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The Happy Video Game Nerd (Web Video)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Originating as the winning entry for GameTrailers' 2007 "Outnerd the Nerd" contest, this series began as a Video Review Show that is a self-proclaimed ripoff of The Angry Video Game Nerd. Derek Alexander, a.k.a. The Happy Video Game Nerd, copies the style of AVGN right down to the opening theme song (at least for his early episodes)... and then he inverts it. He genuinely likes most games he reviews, as his specialty is to review old school games that he thinks deserve more attention. To date, he has reviewed mostly classic games as well as recent titles.He reviewed a technically-new game (Mega Man 9), but he did so because of the self-parodying Old School feel to it; he later reviewed 10 as well (and was much less kind to it). He also reviewed the new Rocket Knight and Splatterhouse games, as well. After a break from reviewing games, he started taking a look into video games from the seventh console generation.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Happy Video Game Nerd (HVGN) is a deliberate attempt to contrast the trend of Caustic Critics on the Internet, and it's also a way to bring up old retro gaming classics that deserve a little more attention. Surprisingly, James Rolfe — The Angry Video Game Nerd himself! — subscribes to Derek's YouTube account.Episodes of HVGN can be found on Retroware TV (the show's official home) as well as Derek's YouTube account.In December 2014, Derek officially dropped the "Happy Video Game Nerd" gimmick and name, but has continued with video game reviews as "Stop Skeletons From Fighting" with Grace Kramer helping him out (and sometimes doing the videos herself) from time to time.He also has side series as part of Stop Skeletons From Fighting like "Past Mortem" (a series looking back at certain points in gaming history), "Punching Weight" (a look at unique games that are bizarre in a sense), "Re:Certified Classic" (reviews taking a look at older yet highly-regarded video games and whether or not they stand the test of time) and recently "How the West Was Worst" (Looking back at bad localizations from Japanese game companies, so far he has covered Konami and Capcom).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Compare Wiiviewer and Classic Game Room. | |
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The Artifact: Inverted. As part of his gimmick as the Nerd's antithesis, he drank wine instead of beer. When he stopped drinking wine and noticed that almost nobody realized this, he decided to retire the title of Happy Video Game Nerd. Currently, he's Stop Skeletons From Fighting. | |
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Non Sequitur | |
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Non Sequitur: The channel's current moniker. So what are skeletons fighting about, exactly? And why should we stop them? | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: A few. He has a quick appearance in That Guy with the Glasses' review of Dragonball Evolution (filmed at Magfest, which he was attending). He also appears in the Board James review of "Loupin' Louie", a Live Episode filmed at PAX 2011, and is identified by an onscreen caption. It's the first time he has ever appeared in a Cinemassacre video, and Derek naturally joked about it being "the much anticipated AVGN-HVGN Crossover". Derek actually appears in an episode of the AVGN proper, among other creators in a montage in the Aladdin Deck Enhancer review. | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative: While livestreaming 007: Nightfire on the GBA, Derek is amused when a review is found for the game calling it "The 3rd best GBA FPS." | |
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune | |
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: He covered the AVGN theme himself, playing the guitar and singing modified lyrics. Later, his band Starship Amazing remixed the song, and eventually they composed and performed an original instrumental piece. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Thatz a Rap. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: The livestream of Razor Freestyle Scooter eventually devolved into a hurricane of video game-related scooter puns. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: Much like the Angry Nerd, Derek likes to review horror-themed games in late October, as well as in May under the same logic as Christmas in July. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The point behind the Punching Weight videos. Derek and Grace take a look at games that go beyond the technological or genre constraints of a console to deliver an experience not typically found on its platform; be it fully-rendered polygonal graphics on a Game Boy Advance title or porting Duke Nukem 3D to the Sega Saturn. Even if the results vary and not every title can be considered a success, they're something to be celebrated. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: He started out aping the AVGN style as closely as possible, to the point that a few of his videos are directly "inspired" by specific episodes (the intro to Metal Storm was lifted from The Karate Kid; Nightshade is a riff on Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout). Over time, he's dropped most of the AVGN (and anti-AVGN) elements, and now all that remains are the name itself, along with a few props (the shirt and the wine). | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
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Big "WHAT?!": | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early Installment Weirdness: His earliest videos parody some elements of his inspiration, the AVGN. Eventually Derek gets rid of the skits, guest stars and wackiness and his reviews are more straight-forward. Ironically, much like the AVGN did ... for the most part. Derek doesn't always praise the games either, to which some viewers objected (see Exactly What It Says on the Tin below). | |
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks! | |
