The Irate Gamer

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Irate Gamer reviews video games, with a Video Review Show hosted on YouTube. He plays the game while offering lots of very interesting history on both the game and the console, peppering his reviews with emphasis on the game's flaws, perceived or real, as well as a healthy dose of profanity and audacity.

Besides his series, Irate Gamer has uploaded several other mini-videos, including Haunted Investigators, and occasional non-video game-related videos.

You can watch his series and other videos here.

The Irate Gamer provides examples of the following tropes:
  • Accentuate the Negative:
    • Just like AVGN with M.C. Kids, Irate admitted that he didn't hate the Yo! Noid game despite its being a licensed title to Domino's Pizza.
    • Bores has stated in interviews that: "It doesn't matter if the game is good or bad, I just look for flaws to exploit for comedy".
  • Acting For Several: Chris plays every character on the show except for the Wise Sage and the Genie (the latter has had only one appearance).
  • Alternate Timeline: His reviews of Mario's Time Machine and Mario Is Missing.
  • American Accents: He has one of the thickest Ohio accents ever, mixed with a slight speech impediment. The accent is most noticeable in the way he sometimes sticks L's where they don't belong (e.g. "bolth" instead of "both", "Jawls" instead of "Jaws", "drawlback" instead of drawback").
  • Anachronism Stew:
    • IG goes back to 1987 to "prevent" the Back to The Future game. Apparently LJN had access to cordless phones and flat-screen monitors in the 80s.
    • In a joke, IG claimed one obstacle to dodge in Space Race were Imperial TIE Fighters. Space Race came out in 1973, Star Wars came out in 1977.
  • And This Is For: In his review of Jaws, he repeatedly strikes the final blow on the shark for the movies' Sequelitis, and realized he got carried away when he brought up Superman IV.
  • Animation Age Ghetto: According to his thoughts on WALL-E and Toy Story 3, Bores heavily believes this.
  • Arc Welding: In his Gyromite/Stack-Up review, R.O.B. tried to kill him. In his Predator review, a Predator tried to kill him. The Monster Party review revealed that both incidents are connected to the Evil Gamer.
  • Art Evolution: Tony went from being a Maple Story sprite to being hand drawn.
  • Ascended Meme: He seems to notice much of the memes associated with him, like "Bores n' Doors".
  • Aside Glance: Used very often. He seems to use this as an indication to the audience, telling them "this is where you're supposed to laugh."
  • Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: He has created a lot of non-Irate Gamer videos.
  • Author Appeal: He could not make his obsession with food more obvious.
  • Big "What?" & Flat What: The Genie's memetic line from the Aladdin episode.
  • Non Sequitur Episode: The Order Up video, the Evil Gamer hosted the review. Then he vanished for a while. When he reappeared, the Order Up review was never mentioned.
  • Bowdlerization:
    • Done in a revision of the TMNT review, where he censored some of the cussing.
    • Done again with the remastered version of History of Video Games Part 1 by removing the foul language.
  • Captain Obvious: Many of his complaints about games stem from common "problems" found in many games.
    • He complained that...
      • Zombies Ate My Neighbors only gives you 3 lives and passwords and that the game gets harder in later levels.
      • The freaking boss life bar in his Sonic Unleashed review, never mind there have been hundreds of games before this that have that.
      • That Kirbys Epic Yarn was intended for kids. Well yeah, the Kirby series was always intended for younger gamers. How is this any different? Besides, being intended for kids doesn't mean it's bad.
    • The green circles. Very often he would circle things that are in plain sight. Notably main characters, enemies, and items that everyone can see. In the Kool-Aid Man review, he circled the playable characters, the objective, and the power-ups.
    • You could create a drinking game for each instance where he complained that the game's later levels get harder.
    • See the Quotes page to read his Captain Obvious sayings.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: The Evil Gamer in his first appearance.
  • Continuity Reboot: What he's seemingly been doing ever since the show went HD.
  • Media Research Failure:
    • In the Guitar Hero: Van Halen review, he complained about how there were other artists beside Van Halen, such as Weezer, Foreigner, Third Eye Blind and Billy Joel. The game doesn't have Billy Joel, it has Billy IDOL.
