James Lewell

James Lewell (AKA as Nitro Rad or just Nitro) is a Canadian YouTuber focused on reviewing RPG Maker horror games, and lesser-known platformers. He's most well known for his videos about LISA and its fangames, Rayman, and Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.

James hosts a secondary channel called GARANIKOR featuring video-game-inspired sketch comedy videos with his friends Alex and Brady.

History
James was born on June 21, 1994. He started making videos at the age of 6, with his mother's camera. When he was in elementary school, his friend Robbie showed James his camera. They got together after school and started making home videos.

This continued into high school, as his friends made sketch comedy videos on the channel GARANIKOR. After graduating high school, he attended a film college, hoping to fulfill his dream of becoming a filmmaker.

He started Nitro Rad in 2013, working on each new episode after classes. It served as practice to him, and also gave him an excuse to play his favorite games, along with some new ones. As the subscribers kept coming, he started taking it seriously - he always thought of running Nitro Rad as a hobby, and holding a "real job" aside, but that was beginning to change.

Shortly before he graduated, Stephen McNail, the current premier of Nova Scotia, cancelled the province's film tax credit. This crippled its film industry, destroying any hope James had of finding a film job in his province.

As a last resort, James began working as a retail cashier. Suddenly, he was 30,000$ in student debt with no film job to show for it.

On July 20, 2017, he quit his job, as his Patreon page finally hit $500 dollars/month. Since then, Nitro Rad has been James's main job.

Trivia

 * The first game he ever played was Super Mario Bros. 3
 * James started making videos since he was 6 years old.
 * Nitro Rad is a film school graduate with a degree in Digital Filmmaking.
 * James and Brady met during a Kijiji meetup where James sold Brady MGS: Peace Walker.
 * James has acute heterochromia. While his eyes are blue, the top left corner of his left eye is hazel.
 * He's a long time fan of the Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill series.