Gamer Girls

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf206SzraZY&t=3953s

What is that shirt?  Oh, Smokey the Bear.  Hey guys!  Remember Smokey the Bear?

We’ve gone over this before.  Yeah.  It’s in the video I review here:

https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/08/erin-plays-and-mike-matei-stream.html

She was also wearing a Smokey the Bear shirt in that video.  Is it the same shirt?  

No.  So Erin has at least two Smokey the Bear shirts.  Why?  As I discussed back in August, Erin wasn’t even born when Smokey the Bear public service announcements were on tv.  How is she familiar with the character?  

Erin seems to be *nostalgic* for a time before she existed.  That’s the level of her self-loathing.  She pines for a time when she didn’t exist.

Well, we’ve got two and a half hours of Erin playing Friday the 13th for the NES with the love of her life Mike Matei.  He’s wearing a Disney shirt, by the way.  He’s 40 years old.  So we’ve got a lot of ground to cover today.

0:00 – Her usual awkward as fuck intro: “I’m here with Mmmmmike?” and awkward pointing.

Shout out to NewWaveJunkie who’s going to help these young lovers with the game.  

What about the Newlywed Game?  Has there ever been a video game adaptation of that show?  Let me look.

Maybe?  I’m seeing some shit on Amazon but I can’t figure out the platform.  It’s either a PC game or a DVD game.  Looks obscure in any event.  And there seem to be at least two versions of the game.

This might be something to check out.  A hidden gem.  It seems that you can play against other people or the people from the 1960s version of the show (or 1970s version for the other edition of the game).  I guess that they show clips from the show.

This would be good.  Mike and Erin.  They’re a couple.  They have a lot in common.  They’re obviously really sweet on each other.  It would be a cute little stream, you know?  Maybe for Valentine’s Day.  

“What’s the strangest place you and your wife ever made whoopee?”

Hilarity ensues.

0:15 – Erin says, “You’re a little bit more of an expert on this than I am.”

Oh, really?  Somebody knows more about video games than Erin?  I refuse to believe that.

So apparently they’re going to trade the controller back and forth.  Because this is a one player game.  And Erin has carpal tunnel syndrome, of course.  

I used to like these Erin and Mike streams but no longer.  And I think that I know the reason: they don’t even play the fucking game together any more.  Part of the fun was seeing a totally inept Erin playing with or against somebody who actually knows how to play video games.  It was an interesting contrast.

Now it’s just Mike playing while Erin watches.  It’s unhealthy.

So Mike starts talking about the AVGN episode that he did on this game back in 2006.  Then he starts talking about the movies and various other horror films.  Then Erin just starts reading from the chat and says, “Okay, I’m going to go.”  She totally cuts him off.  He didn’t even finish the fucking story about the AVGN episode.  She doesn’t give a flying fuck about any of this.  She also doesn’t know how conversations are supposed to work.  She wasn’t listening.  At all.  And she doesn’t give a fuck.

So Mike just drops it.  Let’s watch Erin giggle to herself for no reason as the credits run.  She must think that it’s a cute font or something.

3:15 – There’s a reference to “gummi beary juice”.  Erin doesn’t get the reference.  Hey guys!  Remember Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears?  The Saturday morning cartoon?

Well, yes.  I do.  But Erin aka Cykill1986 isn’t going to remember that show that ran from 1985 to 1991.

6:45 – “It’s so weird the way things spin.”

She’s talking about how in the 3d part of the game, like in dungeon-based RPG games of the era, when you press left or right the view changes.  Like…how to even describe this?  This is such a basic concept that I can’t describe it. 

But Erin, who has no familiarity whatsoever with video games, is dazzled by this.  She’s can’t understand how things move in a 3d environment.  

Mike just ignores that ridiculously stupid comment.

7:30 – Erin gets lost in this two room little house and Mike says, “That happens to me too.”  

Really?  Come on.  

8:30 – She managed to get out, with Mike telling her exactly what to do.  Now she’s in the forest and she says, “I don’t know what I’m doing.”

Yeah.  We know.  I don’t know what you’re doing either, Erin.  With any of this.  She’s getting $2700/year with these videos.  Go do something else.  Something that you actually want to do.  

10:45 – Jason appears and Erin yells.

11:00 – “I don’t know what to do.”

You know what?  This game is boring, Erin is boring, Mike is boring.  I don’t want to watch this any more.

(edit: I missed some gems by quitting early.

23:45 – “I don’t want to do water activities.”

Shishi is changing his underpants again.

Erin also says that she can’t swim.  Add that to the list of things that Erin has never done before.  Holy shit.  How is it possible?  And she’s from sunny California.  What were her parents doing, if anything?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evtj6D0VVq8