James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

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Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,811 63.5%

  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votes: 143 5.0%

  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votes: 96 3.4%

  • Board James

    Votes: 441 15.5%

  • Monster Madness

    Votes: 270 9.5%

  • James' movie reviews

    Votes: 90 3.2%
  • Total voters
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Aquafag said:
NGL I actually did manage to listen to the audio book on one of my long ass drives. It was absolutely fascinating. The stuff about his school and college life is infinitely more interesting than anything he's made on the AVGN and makes me wonder why his feature film (AVGN the movie) wasn't about his college life. The film of the "roomgoers" destroying the dorm would have been infinitely more entertaining to watch than the avgn movie. I wish that lost media would turn up someday.
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Red Cow did an analysis on that, for the whole incident that got him expelled, he allegedly destroyed the footage, and never asked who ratted him out. One of the most interesting parts of his life, and he failed basic journalism. He’d much rather talk about the dragon from his dreams, or the short bus drivers. Just all part of the autism that fuels his life.

 
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Friendly Primarina said:
How quickly was it adopted, to be fair? Also "hurr durr 1997 was before DVD before YouTube" is an incredibly patronizing thing to say. Like no shit, James, 1997 was before YouTube.
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Technically, DVD existed in 95 but by 96 DVD's were in video stores. And were pretty common by 97.

I know it's nit-picky but he makes it seem like DVD either did not exist or was just insanely niche which is just not true. By 97 it was starting to be widely adopted. Stores everywhere were showing off DVD's but the problem was that stand-alone players would go for about $300-500... Not unless you bought a DVD rom drive which would cost about $100. By 99 the majority of people had jumped on board when more DVD's with elaborate special features like Fight Club or movies with amazing presentations (for the time) like The Matrix had come out.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
I'm going to call it: the next AVGN episode will be a console review. Why am I sure of this? Because console review episodes always do big numbers.
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What console is left for him to do a decent review?

Apple Pippin? Nobody had one.
Super Duck? Awesome name, meh console
PC-FX? Atari porn 2.0
Gizmondo? If he can find one that hasn't melted yet.

The one that I think he could do a semi decent review is the Turbografx, but that console has been review to dead by another channels already.
 
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Pepe Cortisona said:
What console is left for him to do a decent review?

Apple Pippin? Nobody had one.
Super Duck? Awesome name, meh console
PC-FX? Atari porn 2.0
Gizmondo? If he can find one that hasn't melted yet.

The one that I think he could do a semi decent review is the Turbografx, but that console has been review to dead by another channels already.
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Neo Geo. I'm calling it.
 
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Pepe Cortisona said:
What console is left for him to do a decent review?

Apple Pippin? Nobody had one.
Super Duck? Awesome name, meh console
PC-FX? Atari porn 2.0
Gizmondo? If he can find one that hasn't melted yet.

The one that I think he could do a semi decent review is the Turbografx, but that console has been review to dead by another channels already.
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He has an Astrocade.
 
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Pepe Cortisona said:
What console is left for him to do a decent review?

Apple Pippin? Nobody had one.
Super Duck? Awesome name, meh console
PC-FX? Atari porn 2.0
Gizmondo? If he can find one that hasn't melted yet.

The one that I think he could do a semi decent review is the Turbografx, but that console has been review to dead by another channels already.
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He got the Amiga500... Mike did a stream about the A500mini some years ago and he seemed to enjoy Castlevania and the likes for it so my guess it's where it's at.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Technically, DVD existed in 95 but by 96 DVD's were in video stores. And were pretty common by 97.

I know it's nit-picky but he makes it seem like DVD either did not exist or was just insanely niche which is just not true. By 97 it was starting to be widely adopted. Stores everywhere were showing off DVD's but the problem was that stand-alone players would go for about $300-500... Not unless you bought a DVD rom drive which would cost about $100. By 99 the majority of people had jumped on board when more DVD's with elaborate special features like Fight Club or movies with amazing presentations (for the time) like The Matrix had come out.
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yeah my fam had a compaq w/ a zip drive and slow ass DVD rom in 97. I remember getting the rush hour DVD the following year just to watch it
 
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I'd like him to do weirdo laserdisc or whatever obscure hardware, but the last hardware he did was C64 in 2021 and that was one of my least favorites. Before that was 3DO which was decent. Then all the way back to 2019 for Aladdin Deck Enhancer which was ok too. The last one he did that I really liked a lot goes all the way back to 2017 with Gameboy accessories.

If he does anymore at all, I'd like to see Neo-Geo as well. It's weird since a lot of his best classic era ones were consoles/systems (Tiger, Coleco, Jaguar)
 
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mlanguishi said:
I'd like him to do weirdo laserdisc or whatever obscure hardware, but the last hardware he did was C64 in 2021 and that was one of my least favorites. Before that was 3DO which was decent. Then all the way back to 2019 for Aladdin Deck Enhancer which was ok too. The last one he did that I really liked a lot goes all the way back to 2017 with Gameboy accessories.

If he does anymore at all, I'd like to see Neo-Geo as well. It's weird since a lot of his best classic era ones were consoles/systems (Tiger, Coleco, Jaguar)
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Laserdisc games would be interesting. It would allow him to sperg about the history of Laserdisc and movies too. Criterion releasing movies on Laserdisc was the origin of movies having special features like commentaries, deleted scenes, etc.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Laserdisc games would be interesting. It would allow him to sperg about the history of Laserdisc and movies too. Criterion releasing movies on Laserdisc was the origin of movies having special features like commentaries, deleted scenes, etc.
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He did a pretty long video on CED, so I'd think Lasersdisc+the weird games on it would be a good 20 minute or so disc. Hell, I could write a video for him, and I never think this way, about how the Star Wars Definitive Edition set and Jurassic Park LDs were premium content on LD for a long time. For a long time in the mid 80s until DVD in 96-97 Laserdisc was the king of home media. I remember going to $20k home theater demos and you could see the grid screen of the LED proections at 80" or so, and they looked bad but sounded great.

Roger Ebert pushed Laserdisc really hard back then.

 
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mlanguishi said:
He did a pretty long video on CED, so I'd think Lasersdisc+the weird games on it would be a good 20 minute or so disc. Hell, I could write a video for him, and I never think this way, about how the Star Wars Definitive Edition set and Jurassic Park LDs were premium content on LD for a long time. For a long time in the mid 80s until DVD in 96-97 Laserdisc was the king of home media. I remember going to $20k home theater demos and you could see the grid screen of the LED proections at 80" or so, and they looked bad but sounded great.

Roger Ebert pushed Laserdisc really hard back then.

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Not only that but the Laserdiscs themselves were expensive. At least $100-150 a piece. More so if it's a collectible movie. You were lucky to find them for $50 used.
 
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