    • In his 2008 Top 10 Summer Movies video, he called the Hulk's alter-ego Rex Banner instead of Bruce Banner (or even David Banner, which was his name in the TV show). Rex Banner was a one-time character on The Simpsons.
  • Comedic Sociopath: Tony in the Robocop review.
  • Curse Cut Short: Used at the end of his Monster Party review. Yet, he dropped plenty of f-bombs in this video, it doesn't make sense why he would do that.
  • Cutaway Gag: Irate Gamer had done a number of these, like the time his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles review ended with a random scene of him battling Donkey Kong.
  • Dan Browned:
    • An example of this is found in his Super Mario Bros. 2 video. He claimed the reason Nintendo didn't release the real SMB 2 due to the game being a Mission Pack Sequel, neglecting to mention the real reason was the over-the-top Nintendo Hard difficulty.
    • He complained about the fact that Nintendo supposedly never said anything about the whole real SMB 2 thing in America even though it was all over Nintendo Power when Super Mario All Stars was released as a major selling point of that game, and it was even mentioned before that, in a feature on the history of the Super Mario Bros. series Nintendo Power ran during the lead up to the launch of the SNES (and its launch pack-in title, Super Mario World).
  • Dem Bones: A recurring character is Ronnie, a chatty skeleton who spoke in a stereotypically Jewish way. Unfortunate Implications or just a bad Woody Allen impression? You decide.
  • Demonic Spiders: In-Universe: One of his complaints about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He seemed to think that they cause you to think your game is glitched at first.
  • Department of Redundancy Department
    • His review of the last episode of The Sopranos is called "The Sopranos Final Last Episode review"
    • See the Quotes page to read his large list of Department of Redundancy Department sayings.
    • He would often say "NES System" when talking about that console. So he's playing the "Nintendo Entertainment System System?"
  • Disproportionate Retribution:
    • In his Kool-Aid review, where he killed the Kool-Aid man for constantly destroying his wall. Yeah, it doesn't sound like much, but the fact that he killed a character for doing what he's practically known for. He's the Kool-Aid man, of course he's going to do that!
    • IG couldn't get into Ubisoft's E3 2011 conference, so what's his response? Blow up their office with a fake special effect.
    • When he releases remastered versions of old videos, he'll explain the sexually explicit jokes, such as when a masturbation joke went from "Uhh, that doesn't look quite right" to "Wow, way to jack off, cheerleader pervert!"
    • Probably the most blatant example is in the Monster Party episode, where at the beginning, Chris explains that lots of people have been coming to his door asking for directions to the big Halloween Party that he isn't even invited to, and the whole gag keeps happening throughout the course of the episode. This gag would have actually worked if he didn't explain it.
    • The Face Palm running gag from his Kirby's Epic Yarn video. When he does it, he adds a voice and caption to make sure we know what he's doing. He does this again in his Marvel vs. Capcom 3 review, but mercifully, doesn't add the voice and caption.
    • After calling R.O.B. "ROB-o-Cop" after RoboCop, he proceeds to show both names in text in case we didn't get the pun the first time.
  • Dull Surprise:
    • His reaction to the third boss in Contra.
    • His reaction to a genie appearing in his house in the Aladdin review. "Whoa, a genie!"
    • The Genie himself is a walking Dull Surprise, at one point something is thrown at him and he doesn't even flinch.
  • Every Episode Ending: The Irate Gamer destroying/getting rid of the game in some way or killing the main character.
  • Evil Is Petty: The Evil Gamer has nothing better to do than try to steal The Irate Gamer's show.
  • Evil Twin: The Evil Gamer.
  • Expy: The Evil Gamer's design is recycled from "Past Bores" from the Back to The Future video.
  • Face Palm: Has a facepalm related Running Gag in the Kirby's Epic Yarn video.
  • Fake Difficulty: The claimed reason he's angry about video games.
    • Bores often tried to look for things that are difficult, even when they're aren't. In his Super Mario Bros. 2 review, he complains how difficult it is to gain life hearts, while the on-screen gameplay is actually demonstrating how easy it is. He later praises The Lost Levels in the very same review, which is a much, much more difficult game.
