Angry Video Game Nerd

The Angry Video Game Nerd (abbreviated as AVGN; formerly The Angry Nintendo Nerd) is the main character and name of the series of farcical retrogaming reviews by James D. Rolfe,1 that airs on the GameTrailers website. The show's premise involves the Angry Video Game Nerd's over-the-top rants against particularly bad video games. The series began as a feature on YouTube, and later joined ScrewAttack Entertainment, which would later have three of its features, including AVGN, transfered to GameTrailers exclusively. The series' theme song is played on guitar by Kyle Justin with lyrics by both Justin and Rolfe.2

The extremely funny Nerd character is an ill-tempered and foul-mouthed video game fanatic who tends to treat the games he reviews as the lowest possible objects in existence. He derives comic appeal from his loud New Jersey accent, his both excessive and inventive use of profanity, and his heavy drinking of Rolling Rock and Yuengling to "soothe the pain."3 A particular characteristic are his favorable comparisons of extremely repulsive and/or painful, usually firmly scatological, acts to playing the game (his theme song, for example, specifically states, "He'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear/He'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a roadkilled skunk and down it with beer"). The Nerd is not without limits - after touching dead baby comedy at the end of a rant during the video on Bible-based Nintendo games, he called it disgusting and apologized. Varying amounts of more elaborate physical comedy is mixed into the verbal abuse.

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