Cinemassacre

James D. Rolfehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9A7aBQkv1M&t=80s (born: ),https://twitter.com/cinemassacre/status/1413909748492214280 better known online as Cinemassacre (or the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN or Nerd for short), formerly JamesNintendoNerd), is an American YouTuber who hosts multiple shows on the channel alongside other members, one of them is The Angry Video Game Nerd. The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews classic games from past video game consoles such as NES, Super NES and others. His videos mainly consist of comical gaming reviews that involve Rolfe getting extremely angry at bad video games. The show is written and produced by Rolfe and Justin Silverman.
The channel also used to host James & Mike Mondays, a Let's Play style show with Rolfe and friend Mike Matei. He also reviewed the infamous "worst video game of all time", Atari E.T. game from 1982 in his official movie. He's also created multiple series such as Board James, YKWBS (You Know What's Bullshit), Rental and Retail Reviews, etc.
Rolfe and the Nerd series have been extremely influential in popularizing and pioneering internet reviewing, with YouTubers such as JonTron and Doug Walker (The Nostalgia Critic) acknowledging Rolfe as a inspiration as well as his non AVGN videos. Many have also called Rolfe one of the most important internet celebrities. 
On December 18, 2020, James made an update videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2AJOdoXoTM where he explained that not only would James & Mike Mondays not be returning in 2021, but that Mike was leaving Cinemassacre for the foreseeable future, as he wanted to focus on his Twitch streams full time, which can be found archived on his own personal YouTube channel. 
==Cinemassacre Crew/Associates==
==History==
===Early Life===
Rolfe was born in New Jersey on July 10th, 1980 to parents Scott and Marlene Rolfe. They bought him an audio recorder as a Christmas present sometime in the early to mid-1980s. Later, he got a camera and took photographs with friends performing fights for new projects. He was inspired by The Legend of Zelda and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to create adventure stories. Rolfe also illustrated comic books, which he updated monthly. One such comic he created had a plot inspired by the video game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
Rolfe started filming shorts in 1989 and continued this hobby into the early 1990s. He used Mario Paint for a few of his early films. He eventually took classes for hand-drawn animation at a university. His early films did not have scripts or rehearsal. However, once he started writing scripts, his friends gradually lost interest because of the pressure of trying to remember their lines, which left many of Rolfe's films unfinished. He then tried his hand at action figures or puppets. The plot of The Giant Movie Director (1994) involved toys coming to life.
Rolfe attended the University of the Arts and has a bachelor's degree in fine arts. Since his early teen years, Rolfe operated and ran an annual "haunted house" Halloween attraction out of his parents garage (the same garage was later used in building a graveyard for his horror comedy film The Deader, the Better and again used in his film/series pilot Jersey Odysseys: Legend of the Blue Hole), using a collection of several props and antiques that he later reused multiple times in his other films.
===Career===
====Early Films====
In May 1996, he filmed A Night of Total Terror in his backyard, a horror film that he has called "the turning point of my life". In the late 1990s, Rolfe created several films such as the B-horror movie The Head Incident that he finished in 1999 but did not release until its tenth anniversary in 2009. He also made Cinemaphobia in 2001, which follows an actor who suffers from an overload of work and sees hallucinations of cameras following him. Two versions of the film were made, a ten-minute version and an extended, fifteen-minute version. Rolfe has stated his preference for the shorter ten-minute version. 
The same year, he created Kung Fu Werewolf from Outer Space which is a mainly silent movie except for narration. He also created an hour-long comedy film entitled Stoney, which is a spoof of the 1976 film Rocky. His eighth film of 2001 was It Came from Beyond the Toilet. In 2003, he created another film, Curse of the Cat Lover's Grave, which was split into three parts to define three different horror genres. Rolfe made a pilot of a planned web series entitled Jersey Odysseys: Legend of the Blue Hole, which is based on the urban legends of the state of New Jersey. The pilot centers around on the legend of the Jersey Devil.Later, in 2004, he got a job editing industrial training videos, which he quit in early 2007.
