Top 10 Retro Game Reviewers
This is a list of the top 10 retro/old school video game reviewers on YouTube.
James Duncan Rolfe is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, film and video game critic, and internet personality, best known for starring in the web television series The Angry Video Game Nerd, a joint production of Rolfe's Cinemassacre Productions, GameTrailers, and ScrewAttack. The legend and the catalyst of retro game reviewing mixed with comedy on YouTube. James Rolfe's most famous work from his website Cinemassacre.com and is in fact an internet hit.
This is a YouTube channel considered among one of the most underrated retro video game review shows on YouTube. SomecallmeJohnny is well known for the Johnny VS videos.
Jonathan "Jon" Jafari, best known by his internet pseudonym JonTron, is an American comedian, reviewer, and internet personality. JonTron is very popular on YouTube and focuses more or less on relevantly "newer" retro games from the N64 and PS2 era. JonTron is also very well known for the hit series "StarCade" a show about reviewing all kinds of Star Wars related games.
Pat The NES Punk, born Patrick Contri, is an American YouTube personality, author, and video game collector. He is best known for his web series "Pat The NES Punk," where he reviews and discusses classic video games, particularly those on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Contri has also written books about video game history and has been a frequent guest on various gaming conventions. He has built a substantial online following, contributing significantly to retro gaming culture. Pat Contri from ThePunkEffect.com created Pat The NES Punk back in 2008 which is heavily influenced by AVGN. Pat is mostly well known for having one of the, if not THE biggest and most valuable NES Game collections in the world. He is also noted for the most popular video gaming podcast on iTunes called Completely Unnecessary Podcast.
Oh man, I've been watching these guys ever since I first got into YT gaming videos. I used to have a very big connection with PS1 games and it was cool to see even the least known PSX games get some attention.
CGR is probably the oldest retro video game reviewing show on the internet. With many different variations like CGRUndertow, Classic Game Room deserves this spot.
It's classic flippin game room... With 2085, this show just got even better!
Jared Knabenbauer (born August 28, 1985), better known online as ProJared, is an American YouTube personality. He is best known for his video game reviews and videos related to Dungeons & Dragons. Knabenbauer also worked extensively with various YouTubers outside of his own channel. ProJared actually gives you reasons as to why a game is good or bad, and he reviews a nice variety.
ProJared is awesome! Especially his D&December videos.
ProJared deserves on this list
Console Wars is best known for 2 guys who love retro video games who battle out games that are the same but on different consoles (this is mostly NES/SNES vs Genesis games). The episodes are very comedic and enjoyable for everyone.
Good reviewer for such a small channel. Hope to see this one get more viewers in the future.
The welfare series reboot was funny!
Probably the youngest out of all the actual retro game reviewers inspired by AVGN. Also not big at all but very underrated.
One of the youngest retro game reviewers out there inspired by AVGN. Good content that deserves more notoriety.
Although Guru Larry doesn't focus on retro games consistanty, he is still recognizable to many YouTube gamers as a "retro gamer". Larry is very good at VO work and is very skilled at sharing with others interesting video game facts that you probably never knew about.
Guru Larry is just downright amazing on his research, by far one of the most original and extensive retro gaming channels on YouTube. How he is virtually never mentioned on these Top Ten lists is beyond me.
Also having really intelligent humor in his videos also helps them be awesome too!
Really funny AND informative, his work is so good, looking up unknown subjects, he makes the others look way behind the times in comparison.
The 8-Bit Eric Show is known best for retro video game vlogs and pickups by Eric Perez. He also from time to time reviews retro games and mix it with sitcoms.
Home to That One Video Gamer on YouTube which like JonTron is powered by Normal Boots. The Completion is (hince the name) consists of Jirard Khalil completing games 100% through and reviewing them.
Justin Carmical was a retro gamer on YouTube who was best known for reviewing Japanese import games and showing people how to play them and his website You Can Play This. Justin also reviewed candy as a project on the side. JewWario is the only YouTube channel in this list that is no longer in production.
This guy mostly makes sarcastic, comedic reviews, but I like his videos.
Really cool guy apart of Retroware and his review are really good.
Caddicarus (James Caddick) is a British YouTuber who started YouTubing around May of 2012. He makes reviews on Sundays, with the Caddicarus show, and he makes random videos on Wednesdays with the Caddy show.Irate Gamer is discontinued in 2017.
He remakes classic nes games and makes them REALLY good! Extremely talented. He even had one of his games featured on James and Mike Mondays on Cinemassacre. He's also been reviewing retro games on YouTube for years.