an amateur filmmaker, Rolfe intended his earliest videos of the character to be a joke, with no intentions of making them public. In May 2004, Rolfe, at the suggestion of future series producer Mike Matei, put the Angry Nintendo Nerd videos on his website, and in 2006 on the emerging video streaming platform YouTube, where it gained popularity. The series was soon renamed to the Angry Video Game Nerd to avoid trademark issues with Nintendo, and to allow Rolfe to...

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