ScrewAttack Entertainment

Background

ScrewAttack Entertainment, commonly shortened as just ScrewAttack, was an entertainment website that was founded in February 2006 by Craig Skistimas and Tom Hanley, and was incorporated in Dallas, Texas. The website focused on hosting various video game-related content, series and reviews, most famously James Rolfe's The Angry Video Game Nerd and ScrewAttack's own series, DEATH BATTLE!. On November 2015, ScrewAttack would be bought by Rooster Teeth, effectively turning it into a subsidiary. In February 2019, the website would disband the ScrewAttack name entirely in favor of the new DEATH BATTLE! brand.

1st Logo (March 30-June 9, 2006)

Standard logo
Early version

Logo: On a black background, we see a grungy black-and-white picture of a pair of headphones. A multicolored circle with a poorly drawn yellow lightning bolt infront of it is seen inside the headphones. The following text is seen below the logo:

SCREWATTACK.COM
Game on!

Trivia: The logo and name are taken directly from the Metroid item of the same name, albeit with a space in-between the words.

Variant: An early version had "WHERE GAMERS GO TO BE HEARD" below the logo.

Technique: Limited 2D animation of the logo zooming in.

Music/Sounds: Either "Item Room Ambience" or an "item aquirred" sound effect, both from Super Metroid. These were used as an intro and an outro, respectively.

Availability: Very rare. Was only seen on early 2006 episodes of ScrewAttack's Video Game Vault.

2nd Logo (June 11, 2006-2012?)

Prototype version
Standard logo

Logo: On a black/space background with blue circles flying around, a silver lightning bolt flies from above, spins around multiple times, and moves to the center of the screen, which causes speed lines and rings to appear in the background. Then, the pair of headphones from the last logo flies in from above, covering the lightning bolt. Finally, the "SCREWATTACK.COM" wordmark is seen in a silver color. The text then flies infront of the screen.

Variant: A prototype version had the logo in a red, green and yellow color scheme. This was seen on episodes of ScrewAttack's Video Game Vault.

Technique: Neatly done CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: Either the following:

Same as the last logo.
None.
Music from the preceding video.

Availability: Rare. First seen on later episodes of ScrewAttack's Video Game Vault, and may have been seen on other ScrewAttack productions. Was also seen on the original unedited versions of early AVGN episodes.

3rd Logo (GameTrailers variant) (February 2007-2011)

Standard logo
Later variant

Logo: On a space background, we see many blue cubes floating around. We zoom to the right to see a grey box (looking like the Empty Block from the Mario franchise) with the letters "GT". "GAMETRAILERS.COM" is seen below the letters. We quickly zoom out to see the box explode, causing a lot of screws to fly all in one direction. The camera follows these screws. The camera then pans downward, revealing that the screws were charging towards the lightning bolt from the last logo. The screws hit the bolt, causing it to glow light blue. The headphones from the previous logo appear inside of the bolt. The transparent text "SCREWATTACK.COM" appears below. Along with that are the words "GAMETRAILERS.COM PRESENTS A" on top of the logo, and "PRODUCTION" below it.

Later Variant: The headphones are now eliminated, and the wordmark is changed from blue to silver.

Technique: Great CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: A brief 6-note electric guitar tune repeated twice, accompanied by sounds of explosion and whooshes. In other cases, the 1st logo's music plays.

Availability: Same as the last logo. Seen on The Angry Video Game Nerd and ScrewAttack's Video Game Vault.

4th Logo (Early 2007-Early 2010s)

IAW version

Logo: On a space background, the lightning bolt from the previous logos zooms out of the screen, zooming into the center. The SCREWATTACK wordmark, which has ".COM" absent, is now seen on the center of the bolt instead of below it. The lightning bolt is seen slowly spinning around. The wordmark then zooms into the screen, mostly segueing into one of the still GameTrailers logos.

Variants:

On "The Making of an AVGN Episode", "In association with" is seen above.
- A still variant of this exists.

Technique: CGI for the bolt and space background, simplistic animation for everything else.

Music/Sounds: 2 whooshing sounds. On AVGN, music from the episode plays over it. Sometimes, the last logo's music plays.

Availability: Common. Seen at the end of The Angry Video Game Nerd episodes and, once again, on ScrewAttack's Video Game Vault.

5th Logo (September 2011-Mid-2016)

Standard logo
Network variant

Logo: On a blue background, the words "SCREW" and "ATTACK" slide in from left to right. The words then collide each other, which forms a blue lightning bolt. The bolt flies into the screen, seguing into the video.

Variants:

As a closing logo, the social media accounts for ScrewAttack were seen below.
A variant exists with "NETWORK" seen below "ATTACK". The background is also different.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A retro-esque explosion sound effect.

Availability: Uncommon. Seen on ScrewAttack productions from the time, including DEATH BATTLE!. Don't expect to see this on The Angry Video Game Nerd, since it still used the last logo. It also plasters the previous logos in reuploads of their older content.

6th Logo (2017-January? 2019)

Logo: On a black background, a blue hexagonal shape zooms out of the screen. Then, the lightning bolt and another hexagon zooms inside the shape, which causes the screen to flicker. The logo zooms out to the left to reveal the words "SCREWATTACK".

Technique: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: Electrical sounds, mixed with beeping noises.

Availability: Seen on ScrewAttack and DEATH BATTLE! videos until the disbanding of the ScrewAttack name.