Chuggaaconroy

Chuggaaconroy (real name Emiliano Rodolfo Rosales-Birou) or Chugga for short, is an extremely popular Let's Player on YouTube.On August 18th 2010, just one day after he announced he was teaming up with The Game Station, he obtained YouTube Partnership. To show off his new partnership he posted a message to his fans via Facebook and Twitter to say you could now click on a character in the timeline to view a playlist of their Let's Play. He has had many banners since, including his new Pokemon Emerald banner. Chuggaconoroy is a common subject of idol worship among small children, usually between 10, and the prepubescent 14 years old.

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List of completed LP's


 * Earthbound' '(SNES)
 * Mother (NES)
 * Paper Mario (N64)
 * Super Mario RPG: The Legend of the Seven Stars (SNES)
 * Mother 3 (GBA)
 * Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GCN)
 * Pokémon FireRed (Kanto, GBA)
 * Super Mario Sunshine (GCN)
 * Pokémon FireRed (Sevii Islands, GBA)
 * The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GCN)
 * Pokémon Crystal (Johto, Kanto, GBC)
 * Pikmin (New Play Control, Wii)
 * Super Luigi Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy as Luigi, Wii)
 * Okami (Wii)
 * Luigi's Mansion (GCN)
 * Pikmin 2 (GCN)
 * The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64)
 * Pokemon Emerald (GBA)

Current LP(s)

 * Super Paper Mario (Wii)

Non LP Games

 * Mega Man 2 (APRIL FOOLS 2009)
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
 * Pokémon Platinum (NDS, 2008)
 * Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)

The Man Behind the Games
Chuggaa's real name is Emile. He is currently 22 years old and is attending Edison College in southwest Florida. His birthday is on the 8th of April. Chugga prefers to not show his face, though he has shown it in (now-deleted) update videos before he became popular. He appeared on camera wearing a mask during the Dec. 2009 Speed Gamers Pokémon marathon. He appeared unmasked in the June 2010 Speed Gamers Mario marathon. The deleted update videos he used to do that showed his face did actually reappear in his channel after a mistake on Youtube on April 4, 2010, although he expressed his feelings to make those videos private or delete them again. Recently in Magfest 2011 the famous Let's Player NintendoCapriSun, who was starting a collab with Chuggaaconroy, and the also famous ProtonJonSA took several shots at his face in the airport and eating pizza with ProtonJon and posted them to his vlog channel BreakingNCS. These pictures are crystal clear and show one of the clearest shots of Chugga so far. In a recent interview with Clan of the Gray Wolf at Magfest 9, Chugga is seen full body and un-masked. (Chugga's Interview) On BreakingNCS, in his more recent vlogs, it shows chuggaaconroy's face clearly.

In Stephen Georg's vlog (stephenvlog), chuggaconroy has been featured in 5 videos. As with BreakingNCS, he understood and knew it was going to be posted.

In one interview with LPCatchPhrases, he goes into detail about his username, saying that "chugga" was a word he liked saying as a kid, and the "conroy" was from a randomly generated username he got when he was 7 years old. The extra A was a result of a typo he kept, and he has been using his username for 14 years.

The Speed Gamers
Chuggaa has been known to promote The Speed Gamers when they host marathons, and does speed-runs of of games such as Earthbound and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for their marathons. He has helped commentate a few times. He also has an account on their forums. He appeared on-camera during the Winter 2009 Pokémon Marathon, wearing a silver mask concealing his face. He also helped out in the recent Mother/Earthbound marathon with TSG, by doing a speed run of Earthbound, and attempting at breaking the world record. Due to unfortunate circumstances, he did not accomplish his goal. He attended the Mario Marathon on June 11, 2010 for TSG, to raise money for ACT Today, where he took off his mask and showed his face to the public for the first time.

