Sega Game Gear VHS Tapes - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)
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Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 193: Sega Game Gear VHS Tapes. In the 1990's Sega and Howard Johnson's hotels teamed up for a weird promotion for the Game Gear. Kids could go "HoJo with Sega" during this summer promotion. Parents could rent a Game Gear the kids could play while on their vacation, or they could buy some of the Game Tips VHS tapes. These tapes are horrible, filled with basic walkthroughs, codes, and bull. They also have these wrap-around segments with a 90's surfer dude with a Foghorn Leghorn accent working at the Howard Johnson. He goes through almost every position on the hotel staff while making the life one of chubby businessman a living hell. The Nerd reviews this tape today and talks a little bit about the HoJo/Sega promotion.
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You'd never want to be near a hotel after watching this.
Can you really call this a hotel? I didn't receive a mint on my pillow or anything.
Correction; you don't want to be withing a 100 miles of a Howard Johnson after this.
I didn't like being in hotels before.
Oh it’s fine. That sort of thing would never happen in a real hotel.
This has no affect on me being comfortable at hotels
Not gonna lie, with all the cameos lately, I half expected the actual 90’s Game Gear guy to appear too lol
SAME
Same! 😅😅😅
Same, or even a video phone call in
They did though, the guy at the end was him, right? 🤨
My thoughts exactly!!!
Man... 90's were bizarre. Their UA-cam sh*tposts were VHS tapes that you needed to buy with your money.
The early and mid-90's were great.
@@Aeimos I grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s.. I hated VHS 📼 When DVDs came along I fell in love and still collect them to this day.. I buy Blu Rays but If it's a rare DVD I will buy it in a heartbeat..
@@kenrickeason a false prophet among us. VHS is the way.
@@kenrickeason I remember when I was a little kid in the late 90s early 2000s
When I frist saw a dvd Case I was like what the heck is this? Why is it so thin?
The best part of these VHS is that if they were edited just a little differently they could have easily been horror movies about a man trapped in a hotel and being tormented by a Game Gear cult
Imagine being a customer at a HoJos trying to relax only to have a weird guy invading your personal space with strobe lights causing you to have constant epileptic seizures. Times were weird back then.
i have not watched the video yet, so this is really confusing
I just did and I feel like s*** and a bit my tongue :(
Not the worst experience someone has had in a living situation with a hojo.
Still beats days inn
That's just the ecstasy kicking in.
When someone in the Nerd's basement shouted "Hojo" I legit thought he's got the long-haired dude as a guest star.
Was searching if someone else wrote this. After Pepsiman dude now I'm a bit disappointed :-D
Me to!
I completely expected him to drop in at any moment
Same
same, I figured if he can get Pepsiman, he can get this guy
That ending had me in tears! What a great episode. B-Dubs!
Everybody gangsta until the Nerd turns into Garth from Wayne's World.
Lol
Bully!
I was thinking Howard Stern
No. Everybody is not gangsta.
He reminded me of Max Headroom.
I remember this whole thing and trying to get my parents to stay at a Howard Johnson so I could get the Sega fun pack. Times were different. Lol
Look at this legend
He answered my giward johnson questions
Wait howard Johnson was giving away a sega fun pack?
In those days of pre-internet (or at best very crude early internet) it felt like you were uncovering this secret. Makes me think of the same thing with horror movies and stuff. Knowing about things like Evil Dead movies as a teenager in the mid 90s I felt like I was part of some elite secret society or something.
Dude, I remember getting one of those fun packs packs back in the summer of 93'. I thought that was one of the coolest things ever (call me simply minded). I kept my long afterwards took it out while watching the SATAM Sonic series on Saturday mornings. I probably wouldn't still have it today had it not been for my mother accidental throwing out.
I like how out of nowhere, he just says "I cut my thumb".
and a few seconds later he looks at it and hides it without skipping a beat lol
I couldn't stop staring at his thumb lol
He cut his thumb
@@R_I-C_H is it still on?
Ouchies.
As a hotel employee, this might be my favorite video of yours. I'm dying laughing here. 😂😂
This is like that episode of Garfield where some guy keeps trying to get Jon to buy a magazine subscription.