    • When reviewing the first Ninja Turtles game, the footage he showed while complaining about the difficulty had him blatantly running into enemies and standing around letting them run into him. Also, in the underwater level he was deliberately swimming into the electric plants. He was spending more time in the plants than the water.
    • Exaggerated in his Contra Super C review where he claims it's harder then the first game and to prove this, kept jumping into enemies and not firing his gun. Anyone that's played Super C can tell you it's much easier then the first Contra.
  • Flanderization:
    • The Kool-Aid man is depicted as always saying "Oh YEAH!," "Oh kay," and "Oh no." But in the commercials and comics, he actually speaks in full sentences.
    • Some of his haters think the Irate Gamer himself is falling into this, believing that he's portraying himself as the mockery seen in countless parody videos.
  • Follow the Leader: He is perhaps the most prominent follower of the Caustic Critic Video Review Show trend started by the AVGN, though Word of God claims it wasn't The Nerd but "100 other guys doing the same thing".
  • Frothy Mugs of Water: The mugs in the Monster Party review are clearly filled with apple juice.
  • Gag Dub: Done when he's pissed about the whole "No English Voice Acting" in Tekken 6—which is completely untrue, the characters speak their native tongue.
  • Good Angel, Bad Angel: In his Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom review.
  • Halloween Episode
  • Hostile Show Takeover: The Evil Gamer does a review of Order Up after locking the Irate Gamer out of his house during an episode of Irate Gamer NEO.
  • Hypocritical Humor:

Irate Gamer: "It’s unclear as to why they copied [Doki Doki Panic], but some speculated that [Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels] was too much like the first game. I guess that’s understandable since having two of the same thing can get stale and repetitive."
Evil Gamer: "Yep, stale and repetitive."

  • I Am Not Shazam:
    • He refers to Pit as Kid Icarus during the Super Smash Bros Brawl review, even when the game itself announces Pit's name.
    • When talking about Gyromite in his R.O.B. video, he keeps calling the main character, Professor Hector, "Professor Gyro".
    • In the MUSCLE review, the original cartoon that the game was based on was called Kinnikuman (translates into Muscleman) after the main character, not MUSCLE as he claims.
    • Tony is often referred to his catchphrase "Bang-A-Lang".
  • I Meant to Do That: His justification for some of his blatant errors.
    • When someone pointed out that he landed on a 6, not a 9, in the Odyssey Roulette game. He said "Shhh, don't explain the joke."
    • He used this excuse for not knowing about the parachute cloth in Aladdin.
  • It's All About Me: Chris very rarely gives credit to other people involved in his videos.
    • Haunted Investigators listed his name four times and a "special thanks to everyone involved"
    • For actual IG episodes, he never credited the Wise Sage until Aladdin, and even in subsequent appearances he still doesn't credit.
    • We still have no clue who played the Predator in that episode.
  • It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY":
    • Chris tries to make it clear that his last name is pronounced "Bor-is" not "Boars," though in some videos (Such as the 2011 E3 Ubisoft video) he pronounces it as "Boars."
    • While looking for a game to play in RoboCop, he sees Rygar but pronounces it "Ray-gar".
    • He's among the many that pronounce Ninja Gaiden as "Ninja Gay-den". Post-E3 2011 he's finally figured out how to pronounce it.
    • Sometimes, he pronounces "Irate" as "Ar-rate" and in another video pronounces "Armake" as "Ar-mak".
    • In his video on Kinnikuman toys, he pronounces it "Kenny-Kooman"
  • It's Easy, So It Sucks: In-universe:
    • One of his main complaints about Mario Is Missing & Mario's Time Machine, never mind that the games were made to teach kids about history. This conflicts with the below trope where he constantly whined about games being too hard.
    • His main criticism with Kirby's Epic Yarn. People quickly called out his hypocrisy.
  • It's Hard, So It Sucks: He has a very low tolerance for hard games:
    • One of his complaints against Contra Super C is the cheat code for extra lives doesn't give out as many as the code in the original Contra (whereupon he stops the review to announce he's falling back on his Game Genie).
