🌟 Internet Famous James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

[Travoltron]

Nobody cared if TMNT on NES was good because you could play as the friggin' ninja turtles, that's all that mattered.

Yes, but then they made a bunch of sequels that were way better and made the first one look like crap.

 

[Wraithdolf the White]

James could really lean into the memes by shaving the wig and wearing that.

Today on Bimmy Plays: Wig Lawnmower Simulator 3!

 

[demicolon]

James could really lean into the memes by shaving the wig and wearing that.

James could wear a santa hat like he used to or that stupid Mortal Kombad baseball cap, anything to hide the hairline and not draw attention to it like in the newest video. Seems like whoever's responsible for the channel ran out of ideas and is now engaging with the trolls to stir up controversy.

 

[Wraithdolf the White]

Gosh dammit I heard this today and can't get it out of my head:
Somebody gon' get they ass kicked
Somebody gon' get their wig split
Somebody gon' get they ass kicked
Somebody gon' get their wig split

 

[el bandito loco]

On the subject of games that don't suck James shit on, like 2 years ago I played both Castlevania 64 games for the first time since I was a kid. I loved em. I avoided them for years because as a kid, I just sucked at games and there's this hedge maze part in the first one that I could never beat so I quit and never looked back, when my dad or brother bought and played the second one, I never bothered and the Nerd review made me as a teenager believe I was right to write them off.

I actually watched the Nerd review of them for the first time since probably that came out too, and it made me want to play them. I was like shit I haven't even played that since elementary school. anyways, they aren't masterpieces but they're pretty good. most of the issues I have with them are just typical of that generation jank. shit that a remaster, adding a free camera and a good map would probably solve the issues I had with them.

In his review of C64 he also totally just was a retard. He quit the game because he got stuck and couldn't use something he was supposed to but essentially there is 2 spots and he was at the second one and not the first or something like that. I don't remember the specifics now because it's been a couple years but when I got there it was probably the day after I rewatched the video and I was laughing my ass off that he and Mike in like 2010 couldn't figure out how to use gamefaqs or something and probably wasted 2 hours accomplishing nothing and said fuck it.

 

[Detective Carey]

The charm from the 1st TMNT game was that it was rushed and barely had time to lean into the license, it almost feels like some other game they just slapped some TMNT sprites onto, which was common practice at the time.

As a kid I managed to brute force my way through the dam swimming level eventually and even got sort of good at avoiding the damned electrified seaweed stuff, it was the rest of the game that usually wore me down till I ran out of turtles. I should go back and emulate it and see if I still have the chops.

Agreed on the N64 Castlevanias, they were of their time jank but not absolutely terrible. There's a lot of wonky charm in old 64 games that went unnoticed by the masses due to aforementioned early 3D jank.

Something about huge misty (due to draw distance) 3D spaces with large fuzzy textures splotched over them really enforced a spooky aesthetic in a lot of the 64 games, and that worked perfectly with Castlevania's vibe. I think Erin Plays completed them all if you are looking for someone that did them justice.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

I feel the same way about McKids. Many people assume it sucks thanks to his early review of it but it is actually a solid NES platformer.

McKids is a Super Mario 3 like. If you like SMB3, you'll like McKids.

I didn't even finish it but I assume he brings up the Euro version runs better and has more responsive controls.

Nigger he's American, he's not going to be playing a PAL game.

 

[demicolon]

I've heard somewhere (might been hardcoregaming101) that some enemies in the first turtles NES game were based on comics, which is why they're so out there.

 

[JoeyJoJo]

On the subject of games that don't suck James shit on, like 2 years ago I played both Castlevania 64 games for the first time since I was a kid. I loved em. I avoided them for years because as a kid, I just sucked at games and there's this hedge maze part in the first one that I could never beat so I quit and never looked back, when my dad or brother bought and played the second one, I never bothered and the Nerd review made me as a teenager believe I was right to write them off.

I actually watched the Nerd review of them for the first time since probably that came out too, and it made me want to play them. I was like shit I haven't even played that since elementary school. anyways, they aren't masterpieces but they're pretty good. most of the issues I have with them are just typical of that generation jank. shit that a remaster, adding a free camera and a good map would probably solve the issues I had with them.

In his review of C64 he also totally just was a retard. He quit the game because he got stuck and couldn't use something he was supposed to but essentially there is 2 spots and he was at the second one and not the first or something like that. I don't remember the specifics now because it's been a couple years but when I got there it was probably the day after I rewatched the video and I was laughing my ass off that he and Mike in like 2010 couldn't figure out how to use gamefaqs or something and probably wasted 2 hours accomplishing nothing and said fuck it.

Fun fact, James was playing C64 on easy. The easy mode locks you out of the later levels by messing up the part with the explosives

I've heard somewhere (might been hardcoregaming101) that some enemies in the first turtles NES game were based on comics, which is why they're so out there.

A lot of TMNT 1 for NES was taken from the comics with some parts of the cartoon, Japan didn't get the Ninja turtles cartoon until a few years after.

 

[el bandito loco]

Fun fact, James was playing C64 on easy. The easy mode locks you out of the later levels by messing up the part with the explosives

so that's what actually happened? that's even funnier. I played on whatever the normal setting is I guess because I beat the game as both characters. does the game tell you if you pick easy mode you can't complete it? if it does that makes it hysterical. game tells you you can't finish it on easy, picks easy, gets to cut off point, "huh the game won't let me continue? What a shitload of fuck. This game sucks"

 

[Samuel Fuller]

A lot of TMNT 1 for NES was taken from the comics with some parts of the cartoon, Japan didn't get the Ninja turtles cartoon until a few years after.

The cover art was by Kevin Eastman himself, co-creator and main artist for the real Turtles comics.

 

[Travoltron]

The cover art was by Kevin Eastman himself, co-creator and main artist for the real Turtles comics.

The cover was Michael Dooney's reinterpretation of Kevin Eastman's black & white art.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

The cover was Michael Dooney's reinterpretation of Kevin Eastman's black & white art.

From what I saw in a TMNT art book, Eastman drew the line art and then the oils were done over that pencilling, much like the ink and colour process for a comic book.

 

[skykiii]

I do love how everyone is just talking about the damn wig.

Like yeah, it was obvious... but he had to do it because he was doing some weird time travel "these parts are in the past" thing and when he did the old video, he had hair and wasn't wearing a cap or anything, so the other suggestions would not have worked.

I kind of dig it in a 1970s Doctor Who way--you know what the idea was but that the special effects couldn't quite pull it off, so you just roll with it. Or shag with it.

 

[mickrussom]

where does this james rofe live these days. i usually can find people's addresses, but this guy is a ghost. he must have paid people to scrub pretty hard.

 

[deeman]

where does this james rofe live these days. i usually can find people's addresses, but this guy is a ghost. he must have paid people to scrub pretty hard.

Hmm yeah i think it's that he is revered also, if you can find out where Mike Matei lives, they live a couple of hours from each other iIRC

 

[demicolon]

James lives somewhere around Pennsylvania, Mike's a Jersey bro. Nobody doxed them because nobody ever bothered IMO.

 

[mlanguishi]

Everyone's favorite series, a new Neighbor Nerds is out.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

"I literally own the same Led Zeppelin shirt," I thought, sitting feet away from a shelf stocked with NES games.

We're truly pod creatures.

 

[Grog]

You can pay 40 dollars for the privilege of having a photo taken with Pimmel, in his AVGN outfit (new shirt only, I guess). But I wonder, can you choose between iconic frown and cuckface?