Day 7 - V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson
Nice to see Playstation looked at again. I feel like he doesn't do much of those games.
Nice to see Playstation looked at again. I feel like he doesn't do much of those games.
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Angry Video Game Nerd
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He never owned a Playstation growing up, so he doesn't have nostalgia for the Playstation games like he does with the NES/SNES/Genesis/N64 stuff
A Black Falcon
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It's too bad Rocky & Bullwinkle for NES got such a short review, looks like something that could have gotten a full episode... I've always heard about how awful it is. But if he didn't watch the show, I guess that would explain why it doesn't.
Yeah, it's very odd that he'd review a dual-mode GB/GBC game and then not show one single second of GBC footage, which is the version most people who play the game will be playing. There's no way he'd have that problem on GBC. Some dual-mode games just don't work well on the older system, even though the option exists to play them in B&W... (Mega Man X-treme looks awful on the original GB, for instance! Ghosts n Goblins too...)
Yeah, it's very odd that he'd review a dual-mode GB/GBC game and then not show one single second of GBC footage, which is the version most people who play the game will be playing. There's no way he'd have that problem on GBC. Some dual-mode games just don't work well on the older system, even though the option exists to play them in B&W... (Mega Man X-treme looks awful on the original GB, for instance! Ghosts n Goblins too...)
CadaveriaIX
Member
I believe it's because various pictures of Mike that have been posted, the most recent I think with him wearing shots, the creases in the material make it look as though he has a long penis. That's basically it as far as I'm aware, and apparently this topic has been going on for months.
Only now it's seems to be getting a lot of attention for some reason.
Only now it's seems to be getting a lot of attention for some reason.
Mr. Enigma
Member
A picture of Mike and James at a convention is on AVGN's Facebook page. The right pant leg of Mike has a fold on the inner side that's perfectly angled to make it look like he's got a dick that hangs down to his knee.
Alex_Mexico
Member
Correct me if Im wrong but he could've fixed this problem if he had used a GB Player on a Gamecube to capture the footage in color instead of a Super Game Boy that can only display in B&W correct?
Or how about the Japan-only Super Game Boy 2? He clearly owns a Super Famicom (he used one to review Super Back to the Future 2). I just don't know if an american GBC game would work on a japanese SGB2.
KittenMaster
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I'm playing catch up with the 12 days videos.
I remember watching a TAS video of the Bullwinkle game, and was surprised to see it having a very similar UI as Wayne's World. Judging based only on video footage, Wayne's World is the better game of the two.
I remember watching a TAS video of the Bullwinkle game, and was surprised to see it having a very similar UI as Wayne's World. Judging based only on video footage, Wayne's World is the better game of the two.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Hearing the some of the sound effects are the exact same as GoldenEye just made me realise that both of them are stock library sounds...
Super Game Boy 2 isn't a GBC. It does have a link cable port though.
brianmcdoogle
Member
Happy to see the special guest at the end. We haven't seen him in an official AVGN video since, I dunno, Star Trek?
BassForever
Member
Matei's last appeared was Bugs in the Crazy Castle Review
He was the Joker in Batman part 1 & 2, then returns as Bugs Bunny in Crazy Castle, both after Star Trek....but yeah, after that, he hasn't appeared in a video until now. Not to mention this is the first time he's been in an episode not in a costume.
Diablohead
Member
Oh, it's a David Cage game.
brianmcdoogle
Member
You're right. I thought those were earlier episodes, but now that I think about it Star Trek appeared in the older room in the old location.
BassForever
Member
You can upload like 10 hour videos to youtube a compilation video of shitmas should be fine
A Black Falcon
Member
No, the SGB2 is still an original Game Boy, that wouldn't work. You are correct that the GB Player would play the game in GBC mode and solve the color issue, though, yes. The GB Player is a consolized Game Boy Advance.
digoutyoursoul
Member
His later videos are no where near as entertaining as the early years imo. The humour falls flat.
Mafia Films
Neo Member
some GBC games will play just without color on a regular GB unit, although features may be missing or there of
I use to play zelda LA color on my B/W gameboy and just a special dungeon wasnt accessible
SeventhSon
Member
Porky's doesn't look completely terrible as a weird movie adaptation on Atari VCS.
Mafia Films
Neo Member
hes trying too hard.
Whats ridiculous is the people watching his content dont know anything about retro so just take his gameplay as fact, even though its heavily edited and contrived. The toughness/difficulty in the games he plays are often heavily contrived and put-on by him. Then later when you watch him play a ordinary NES game he has such difficulty getting past certain stuff which blurs the lines of is the game really that difficult or does he just have flaccid thumbs?
Anyone remember how he kept the landing part on Top Gun going? then when someone asked at a Q&A to him IS IT REALLY THAT HARD TO LAND THE PLANE, he said no not really you just follow what it says on the screen I.E altitude and speed.
