I'm curious to know the age range of the fans for AVGN.
I'm 32.
EDIT:
And what kind of gamer are you?
1. Classic
2. Newer games
3. Older, newer? a good game is a good game. I don't care how old it is
I'm the third one. I like all types of games regardless of age.
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I'd imagine his fans range from late 30's (people who originally played these crap games) on down. I was 9 when the NES came out and I still remember the first time I ever played one. At my friends 10th birthday party in 1986. He got the NES with that POS Rob the Robot and our young asses were amazed by it. As crappy as Gyromite was it was light years beyond the Atari 2600 I had at my house. I had to wait until 1987 before I got my first NES.
Anyway, I don't know how much enjoyment a person who had never played Ghostbusters for NES (I actually never played it on NES, but had it on C64 and it was every bit as crappy) or X Men would get watching some guy rant and make jokes about them.
But for our generation it's hilarious because we all played these games and we all said the exact same damn things in our bedrooms back in the day while we played these turds.
He made a comment once about how your whole weekend could be ruined if you picked the wrong game to rent and that is exactly what growing up playing the NES was. Like his Friday the 13th review? I had a friend who bought that game and called me up so I rushed over to play it and of course after playing it for 10 minutes we both thought it was a complete turd. My friend flushed 50 bucks down the drain. That's what the NES was like, we bought and rented games without really knowing much about them or just the BS reviews we read in Nintendo Power.
I bought lots of games without really knowing anything about them, I just read the descriptions on the back of the box or had a friend recommend it. Sometimes they were great, Bionic Commando, Blades of Steel, Baseball Stars and sometimes they were awful like say NFL Football (made by LJN, I learned the hard way to stay away from any game that said LJN on it).
Looking back on it, I really think the people who ran LJN were damn near evil. Really, they knew their games were awful yet they put them in stores so unsuspecting children would buy them. I'm not even kidding, that's just a really evil thing to do. Kids don't have much money. Tricking them into spending 40 or 50 bucks on a crappy game isn't right. I blew birthday and paper route money on the POS NFL football game.
I also think younger kids who have grown up playing video games (even if they weren't NES games) can relate to shelling out hard earned money on a total POS video game and being pissed about it.
And the guy is funny. So I'd imagine his fans are from late 30's, maybe early 40's on down.
That ghostbusters game, the "funny" thing is that I remember that as one of my favourite games for the C64. I was rather surprised that everybody universally hated it later.
Even though I never was even close to finish the game or at that age (8 years old) understand what the purpose was, I truly enjoyed driving around and busting ghosts.
But I was rather lucky in that my first console was a Master System and that we were poor when I was a kid, so I only got the games that were on sale and with a smaller library there were not that many DUDs and when I got one (like Back To The Future 2) it didn't feel that bad when we only payed around $10 for it.
Well, I believe Ghostbusters came out on C64 several years before the NES version, so maybe at the time it came out it wasn't as crappy. I got it when I was about 9 or 10 probably and I honestly had no idea what you were supposed to do.
I just sat there playing it and everything he said is true, the music never stops, nothing really ever happens etc. So anyway, I hated it.
I always enjoyed role playing games like Bards Tale or Questron more personally. I also loved those text based games. You ever play the Marvel ones? I think they were called Questprobe? I couldn't get anywhere on those either but I loved them. I had Spider Man and I believe the Hulk. I think they made an FF one too, but I never had that.
My friend would also copy me all these collections of games that had all the popular arcade games (or knock offs of them, like Pac Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, etc) and I loved those.
But Ghostbusters was just really ugly and really boring. I never cared for it.
No, I've never heard of the Hulk and the Spider Man text adventure games. Sounds interesting. I like those games too, I remember playing Jewels of Darkness and Masters of the Universe and a couple more that I can't remember the names of.
I remember being in awe over how cool this concept was to interect with the game thru words. Even though I really sucked at them. Back then you didn't have access to walkthroughs when you got stuck, so you either had to ask friends/relatives to help you (which in my family and circle of friends never helped) or keep on walking the same paths trying everything until you gave up. The best part was when you got so frustrated you started to type in swear words. I remember some game warning you and then punishing you by restarting the game. When that happend I both laughed and was stunned as I was owned by the game twice!
I played Ghostbusters on NES a fair amount when I was a kid, never tried C64 though, and Sega's was pretty good. I kinda enjoyed driving around catching the ghosts, but yeah, nothing ever really happened, and that damn song repeating over and over again, still haunts me to this day...It's actually stuck in my head right now , no joke, just thinking about that game, has put that damn song in my head.
Ghostbusters, was way too hard to beat. I would always die when I got to the staircase near the end of the game (that part is ridiculously hard). I finally got so fed up, that I had to take the game to a friends house, to use is turbo controller, and I still had a hard time getting up the stairs.
I finally beat the game a few weeks ago, but I had to use an emulator, and several quick saves, and turbo buttons before beating the game. Otherwise, I'm not sure how someone could beat the game legitimately.
That's one thing that bugs me about older video games...most are literally impossible to beat. Like Donkey Kong. It's seriously unbeatable.
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I never played many of the games he's ripped on myself, but I still enjoy watching the videos, and I can understand why he's frustrated and it's hilarious!
STFU about Batman's voice already
Who has two thumbs and likes Todd Packer? THIS GUY!
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I started watching them when I was, yes, 13. Now I'm 17, and I still watch them.
The only reason they connected with me was because I grew up playing the SNES and NES (my uncle handed them down to me after he graduated hs).
And I'm a girl.
"Know what I mean, know what I mean, nudge nudge, nudge nudge, say no more?"
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share18 and male. Also I don't play a lot of video games (and never did), but I still love his videos.
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