JAMES ROLFE
YouTube is full of vitriolic videogame critics trying to be comics but James Rolfe is one of the few who’s actually funny. The Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) has played and cursed at some of the most tedious, boring and poorly made videogames in the history of the industry since 2006. James started filming reviews of unplayable dreck like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde on the NES as the angry critic just for friends but they urged him to make more and post them on the web. Fifteen years later, Rolfe and his Cinemassacre studio have produced a feature-length film about the character, two retro-style side-scrollers and his 200th episode in which he attempts to play every game made by the notoriously bad, third-party, Nintendo-based publisher LJN.
What’s it like making your 200th episode? We assume it’s a mix of pride and hard work or is one feeling bigger than the other right now?
It’s been extremely time consuming since I’m trying to cover every LJN published game (67 to the best of my research). About roughly one-third of them I already reviewed in past episodes of the show, so I’ve incorporated the milestone episode trope of using flashbacks. But still with the massive amount of new reviews, it’s been a lot to write. I try to keep it light and funny with keeping each review brief and humorous with the Nerd being as cynical as always. There’s