In May 2007, he began a new web series called You Know What's BS!? (formally called You Know What's Bullshit? from 2007-2020 due to YouTube's new rules on profanity), in which he rants about everyday pet peeves; such as pennies, shoelaces, pay toilets, and printers. Originally just being rants by Rolfe, he instead decided to create a new character to host the series–"The Bullshit Man" (which is just Rolfe wearing a mask resembling cow dung).
In 2007, Rolfe began filming The Deader, the Better, a classic-style B-movie horror film that pays homage to the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead. The film was shown at the Atlanta Horror Fest in October 2007. On May 5, 2006, Rolfe released a music video that included stock footage from a trip he had made to England and Scotland. The music used in his work was from the Black Sabbath single "Heaven and Hell". Rolfe also participated in the 48 Hour Film Project between 2004 and 2007. In the 2007 event, he was the Audience Award Winner for his film Spaghetti Western. His other entries were a trilogy of films called Death Suit (2004), Death Seen (2005) and Death Secret (2006).
====Angry Video Game Nerd====
Rolfe's career did not gain much momentum until May 2004, when he filmed a 5-minute short review of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game Castlevania II: Simon's Quest under the name "Bad NES Games". His character was originally named "The Angry Nintendo Nerd" but was changed to "The Angry Video Game Nerd" to avoid trademark issues and because he started reviewing games on other consoles (e.g. Sega Genesis, Atari 2600). The series covers Rolfe reviewing games that were either poorly designed (like LJN games) or were complete failures (like Hong Kong 97). His catchphrase is "What were they thinking?" 
Rolfe conceived the basis of his character while he was studying at the University of the Arts of Philadelphia when he attended from 1999 to 2004. Rolfe then made another video, which was supposed to be the last of the series, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, because it was the game he hated most. His beer drinking in most of the video was done on purpose as to say "these games are so bad I'm forced to drink". Both of these became generic traits of "The Nerd", which would appear in future videos. 
The choice of Rolling Rock was coincidental as it happened to be the only beer that Rolfe had in his refrigerator, and this eventually became an identifying trait of his character, although in more recent videos, he has also included Yuengling beer, hard-liquor and non-alcoholic hot sauce. Originally his videos were meant to be private. However, Rolfe's friend and collaborator, Mike Matei, convinced him to post the videos on a YouTube channel called "JamesNintendoNerd" (now called Cinemassacre) on April 6, 2006, which Matei created and managed for him.
On September 12th, 2006, Rolfe's character first gained mainstream attention when his review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became viral on YouTube. His videos are also posted on GameTrailers and ScrewAttack and have gained 30 million views monthly. He has over 3 million subscribers, as of September 2019. At the end of 2007, Rolfe halted the production of the series and cancelled an appearance at MAGFest after suffering from a break in his voice. 
On March 17, 2010, he made the announcement that he was suffering from burnout as a result of consistently writing, directing and starring in the videos, and that the show would be entering a brief hiatus. It was scheduled to return in May 2010; however, an episode was released on April 30. Episodes are released on either the first or second Wednesday of each month, as opposed to two episodes per month due to Rolfe's other projects. Episodes were at one point posted on YouTube over a year after their original release on GameTrailers. Rolfe formerly had affiliations with ScrewAttack before leaving in 2013.
Rolfe's character gained further fame through a fictional feud with the Nostalgia Critic (played by Doug Walker). This began with the Critic launching a satirical attack in an early episode. The feud took place over many episodes between 2008 and 2009. The two characters, and real-life comedians, are now good friends. Walker has informed his viewers of Rolfe's projects, and Rolfe has contributed to some of the Critic's subsequent videos.
Rolfe made a cameo appearance as the Nerd in a music video parody of Britney Spears' single "Piece of Me" entitled "Piece of Meat" on cinevore.com.
===Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie===
For a period, Rolfe focused his efforts on producing Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, which revolves around E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the video game for the Atari 2600. The film is a collaboration between Rolfe and Kevin Finn and was entirely funded by fan donations. The release of the film was to coincide with the 31st anniversary of the 1983 video game crash.
