List of JonTron episodes
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JonTron is an American web series created by Internet personality Jon Jafari. In each episode, Jafari reviews video-games, movies, and television shows. He is usually accompanied by his green-cheeked conure, Jacques, who speaks in a robotic voice.[1]
JonTron debuted on August 31, 2010 on the video hosting service YouTube, and is ongoing. In 2015, Jafari released a spin-off of his original show, titled JonTron's StarCade, where he reviews games based around the Star Wars franchise.[2][3][4]
Episodes
Season 1
| Episode Title | Upload Date | Description |
| "Daikatana Review" | August 31, 2010 | This episode is a review of the Nintendo 64 version of the 2000 first-person shooter video game Daikatana. |
| "CastleVania Legacy of Darkness Review" | September 14, 2010 | |
| "Top 10 Most Overrated Games of All Time" | September 20, 2010 | This episode is no longer available on YouTube. |
| "The Top 10 Mario Party Minigames" | September 21, 2010 | |
| "Joe & Mac Retrospective" | October 6, 2010 | In this episode, Jafari looks back on the video game Joe & Mac and its sequels. |
| "JonTron's MINECRAFT WORLD!!" | October 21, 2010 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Top 10 Mario Kart Tracks" | October 27, 2010 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "SONIC R IS THE BEST GAME EVAAAR" | November 1, 2010 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "6 Scary Things in Videogames" | November 22, 2010 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Top 20-11 SNES Games" | December 10, 2010 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Top 10 SNES Games" | December 24, 2010 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Final Hallway XIII" | January 7, 2011 | Jafari and his friends, including actor Michael Barryte, play Final Fantasy XIII and overreact to its extreme linear gameplay. |
| "QuickTime Events Suck!" | January 15, 2011 | This video features criticism towards the use of quick time events in video games. This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "6 Horrible Boss Battles" | January 28, 2011 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "DinoCity BRO!!!" | February 4, 2011 | Jafari reviews the 1992 SNES game DinoCity. |
| "Apples and Grapes" | February 18, 2011 | |
| "Malkovich's Gaming Guilty Pleasures" | March 18, 2011 | This episode features Jafari under the alias of a man named Malkovich, who hosts a fictitious public-access television show. |
| "Drunk Gaming: The Castlevania Adventure" | April 15, 2011 | Jafari consumes copious amounts of Steel Reserve and Seagram's alcohol, and then proceeds to play the Game Boy game Castlevania: The Adventure. This episode was uploaded on 5 April 2011, almost two weeks after Jafari's twenty-first birthday. The episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Top 10 Nintendo Overworlds" | May 6, 2011 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Mighty Maxed Out" | May 30, 2011 | |
| "Top 10 Video Game Commercials" | August 12, 2011 | |
| "Starfox Adventures: Stairfax Temperatures" | August 29, 2011 | Jafari reviews the 2002 video game Star Fox Adventures. |
| "George Lucas and JonTron visit Jupiter" | September 23, 2011 | This episode is a critical parody of the alterations made by director George Lucas to the original Star Wars trilogy. This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Malkovich's Gaming Game Show" | October 5, 2011 | A follow-up to the episode "Malkovich's Gaming Guilty Pleasures", this video features a Jafari's character Malkovich hosting a fictitious game show, and also features Internet personality Arin Hanson. |
| "Monster Bash Starrin' Johnny Dash" | November 4, 2011 | Jafari reviews the 1993 MS-DOS game Monster Bash. |
| "Sonic Team Intervention" | November 15, 2011 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Jurassic Park: The Lost Potential" | December 30, 2011 | This episode, a review of the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, was removed from YouTube for containing copyrighted material. |
| "Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis" | January 23, 2012 | |
| "Home Improvement" | February 13, 2012 | |
| "Monster Party" | February 27, 2012 | |
| "Final Hallway XIII-2" | March 5, 2012 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Bubsy Collection" | March 26, 2012 | Jafari reviews the games in the Bubsy series, including the notoriously negatively-received Bubsy 3D. |
| "Charlies Angels for Gamecube" | April 20, 2012 | |
| "How To Play Counter Strike: Global Offensive" | April 24, 2012 | |
| "Star Wars Kinect" | May 2, 2012 | Jafari reviews the video game Kinect Star Wars.[5] |
| "Top 10 Necessary Video Game Sequels" | May 17, 2012 | |
| "Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts" | June 12, 2012 | After a copy of the 2008 video game Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts falls from outer space, Jafari's memories of his negative perception of the game is erased by Jacques, and he unwittingly decides to play it. The game then forces him to complete it before he can turn it off. |
| "BIRDEMIC: The Best Worst Movie Ever" | June 27, 2012 | Jafari reviews the 2008 film Birdemic: Shock and Terror. |