I’ve seen it & liked it.
When he started hearing someone say "HoJo" in the background, I thought he was gonna have the original actor show up. That would have been awesome.
Still probably a bit too close to a pandemic to have a cameo
Missed opportunity for a knuckles Sandwich...
Ouuuuu...touchè. ;)
No, if the Crazy Dude did that the business man would actually sue
OK, you win the internet today
After every bite you go "Oh no!"
Resident evil Jill sandwich
5:52 my 75-year-old dad still calls Howard Johnsons "HoJos"... and I don’t think it's from having watched these videos (lol).
Lol, we actually DID used to call Howard Johnson “HoJo” in our family. And I really don’t think it came from this, but I think they were pushing it a lot in the 90’s in general.
Imagine the horrendous things they’ll do to you if you bring a gameboy…
Smash it in front of you toss the remains in the pool and bill you for it
They make you dinner
*Segata Sanshiro theme starts blaring*
It actually repels that guy, so I recommend doing so.
@@slyfox2022 I don't think a hydraulic press could smash a gameboy.
Japan had Segata Sanshiro, the US had this long haired fellow. We got hosed.
He was the mascot for the Sega Saturn.
We got hojo'd*
You can't bit Sanchiro!
The US had Phil LaMarr, actually. He was the announcer for the "Plaything" and "Pretendo" Sega Saturn commercials.
I think you mean 'We got Hojo'd'.
I feel like someone could make a horror movie trailer out of that video.
Could have fooled me I thought it was.
It’s ridiculous to hear the AVGN call something “insanely inappropriate” lol.
If you stay at a Howard Johnson hotel, and the bellboy asks for a tip, tell him how to open the door.
Underrated comment right here
Bravo, sir
lol
I audibly snorted xD
“Plumbers don’t wear ties” cameo just in time for the new physical release
What?
Edit: Looked it up. Why, Limited Run? Just why?
@@bradleypearl2986 “Plumbers don’t wear ties” cameo just in time for the new physical release
@@bradleypearl2986 Why not? That or LR lost a bet.
welp, there's a sign of the end times
Kinda suprised Limited Run published that
Hearing him say "I don't like it." in a simple, normal tone after going on a tangent never ceases to amuse me
Honestly the funniest ending of an AVGN episode I've ever seen. Been watching since '07 and I was literally in constant tears 🤣🤣🤣
Not you are not
This just proves that video game marketing has always been terrible.
Yep, because people who play with prostitutes on their jacht, are not people who play with video games in their parents basement so there is no connection they can't relate to the customers at all, they have no idea what gamers want.
Except when it's about a guy in a karate gi beating up folks for not playing the Saturn.
It peaked with Mortal Monday.
Except for the one or two awesome Nintendo Power VHS tapes that I watched over, and over - 2:36
No it doesn’t, and no it hasn’t
I love how I look straight at his thumb and he noticed I was and says “I cut my thumb”
to be honest I didn’t even noticed till he said it
And I kept staring at it after till he hid it.
I love when James does other voices, especially as the nerd; the end part made me legitimately giggle 😄👌
If I were a kid when these tapes came out I would say “No thanks I would rather get a Game Boy”
The nerve of some people...
I'm sorry but James' impression of the HoJo Guy is now my new favorite AVGN character. 🤣
It's ok. You don't have to apologize.
11:11
The editing made it lol
I was dying 🤣
That housekeeper disguise could’ve given Bugs Bunny a run for his money
The AVGN : Talking about tips, numerous times, throughout the entire video.
Me, a man of culture : Remembering Sterling Archer's 'Just the tip' compilation. 😹
the description of "a mix of gambit from X-Men and foghorn Leghorn" was so apt!
the character is like Jay from Jay and Silent Bob if he never got high and never met Bob. lol
I was thinking the exact same thing
Except Jay can actually be funny.
Honestly, if you put him with Jay, I'd mistake Jay for the sober one
You read my friggin mind.
Nah pretty sure he still high
1:42 and 5:47 -- I always thought Hojo was that evil scientist guy you eventually fight in Final Fantasy 7
Now we know that the real name of Sephiroth's father is Professor Howard Johnson.
