He's going to take you back to the past

So my original intention was to make my next blog post about human mortality. Deep subject I know. I was going to quote the 5 remembrances of buddist monks and then talk about this guy from Africa who is visiting America and who made an observation about America's style of life and the mortality of men (and women). But I'm not going to do that. I'm going to talk about video games.

James Rolfe, aka the Angry Video Game Nerd, is amazing. I could watch his videos all day. He originally began as the angry nintendo nerd, and many of those videos are still available on youtube. He is one of the most subscribed people on youtube, but he has branched out beyond nintendo.

When I was a child I would play nintendo and yell at the television and tell my parents the game was cheating. They didn't believe me. How could a toy cheat. Well I'll tell you, the games were just shitty. That is how James got his start. He still had all of his old nintendo stuff and would play it from time to time and then yell at the tv just like I did. He began to film this because it was funny and he became an internet sensation. Now you can watch him regularly on www.gametrailers.com where he makes hilarious profanity laden videos in which he yell at his tv while playing really bad video games. He has branched out beyond nintendo though and is now playing bad games on any console.

But the best thing about his videos isn't just that they are entertaining, the best thing is that I have learned a ton about the history of video games while watching his videos. There are a lot of bad video games out there, but you can't just keep reviewing obscure videos. I mean the best thing about his review of teenage mutant ninja turtles is that he gets to the part I always go to and was like "now what do I do. I have no idea" and then he never completes the game. That is amazing because that is exactly what my 8 year old self did. However some of the games he plays I've never heard of and I get bored watching it. Yeah it is a bad game but I don't care because I didn't ever play it. But what I love is that lately he had been moving on from bad video games and just talking about series of games. For example the Zelda games have no time line. He spent a whole video talking about this fact and showed clips from all the games. The Zelda games are good too, so I learned a lot about Zelda games that I have never played. He recently made a 4 part special about Castlevania. It was amazing. I love Castlevania. To me what has been so great watching him over the past year is that I learn about the history of video games, all the consoles, all the roles of the characters. Mario has been in like a billion video games. It is awesome to see someone who is so knowledgeable about video games and can present that information in an entertaining and interesting manner.

Anyway I'm going to go play video games, or watch James talk about video games, or do both simultaneously. I don't know. Keep on rocking in the free world.