Caddicarus

"Greetings and Salutations, my beautiful people, and welcome to the Caddicarus show, where I have to do the dirty deed of deciding whether or not a game deserves to be Slaughtered or Salvaged".

- Caddy's opening line

Jim Caddick, better known online as Caddicarus, is a British YouTuber who typically specializes in retro game reviews. He has been an active user since 2011, and he now currently uploads every few months or so.

In his first-ever game review, he acknowledges that game reviews weren't exactly a new thing at the time, citing people like mh:awesomegames:The Angry Video Game Nerd, Irate Gamer, and JonTron as examples of people who did that kind of video. However, Caddick wanted to differentiate himself from those users by specializing mainly in reviewing games on the mh:awesomegames:PlayStation, which he calls his childhood console. His reviews of PS1 games is the main staple of his channel, and have become "The Caddicarus Show." In these reviews, he used to have a three-point rating system. These days, Caddick is commonly referred to as "The PS1 guy".

Though openly admitting that his favorite gaming platform is the PlayStation line, he's not a PlayStation fanboy in any way and has consoles from Nintendo and mh:awesomegames:Microsoft. Over time, he started to review some games on later consoles including the PS2, PS3, PS4, and even on PC and Nintendo Switch. His "Caddy" segment is basically focused on more in-depth reviews of more recent titles on modern systems. He uses a traditional 10 point scale for these reviews. Although gaming is the primary focus of his content, he does talk about movies, TV shows, and even discusses some of Youtube's questionable policies (the latter is a very, very rare occurrence).

Compared to AVGN and JonTron, Caddy's reviews are much more informative and more focused on giving an in-depth review of the game in question. However, he still makes a lot of funny jokes, and the reviews are still rather humorous.

Caddicarus has gone on record that if he ever gets 1 million subscribers he'll make a mh:awesomegames:Spyro the Dragon marathon.

Current Content

 * The Caddicarus Show - reviews of games such as the PS1, Xbox and the list goes on, and occasionally old VHS movies or TV shows.
 * Caddy - in-depth reviews of current-gen titles on modern platforms.
 * Top 10's - does Top 10 videos on certain aspects of gaming (one example: Top 10 Merchants).
 * Cinemaggots/Kids Explain - his movie-related videos. He sits down with his girlfriend's two youngest daughters and has them describe movies and TV shows to him by asking them questions about the subject material.

Cancelled Segments

 * Current Quickies - reviews of modern games in which he talks at an insane speed.
 * Caddy's Retrospectives - a trilogy of reviews of the first 3 installments of a given franchise, and whether or not they hold up today.
 * Drive-Thru reviews - very brief reviews of games in less than 5 minutes.

Why He Gets the Salvage

 * 1) He has a great sense of humour. A lot his jokes are worth a good laugh, and they work tremendously with a good setup and excellent delivery.
 * 2) He is grateful towards his fans and viewers and doesn't take them for granted.
 * 3) He despises the whole "It's made for kids" excuse, particularly when talking about games and TV shows that clearly pander to kids. He understands that even children have standards, and thus is not an excuse to make a poor quality product.
 * 4) * He doesn't talk down to kids either, as seen in his "Kids Explain" videos. He asks two girls in every video on what they thought of a game, show or movie they watched and Caddy would use that as proof for how they perceive things.
 * 5) * Caddick is particularly harsh against cheap kids' games because of his hatred of the mere existence of the "It's made for kids" excuse.
 * 6) His collaborations with Jordan Underneath, Scott The Woz, Brutalmoose, Scarfhulu, GillytheKid, and Somecallmejohnny are pure gold, especially an animated cameo from LS Mark, He works very well with these guys, and the humor lends itself well. His Bubsy 3D review also featured guest appearances from Rerez, Tennings, Somecallmejohnny, and even his own sister.
 * 7) * Whenever Caddy does a collaboration, his guest often points out his quirky personality.
 * 8) He is also an excellent drummer. He has a few drumming videos on his channel in which he does drum covers of various video game music, such as the Croc theme, and the stage music for Hog Wild.
 * 9) He is not afraid to give controversial opinions on certain games. An example is his Top-10 video of his most unpopular opinions.
 * 10) He's also not afraid to give disclaimers for some parts of his videos like opinions and thoughts of his own.
 * 11) His earlier reviews were very clearly inspired by JonTron, but over time he gradually developed his own fun-loving, lighthearted, and goofy style for his future videos.
 * 12) Much like JonTron, while he also portrays a wacky, silly, insane, eccentric, somewhat fun-loving & childish persona in the main videos, Jim is actually a very mature, rational, unbiased, frank, and responsible person. Occasionally he makes more serious videos where he raises awareness of real-life issues with most topics in a calm, civilized manner.
 * 13) *Jim has also made several videos calling out bad parenting habits in any form of media.
 * 14) *Jim has made some videos from time to time about being aware of producing YouTube content leading to the desired effect with improvement for oneself or even an undesired effect as well in some instances.
 * 15) *Jim has also made videos about how one can improve and grow as a person no matter how bad some developments or habits one is around after discussing a poorly made video game, movie, or show.
 * 16) * Videos like "CRINGING IN MY FIRST VIDEO - Caddicarus" and many other videos that were similar to this further discuss how his style of videos has improved over time.
 * 17) His way of rationalizing before or after making a goofy joke for the way he thought something was horrendous, mediocre, decent, or great is very well developed and well written.
 * 18) Despite his nostalgia towards mh:awesomegames:Crash Team Racing, he was more than happy to call out publisher Activision for adding microtransactions to mh:awesomegames:Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled around a month after the initial launch.

Bad Qualities That Get the Slaughter

 * 1) While his style of humor is fantastic, energized and hilarious, he can sometimes be hit-or-miss.
 * 2) False advertising: He confirms that he is from the United States on his youtube account despite the fact that he is british.
 * 3) There are times when he doesn't do much research when reviewing a game: for example when he reviewed Thrasher: Skate and Destroy claiming it's a Tony Hawk ripoff when in reality Thrasher was released one month after the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

Trivia

 * His original name was James Caddick, but he recently changed it to Jim because he didn't like the old name.
 * His sister, Rosie, has her own channel that goes by the name "Professor Juice." Her style is clearly based on her brother's.
 * A while back, Caddy decided to drop the "Slaughtered or Salvaged" rating from his reviews since he felt he needed to evolve past it.

Videos
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