Hojo's Bizarre Adventure
Rated B-Dubs.
@@viscountrainbows6452 HOJO!!
He also played for the Mets in the 80s.
@@viscountrainbows6452 Underrated comment of the century! Ora Ora ORA!!!
1:07 See, this is why they should've kept these thumbnails.
This was pretty cool to see one of the most obscure Sega Sonic promotions I've ever seen but not every promotion is going to be a hit unfortunately & age well. I'm glad this vid was made on it although comically. This shows how hot Sonic's popularity was in the 90's & how much Sega needed to capitalize on it to remain successful
_"Long haired AVGN isn't real, he can't hurt you"_
11:09
Got any red licorice?
Most places STILL just tell you "tips" that are just the most basic core mechanics of the game. lol
“When you use med kits you gain health”
Like IGN lol
_"To defeat the cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies."_
Gameranx
IGN for example
9:37 "KIRYU-CHAN"
wow, the way that dude looks and speaks looks like he could be right at home as your classical AVGN villain along the lines of the Joker and Bugs Bunny. Part of me was expecting a cameo to be honest.
Ah yes, my favorite tip:
"How to open a door"
What cracks me up, is I have that Taz game in my collection, and it's VERY cryptic. Yet, "going through a door" is the tip they included.
Nah, go through it!
Listen, some times pull and push gets mixed up.
"How to jump"
@@Maicol_WK "Press the jump button".
I liked that employee better when he was the guitarist from Alice in Chains
He had some nice legs.
I wish Jerry Cantrell was an employee at a HoJo
He looked a little like early 90's Hetfield to me lol
if there was ever an episode that needed a 'what were they thinking?' and didn't get one, it's this.
"And I don't like it" at the end, only true fans will get it.
Going Hojo sounds like trapping animals to make them cross-breed.
I hate/love you for making this reference.
And then putting alien cells in your son while he's still a fetus.
I thought I might not be the only one thinking along those lines.
And then injecting himself with those same cells during his boss fight.
?
Imagine staying at a hotel and some nerd is following you everywhere, advertising Express VPN... Oo
Can you imagine avgn without swearing
This is something Brutalmoose would review
Yay another Brutalmoose fan
It just warms my heart when the nerd discovers he likes saying "B-Dubs".
“I cut my thumb” in the real world James just had an accident with a butter knife. In the nerd canon the nerd got an injury in a rematch with bugs bunny.
I heard he got in a knife fight with that guy who killed all his friends. What was his name again?
@@RichardofanFivbe board james
@@Gamerdread491 it was the f*cking phone
@@franciscorocha9289 Or IS it~? NYEH HEH HEH HEH!!!
So the long-haired crazy dude is actually the victim of a virus that slowly turns people into advertisers for Sega Game Gear and this hotel; it's actually kind of a tragedy.
He actually has some talent.
Reminds me of the weegee virus. Everyone who stares back at him turns into weegee. xD
The Sega Snatchers
Wonder where he is now, and does he feel a proper amount of shame in his old age?
Well imagine covid19 in 1990s...
I had never even heard of Howard Johnson Hotels before. but you're right, this video did make me want to avoid them.
Going Hojo is when you steal your jilted ex's baby and turn it into a mutant
What a load of Absolute Jenova 🤮
Sephiroth who?
Hol up
Turn down the wut?
He's the angriest VHS tape nerd..
yooooooooooou've eeeeever heeeeeeeard..
I want to see that series now.
He's the B-Dubs, Betamax nerd
He's also an angry DVD neeeeeeerrrrd
Naw, he's so angry that he forgot it was a VHS tape, after all the other games on cartridges and videodisc or whatever, that he doesn't realize it's a VHS tape.
Jesus this is the most 90s thing ive seen in a long time.
AVGN, your impression at the end had me laughing so hard! Well done!
I've been watching Cinemassacre content for years, especially AVGN, and I have to say this episode felt like the early ones I loved so much. I couldn't stop laughing and the ending was the best. Too bad the real guy couldn't show up 😂
I can't stop laughing at the ending. "That is packing in the FU-FU-FUN!"
