James Rolfe, known to his fans as the Angry Video Game Nerd, isn’t limited to irate playthroughs of terrible video games. As he proves in his latest series, he’s a capable art critic, too. During the first 25 days of December, Rolfe plans to release daily critiques of bad video game cover designs, which taken in full will form a sort of “bad video game art advent calendar.”
Rolfe began his 25-episode series on December 1st, when he introduced his project and took on his first terrible video game cover: that of Pro Wrestling for the Sega Master System. “[The cover] was especially important in the old days because we didn’t have the Internet to tell us what the game was like,” explains Rolfe in the video, which can be viewed on his Cinemassacre channel. “The cover had to tell us everything. So it’s about time we give game cover art the attention it’s due.”
Since kicking off his advent calendar, Rolfe has updated it with daily takedowns of poorly thought-out video game covers. The funniest installment so far has been the second one, which examines the horrendous perspective and ugly figures on the cover of Mega Man for the NES.
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This isn’t the first time Rolfe has based a series around an upcoming holiday. Each October, he reviews horror movies for his Monster Madness series. Perhaps this year’s advent calendar is the start of a new tradition; I don’t know how many terrible video game covers exist, but if they’re out there, I trust Rolfe to find them.