    • He whined that the Resident Evil 5 amateur setting is still too difficult and actually asked "Why couldn't they make the easy setting easier?"
    • If you look in the right places, it's blatantly obvious that he cheated.
      • Examples include suddenly skipping to the last level (Goonies II, Super Mario Bros 2), infinite lives (all the Contra games, TMNT III: The Manhattan Project), invincibility (Monster Party), max stats (Final Fantasy III), or other methods of cheating (TMNT II: The Arcade Game, Cool Spot)
    • This even went so far that he complained when Home Improvement didn't have Game Genie codes.
    • Inverted in his review of Ninja Gaiden 3 where he constantly praised the easy gameplay and button-mashing, an issue that almost every other reviewer has with the game.
  • Last-Second Word Swap: In Yo! Noid:

"Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Damn it, this game is the biggest piece of... crap!"

  • Let's See You Do Better: Inverted in his Watchmen film review when he said "If I was directing this movie I would cut an hour off and put the flashbacks in linear order." This makes it painfully obvious that he never read the book. He did admit that with "I'm not really sure how the plot was revealed in the comic book," though.
    • Also in his Zombies Ate My Neighbors review when he said the title should have been Monsters Ate My Neighbors because it had enemies other than zombies.
  • Manipulative Editing:
    • A variation of this is found in his Super Mario Bros 2 review, when complaining the star is too slow. Not only did he do it in the area where it would naturally take the most time, but he actually slowed down the footage.
    • As part of a "gag" in his Mario's Time Machine review, he noted that the Sledgehammer item was placed in 1989 because of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer Tour, and Bores manipulated it to be so. In actuality the Sledgehammer represented the fall of the Berlin Wall. And the song Sledgehammer came out 3 years prior to 1989.
    • In his review of Aladdin for SNES, when Abu ate some apples at the end of a level, he edited it to make it look like the apples were actually deducted from your ammo. He admitted in the comments that he passed the flying carpet stage on his first try, so he purposely killed himself to make the stage look harder than it really is.
    • He said that once you get to level fifty in the Kool-Aid man video game, the enemies move impossibly fast. But it's obvious he sped up the footage; pay very close attention and you'll see that the Kool-Aid man is moving exactly as fast as the Thirsties even though he said they get faster. You'll also be able to note that the sound effects get higher and the timer at the top started moving extremely fast.
    • In his R.O.B. review, he said there's a party button. There is none; the first time is obvious, where he deliberately adds a sticker to the controller that says "P" as in party, but then the word "Party" is added to the second game when it wasn't there a second ago. There's no real defense for it; he was telling a joke, but tried to mislead the viewer.
    • Often watching the screenshots of him playing and dying to show how "hard" the game is are painful to watch for anyone who has actually played the games. It's pretty obvious that he's either not bothering to TRY not to die, or he just really, really sucked at the game. The TMNT review is one of the worst culprits. He seemed to believe that the best way to play both of the first two games is to simply walk straight at enemies and randomly swing his weapons, with no attempts to dodge, jumpkick, or use any other style that might make it harder for them to hit you.
      • His Contra reviews are worse. Most of the time he's not firing his gun and purposely jumped into enemies to emphasize the "this game is so fucking frustrating" complaint.
    • Two of the six "never-before-seen" games shown in the third History of Video Games video were created by Bores himself.
    • In his Sonic Unleashed review, when complaining about the cut scenes and hub worlds, he walked up to the Ice Cream Man NPC, talked to him and whined "Great, more shit from the Ice Cream Man". He tried to pass this off as the game's fault.
    • In his Cool Spot review he said that you have to collect 30% of the red tokens to open the cage. But when he's finishing the game and he opened the final cage it clearly showed he's only got 29%. Even worse, later on when he finished the game for the 'proper' ending it's the same footage as before.
    • A blink-and-you-miss-it instance during this four-player game of Spot the Video Game on NES. At the end the screen announced "Player One Defeated" in obviously fake text. What kind of four-player game would say "Random Player Loses" instead of "This Player Wins"?
    • When playing the Arcade version of Ghosts N Goblins, he tried to pass off that he was playing the NES version by using the NES controller.