Lol same!
same
That ending was amazing lol
Sideways
It's like, just when you think James has toned it down a bit.....blam!!!
Part of me is screaming "how is this a thing that existed?" and then I remember that the 90s were a thing that happened and not just a weird fever dream.
But did they really? At this point in my life I'm not sure that those years even actually happened.
The 90's were a decade long fever dream
Barcode battler was a thing.
Sometimes I wonder if we'll look back at the 2000s and 10s the same way. The 80s and 90s definitely seemed very "primal" as far as entertainment goes.
The 90s was the last great decade!
Imagine you got this these tapes instead of candy for Halloween
Thank you for making me laugh so hard I cried. Priceless. I have one of those Sega tapes lol.
I had zero idea this existed and am pretty sure almost everybody didn't either
same
I kind of wish that I didn't know that this ever existed.
I remember it. Forgot mostly about it, but this video made me vividly remember something I had forgot for nearly 25 years
I didn't and I'm a 90's kid and gamer.
Maybe because I grew up in the Third World, hahahaga.
I memberrrrr
Also, Side Note: it'd be great to see "Game Gear 90's Guy" become a character alongside the "Big Rigs Racing, Tribal Tattoo" James character
For smash it would be great
I agree 100%. I came to the comments section to post this. You just beat me to it 🤣🤣🤣.
Game Gear 90s Guy = Michael B.
Big Rigs Racing Tribal Tattoo Character = Rex Viper Rigs
I went hojo as a kid. I totally remember this, wish I kept it.
After seeing how you got the Pepsiman guy in your Pepsiman video game review, I thought you were going to get that GameGear guy or that businessman guy, or both, in your video here as well.
Sega’s epically absurd, in-your-face marketing campaign is the stuff of legends, the likes of which we have yet to see replicated again in the game industry.
hey, it worked for a while, they actually managed to get some folks to believe that the Sega Genesis is better than SNES.......... **runs**
@@HereForAStorm power wise the snes was the better console, but blast processing was a real thing
That's quite untrue. Ever seen the marketing for DevolverDigital stuff? They are insane.
@@hypercynic I was about to say the same thing, very similar to Sega's advertising in many ways
@@HereForAStorm It is.
The last time I was this early to AVGN the guitar guy was still a character
I miss him :,’( Remember when he used his guitar to beat up Bugs Bunny
Whatever happened to that guy?
Isn't he a carpenter or prop maker now?
@@TripleT706 he went home and became a family man
Back to living behind the couch I presume.... Right where he belongs.
How did I miss this video? Come on, this is awesome. Also, RIP Howard Johnson.
Everyone in my town calls Buffalo Wild Wings “B-dubs”
Whenever I hear HoJo, I think of the mad scientist in FF7.
I don't remember a mad 🥼 in the fast and the furious 7.
@@kendyer8761 i think they meant the lead scientist in the Shinra corporation that created Sephiroth and Aerith and Cloud in Final Fantasy VII
@@KawaiiKaabii1993 what does it have to do with Fast and Furious? 🤔
Ahhh yes, the true villain.
Literally my exact thought process throughout the whole video.
This tape is like a horror film where the victim becomes insane and joins the cult
Or the victim goes to suicide while the crazy guy just watch the scene with a sadistic smile.
This was so fun to watch. I never knew these types of VHS tapes existed and now I'm tempted to find them
"I cut my thumb."
I...wasn't even looking.
Loved this episode: too bad you couldn’t get this guy for a cameo
Was literally waiting on him to pop into the game room
Usually alot of guest appearances do that all the time
Epilogue: that man died after the console wars ended in the early 2000s. His life force was connected to the GameGear as hinted in his videos. SEGA!!!
I don't think an animal like him could've survived the Y2K bug.
What do you mean? The guy showed up at 11:11
I remember when they found a corpse in the swimming pool at the HoJo near my house.
Probably a complete coincidence.
Did he have a number tattoo?
was he found with a game gear?
Maybe that Hotel is actually owned by that crazy scientist from FF7: Hojo
He looks like Jay from Jay and Silent Bob but he's from a wish order 😂😂😂
If he didn't mention the bandaid, i'd probably never notice it.
