How did the Angry Nintendo Nerd (Angry Video Game Nerd) get started?
It started as a quick little video as a joke. I make a lot of short videos for comedic purposes, and one thing I decided to do for a quick little joke in May 2004 was to pick on an old NES game (Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest) which is regarded as a classic game, but I chose to pick on all the flaws. During the course of the review, I got more involved than I thought. I complained about every detail I could find and felt the need to swear which later became a character trait of the Angry Video Game Nerd. When I did my second video review (Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde), I took the joke a step further by appearing on screen in my “nerd” persona which I was inventing. That time, I really took my acting over the top to exaggerate how horrible the game was. It was kind of a comedy experiment and I didn’t know if anyone would find it funny. I only showed it to close friends and never put it on the internet until 2 years later. My friends thought it was really funny and because of all the encourageme
