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* [http://www.xleague.tv/ XLEAGUE.TV - Gaming Network that airs ScrewAttack's Shows]
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Revision as of 16:51, 4 March 2008

ScrewAttack
ScrewAttack logo.
Type of site
Video game entertainment
HeadquartersFlower Mound, TX
OwnerScrewAttack Entertainment LLC
Created by“Stuttering" Craig Skistimas and "Handsome" Thomas Hanley
URLhttp://www.ScrewAttack.com/
RegistrationNone

ScrewAttack is a video game-related website that showcases original entertainment for an audience of video game enthusiasts.

History

Launched in 2006, ScrewAttack originally started with just one program – SideScrollers, an audio podcast hosted by the site’s creators Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom. Over time, additional shows have been added and removed. Current programs on ScrewAttack.com include: The Angry Video Game Nerd, ScrewAttack Europe, Video Game Vault, Top Tens, Retro Remix, Captain S!, SideScrollers and PWNED! In February 2007, MTV Networks acquired rights to some of ScrewAttack’s programming (Top 10’s, Video Game Vault and the Angry Video Game Nerd) adding it to their GameTrailers service.[1] Since working with GameTrailers, ScrewAttack’s features have been downloaded over 45 million times.[2]

Putting an emphasis on community, ScrewAttack’s site’s users are referred to as “g1s”. All g1s are encouraged to participate in the site by creating their original videos for “g1 Submission Sunday”, where users submit their videos for possible posting on the website.

Screwattack Divisions

ScrewAttack USA

The ScrewAttack World Headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. The site’s creators “Stuttering Craig” (Craig Skistimas) and “Handsome Tom” (Thomas Hanley) shoot and edit most of the ScrewAttack videos from there, however former intern (and now fully-employeed) "Jose El Mexicano" does play a major role in the ScrewAttack productions.

They hire several interns, that are often featured in the videos on the site, including Highschool Ben and Newschool Mickey. The most recent addition to the staff is Nervous Nick, being introduced in the Clip of the Week "Ball Busters".

Screwattack Europe

The European office of ScrewAttack located in London, UK is being led by Guru Larry (Larry Bundy Jr.) and “UK” Wez (Wesley Lock), both of whom are TV presenters in real life on various video gaming shows and networks in Europe, such as XLeague.tv, Rapture TV and Game Network.


Their programs include:

  • Games Yanks Can’t Wank, A humorous series showcasing and making fun of video games never released in the United States or Canada.
  • Hack-Job, A Machinima based Sketch show.
  • Pop-Up Review, A Review show, but posts up blatantly false, but funny facts about the game itself, Parodising television shows such as Pop-up Video.

and various video game reports gathering coverage and reviews.

As of the Beginning of December 2007 ScrewAttack.com also began airing episodes of ScrewAttack Europe's XLeague.tv Series Guru Larry's Retro Corner.

The Iron Man of Gaming

The Iron Man of Gaming is a yearly gaming tournament presented by ScrewAttack and hosted by the Cyberathlete Professional League.[3] The concept was announced on SideScrollers and advertised as “big news” leading up to the final announcement. The starting date of the tournament was August 30th and lasted until September 2nd at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, TX. The winner was advertised to take home $1,000 US dollars and a ScrewAttack championship belt.

The first year of the tournament consisted of six games (three modern games and three classic games) to be decided on with a points-based system to decide the winner. The contender with the most total points is the winner.

The following games were at the Iron Man of Gaming tournament of 2007:

2007 Tournament Results

First place was awarded to Chris “Kumachine” Delp. Second place was awarded to Louis “Big Lou” Hughes.[4]

2008 Tournament

The Iron Man of Gaming will host its second year at the Grapevine Convention Center in Grapevine, TX from June 19-22, advertising itself as "all consoles", "all genres" and "all eras".[5] This year the competitors will be competing for $10,000 US dollars. ScrewAttack registered members are eligible to vote on which games are being played at the event; five classic games, four current and one secret mystery game will be played during the tournament. [6]

It is expected that the 2008 point-scoring format will be similar to the 2007 tournament model.