    • During the "killing That 70's Show cast members joke" in RoboCop, the game being used is Hogan's Alley, not the bonus stage. He couldn't even use the right game!
  • Negative Continuity: The Kool-Aid Man returned in his Cool Spot review, despite having already been killed off in a previous review.
  • Ninja Editor: In the original MUSCLE review, he said there were no special moves. The system for them was kind of dumb, but it existed. The remastered review removed that line.
  • Nominal Importance:
    • Not once did he refer to the main character of Brutal Legend, Eddie Riggs, by name.
    • He never referred to Bert by name in Monster Party, just calling him "The Monster".
    • "Tetris was created by a guy in Russia" You mean Alexey Pajitnov?
    • During his Iron Man 2 review, Rhodey was reduced to "Tony's friend".
  • Orphaned Series:
    • Chris and Scottie Road Trip
    • I Rate the 80s and Haunted Investigators were originally considered this, but the former came back in a big way with a multitude of episodes and Bores announced the return of the latter.
  • Orwellian Editor: If he makes a mistake in a video, he will sometimes reupload the review with said mistake eliminated. Sometimes. Other times, he just explains jokes more.
  • Pac-Man Fever:
    • Whenever the camera is on IG, he shakes the controller all over the place, similar to TV shows that portray game-playing as "violently shaking the controller without pressing buttons."
    • He was button mashing while playing Mario is Missing. A game where you can't die and nothing hurts you.
    • A particularly bad example in his Tetris video had him intensely Button Mashing the NES controller in a couple montages. He was button-mashing Tetris.
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Tony is supposed to be a pro wrestler, but he surely doesn't dress like one. The remastered version of the review changed him to a "wrestling fan".
  • Plot Holes:
    • In his Aladdin review, he created a plot hole just to tell a terrible joke. IG said he's going to review another game, and the Genie responded "don't take too long, my rug is double parked outside". It should be noted that not even one minute ago, they teleported home after Bores found the Genie in a video game cartridge. Where did the magic carpet come from?
    • In his Mario's Time Machine / Mario is Missing review, when he switches time lines, he'll say "now after doing this in Mario is Missing," or "after doing so-and-so in Mario's Time Machine," which would imply that he knew about both time lines when he shouldn't.
    • In his MUSCLE review, he attempted a Continuity Nod to his first video exclaiming "I'll have to go back in time again, and take care of business". He shouldn't remember doing that because he was erased from time.
    • It's clear that IG keeps trying to establish a storyline between his videos, yet he screwed that up when the Kool-Aid Man somehow comes back to life (as seen in his Cool Spot review).
      • In the same video, Chris was willing to give away his Magnavox Odyssey for a free pizza. However when he saw it was his evil twin he told him to go away. Either that was a really good pizza or Bores never proofreads his scripts.
    • In a flashback, it was revealed him, Wise Sage, and Tony went to High School... The Contra review is where they actually first met.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games: His in-universe reaction to almost every licensed game.
  • Product Placement: Parodied in his Yo! Noid review, yet still played straight as he ended the sequence with a promotion for his own T-Shirt.
  • Read the Freaking Manual:
    • The Irate Gamer refused to read the Contra instruction manual for the story during his review of the game in question (even if the US localization suffered from Cut and Paste Translation), so he believed the game took place in a straight modern war setting in the likes of Rambo. He is then caught by surprise once the aliens started showing up later in the game.
    • Happens in the Goonies II review. When he gets to the end of the game, he expresses surprise that Damsel in Distress Annie is a mermaid. Never mind that this is mentioned on the very first page of the manual. Not having the manual isn't an excuse, as the whole thing's been posted online.
  • Rouge Angles of Satin:
    • "The Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde Princible"
    • GO SHOVE A KAKTAS UP YOUR ASS!
  • Ruined FOREVER: His in-universe reaction in the breakfast rant, and the I Rate the 80s episode on Kool-Aid flavors.
  • Rule of Three:
    • Played straight in the Tetris review (the Tetrimino, the Thwomp, and the bomb), subverted in the Kool-Aid review (the Kool-Aid Man burst through his wall four times).