===Other Films===
Rolfe had a cameo in a Doritos and Pepsi commercial published online in November 2010. The ad was part of a voting contest of which the winning clip was to be shown during Super Bowl XLV. However, the ad was eventually withdrawn due to public backlash, because it spoofed the Catholic practice of Eucharist. In 2007, Rolfe had a cameo in the fan film Return of the Ghostbusters. He was featured in the 2009 documentary His Name Was Jason, in which he talks about the Friday the 13th movie series and its antagonist Jason Voorhees. Similarly, Rolfe appeared in a bonus feature to the 2010 documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, in which he discusses the Nightmare on Elm Street NES game, a title he had previously covered as the Nerd in the 13th AVGN episode. The bonus feature can be found on the second disc of the Never Sleep Again DVD set.
In 2010, it was announced that Rolfe was set to feature in a low-budget remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space entitled Plan 9, which was released through Video on Demand beginning February 16, 2016, and then released on physical media in stores on January 5, 2017. Around early to mid January 2013, Rolfe played a brief role as a news reporter in an independent short film about Sonic the Hedgehog. He is set to appear in the upcoming film In Search of Darkness, a documentary about 1980s horror films.
Commitment to the YouTube videos has slowed Rolfe's progress in making new features, but he did make a trilogy of new shorts after the AVGN movie, including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Movie (2015), based on the video game, Flying Fuckernauts vs. The Astro-Bastards (2016), a tribute to B-movie sci-fi, and Mimal the Elf (2017), a mockumentary. On May 25, 2017, in a general update video about the future of the YouTube channel, Rolfe announced he was in very early development on what he termed an "atmospheric horror movie... [the film would] take place in one room... very minimal". 
On December 29, Rolfe announced that 2018 would lean more toward his own original projects, and that he had begun writing the untitled horror film. It would be in the vein of past projects, such as Legend of the Blue Hole and Cinemaphobia. On August 8, 2018, Rolfe said he was 50-75% done with the script, and that it would contain some type of 'nostalgia theming', but it would likely undergo further rewrites and had no plans to film it in the near future. On June 19, 2019, Rolfe said the script was completed, but commitment to video production would delay the project for the foreseeable future.
===Other Video Series===
Cinemassacre has published a number of other reviews featuring James and associates as themselves. The topics include video games (under the James & Mike Mondays series), video game peripherals such as the VictorMaxx Stuntmaster headset, and films. One of Rolfe's other series is Board James, where he and Mike Matei review old board games in a humorous way, often with recurring characters. This show eventually developed into a psychological horror series, while still containing board game reviews in each episode.
Rolfe was involved in a fifteen-part series titled OverAnalyzers, where he played the part of the manager of a fictional company that over analyzed various pop culture references. The series was edited and produced by another website called Cinevore. He also worked as a film reviewer on Spike.com.
Rolfe has run Monster Madness, in which he reviews one horror movie for each day in October, since 2007. Each year, he has adopted a different theme for Monster Madness. 2007 was the history of horror. 2008 was Godzillathon, in which he reviewed all of the Godzilla films chronologically. 2009 was Monster Madness Three, which dealt with a variety of popular and little known films of horror. 2010 was Camp Cult, which dealt with both campy horror films as well as cult classic films, such as Troll 2. 2011 was Sequel-A-Thon, which dealt with horror sequels. And 2012 was 80's-a-Thon, which included only movies made in the 1980s. 
While the first five years of Monster Madness have been one film review per day for the entirety of the month of October 2012's 80's-a-Thon series of Monster Madness was reduced to every other day of October due to the production of The Angry Video Game Nerd Movie. Despite the decreased number of film reviews, the film reviews in 80's-a-Thon were longer than previous reviews on Monster Madness. With October 2013's Sequel-A-Thon 2, Monster Madness has returned to one review per day. 2013 was Sequel-A-Thon 2, which dealt with more horror sequels. The final 31 marathon Monster Madness series ran during October 2016. Rolfe expressed his desire to move onto other Halloween-themed projects and reviews in the future, but said that Monster Madness will always live on in some way.
In 2017, Son of Monster Madness debuted, which consisted simply of five new reviews, with the rest of October bulked by reuploads of older reviews previously not available on YouTube.
===Personal Life===
Rolfe attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia from 1999 to 2004. He continued residing in Philadelphia after graduation. He briefly relocated to Los Angeles while filming Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014), returning to Philadelphia upon completion of the movie.