ScrewAttack Shows

Video Game Vault

The Video Game Vault (VGV) is a series of approximately 2-minute-long or shorter videos by either Stuttering Craig or Handsome Tom (with one special featuring the Angry Video Game Nerd, highlighting DuckTales for the Nintendo Entertainment System). VGVs usually do not follow the typical pattern for it to be entitled as a review, but rather the Video Game Vaults serve as a nostalgic, informative and humorous look at games; particularly looking back at classic games or video games that are infamous for a particular reason.

List of Video Game Vaults featured on ScrewAttack.com:

List of Video Game Vaults currently featured on Gametrailers.com:

ScrewAttack Top Ten

Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom try to keep the Top 10 lists non-traditional by focusing on games which might not have received as much critical acclaim as another, instead citing that because it's their list, the list is automatically great. As well, they'll have Top 10 lists (such as the Top Ten Fighting Games) which only allow one game from a given franchise on to the list to allow more variety. Airing on GameTrailers, the Top 10 lists generally receive over 300,000 views. The most popular Top 10 list to date is “Top Ten Boobies [in Video Games]”, which has received over 850,000 views since February 2007.[7] Other favorites include “Top Ten Douchebags of Gaming” (more than 610,000 views[8]), “Top Ten Worst Fighting Games” (more than 520,000 views[9]) and “The Best and Worst Gaming Peripherals” (more than 490,000 views[10]).

The Angry Video Game Nerd

Main article: The Angry Video Game Nerd
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The Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN; formerly 'The Angry Nintendo Nerd') is a series of farcical retrogaming reviews by James D. Rolfe (born July 10, 1980[11]), an independent filmmaker and professional video editor.[12] He reviews games for older systems, such as Atari 2600, Sega Mega Drive, Playstation, and NES. The original music in the series' is played on guitar by Kyle Justin with lyrics by Rolfe. On August 8, 2007, Rolfe’s character was featured on the Opie and Anthony radio show.[13]

The titular Nerd character is an over-the-top video game fanatic, who tends to belittle the games he reviews. He derives comic appeal from his loud New Jersey accent, his excessive use of profanity and his heavy drinking of Rolling Rock and Yuengling beer. A particular characteristic are his comparisons of repulsive scatological acts to playing the game. He also uses varying amounts of physical comedy and occasional special guests: Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Spider-Man, “Shit Pickle” (an original character), Bugs Bunny, Leatherface and Michael Myers. These character parts are sometimes played by Mike Matei (who also draws the show’s title cards) or Kyle Justin, who sings the theme song.

On November 19, 2007, The Angry Video Game Nerd Volume 1 was released on DVD. It consists of all the episodes before ScrewAttack's deal with GameTrailers to keep the new content exclusively on their site.[14]

Clip of/Quote of the Week

The "Clip of the Week" (also is branded as "Quote of the Week") is a series of vignettes posted weekly, usually hosted by Perfect Liz that showcases offbeat and strange commercials, movie clips or promotions for products.

Captain S

Captain S is an online webshow which parodies cartoon and television shows of the 1980s and 1990s, particularly Captain N: The Game Master, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Saved by the Bell and Full House.[15] Its basic premise is that a Sega gamer named Chad Belmont buys a magical Sega Genesis game, is pulled into his TV and given the responsibility to defend all of Videoland from the clutches of a villain named Game Genie and his minion NES. The action is accomplished by superimposing the actor’s image over the sprite of the main character in the game he’s entered. The first season has ended on May 16, 2007, but a second season is coming soon, as suggested by the words “NES will return.” at the end of the credits, and a shot of Nes holding a Super Nintendo Entertainment System controller in the post-credit shot of the last episode. The show is usually referenced to by the main character’s catchphrase, “Everything gets the kick!” which comes from the Altered Beast sequence in the first episode.

Captain S and the Angry Video Game Nerd unite

A special episode of Captain S was released in August 2007. In this episode, Captain S meets the Angry Video Game Nerd to join forces and save Christmas in July. Since Captain S is considered a family-friendly show, the AVGN’s language is heavily toned down and, at one point, censored (The latter causes the Captain S characters to react in shock).

The canon of the special is in question. While the title itself says the episode is non-canonical, a recent AVGN video seems to continue from where that episode left off.

Toilet Tuesday

A series of shorts created relating to people sitting on the toilet and playing video games. Movies can be submitted by g1s to be featured on the site.