    • Rule of Three gags are used rather often in Neo videos.
  • Seinfeld Is Unfunny:
  • Self-Deprecation: Bores made a joke in which he called for his friends to play the 2-player mode of Contra, and was met with dead silence.
  • Serious Business: Considering that the AVGN/IG controversy revolved around crappy NES games, the fans of both sure take it seriously.
  • Shown Their Work: Claimed this in the History Of Video Games, despite the reviews showing otherwise.
  • Sock Puppet: Quite obviously iratefanboy345.
  • Sound Effect Bleep:
    • As part of an experiment, the Irate Gamer posted two versions of his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles review where one of them had all the swearing bleeped out.
    • In a sketch video, he bleeped out Satan saying "motherfucker".
    • In RoboCop Part 2, he lets out a long string of bleeped cursing.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance: His theme song, as well as the music he used in his video trailers, are rather serious and "epic" considering they were for a video game review show. Probably the worst offender is his Home Improvement review trailer, which has a deadly-serious orchestra and Ominous Latin Chanting. It's Home Improvement on the SNES! How serious could it possibly be?
  • Special Edition Title: The title sequence in the Order Up review is played backwards to reflect the Hostile Show Takeover. The Zombies Ate My Neighbors episode also had a special Halloween Theme Tune.
  • Spin-Off: Irate Gamer NEO, which reviews more recent games, among others.
  • Take That:
    • In his review of TMNT: Turtles in Time ReShelled, he said that when updating something, some elements have to remain the same, or else "they’ll be shitting all over the source material. Right, Michael Bay?" Cut to a photo of Michael Bay photoshopped into his room going, "Uhh..."
    • He attempted one towards his haters in the Top 5 NES Games video. When he mentioned that he liked using Game Genie while playing Kid Icarus, he brought up that "some elite gamers" will likely criticize him for cheating and responded "You know what? Fuck 'em!" This immediately backfired when he followed-up with "even with a Game Genie, this game is really difficult".
    • He tried this on his haters in his Cool Spot review, saying, "These idiots can't even make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without ruining it!" Few actually saw this as a good comeback.
    • It's unclear, but one of the "characters" shown in peril in his Robocop review appears to be dressed up to look like AVGN. Except with an eyepatch. This has been commented on several times in the YouTube comments.
  • That Makes Me Feel Angry: All the time.
    • A notable example is at the end of his Mission: Impossible video. He says he's really pissed off, his head is spinning and he's losing his mind. Yet he sounds completely normal.
  • The Teaser: The "Temple of Doom" scene in the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom game review is treated as such in the DVD version (the early episodes were produced before the Title Sequence was introduced). Subsequent episodes sometimes have their own teasers.
  • The Tetris Effect: The Irate Gamer suffered this during his review of Tetris.
  • This Loser Is You:
    • His constant use of Game Genie and other cheat devices. Made even worse when he doesn't admit he cheated (Final Fantasy III review) or that he was proud of using them (Top 5 NES Games).
    • Heck, there's a whole blog dedicated to showcasing his constant failure at everything.
    • Aside from his reviews, he had been the target to many jokes, rants and comments from internet personalities including That Guy With The Glasses and Diabetus, Khad, and Slowbeef.
  • Too Dumb to Live: In one review The Irate Gamer had a gas line in his room. And in one timeline in the review it caused his death.
  • Unreliable Narrator:
    • When talking about Hellboy II: The Golden Army, he was excited to see David Hyde Pierce reprise his role as Abe Sapien. Actually, a little research would show Pierce refused to do the sequel and Abe was voiced by Doug Jones (the man in the costume).
    • The IG NEO review of Mario and Sonic At The Olympics claimed that "Sega released the Genesis to compete with the Super Nintendo.". The Genesis was released before the SNES everywhere. (In North America the Genesis was released in 1989 and the SNES was released in 1991. Two years does not equal "same time.") He also called the game Mario vs. Sonic.
    • In the "pilot" of Chris & Scottie Roadtrip, he said that Metropolis is the hometown of Superman. Except Smallville is the hometown of Superman in most incarnations. He also said Death Valley is in New Mexico. It's actually on the border of California and Nevada.
