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Michael "Mike" Matei is an executive producer for Cinemassacre Productions. Mike Matei serves as the executive producer for Cinemassarce, the website of The Angry Video Game Nerd , and helps write, edit, and star in the channel's videos. The feud began when the Nostalgia Critic posted a video online where he expressed his disgruntlement towards the Angry Video Game Nerd due to their similarities.
That said, with the warm reception Linkle got, it's time Princess Zelda got her own game. The show revolves around the Nerd's commentary of retro video games which he deems to be of particularly low quality, unfair difficulty, or poor design. If you watch James & Mike Mondays, you can get a pretty good idea of how Nerd episodes get started.
Thanks for taking the time to talk to Nintendo Enthusiast, Mike. The Angry Video Game Nerd show has a cult following, and made James Rolfe one of the most popular internet celebrities before the advent of YouTube. Mike mega man 2 was my first favourite game. The video covers a number of games including Streets of Rage 2 and X-Men.
The UI of megaman games is very simplistic mainly because of the hardware limitations (The hardware can only display 8 sprites per scanline for the people who doesn't know!) so i think changing costume is a clever move. In September 24, 2008, Rolfe collaborated with another famous internet reviewer Doug Walker, to create a fictional feud between the two's most famous characters; the Angry Video Game Nerd and the Nostalgia Critic.
Mike: I'd like to see a Universal Monsters video game that's actually licensed by Universal. Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures begins in the most predictable way possible as the nerd gets sucked into a bad video game where he must fight his way to the end. Even the later Megaman games were quite fun little treasures to play, each unique to when they were published.
The AVGN reviews pornographic games that were developed for Atari 2600: Custer's Revenge, Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em, Bachelorette Party, Bachelor Party, Gigolo, Philly Flasher, Cathouse Blues, Knight on the Town, Jungle Fever. It's watching an episode of AVGN but as the length of a movie, as the name implies.
I always thought the reason people complain about this game's difficulty was because games today are too easy compared to games from the Mike Matei NES era. The next thing that happened was James told me he was going to Hollywood to film the AVGN movie. Once he showed me that video, I instantly told him that he should do more board game related videos because I saw the same sort of potential with Board James that I saw with the Nerd.
So, we were in a position where there wasn't going to be any new web-videos from James on the website for roughly half a year. In the course of the interview, our guest discussed many key points he's made in past videos, what has inspired him to create Zelda content on Cinemassacre, and why he enjoys the series so much.
The Nerd has also become the subject of Howard Stern and David Arquette in an episode of Stern's Sirius XM show, in which Stern commented negatively on the show's format as well as the gaming community in general during a TooManyGames 2011 convention in Philadelphia.
Cinemassacre is a great site dedicated to video content, whether its movie reviews, gaming reviews, or original web series, there's something for everybody. The AVGN reviews Fester's Quest (NES) and The Addams Family (Genesis). The AVGN reviews Total Recall (NES), Last Action Hero (NES), Conan (NES), Commando (NES), Predator (NES).