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: In-Universe. HVGN's chief argument as to why Zoda's Revenge was a worse game than its predecessor, StarTropics. He takes the time to point out that just as many people agreed with his criticisms of the game as disagreed with them. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: The Happy Nerd wears a black shirt, as opposed to the Angry Nerd's white shirt. | |
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Needs More Love / Sugar Wiki | |
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Needs More Love: In-Universe, as its the point of the show. | |
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Nintendo Hard | |
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Nintendo Hard: Having grown up from the School of Hard Games, this guy will not be put off with Nintendo Hard. He did say, in his Enemy Zero review, that it was too frustrating (and one time that even he will say that Contra 4 is too hard), so he has his standards when it comes to difficulty. | |
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Sequelitis | |
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Sequelitis: Invoked: Two of three of his negative reviews were sequels to games that he loves. He's also spoken poorly of several other sequels. | |
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Tertiary Sexual Characteristics | |
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2014: The first episode of the meme-overloaded LIKECOMMENTSUBSCRIBESHOW with "Scare Cam" Cody and The Shitty Goose as they list the Top 10 NES boobs (at least two of the listed characters don't even have any) and start going to some really weird places. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: Averted and/or subverted; Derek proves that there really is some stuff in the past that is really good, some of it just got passed over. Played straight in his reviews of Mega Man 9 and 10. He acknowledges that he rated 9 — which helped kick off the recent Retraux trend — as highly as he did partly for this specific reason. Now that "all that's old is new again" is getting...well, old again, he was able to take off his nostalgia-tinted lenses for 10. He does stand by his original review for 9, though, and cites other reasons why 10 is a weaker game. | |
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Pun | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun: The end of the Zombies Ate My Neighbors review. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Usually played straight but sometimes defied. He mentions in his review of Eternal Darkness that viewers comment on his name as if that's his only modus operandi and that he should be praising games all the time. Instead, he reminds them that he's just honest about games he doesn't like but provides constructive criticism (backed by personal experience shown in the reviews) as to why that is. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: It was never explained what HVGN's mom (or a hallucination thereof) was doing in his house in the "Little Nemo in Slumberland" review. | |
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Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl | |
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Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Inverted, Derek is the more openly enthusiastic reviewer, while Grace favors a more reserved speaking style. She's more upbeat off-script and in streams, and when she's on Stop Skeletons From Fighting (with or without Derek sometimes). | |
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You Keep Using That Word | |
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You Keep Using That Word: He repeatedly refers to Sweet Home as an NES game. It was never released internationally, so to be more accurate it was and will always be a Famicom game note As long as people keep pointing out the differences between the Japanese original and the international version with the rename. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Subverted for Halloween 2012 — he mentioned after his Elemental Gearbolt review that he had some unfinished business after which he turned his head to look at the Eternal Darkness game case present throughout the video. His next video: Ill Bleed. | |
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Accentuate the Negative | |
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Accentuate the Negative: Normally averted, but his reviews of StarTropics 2 and Mega Man 10 had this in spades. Also in the second half of his Eternal Darkness review and even more so in the second review. Derek went full-swing into the negative with his review of Yooka-Laylee in a very pessimistic light with hardly anything he could find enjoyable from the game. | |
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RealLife | |
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They are also mirror images of each other in Real Life professional choices, with James Rolfe being a filmmaker and Derek being a musician. | |
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Dramatic Pause | |
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Dramatic Pause: Every once in a while; often, he smiles creepily right after one. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: While the Angry Nerd drinks beer to get through shitty games, the Happy Nerd drinks wine to celebrate good games. | |
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Caustic Critic | |
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Caustic Critic: Played With. Normally this trope is inverted, as his reviews are generally positive in tone, but he also has very high standards for games, and won't hesitate to call out elements in a game that he doesn't like. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In the stinger to his Final Fantasy Mystic Quest video, he deliberately pronounces "NES" as both "Enn-ee-ess" and "Ness" just to "piss everyone off". | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: At the end of his Metal Storm review: | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Nekbone, who normally only speaks by shouting his own name, shouts out "OH SHIT!" when confronted by Nightshade. | |