In 2004, Rolfe was involved in a car crash when a utility trailer came loose from its truck, flung out to the other part of the highway, and hit him head-on. Miraculously, Rolfe sustained no physical injuries from the crash, while his Saturn Ion, which he had bought just nine days prior, was wrecked. Later that year, Rolfe discussed his experience in a short movie, Mechanical Losses, which can be seen on YouTube.
Rolfe met April Chmura in July 2004; she was a cinematographer on the early Nerd episodes. They began dating shortly after and got married in November 2007. He announced at the premiere trailer for Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie in November 2012, that they were expecting their first child. In April 2013, she gave birth to a baby girl. Rolfe has not divulged details about his daughter except for a few photos and expressing thanks that his wife got past complications resulting during childbirth.
In November 2013, April posted an update on James's Cinemassacre website that their daughter is continually seeking medical treatment due to unspecified complications. On April 13, 2016, Rolfe revealed what happened while announcing an auction of various Cinemassacre memorabilia to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children. During birth, his daughter suffered nerve damage in one of her arms, and required many months of physical therapy to gain full use of it. Rolfe expressed gratitude to Shriners for all they did for his family during that time.
On April 19, 2017, Rolfe announced on his Twitter account that he and his wife April are expecting another daughter. Their second daughter was born on August 31, 2017. Rolfe is a fan of heavy metal music. He has stated his favorite band is Black Sabbath. He also enjoys Iron Maiden and Pantera.
He has a younger sister named Gina (born 1984). They are of Italian ancestry.
==Channel Series==
=== Angry Video Game Nerd===
The most popular of the channel's shows, the show revolves around Rolfe playing a character known as "The Nerd" reviewing old school video games which he deems of poor quality. After he's done reviewing them, he very frequently destroys the game in some way. The series has also strayed from reviewing the game itself, into different storylines and plotlines to help further the episode. There are also numerous characters that have been introduced into the series, often to coincide with the video, these character include Guitar Guy, Glitch Gremlin, Shitpickle, The Joker, Batman, Jason Vorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, and several others. Since he started doing the show regularly in 2006, he's produced 14 seasons, season 14 being the one that's airing in 2020. Season 1-9 have been released on DVD, and Seasons 1-13 have been released on Blu-ray. They also put out AVGN Volume X on Blu-ray, which contains the first 100 episodes, or 5 seasons, of the series.
=== James & Mike Mondays===
James and Mike Mondays (previously known as James and Mike Play) is a series where James Rolfe and his friend Mike Matei play either classic or modern games unscripted, often times having other guests on, such as Bad Luck Bootsy, Kyle (the guy who sings the AVGN theme song), JonTron, Macaulay Culkin, among others. They've released a blu-ray which shows some of the best episodes and/or highlights in the series, but have yet to release the entire series on Blu-ray.
===Board James===
This show features Rolfe playing old board games mostly from the 1980's and early 1990's as a character called "Board James".
The show often strays from only reviewing the game itself, into cinematic horror-comedy style humor. The show also co-stars Mike Matei as Motherf——cker Mike, alongside Brendan Castner as Bootsy. 
The series has been on hiatus since 2015, but James has noted that it could definitely come back in the future, should any more good ideas cross his mind. Between 2009 and 2015, he produced 3 seasons, which ended up developing into an overarching, complicated storyline. He explained the mythology to everyone in the video "Board James Mythology Explained."
===You Know Whats BS!?===
A series starring Rolfe where he rants about different subjects that he calls bullshit, while wearing a mask that resembles bull feces. Since the series started in 2007, he's produced 36 episodes and counting.
===Monster Madness===
====2007 - History of Horror====
During the first Monster Madness in October of 2007, James did a "History of Horror" where he talked about 30 of the best and/or most influencial horror movies in history, staring in the 1930's, and ending in the 2,000's.
====2008 - Godzillathon ====
During the 2008 Monster Madness, James did a Godzillathon, where he reviewed all 29 of the major Godzilla films up to that point, even the 1998 Godzilla American remake.
====2009 - Monster Madness Three====
During the 2009 Monster Madness, James did the same thing he did the first time, two years ago, where he chronicalled the history of horror movies, from 1910 up until the 2000's, for thirty days in a row.
