GameTrailers + Old Screwattack - or, 'member pre-Let's Play YouTube?

[Gordon Cole]

I've been on a bit of a nostalgia kick recently, largely through rewatching old GameTrailers videos. Post videos/thoughts about GameTrailers and/or old Screwatack.

 

[Super Collie]

Oh man you want to talk about classic ScrewAttack, you can't beat Awesome Video Games:

Craig apparently did some shady shit to the AVG crew so they abandoned ScrewAttack after their first season and moved to their own website, but that was where I discovered these guys and I love them.

 

[Ol' Puss]

I remember them from TGWTG. I liked the 'retro feel' of the videos. I hated that they stopped with that format.

 

[BrunoMattei]

It was a more innocent time before they went full clickbait and Craig fucked over Tom.

 

[IrishGuy088]

Any good summaries of the rise and fall of ScrewAttack?

 

[BrunoMattei]

Any good summaries of the rise and fall of ScrewAttack?

Guru Larry has said he wants to do a fact hunt about their rise and fall (that would also include Spoony and DSP).

 

[Molo]

Oh man those gt countdowns were some of the first videos I watched on YouTube it's weirdly nostalgic seeing them again

 

[Gordon Cole]

Oh man those gt countdowns were some of the first videos I watched on YouTube it's weirdly nostalgic seeing them again

Me too. Lil' Hitler would come home from school and eat that shit up every day.

 

[CIA Nigger]

I only knew ScrewAttack as the people who put up the old AVGN videos back when he was the "face" of the YouTube gaming community and the channel everyone copied.

AFAIK it was in the pre partnership days too when "making money" online was running your own site, and from what I read with googling he had a set schedule at first from this deal too. ScrewAttack was paying him for these videos before he could make the money back from being a top YouTube partner.

 

[Super Collie]

I only knew ScrewAttack as the people who put up the old AVGN videos back when he was the "face" of the YouTube gaming community and the channel everyone copied.

AFAIK it was in the pre partnership days too when "making money" online was running your own site, and from what I read with googling he had a set schedule at first from this deal too. ScrewAttack was paying him for these videos before he could make the money back from being a top YouTube partner.

You are correct, AVGN was "independent" for a relatively short period of time before he scored his first "network" deal online with ScrewAttack. AVGN was such a major commodity that lots of people believe that when GameTrailers/Viacom struck a deal to host ScrewAttack's content that they were only ever really interested in securing AVGN. ScrewAttack's Top 10 and Game Vault series were picked up by GameTrailers purely to make it look like they weren't only after James Rolfe's content alone.

 

[tehpope]

I remember GT doing retrospectives for series of games. Remember watching the Metal Gear ones. Good stuff.

Also, our dear fascist moviebob got his start with Screwattack (though apparently he rigged the contest he won).

 

[Hodor]

I remember GT doing retrospectives for series of games. Remember watching the Metal Gear ones. Good stuff.

Also, our dear fascist moviebob got his start with Screwattack (though apparently he rigged the contest he won).

Yeah, I remember that shitshow. He already had a modestly sized fandom at the time and was pestering them to vote for him in the contest.