The RunawayGuys
The RunawayGuys are a group of 3 popular LPers. They are Chuggaaconroy, ProtonJonSA, and NintendoCapriSun. The channel is a channel of doing collaborative Let's Plays together. Their 1st collab was Mario Party with ProtonJon as Mario, Chuggaa as DK, and NintendoCapriSun as Yoshi. In all 8 boards, in total, Chuggaa was 1st, ProtonJon was 2nd, and NintendoCapriSun in 4th (CPU was 3rd). In Mario Party, the ultimate goal was to wipe out the CPU from getting 1st and then wiping out themselves. Every Saturday, they have a major update of uploading an episode for each collaboration. Their second LP was New Super Mario Bros Wii, and with it, a special guest: JoshJepson. In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, their characters are as followed: Chuggaa as Mario, NintendoCapriSun as Luigi, JoshJepson as Yellow Toad, and ProtonJon as Blue Toad. All of these men have been killed by enemies, getting scrolled off, and even dying from the others. Every NSMBW update is about half the world and the other half is getting missed Star Coins as well as showing the many cut out deaths(there was a death count at the end) that were cut due to length and repitition being boring. The winners were as followed: Chugga and ProtonJon in 1st, JoshJepson in 2nd, and NCS in, again, 3rd. Their 3rd LP is Super Smash Bros.Brawl's Subspace Emisary, which started on October 1st 2011 and ended Febuary 1st, 2012. Chugga won 1st place, ProtonJon 2nd, and, AGAIN, NCS in 4th. However, after a bonus episode and a fun couple of matches between the 3 RunawayGuys, The RunawayGuys had a daily tournament staring Chuggaaconroy, ProtonJon, NintendoCapriSun, JoshJepson, Donnabellez, ALoyalGamer, Diabetus, SuperJeenius, Lucahjin, and SyKhotic. ProtonJon eventually won the tournament, with SkKotic in a very (un)close second. Their 4th LP, Mario Party 2, started on March 10, 2012, and, if no more updates after, will end on April 26, 2012. The standings will either be ProtonJon and Chuggaa tieing, or ProtonJon winning. And, of course, NCS is in last. AGAIN. A new LP collab takes about 2-3 months. The person in charge of updating the channel is Chuggaa.

Link to Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRunawayGuys

Completed Collabs:

 * Mario Party (All 8 boards)
 * New Super Mario Bros. Wii
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Current Collabs:

 * Mario Party 2

Recording the Let's Plays
Emile records his videos with a Black Magic capture card with component cables for many of his LP's, and edits them with Vegas Pro 10.

Emile does not record farther than a resolution of 480p for most of his videos, that being the games that he is recording do not have a higher resolution than 480p. In most LP's, Emile uses sidebars or pop ups to display information of things that can be collected, (I.E Stray Beads from Okami, the chance of finding a wild Pokémon in FireRed, Crystal, and Emerald, or the items collected in Pikmin 2). This information is helpful to those who are playing along with him during the LP.

There are some points in his videos that have events that take too long to be shown in real time, so he speeds up the video while playing some video game music, some of which have referenced a future Let's Play before.

On October 1st 2011, Chuggaaconroy mentioned on his social networking site that he will begin to upload his videos in 720p, even though the video quality of the games do not exceed 480p. YouTube's compression to the video file will decrease the audio quality as compression is not as high in 720p.

Memes
Every LP, Chugga has given us some memorable catchphrases. Some have come to be a staple in most of his series. Some were used in one LP, and he references them every now and then. And for a particular one, he groans every time he heres it (most of all when ProtonJonSA talks about it during a RunawayGuys Super Smash Bros. Brawl episode.). Here is a list of every single meme we have come to love and enjoy.

NO! (Every series, originated in Earthbound)

For the LOVE of HILARY DUFF on a STICK! (Mother 3)

GRABBED ON TO THE LEDGE! (Super Mario Sunshine)

YOU GOT THE THING! (The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker)

Suicide! (Super Luigi Galaxy)

Steve (Pikmin)

Art Direction (Okami)

Where's the key, where's the key, where's the beautiful key? (Luigi's Mansion)

WHY IS THIS GAME SUCH A JERK!!?? (Pikmin 2)

Swimming Controls (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask)

WALLY??!!! (Pokemon Emerald)

Slavinator (Pokemon Emerald)

Tentacool (Pokemon Emerald)