==== 2010 - Camp Cult====
During the 2010 Monster Madness, James did a thing called Camp Cult, where he talked about a movie every single day that is considered a cult classic by today's standards, although not all of them are considered good. In addition, he also did bonus videos such as a tribute to Monstervisision, his Crestwood House Monster Books collection, and his collection of the Universal Studios Monster Classics.
====2011 - Sequel-a-Thon====
During the 2011 Monster Madness, James did Sequel-a-Thon, where he went back and reviewed all of the major sequels to a few of the series they've talked about before, including Frankenstein, Dracula, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween.
====2012 - 80's-a-Thon====
During the 2012 Monster Madness, James did 80's-a-Thon, where he reviewed 16 classic horror movies or monster movies from the 80's, uploading one every other day, rather than other years, where he uploaded one every single day.
====2013 - Sequel-a-Thon 2====
During the 2013 Monster Madness, James did another Sequel-a-Thon, where he talked about all the major sequels of not only films he's talked about before on Monster Madness, but sequels to series he hasn't, including The Mummy, Frankenstein, Gamera, Alien, and the Of the Dead Franchise; in addition, he also ended it with a full commentary of Night of the Living Dead due to it being in the public domain.
====2014 - Monster Madness Eight====
During the 2014 Monster Madness, James chose to not have any sort of specific category, but instead just review random horror movies throughout the decades. One day he would review one from the 1930's, the next from the 2000's, and the next he'd go back several decades, all month long.
====2015 - Monster Madness Nine====
During the 2015 Monster Madness, James chose to not have any sort of specific category, but instead just review random horror movies throughout the decades. One day he would review one from the 1930's, the next from the 2000's, and the next he'd go back several decades, all month long. Aside from his normal reviews, of which he did 27 of, James also did four discussions about Horror Movies or Halloween, too.
====2016 - Monster Madness X====
The 2016 version of Monster Madness has been said to be James' last ever Monster Madness, after ten years of doing the series. Every day of the week has a different theme. Modern Monday, Top 10 Tuesday, WTF Wednesday, Blood Thirsty Thursday, Franken Friday, and Whatever Weekends.
====2017 - Monster Madness 11/Son of Monster Madness/Sunday Bloody Sunday====
Even though he previously stated that he was done with Monster Madness, he did decide to bring it back during October of 2017, calling Son of Monster Madness. This time around, however, he would only post a review every Sunday, earning it its alternate name Sunday Bloody Sunday, which means five reviews in total.
#Gargoyles (1972)
#The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
#Hobgoblins (1988)
# The Exorcist Prequels: Beginning (2004) & Dominion (2005)
#Don't Breathe (2016)
====2018 - Monster Madness 12====
During October 2018, James uploaded very few new horror movie reviews, while compling the rest of the month with Resurrected Reviews. These are where he uploads old Monster Madness reviews to YouTube for the first time, editing out the clips and replacing them with still images to avoid copyright.
====2019 - Monster Madness 13====
====2020 - Monster Madness 14====
====2021 - Monster Madness 15 - The RETURN of Monster Madness - Around the World ====
With 2021's Monster Madness, subtitled Around the World, he chose movies from various different countries, to explore how other cultures interprets horror. Every movie he reviewed was from a different country. 
==== 2022 - Monster Madness 16====
=== Rental Reviews ===
Rental Reviews is a more recent series on the channel where James and his friends Justin, Tony, and Kiren, casually discuss & review various movies, sometimes horror, but not always. Occasionally Mike will join them too, but not often. The reviews take place in James' basement, which is laid out in the design of a retro video rental store, which he humorously calls Cinemassacre Video; this is due to James' deep seated nostalgia for old school video rental stores.
== Characters==
===Protagonists===
===Antagonists===
===Other===
#Naggi
# Beer Droid
# Mr. Riggs
# The Cowardly Lion
==Cinemassacre Extras (Channel)==
James and Mike have another channel on YouTube, where they upload additional bonus material such as old Angry Video Games episodes in higher quality and other bonus material.