    • In his Cool Spot review, he mentioned that the NES game Spot: The Video Game is based off Othello. Actually, it's based off Ataxx.
    • His History of Video Games had many problems.
    • This line: "It's also a good example of how Magnavox might have been trying to market the Odyssey as a board game, rather then a video game'. Of course they were marketing it as a board game; video games were still in the early stages, plus they technically didn't even exist in 1972. That one line alone debunked his claimed "hours of research."
      • He also claimed Tank was created by Atari. Actually it was created by Kee Games. While it was a subsidiary of Atari, that detail was kept secret until after Tank came out.
    • He claimed it was speculated that Nolan Bushnell attended a demonstration of the Odyssey and nobody knew if he was really there. Except for interviews with Atari founders PROVING that Bushnell did see the Odyssey, including this.
    • In his Back to The Future review, he had the LJN CEO saying on the phone, "You tell Mr. Silvestri I'll handle all the Back to the Future games." Alan Silvestri, the person he was referring to, was the composer to the film's music, not the producer.
    • In the MUSCLE review, he claimed that there was only one arena, when there were actually three.
    • In his review of Dantes Inferno he said that it was accurate to the book it was based on, even though it wasn't a book and it butchered its source material. It didn't help when he claimed to have actually read it. He also thought the original poem was called Dante's Inferno; when in fact, the Inferno was one section of the longer work which was called Commedia until Boccaccio added Divina to the name some years after Dante's death.
    • In the second part of his Mario's Time Machine review, he says that there are 1 or 2 alternate endings, when there are actually 3 endings.
  • Verbal Tic:
    • He says "pretty much" in pretty much every review. And that's pretty much it.
    • Just about any time he announces a new video/review, that announcement will begin with something like "a lot of people have asked me to review this game," or "a lot of people have asked what the next review will be."
    • Alright!
  • Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Complaining in the Mission: Impossible video about his characters being arrested when innocent people are killed by the bombs he's setting off in the street.
  • Video Review Show
  • Viewers Are Goldfish:
    • You see the cracked pipe labeled "Gas Line"? Bores showed it again and again and again to make sure you get the joke. From the same episode, whenever the scene switched between timelines, Bores reminded us what game he's playing. He shouldn't be doing this since it gives the idea that he's aware there are two timelines going on, which he shouldn't.
    • In his video on Microsoft's E3 2011 conference, most of the video is highlights from the conference and the last minute of the video is him recapping said highlights he just showed us.
  • Viewers are Morons:
    • Chris seems under the impression that the people watching have never played a video game... ever!
    • Any time he circles something that's blatantly obvious. The playable character, the enemies, the objectives...
    • He expected people not to notice the graphical differences in his Ghosts 'N Goblins review, despite the clear distinction between an NES and an arcade.
  • Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma:
    • "Fustrated" is one of his Egregious mispronounciations, along with "emenies," "a-static," "fustrating," etc. He is also prone to double negatives ("they don't even make no sense at all", "I can't take it no more!"), and grammar failure ("Most hardest games for the NES"). Other times he uses the wrong word, like saying "infamous" for "famous" and "predecessor" for "successor."
    • In The first episode of Chris And Scottie's Road Trip, he says "designation" instead of "destination".
    • In RoboCop, he says the ED-209 "does not go down with a fight". Huh?
  • What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?:
    • A strange in-universe example of this in his Dante's Inferno review. He warned parents watching (just go with it) that this game might not be for kids due to some nudity. So, it wasn't the immense bloodshed, the religious symbols, or the screams of the damned that warned him it wasn't for kids, it was the digital tits. Seemed like he didn't know about the ESRB.
    • In his God of War III review. He dedicated a good chunk of this already short review telling "parents" that this game had violence, harsh language, and sex. It's Rated M for Mature, that meant it wasn't intended for people under the age of 17.
  • Wraparound Background: He noted this in his review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom before throwing the cartridge away in frustration. The cartridge then reappeared on the opposite side of the screen.
  • X Meets Y: He advertised his show as "a combination of Family Guy and Penn & Teller's Bullshit".
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