The Nerd makes his first ever game review, and tries to tackle Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest for the NES, revealing the many flaws and issues that came with it. This is Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 1…

The Nerd takes on reviewing the extremely difficult Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the NES, in which even the first level is almost impossible to complete.

The Nerd tries out his best moves, as he sees if The Karate Kid for the NES is as any good as the movie it is based on.

The Nerd wonders if someone framed him to tackle a bad video game, as he takes on the NES game based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

The Nerd prepares to go all "cowabunga" and ninja, as he reviews the game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES.

The Nerd certainly travels back in time, as he takes a look at two bad NES games based on the Back to the Future series.

There is nothing he can love about bad video games, as the Nerd reviews M.C. Kids for the NES – a video game based on a popular fast food chain.

The Nerd finds out what is bad about Wally Bear and the NO! Gang for the NES, a game aimed at teaching kids to not take drugs.

The Nerd takes a look at the poor quality behind the game Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu for the NES. First appearance of “guest reviewer” Shit Pickle, a cartoon pickle with feces as hair.

The Nerd tackles two more bad NES games based on another film – Top Gun – and finds out how some elements of their gameplay are just impossible to do.

The Nerd finds out what was bad in the third entry in the Double Dragon video game series – Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones for the NES.

The Nerd prepares for Halloween by taking a look at why the NES game based on Friday the 13th is more frustrating than scary.

It’s Halloween, and the Nerd isn’t really that scared when he reviews the NES game based on the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The Nerd finds out how good (or bad) Nintendo’s Power Glove is, by using it to play a variety of games on the NES.

The Nerd discusses the naming of sequels for various movie and video game franchises he has seen or played.

The Nerd pumps himself up for a fight, to prepare himself for reviewing the Sega Master System video game based on Rocky.

It’s Christmas, so the Nerd sees how bad a number of unlicensed religious-themed games were on both the NES and SNES, including Super 3D Noah’s Ark – a game built on the same game engine as Wolfenstei…

The Nerd tackles his first movie review and sits down to watch the third entry in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film trilogy – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Parts 1 & 2 included.

The Nerd tackles his first movie review and sits down to watch the third entry in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film trilogy – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Parts 1 & 2 included.

The Nerd finds attempts to play the Atari 5200. However, after struggling to set up the console, he is unable to play any games as both the standard Atari 5200 joystick and Trak-Ball controllers don’t…

Part 1 of 3. If there’s something bad, and you don’t like it, then you need the Nerd. He’s soon tackling something worse than ghosts, when he reviews Ghostbusters for the NES.

Part 2 of 3. The Nerd is once more being called out to bust down more bad games based on Ghostbusters, as he looks at those made for the NES, Atari 2600 and Sega Master System.

Part 3 of 3. It’s a third outing for the Nerd against more bad games based on Ghostbusters, as he reviews two more made for the NES and Genesis.

The Nerd has his hands full, swatting down bad video games based upon comic book character Spider-Man, created for the Atari 2600, NES, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance.

The Nerd reveals how some console add-ons were never worth owning, as he takes a look at the Sega CD – an add-on for the Sega Genesis – and finds out what the games made for it are like.

The Nerd finds out what another add-on for the Sega Genesis is like – the 32X – and tries out some of the games that were made for it, including Primal Rage and Doom.

Another superhero has had a bad game made about them, so the Nerd delves in to find out just what it’s like to play Silver Surfer for the NES.

The Nerd fins the front cover of the Die Hard game to be a little controversial due to it depicting a skyscraper being blown up which he advices that we all know what it reminds us of. Though he puts …

The Nerd reviews Independence Day for Playstation 1 and it's basically an average flight simulator like any other video game that involves flight simulator. The main complaint the Nerd has for the gam…

The Nerd reviews Bart vs. The Space Mutants and Bart vs. The World, two licensed Simpsons games for the NES. He cites bad controls and ludicrous concepts as the games' low points.