==Angry Video Game Nerd Movie==
It was announced that a movie based on his "Angry Nerd" Character would be made. The film premiered at the Grauman's Theater in Hollywood, California, on July 21, 2014.
===Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures===
Matei appeared as a playable character in 2013's The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures for Steam and Wii U. He wields a red lightsaber and has the ability to see through blocks hiding items that will assist the play such as health. His only quote is "Hey, Nerd! You're here too!" once the player stumbles upon him. When the actual Nerd reviewed such a game in AVGN Games, he didn't know who Mike was. This is because Mike only appears behind the scenes between the Nerd's fictitious world and James Rolfe's real world.
===Mike's Game Glitches ===
On January 14, 2011, Mike Matei did his first solo video for Cinemassacre "How to Jump Over The Flagpole on Stage 1-1 in Super Mario Bros". Which went viral on the web. In interviews, Matei has stated that he originally was going to include this as part of the abandoned video "AVGN Game Glitches 2". Instead, Matei started his own spin-off series called "Mike's Game Glitches", where he showed the audience how to perform glitches and tricks in video games. This series ran from Feb 2011 to Feb 2012. Currently Matei spends most of his time editing James & Mike Mondays and other Cinemassacre videos.
===Game Reviews===
===James & Mike Mondays===
See Above
===Mike & Ryan Talk About Games===
== Miscellaneous==
Though Mike began doing comedic videos, he has progressed into doing more serious critiques of games. Matei is a major contributor in helping with the video editing for Cinemassacre's Monster Madness. Rolfe also made many student films in college.
==Theme Songs==
Starting with his review of McKids James got his close friend and musician Kyle Justin to write and record an offical theme song for the show, by taking a lot of the phrases that James has said in previous reviews and putting them into lyrics.thumb|left|335 px
===Original Lyrics===
"He's gonna take you back to the past, to play the shitty games that suck ass, 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, he's the angriest gamer you've ever heard, he's the angry Nintendo Nerd, he's the angry Atari Sega nerd, he's the angry video game nerd."
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===Full Lyrics===
"He's gonna take you back to the past, to play the shitty games that suck ass, 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, he's the angriest gamer you've ever heard, he's the angry Nintendo Nerd, he's the angry Atari Sega nerd, he's the angry video game nerd. When you turn on your TV, make sure it's tuned to channel 3, he's got a nerdy shirt, and a pocket pouch, although I've never seen him write anything down, he's got a power glove, and a filthy mouth, armed with his every will tear these games down. He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard, he's the angry Nintendo nerd, he's the angry Atari Sega nerd, he's the Angry Video Game Nerd. He plays the worst games of all time, horrible abonimations of mankind. They make him so mad he could spit, or say cowabunga - Cowa fuckin' piece of dog shit. The rip you off and down care one bit, but this nerd he doesn't forget it, like why can't a turtle swim, why can't I land a plane, they got a quick buck for this shit load of fuck. The characters names are wrong, why are the passwords so long, why don't the wapons do anything.....he's the angriest gamer you've ever heard.....the games suck so bad he makes up his own words. He's the angriest most pisssed off gaming nerd. He's the angry Atari, Amigo, CD-I, Colecovision, Intelevision, Sega, Neo Geo, Turbo GrafiX 16, Odyssey, 3DO, Commador, Ninendo nerd.....he's the angry.....video game.....nerd....."
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===Christmas Alternative Lyrics===
"He's playing some games, the worst he recalls, he's gonna find out which ones suck the most balls, the Angry Video Game Nerd is here. Oh, he's making a list and checking it twice, he's gonna go home and eat chicken and rice, the Angry Video Game Nerd is here. He plays the games that stink, he knows which games to break, he just might even hate them all, cause he's mad for fuckin' sake. You better watch out, don't give these games a try, you better not play them, he's telling you why, the Angry Video Game Nerd is here."
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===Nintendo Power Alternative Lyrics===
"Get the power, Nintendo Power, get the clues that you can use Nintendo Power, higher and higher fighting your way through enemy fire."
===Techno Remix===
As a one time thing James had the theme song remixed in a techno version.
