Armake 21
Marcus Sparacio is Armake21, (once) a Caustic Critic of video games for the NES. Getting his start in September 2006 with his "Games That Suck" series, Armake21 was one of the foremost of the glut of video game reviewers to come about after the success of The Angry Video Game Nerd. Nowadays, however, he hosts a Video Review Show called "Context Sensitive", where he reviews modern titles for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
He was also a big inspiration for The Spoony Experiment back when Spoony was starting out.
His current YouTube account can be viewed here. His account was deleted. He's back now doing a series called Marc0 plays. He's also recently gone back to his roots of playing retro games, and replaying some that he'd originally reviewed, such as Total Recall.
Games Reviewed By Armake21 (In No Particular Order):
- Total Recall
- Treasure Master
- Dr. Chaos
- Action 52
- Nerf Arena Blast
- Jaws
- Dragon Power
- Bomberman: Act Zero
- Widget
- Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing
- Batman: Vengeance
- Wurm
- Demon Sword
- Quatro Adventure
- Gilligan's Island
- Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire
- Adventures in The Magic Kingdom
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am
- Kendo Rage
- Catch Phrase: "Avoid it like the fucking plague!"
- Caustic Critic
- Cluster F-Bomb: Especially prevalent in his earliest reviews.
- Foe Yay: Towards Spoony, deriding him for being a pretty boy, and hating him for his success, and Spoony speaking with respect and admiration for the man.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: His reaction to when his once-finished review of Deadly Towers was lost thanks to a software crash.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: AND HOW!
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: Due to losing THREE accounts and Marcus' refusal to reupload the videos himself, his reviews are posted on various sites and YouTube channels.
- Lost Forever: Many videos from his second account NicotineAlien are impossible to find now.
- Old Shame: For some reason he absolutely hates his old videos, and refuses to reupload any of them no matter how many times he's asked.
- Orphaned Series: On multiple occasions he never finishes reviews or Let's Play's that he starts. Including Fallout 3, Killzone 2, and Neverwinter Nights 2.
- Schedule Slip: Has happened on several occasions; most notably with "Armake21 vs. Action 52", which suffered a delay of nearly a year and a half for numerous reasons.
- Serious Business: His clash with the Irate Gamer, to both him and his fans. To point out how serious it was, it's possibly the reason why he was suspended.
- Shout-Out: The (lesser-known) second part of his infamous Irate Gamer rant, where he gave praise to other reviewers such as Happy Video Game Nerd and The Spoony Experiment.
- Take That: His (now infamous) rant against the Irate Gamer.
- He also did a rant about the infamous Chadwarden 'PS Triple' video, which he didn't know was a Stealth Parody. Later on he admitted that Chad fooled him good.
- He also has VERY strong opinions on video game reviewers in general (especially "mainstream" ones) as well as the state of the game industry. Though he's also gone out of the way to put a "take with a pinch of salt" disclaimer on his views.
- Video Review Show