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The Irate Gamer

June 7, 2009 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Okay, here’s a pretty funny YouTube channel: The Irate Gamer.

The Irate Gamer YouTube Channel

I particularly recommend his videos about Ghosts & Goblins (the most outrageously, unfairly difficult game ever made; I think I spent about as much time hurling this cartridge against the wall in fury as I did actually playing it — and wait until you see how preposterously cheap the game becomes in its impossible-to-reach final levels), Super Mario Bros. 2 (turns out the reason this game is so different from other Mario titles is because Nintendo just took an existing Japanese game, changed the hero sprites to Mario & friends, and sold it in the US as a Mario game), and E.T. (legendary as the worst video game ever made — it single-handedly destroyed the company Atari, who was forced to bury five million unsold and returned copies of this game in the New Mexico desert).

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David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, for which he’s interviewed over four hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories.
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