==Controversies==
===ScreenWave Media===
In 2014, the company who previously owned Cinemassacre, ScrewAttack disbanded which would later become Death Battle. Around 2015, Cinemassacre was acquired by ScreenWave Media since James's friend, Ryan Schott was the founder of the company. Many older fans would question the company's practices. Such as the sudden disappearance of Bootsy and Kyle Justin around 2016. While the initial reason for Bootsy's departure was because of his music career, he later revealed that it was because Mike was jealous of his popularityhttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheCinemassacreTruth/comments/b3hg3v/bootsy_response_pt_2/eizuxjk. However, the reason for Kyle Justin's departure is currently unknown, although many theories exist online.
Soon new members would join Cinemassacre like Justin Silverman, Kieran Fallon, and Tony Piluso, who've been met with mixed responses from fans. Some would criticize the editing, humor, and continuation of the Angry Video Game Nerd. An example is the multiple sound effects in the new 'You Know What's Bullshit' episodes. It even got to the point where a subreddit, called 'The Cinemassacre Truth', was created to "expose" the channel. However, Cinemassacre has never made a comment on these criticisms, and most fans nowadays are unaware of the subreddit's existence.
==Quotes==
*"This game sucks." (AVGN's first in-character words)
*"What a sh*tload of f*ck."
*A**! Hole? A** [Beep]! Television makes a lot of sense."
*"A**!"
*"You know what's bullsh*t?!"
*"Yeah, I like saying the word 'a**' a lot. I guess you could say I'm an 'a**aholic.'"
*"I'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in my ear."
*"I'd rather eat the rotten a**hole of a roadkill skunk and down it with beer."
*"I'd rather have a diarrhea dog take a lava dump in my ear!"
*"I'd rather [some masochistic behavior]."
*"What were they thinking?" (The Nerd’s catchphrase)
*"I'm drinking Rolling Rock...ON THE ROLL'N'ROCKER!"
*"You know what, you f*cking game, I banged your mom."
*"Cowa f*ckin' piece of dog sh*t! This game is diarrhea coming out of my d*ck!"
*"THIS GAME IS DIARRHEA COMING OUT OF AN OLD WOMAN'S BLEEDING VAGINA! IT'S F*CKING TERRIBLE!"
*"It's MeatWad! Yeah, it's f*cking MeatWad!"
*"You're a p**py head!"
*"Oh my god, my life is complete! It says f*ck! IT SAYS F**************************-"
*"Even the song is the same, but it's not that bad. It sounds like nail making sweet love to chalkboard, rather than the hardcore nail on chalkboard gangbang like the nes version” (comparing the music of the NES and SNES versions of Legend of Kage)
*"None of this Madden bullsh*t. Just plain ass, normal, everyday, no question about it, no NFL, no year, not named after a player, not named after a coach, not named after the referee's pet goldfish, no quarterback, dime-back, Nickelback; simple, ordinary, un-embellished, unmistakable, crystal clear, as frank as Frankenstein, as blunt as an atom bomb - one compound word: IT'S MOTHERF*CKING GODDAMN SONS OF BITCHING F*CK F*CK F*CKING FOOTBALL!!!"
*"64 bit. 32 bit. 16 bit. 8 bit. 4 BIT. 2 BIT. 1 BIT! HALF BIT! QUARTER BIT! THE WRIST GAAAAAAAAME!!!"
*"I WANNA BE SEDATED BY A GAME BOOOOOOOOOY!"
*"YOUR MOM HAS AN OVERSIZED BOX!!!"
==Trivia==
*In the Power Rangers episode of James & Mike Mondays, James said that, back in 2006 or 2007, he was originally planning on having a different character for each console. They would be the Angry Nintendo Nerd, (the original name of the Angry Video Game Nerd), the Pissed Off Playstation Poindexter, and the Atari Geek. This is what inspired the idea in the Power Rangers AVGN episode. It's unknown what his Sega name would have been, or if they would have originally been able to fuse together into The Angry Video Game Nerd. He also presumably didn't have a name for the Tiger games, as it's very unlikely that he ever planned to review Tiger games at that point, (plus, later on, he only talked about them two times, one in their own episode, and another when he talked about Mortal Kombat 1 Ports).
*In the video "Top 10 Popular Films I Don't Love", James has stated he is of Italian descent.