What bandaid?
I love that AVGN is basically a video game historian, and comedian.
and also filmmaker. He did an 'adaptation' of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Game: The Movie".
And he inspired Norman, the video game historian
And a certified filmmaker as well. Can't wait for "Dragon in my dreams"
He went from an angry energetic dork who lives in a basement to a 80s kid reliving his past in his basement
I swear 90% of what I know about video games, I learned from him. I never even knew about *most* of these old games and systems.
That dude is like a slightly less douchy version of Kid Rock.
The 90s were wild and I love it! 😂
I always appreciate the episodes where we briefly take a step back from games for a change and look at the crazy 80's and 90's gaming culture
The day AVGN became Tyler from Knowledgehub
So instead of Train to Busan, it's Night at the Hojo?
So now we know which hotel Hojo stayed at in Costa del Sol.
Hahahaha 👏😉
Vincent Valentine want to know your location...
I like how he came around on the nickname “B-dubs”
I’ve been calling it that for years
Absolutely hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing. Watching AVGN videos always brightens my day!
Why i expect that Howard Johnson is gonna be in this episode?
you mean HoJo?? GO HOJO!!!!!!!
11:40 he is.
@@fazeslasher7927 Hojo? Wait for it...
*[meaningful guitar piece, sudden shift in tempo]*
*
Maybe Howard Johnson is the friend we made along the way.
I mean, he did have the Pepsiman pizza guy.
9:08 it's like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties all over again
The huge coincidence that they just announced the port!
Yes it is Pete the Wargamer
@@smashpro1 To switch?
@@crazysilly2914 not surprising, because Switch (and every console) has "Night Trap" on it. Probably so we can lolz at it. It's shocking to think back in the mid 1990s politicians (left & right) thought "Night Trap" was as bad as "pr0nz."
the only difference is that it's full motion video
I like episodes like this one the most in which you share some old school back stories
I liked the hiding the band aid bit at the beginning. Nice gentle humor.
The moving camera angles remind me of the old shoot interviews from ECW in the 90s
The only character I can think of with that name is Professor Hojo from Final Fantasy VII
Maybe this is a prequel before he joined Shinra
HOJO!!!
There is a Japanese manga artist whose last name is Hojo. I haven't heard of any fictional characters with that name though.
I knew I heard HOJO somewhere
2:43 I feel misled! You had me thinking they just left their mistakes in, but when I went to watch I found that this was a blooper shown during the credits
Would love an AVGN episode based on the video game tips on VHS!
I cannot begin to express my joy that the AVGN is going to introduce so many people to these insane tapes. I would LOVE to see a further dissection on the post cereal one too at some point, IIRC the dude just advertises Dynamite headdy by screaming "DYNAMITE??" and then SHOVING LIT DYNAMITE INTO HIS FACE
Indeed.
Most indubitably.
But what does cereal have to do with videogames? I kinda hope he doesnt do that as AVGN
Headdy's the boy.
@@Clouds12012 he already did that remember Chex quest ?
Parents now: "TikTok videos are weird and makes no sense"
What parents grew up watching during the 90's:
'90s* the comma goes BEFORE the 9, because it denotes that something is missing, in this case the 19.........
How 80's of you.
that sega guy look like Jay from Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob!! hahahahaha
1:21
"I cut my thumb."
Okay, and?
Little known fact. The long haired concierge was the basis for Nicolas Cage's accent for Cameron Poe in Con Air. True story.
Cameron Poe, Poe Dameron (starwars), COINCIDENCE?!?!
That’s amazing 🤩
Put the bunneh back in the box.
@@JaredJanhsen Why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box?
Holy macaroni
this legend is only 7 episodes away from hitting 200 episodes
Never thought about that. I wonder if it will be the 200th episode by then endo of this year...and what will he do. Im sure he has something big planned
I wonder what he's going to do for the 200 episode???
I hope the next couple are better than the last couple, or it's gonna feel like forever.
@@cliffjumper1984 I wonder if he will have the time.
I love the emotional roller coaster that is feeling bad for the business man until he turns out to be a perv. Then you feel like he deserves what he got. Beautiful film making haha.