Angry Video Game Nerd

The Angry Video Game Nerd (abbreviated as AVGN, occasionally shortened to The Nerd) is the main character and title of a series of farcicial retro video reviews by James Rolfe, sometimes credited as James D. Rolfe.  Starring James Rolfe, the show generally revolves around retro game reviews that involve bitter rants against games he deemed to be of particularly low-quality or poor design. Such games are often associated with movie tie-ins. The series began as a feature on Youtube, and later joined ScrewAttack, which would later have three of its features, including the AVGN, transferred to GameTrailers exclusively. The show, formerly known as The Angry Nintendo Nerd, was renamed because the show started reviewing games on other consoles, and also to prevent any trademark issues with Nintendo

The Nerd character is a short-tempered and foul-mouthed video game fanatic. He derives comic appeal from excessive and inventive use of bad words, frequent displays of explicit gestures, and the consumption of beer, particularly Rolling Rock, and on a few occasions Yuengiling. A particular characteristic, which has become something of a trademark of his character, is for him to describe, in great detail, extremely repulsive and painful, usually firmly violent acts, and to claim that he would rather endure them than to play the game that he is reviewing. Varying amounts of physical comedy are mixed into the verbal abuses.

The angrier he gets, the smaller he becomes.