*James has stated that he wanted to make movies ever since he was a kid.
* He is one of the original YouTubers having started his career in 2006 along with Onision, Nigahiga, and Shane.
*He actually started his career back in 2004 when he uploaded videos on his website.
*Due to the reveal of Board James and the Nerd being the same person, many fans have speculated that the Board James series is either a prequel to AVGN or a sequel. However, James Rolfe has revealed that The Nerd is Board James's split personality, although Rolfe has also said that he sees the two entities as separate ones, hinting that Board James may be imagining that part as well, or there may exist an alternate universe, where they are two identities in the same person.
* As explained in the Board James Mythology Explained video, the release dates of each Board James episode has a secret message when taking the date numbers.April 1 = 1May 3 = 3June 1 = 1July 3 = 3August 4 = 4September 5 = 5November 1 = 1December 4 = 4If you take the last four numbers and convert them into words, the message reveals itself as "1313 DEAD".
*Also explained in the Board James Mythology Explained video, the hats that Board James wears: Apple, Frankinstein, Top Gun, Empire Strikes Back, RCA and the Skull that means death. If you take the first letters of each of the first 6, A-F-T-E-R Death = After Death.
*In the 3rd season, you can see that Board James's T-Shirts get increasingly darker by episode: White, Orange, Light Grey, Blue, Navy then Black.
*The May 5, 2014 episode of James & Mike Mondays, titled, "NES Remix", marks the first time that an eighth generation console has appeared on the Cinemassacre channel (Wii U).
*The September 21, 2015 episode of James & Mike Mondays, titled, "Metroid (NES) Part 2", marks the first and so far only time in the series (as well as in all of Cinemassacre) where James has done a solo let's play.
*In a podcast with Pat Contri, Mike explains the conception and origins of the show James & Mike Mondays (beginning at 8:05).
*The March 30, 2020 episode of James & Mike Mondays, titled, "Timberman VS" marks the first time since "TMNT III: The Manhattan Project" that James and Mike played in separate locations via video call.
**The video's upload comes during the COVID-19 pandemic where people are practicing social distancing and self-quarantine to avoid spreading/coming into contact with the virus.
*The second episode of You Know What's Bulls*it?, his rant on pennies was featured on CNN, but all the swear words in the CNN broadcast were censored. You can watch a recording Here
* In episode 38 of You Know What's Bullsh*t?, the intro is changed to "You know what's BS?". He claims he "can't say the word anymore". He says it anyway at the end.
*James Rolfe (as himself from Rental Reviews) made a cameo in the "Amiga CD32" episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd where the Nerd inquired if anyone in Surf Ninjas got their heart ripped-out Kano style since it happened in the video game adaptation. After James uncomfortably denies this, the Nerd hangs up on him as James calls the Nerd an a**hole for his rudeness.
*The series Talk About Games was conceived out of Mike's desire to do more videos on modern games, as he had predominately been a retro gamer up to that point. Since Ryan enjoyed playing modern games a lot, Mike suggested to Ryan the idea of them doing videos together. Ryan did not initially want to do it, but Mike was eventually able to convince him. Mike explained this in a live stream he did of Super Mario Bros. 3, although the stream was later removed.
*James Rolfe had a cat, named Boo! Haunted House, who appeared in several episodes of Angry Video Game Nerd. He died in 2020 from cancer at 13 years of age.
* James has another snow-white cat named Yeti, who has yet appeared in the "Purr Pals" episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd.
*In the part where Boo chases the Jaguar cube, a laser pointer was used to get Boo to chase after it, which is how the scene was created. The laser dot can be seen as the cube moves around the floor.
* He was never directed to by name in the series, instead being addressed to as "cat", "little b*stard", or "death kitty".
*Boo makes a short appearance in the Board James review of Weapons and Warriors, chasing after plastic balls and disturbing Motherf*cker Mike's focus as he tries to play the game.
*James was a guest star in the Adult Swim series, Smiling Friends where he made a brief live-action cameo. It was originally thought that he also played as Satan. However this was debunked, instead being voiced by Zach Hadel.
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== External links==
#Angry Video Game Nerd Wiki
#JamesNintendoNerd on YouTube
#What Happened To Bootsy?
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