The review starts off in the same fashion as a Looney Tunes short film. The Nerd reviews Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout which is nothing more than a poor man's Super Mario Bros. style slide scroller ga…

The Nerd does a brief history lecture on General George Armstrong Custard, only cause he's about to review one of the adult theme games for the Atari 2600. The game in general is "Custard's Revenge" w…

The Nerd does a tribute to the magazine Nintendo Power by showing selected ads that were made exclusive to the magazine, the posters, the walk-through content, and the fan letters that are answered by…

Dressed as every member of the Addams Family, the Nerd reviews Fester's Quest, an overly long and overly difficult game that he deems is not worth the effort. He destroys it with Gomez's train and mov…

The Nerd goes to a small yard sale run by a hillbilly. All of the games on sale were all bad ones. The one that caught the Nerd's attention was the Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the Atari 2600. After ne…

Sometime after the Nerd escape from Leatherface, the crazed fan, and the red neck. He's now safe at home, but isn't in a good mood cause he has to baby sit two kids he doesn't like. In the mean time, …

Due to popular demand, the Nerd reviews Dragon's Lair. Not the arcade classic, but the poorly programmed and extremely difficult NES version. He can barely make it past the first screen due to his cha…

The Nerd receives a crappy present which is a NES game of Home Alone 2. So he decides to review the game only to find the choice of enemies and the layouts of the levels to be very terrible. His main …

The Nerd is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past who shows him his childhood of when he played the NES as a kid and when he first got his Super Nintendo. After reliving his youth, he's now being gre…

The Nerd does a review on the time-line of Legend of Zelda in the same fashion as his previous review on confusing titles to sequels of movies and games. For this one he talks about the Zelda games ma…

With the upcoming release of the fourth Rambo movie, the Nerd reviews Rambo for the NES. The game suffers from four problems which are: confusing navigation on the landscapes, pointless chat options, …

The Nerd investigates the infamous handheld that gave us headaches...in 3D!

The Nerd plays the Super Nintendo adaption of the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie. Something that can't be made into a good game. Mainly due to the addition of weird enemies and locations that don't look like…

The Nerd does a review on the two competing consoles to the Atari 2600 Intellivision and Colecovision. He starts his review on Intellivision first and also does a review on most of its games. His main…

The Nerd does a follow up to the previous review by showing us the features of the Colecovision. The controllers aren't any different from the Intellivision, while most of the games are as bad they lo…

The Nerd decides to review a good game for once which is Super Mario Bros. 3. Before he reviews it, he talks about the movie The Wizard which is how American gamers first learn about the game as it wa…

The Nerd reviews all the crap Nintendo tried to market along with the NES. Zapper guns, LaserScopes, Roll'n Rocker, and other accessories one needs to look "cool" while playing video games.

In honor of the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the AVGN reviews the games based on the original trilogy. Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari, Temple of Doom and Last Crusa…

In a Star Trek theme review, the Nerd dons a yellow Starfleet uniform and decides to review a couple Star Trek related games, cause reviewing all of them would be too much for him to handle. The most …

The Nerd reviews two of the earlier Superman theme games. The first one for the Atari 2600 is not just bad in graphics but is confusing to navigate. While the Superman game for the NES is another stor…

The Nerd complies to his fan requests to review Superman 64 which he decided to pull everyone's leg by reviewing the Superman game for Commodore 64. His main complaint is the load time takes forever a…

AVGN gets dressed up like Batman to review a series of games based on the Caped Crusader. First up, a Commodore 64 game, which sucks and is given "the Bat punishment." While he praises the NES adaptat…

The Joker holds AVGN hostage and forces him to play the NES, Game Boy and Sega versions of Return of the Joker. They all suck. It enrages the Bat-Nerd so much, he breaks free and fights off the Joker,…

As a special incentive, the AVGN has his fans write his dialogue as he sets out to rant and rave about an NES game he wishes never existed.

The Nerd and his guitar guy from behind the couch, Kyle Justin, join forces to play Battletoads on Nintendo proving that, with just one player the game is a mild challenge, but with two players, it's …

Game on the chopping block this week: Dick Tracy on Nintendo. The world's most popular yellow-coated detective in the world's most frustrating, nonlinear game. Watch as the Nerd struggles to find out-…

In this special Halloween episode, the Nerd reviews games that star one of the most popular icons in horror film: Count Dracula.

The Nerd and his diabolical creation, Franken-Nerd, play games dedicated to that other popular horror movie icon: Frankenstein.

After spending $700 on a CD-i and games, the Nerd reviews Hotel Mario.

