James and Mike Mondays started out as a show that was kind of just there to pick up the slack of the fantastic Cinemassacre YouTube channel between the episodes of Angry Video Game Nerd, it now it's turned into a pretty solid little show in its own right, although it certainly has nothing on the Angry Nerd. It's really a very different kind of show, it's very plain, there's just James Rolfe and Mike Matei sitting there and talking as they play all kinds of games both old and new, but I find them fun enough to listen to, James seems like a very chilled out kind of dude when he's not in full Nerd mode, and the always lively and kinda scary Matei is hilarious when he gets all worked up and frustrated at a particularly tricky part of a game, but overall you can just really tell that these guys love this kind of stuff and I think that's what I personally like about it, I just like to watch this show and relax.
The show features Mike Matei and James Rolfe (who is well known from his Angry Video Game Nerd web series) plays old video games from mainly the NES, SNES, N64, PS1 era. Sometimes they play through games, sometimes they just play game to show them to the audience.
Basically you take Two Best Friends and remove the hilarious riffing that they do and that's pretty much what you get.James and Mike Mondays is a show where the two play games for a limited amount of time and what it amounts to is the two rambling about the game rather then making some funny jokes or for that matter a legit lets play...
I admit it: I'm a bit of a James Rolfe fanboy. I have thoroughly enjoyed most of what James has created over the past 20+ years.