| "Kings Quest V + Mailmen" | August 14, 2012 | This episode has since been unlisted. |
| "Nightshade: The Claws of HEUGH" | October 1, 2012 | Jafari reviews the 1992 NES game Nightshade Part 1: The Claws of Sutekh. |
| "Space Ace!" | January 29, 2013 | Jafari reviews the SNES port of the Don Bluth-animated arcade game Space Ace. |
Season 2
| Episode Title | Upload Date | Description |
| "Hercules Games" | September 24, 2013 | |
| "Goosebumps: PART 1"[1] | October 27, 2013 | This episode is a review of the Goosebumps episode entitled "Don't Go To Sleep!". |
| "Goosebumps: PART 2" | October 30, 2013 | This episode is a review of the Goosebumps episodes "My Hairiest Adventure" and "Ghost Beach". |
| "DidYouKnowGaming Outtakes" | November 30, 2013 | |
| "Home Alone Games" | February 13, 2014 | This episode was the first to be released after the relaunch of the website NormalBoots. |
| "Bootleg Pokémon Games" | February 15, 2014 | Jafari plays various bootlegged games based on the Pokémon media franchise. This episode is his most viewed of all time, with over ten million views. |
| "Foodfight!" | February 26, 2014 | This episode is a review of the 2012 animated film Foodfight!, and features cameo appearances by Paul Ritchey of the webshow Continue? and musician brentalfloss. |
| "Conan the Barbarian" | March 22, 2014 | |
| "Takeshi's Challenge" | April 22, 2014 | |
| "California Games" | June 14, 2014 | |
| "Titenic" | July 17, 2014 | This episode features various games revolved around the famous ocean liner the RMS Titanic, including games based on the 1997 film adaptation. |
| "Japanese Shoot 'Em Ups" | August 16, 2014 | |
| "Anti Drug Games" | September 24, 2014 | This episode features: Narc and Wally Bear and the No Gang |
| "Clock Tower" | October 18, 2014 | |
| "Are You Afraid of the Dark? (PART 1)" | October 28, 2014, | This episode is a review of the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode entitled "The Tale of the Phantom Cab". |
| "Are You Afraid of the Dark? (PART 2)" | October 31, 2014 | This episode is a review of the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark" and "The Tale of the Dark Music". |
| "Plug and Play Consoles" | November 29, 2014 | |
| "The Zoo Race" | December 13, 2014 |
Season 3
| Episode Title | Upload Date | Description |
| "Barbie Games" | February 25, 2015 | |
| "Titanic: The Legend Goes On" | October 31, 2015 | |
| "Food Games (PART 1)" | November 26, 2015 | |
| "Food Games (PART 2)" | December 7, 2015 | |
| "A Talking Cat!?!" | February 25, 2016 | |
| "The Skateboard Kid" | May 1, 2016 | |
| "Disney Bootlegs" | June 13, 2016 | Jafari plays bootlegged games based on various Disney franchises, including The Lion King, Mulan, Snow White, and Frozen.[6] |
| "Dark Dungeons" | August 28, 2016 | Jafari reviews the film Dark Dungeons, based on a Chick tract of the same name. |
| "Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf" | October 30, 2016 | Jafari reviews the film Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf. |
| "BEING SCARED at Resident EVIL 7 on PSVR!!" | November 19, 2016 | Playstation takes Jon out to L.A. to play, on a set, Resident Evil in VR |
| "The Weird World of PSAs" | November 30, 2016 | Jon looks at multiple drug PSAs from Mr. T, Micheal Jordan, Etc. |
JonTron's StarCade
| # | Episode Title | Upload Date | Description |
| 1 | "Atari Games" | May 9, 2015 | Jafari hijacks the Millennium Falcon and is blackmailed by Darth Vader into playing Star Wars video games. In this episode, he plays the Atari 2600 games Star Wars: The Arcade Game, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle, Star Wars: Jedi Arena, and a prototype of the unreleased game Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Ewok Adventure. |
| 2 | "X-WING" | May 24, 2015 | |
| 3 | "Star Wars Chess" | June 28, 2015 | |
| 4 | "Nintendo Star Wars" | September 1, 2015 | |
| 5 | "The Phantom Menace Games" | September 29, 2015 | |
| 6 | "Yoda Stories" | October 14, 2015 | |
| 7 | "Star Wars Plug and Play" | October 28, 2015 | |
| 8 | "Everything Else!" | December 11, 2015 | |
| 9 | "The Star Wars Holiday Special" | December 15, 2015 | In the final StarCade episode, Jafari is forced to review the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. By the end of the episode, it is revealed that Darth Vader was actually Arin Hanson in disguise, making this episode his and Jafari's first YouTube appearance together since Jafari's departure from Game Grumps. |
References
- ^ a b Cohen, Joshua (15 May 2014). "YouTube Millionaires: JonTron Makes Terrible Video Games Great". Tubefilter. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
- ^ "JonTronShow". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ "JonTronShow". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ Chambers, Evan (2015-05-10). "JonTron's StarCade: Episode 1 - Atari Games". Kinja.
- ^ Amini, Tina (3 May 2012). "Kinect Star Wars Is A Terrible Game. But Damn If It Isn't Fun". Kotaku. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
- ^ Blevins, Joe (14 June 2016). "There's a whole new world of crazy bootleg Disney video games". A.V. Club. Retrieved 15 June 2016.