Irate Gamer vs. Angry Video Game Nerd

Last week I was introduced to a series of videos that I thought was absolutely hilarious by someone calling himself the Irate Gamer. The videos include swearing and original Nintendo games - all the ingredients for fun! Growing up in the 80's and early 90's, anything so retro and old school is sure to be a winner in my book. The Irate Gamer has produced about 24 or so videos reviewing games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. His videos are available on youtube and he even has his own site. There is even a DVD available now with some of his videos.

His videos wanted me to break out an old NES and make my own videos. After all they must have been a blast to make. I'm even seriously considering buying one of his dvd's just to support him so he'll keep making funny videos. I wish I had thought of this idea. But was he really the one who created this genre?

Today as I was perusing the internet on my day off I came across someone who calls himself the Angry Nintendo Nerd. I noticed he also has a number of videos available and many of them are even reviewing the same game. He has his own video and webpage too. Interesting.

I watched two of the Angry Nintendo Nerds videos, one on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and one of Back to the Future. After watching the first it was clear plagiarism came in to play. After watching the second it became clear that the plagiarism was BLATANT. I mean, the same jokes, the same order, everything.

Take a look at the videos to see for yourself.

Irate Gamer
Back to the Future
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Angry Nintendo Nerd
Back to the Future
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Its no doubt that both of these guys are funny but who should get the credit? Who should you support? Who came first?

I found that there were some people that thought irate gamer came first and others that thought Angry Nintendo Nerd who has changed his name to Angry Video Game Nerd was first. After five minutes though I was convinced that AVGN was probably first. Just in comparing the videos I would guess that the Irate Gamer was the one who took the idea and tried to refine it.

The first video I found claims to be from a confession letter Irate Gamer sent to AVGNSee the video.

I did think it was interesting that the two videos I happened to watch were the exact two that were used in the plagiarism accusation video.

What I can't find is any convincing evidence that Angry Video Game Nerd is actually the plagiarist.

The more I see the more it looks like case closed. In fact I'm ready to call it.

Below are some links to some other videos about the plagiarism.

An AOL video from Dailymotion (there is still AOL?)
JesseMeza's VLOG

It looks like Chris Bores, the Irate Gamer has become quite a hated internet d-list celeb.

What pisses me off about this is that he has been able to profit from this plagiarism by selling DVD's and t-shirts. It's one thing to mimic someones idea but he is stealing in some instances word by word descriptions. Maybe pisses me off is the wrong description. Maybe I'm jealous because he appears to be getting away with it.

I am surprised to see plagiarism so blatant. Even though I'm mad about it, I find myself watching both of them. Despite having videos that are so close, both of them are funny. I'd love to rip Bores a new one and have a nice irate blog about him, but thats not gonna do anything. He's been exposed, thats good enough for me.

What do you think of this plagiarism?