SideScrollers

Handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig host a series of podcasts in a style of a radio show, updating g1s on new game info, weekly occurrences in the ScrewAttack domain and general news around the world. As noted on their program, they are currently seeking out an actual radio show representation of SideScrollers on satellite radio. The usual features on the show are "Hard News", a look at the latest news in the gaming industry, "The SideScrollers News Desk", which is filled with unusual news from around the globe and "Forum Questions", where they answer forum questions from members on the official forum. Often they will run contests with the forum members which originate directly from the show, the feature "Name That Video Game Tune" is one where it samples a short musical clip from an often obscure video game and lets the fans send in an email and guess which game it was to be entered in a contest drawing.

The show frequently runs short promotions and commercials during the show to advertise new content on the site, often using it as a segue into the next topic to discuss.

g1 Submission Sunday

A segment in which fans of ScrewAttack submit their own videos to the site. Created by g1 SWAT Doctor,[1] the segment evolved into a standard feature on the site. The videos vary from user created Video Game Vaults, spoofs of the site’s characters, Flash animation and other video game related material.

The Art in Gaming

A series of short videos that focus on the visual art in gaming. This show is calm and serious compared to the usual easy-going and humorous attitude as seen in usual ScrewAttack shows and features. As of 4th of September, three episodes have been released, Rygar, Vigilante 8 and another on Bionic Commando.

RetroRemix

Hosted by DJ Axis, this show features remixes of old video game soundtracks, with a more modern sound and rhythm (similar in execution to OverClocked ReMix). It often contains short interviews or information about the game at the beginning.

Unaware Steve

Unaware Steve, having not played a game since 1992, goes to gaming conventions and interviews gamers. The interviewee usually ends up agitated with Steve as he is quite annoying when he wants to be. The last time he went to Quakecon he wore a "sophisticated" outfit which was just a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume. Steve is rumored to be portrayed by Craig's brother Brad Skistimas of Five Times August, but whenever either of them are asked about it they deny it.

WTF Is That?

"WTF Is That?" is a feature where ScrewAttack zooms in (to the point of blurriness and near absolute unclarity) on a screenshot of a particular game and there is a contest run on what video game the screenshot is from.

60 Second Spoiler

"The Minuteman" takes popular video game titles, such as BioShock, Halo 2 and Half-Life and spoils the plot and ending in a 60-second video.

The Scoop!

Hosted by Highschool Ben, he hosts a short program highlighting the highs and lows of games, usually the "top 3" of both aforementioned categories.


ScrewAttack Wiki

Due to frequent requests, on March 2, 2008 the following g1 editors have worked to create a wiki for ScrewAttack.com.

Editors

  • afbeaver
  • Crxforum
  • dotkristian
  • Dr.Strangelove
  • Fabodo
  • Firebrand-X
  • Gamerchris
  • Hoyboy
  • Iceland
  • Kaiserhawk
  • ML_916
  • Nuftetuft
  • Phantomoftheopera
  • Righteous Brian
  • ScReW YoU HiPPIE
  • Wakasaki
  • Zeldafan123


The website's link can be found in the external links of this page.

References

  1. ^ "MTV Networks' GameTrailers Acquires Exclusive Rights To ScrewAttack Programming". GameTrailers. February 8, 2007. Retrieved June 10. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Gametrailers.com - The Source For Video Game Media
  3. ^ Iron Man of Gaming at CPL event
  4. ^ “The Iron-Man of Gaming 2007 is complete!” at ScrewAttack.com
  5. ^ http://www.gametrailers.com/player/31203.html Iron Man of Gaming Promo
  6. ^ http://www.ironmanofgaming.com/ Official Iron Man of Gaming website
  7. ^ Top Ten Boobies at GameTrailers
  8. ^ Top Ten Douchebags of Gaming at GameTrailers
  9. ^ Top Ten Worst Fighting Games at GameTrailers
  10. ^ The Best and Worst Gaming Peripherals at GameTrailers
  11. ^ James Rolfe (July 10, 2006). "7/10/06". Retrieved October 8. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ Resume at Cinemassacre.com
  13. ^ James Rolfe (August 8, 2007). "Opie and Anthony". Retrieved August 14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ Craig Skistimas (November 19, 2007). "Screwattack Merch". Retrieved November 19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ Sega-16.com Interview: PBC Productions


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