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So Proud of You | |
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So Proud of You: The Angry Video Game Nerd is a subscriber to his account. | |
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YouGottaHaveBlueHair | |
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He also notes the trope You Gotta Have Blue Hair in his review of Mega Man 10 with a specific reference to the Brothers Chaps. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Both how he portrays himself on his show and in real life. | |
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Mid-Review Sketch Show | |
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Mid-Review Sketch Show: There has been the occasional cut-away, especially with earlier reviews, but there is only one full-fledged instance of this trope: the Nightshade review (itself a blatant homage to Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout). | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Other than his appreciation of AVGN, HVGN also gives shout outs to other YouTube video game reviewers, including Little Miss Gamer and Still Gaming — both of whom would eventually join That Guy with the Glasses. He also notes the trope You Gotta Have Blue Hair in his review of Mega Man 10 with a specific reference to the Brothers Chaps. In his Clash at Demonhead review, inspired by Scott Pilgrim, he takes time out of his review to praise Edgar Wright for his direction of the film version, saying "You're three for three." | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Derek notes that he is inferior to both James Rolfe and Kyle Justin. "Keytars Are For Retards (So We'll Take Two)". This gem in his Past Mortem on Mighty No. 9 comparing to what he said on the project years before and after the Troubled Production came to light. | |
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Ensemble Dark Horse | |
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Ensemble Dark Horse: In-Universe, his basic shtick is showcasing retro gaming's ensemble darkhorses. | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spinoff: His 'Punching Weight' and 'Is it really that bad?' series of videos, usually featuring his friend Calvin or more recently Grace. They're all improvised, edited-for-length-and-highlight videos of Derek playing various games not featured on SSFF. | |
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Video Review Show | |
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Video Review Show: A very rare example of a show that started out more sketch-heavy (naturally, given his direct inspiration), and has since moved away from that. | |
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A Rare Sentence | |
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A Rare Sentence: From I Can't Believe It's Game Boy & GBC 3D! we have, "This unreleased cowboy-dinosaur-alien first-person shooter on the Game Boy Color sure has a lot of story...now there's a sentence I never thought I'd say." | |
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Know When to Fold 'Em | |
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2009: The obligatory "Goodbye Forever" video, in which he announces his new rapping career. His band Starship Amazing even made an actual rap EP, which can be found here. | |
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Pokémon Speak | |
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Pokémon Speak: Nekbone the sock puppet shouts his name every few seconds. | |
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Divergent Character Evolution | |
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Divergent Character Evolution: The Happy Nerd started out with the gimmick that he was the opposite of the Angry Nerd, and many of his early videos are shot-for-shot remakes of the Angry Nerd's videos, only with him extolling a good game instead of swearing at a bad one. Now, he does his own thing, although he still dresses like the Angry Nerd and drinks at the end of every review (which is actually something the Angry Nerd has generally stopped doing). | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: In calculating the score for The Sum of All Fears, Derek blurts out "NEGATIVE FIFTY" before correcting himself, explaining that the review score starts at +50 and works downward. This does not speak well for the forthcoming tally. (The final score was just shy of zero.) | |
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April Fools' Day | |
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April Fools' Day: He pulled a new prank on his fanbase for four years in a row: 2008: He posted an audio-only vlog ripping into the AVGN (originally titled "Sick to death of hearing about the Angry Nintendo Nerd") that was actually a parody of the infamous Armake21 vlog ripping into The Irate Gamer. 2009: The obligatory "Goodbye Forever" video, in which he announces his new rapping career. His band Starship Amazing even made an actual rap EP, which can be found here. 2010: He switched shows with The Gaming Historian, another Retroware personality. Derek talked about Shenmue, while Norman reviewed Ristar. This is also the only April Fools prank to date in which Derek does not break character, at least not explicitly. 2011: His friend and bandmate Calvin hijacked his show, and did an improvised quasi-review/playthrough of Chrono Trigger. 2014: The first episode of the meme-overloaded LIKECOMMENTSUBSCRIBESHOW with "Scare Cam" Cody and The Shitty Goose as they list the Top 10 NES boobs (at least two of the listed characters don't even have any) and start going to some really weird places. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: "Good games are great because they're good." Gets the appropriate response from the 'guest star' of the episode. | |
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