I much prefer his James & Mike Mondays. Some of their stream of consciousness comments make me laugh out loud lots of times, and it's not because they're screaming and cursing as loud as possible like so many other channels. These are two dudes I probably would have been good friends with growing up, like the Game Sack guys.
CrazedProfessional
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Any psychics wanna guess the big boxes?
PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
are you telling me.... it's all just an act? I've been living a lie.
Judging from the size of the 1st box, I'd say that's a Gizmondo. No clue on the 2nd one.
Mafia Films
Neo Member
i get where he was coming from in his earlier episodes, but how much of that stuff is contrived like a reality TV series.
get mad if you want, i know its entertainment but when hes trying to hoax/fool people...thats not entertainment but playing on the naive-ness of the viewer
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
You mean...Daniel Craig isn't really Bond?!
He said in his Making Of video that he only faked deaths in the very beginning. Maybe Top Gun is one of those he was talking about. Now it's genuine. I definitely believe him because I see how terrible he is at games in the Mike and James videos. He was actually skipping chests in Super Ghouls N Goblins because he didn't want to lose a weapon that wasn't even good for the stage he was on. It was almost impossible for him to beat Turbo Tunnels in Battletoads. He's not too good at video games.
CrazedProfessional
Member
Has he done n-gage?
Mafia Films
Neo Member
Last statement says it, i mean the guy is cool and has the nostalgia from being young/a kid around the time but he doesnt have the true skill.
I love his vid with mike about the super scope and he didnt know about the charge shot and was like WOW IT TAKES TOO LONG TO DO DAMAGE! HELLO MCFLY CHARGE IT UP!
CartridgeBlower
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While I agree he might be trying to hard in some of his newer videos, I don't think he's necessarily 'bad' at playing video games. Watch Mike and Mike Mondays. He plays lot of hard games (Super Ghouls and Ghosts) and does rather well, often beating them.
JasonUresti
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I would't say he is bad, he's beaten some tough games, but he's not an obsessive game player/fan. James doesn't strike me as someone who would be a member of Neogaf or be reading information every day on game news or buying dozens of games a year. He 's just a guy who liked/likes video games and a created a character playing on those childhood memories of frustration and general nostalgia.
I was always pretty sure that Mike played through the harder parts in some of the games so James could get footage.
And I mean, you or I are not very good at video games compared to the cats who can speed run classic NES games in 10-20 minutes. And is someone who can beat Ninja Gaiden in 17 minutes "not too good" at video games if they then can't come up with basic effective strategies in a Civ game or Starcraft?
Unfortunately, this is true. It's so bizarre to me that a gamer who loved NES and SNES growing up wouldn't be at all into the Nintendo64 when it was released. He was the perfect age for it. Just entering college. Nintendo64 was the system made for dorms and nerd parties. How could someone who was a big Castlevania fan and has one of his favorite games being FF6 miss out on the Playstation with Castlevania SOTN and FF7?
Think of the gems we could have if James was big into the Nintendo64 and Playstation. Those systems have far worse junk than SNES had.
he talks about this in the back to the future revisited episode, he didnt always know how to land the plane but when he revisited it he found how simple it was, i don't think the original video was him faking it.
The guy had the patience and determination to beat Transformers. That alone makes him better at retro gaming than anyone I know (including myself).
SeventhSon
Member
The Top Gun episode was dramatizing many of our experiences from back in the day. That's what made it so funny for many of us.
He has not. And looking at pictures of the box it came in, it does seem to match up more than Gizmondo would.
Now I'm hoping it's N-Gage. Gizmondo really deserves a full episode to talk about how god awful it was.
People get in and out of video games all the time. Not everyone is a lifer.
Mafia Films
Neo Member
I can savy with him, i remember playing the game and I couldnt figure out how to land (in the 2nd top gun) and my dad could do it everytime, being 4-5 yrs old at the time I couldnt comprehend it then same as the truth, dad told me to look at the on screen specs and match them up. Then after that no problem.
We can all speculate on what he was and wasnt trying to do but we can AGREE some of the stuff is "angled" to gain that aspect of entertainment....or at least I can easily see it.
Day 10 - Hyperscan
Holy crap, I think I remember the commercials for this. Came out in 2006, so it's considered relatively new for AVGN material, but cool to see another system being looked at.
Holy crap, I think I remember the commercials for this. Came out in 2006, so it's considered relatively new for AVGN material, but cool to see another system being looked at.
BassForever
Member
Rare for the nerd to review something I've never heard of :O
R
Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
It'd be nice if he reviewed the Zeebo as well. It's not as bad as the Hyperscan, but it's got its fair share of awful games.
I'm waiting for him to do Nintendo 64 VS. PlayStation, like he did with SNES VS. Sega Genesis.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
I wonder if he'll ever do the E.T. PS1 game. It's pretty bad:
