Angry Video Game Nerd abbreviated as AVGN, and formerly known as Angry Nintendo Nerd is an American comedy retrogaming web series, created by and starring James Rolfe. The series centers on Rolfes character, The Nerd, a shorttempered and foulmouthed video game fanatic who delivers commentary and sketches on retro video games he considers to be of poor quality. The show would later encompass reviews of gaming consoles, peripherals, and short lectures about video game history and culture.citation needed
The show revolves around the Nerds commentary of retro video games which he deems to be of particularly low quality, unfair difficulty, or poor design. Rolfes character, the Nerd, is a shorttempered and foulmouthed video game fanatic who satirically reviews old video games in the form reminiscent of insult comedies such as Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Nerd plays the game while talking about its various problems, technicalities and imperfection, mixed mostly with profanity and bad language volition, in an effort to warn people against playing the game, and sometimes with a short lecture about the gaming eras history.citation needed Dressed up as a stereotypical nerd in his basement, the Nerd reviews the game with his trademark eyeglasses and white collared shirt with a pocket full of pens, high khaki pants and white socks and loafers, while sometimes being bombarded by guest characters from video games and popular culture as well. These guests often provide additional commentary on the games, mock the Nerds anguish, and act as parodies of the characters from which they had been derived. In response to them and to the games, the Nerd derives comic appeal from excessive and surrealistic use of fantasy scenarios, anger, and consumption of Rolling Rock while reviewing video games. His anger and profanity over these bad games would sometimes climax in him destroying whole game cartridges, or defecating, burning and sometimes even crushing entire video game consoles. ........
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