The Nerd now reviews one of the three Zelda games for the CD-i. Out of the three he decides to play Zelda: Wand of Gamelon first cause the Nerd thought it be cool to control Zelda in a Zelda game for …

In the third and final video in the Nerd's CD-I series he plays through Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda's Adventure. Link: The Faces of Evil plays similarly to Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and faces m…

It's Christmas time once more, and this time the Nerd decides to play more Bible games. This time most of the ones he's reviewing are official licensed games. The most obscured game he plays is Sunday…

The Nerd reviews one of the first Genesis games he ever played which is Moonwalker. He expressed that at the time anything with Michael Jackson was worth buying and the idea of controlling a celebrity…

When it comes to secrets, Milon's Secret Castle is filled with them. When the Nerd tries to play this game, he finds it to be unusual that two entrances to the castle lead right back outside and a win…

The Nerd gives us a history on Atari's library of game consoles. Along with show casing most of the consoles Atari manufactured for the market. He mentions how with so many consoles to choose from in …

The Nerd reviews some of the Jaguar games, he saves his criticism for Cybermorph due to the obnoxious green female head and the fogging atmosphere you fly around in the game. Durign the second part of…

The original Metal Gear is hailed a classic by video game buffs and is considered to be one of the best games on the NES. The Angry Video Game Nerd, however, begs to differ.

The Nerd reviews the very first home video game console in existence: the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. Watch as he and a hilarious special guest play the most primitive of video games ever created.

The Nerd pays his respects to the X-Men by reviewing their library of video games. He finds the two on NES to be inferior... it's LJN, what did you expect? And two on Sega that actually are pretty dec…

Being a big fan of the Terminator movies, the Nerd decides to give the video games a try. He dislikes the NES game for not offering enough lives, having no continues and being put together in a sloppy…

The Nerd's arch-nemesis LJN strikes again. Having license all home console versions of the Terminator 2 game, the Nerd checks them all out, and while the NES game is okay, the Game Boy sucks and the S…

The Nerd lists all the different formats a gamer would play for video games, and then shows an unlikely format for the first Transformers game which is a cassette tape. It's for the cassette tape play…

The idea of Luigi being in his own game fore once sounded like a cool idea to the Nerd. Only to discover that "Mario is Missing" for the NES is a poorly executed educational game with borrowed graphic…

Watch as the Nerd tackles one of the worst games of all time. "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties" for the 3DO. A strange odyssey of a game consisting of still images, poor editing, poor direction, no story and…

Bugs Bunny gets revenge on the Nerd by forcing him to play not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE Crazy Castle games! It's a pie-throwing, bomb-bursting, game-smashing, fist-flying, anvil-cra…

Pitfall for Atari 2600 was a classic, however the NES game Super Pitfall is a horse of a different color. The Nerd dislikes how the level layouts of the game make little sense such as ladders leading …

The Nerd loves Godzilla, but unfortunately for him the movies were hard to find growing up and the available video games were all terrible. To his extreme dismay, he finds out all the good Godzilla ga…

The Nerd isn't sure how any game company can create a video game based off of the movie Wayne's World when all the movie is just about two guys hosting their own show in a basement along with an abund…

In honor of the Halloween season, the Nerd decides to treat himself to the Castlevania series by reviewing every game for the Nintendo, Super Nintendo and even Nintendo 64. First, he pays his respects…

Continuing his Castlevania marathon, the Nerd decides to revisit the horrors of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest by doing a fresh, new review of it. He also tackles Castlevania III, which he feels was a …

The Nerd continues to revisit the Castlevania games. In this one, he covers Super Castlevania IV. He also covers the dreaded Nintendo 64 Castlevania game.

It's the final part of the Nerd's Castlevania marathon, so he decides to cover Bloodlines and Symphony of the Night. He also discusses the future of Castlevania.

Out of all of the NES games in his collection, the Nerd decides to review the one that stands out like a sore thumb which has an unusual slot on top of the cartridge. Mainly because it's an unlicensed…

It's the middle of winter at the Nerd's house, and to keep himself occupied from being cold is by reviewing Winter Games for the NES. The Nerd explains how the Winter Games for the Atari 2600 was fun,…

What better way to kick off the year 2010 than by playing Street Fighter 2010? The Nerd strives to beat this ridiculously hard game that has nothing to do with the Street Fighter series, and as a bonu…

Within the NES collection of the Nerd lies a game called Hydlide, the pronunciation of the name is debate-able. The Nerd points out that while the game looks like a rip off of Legend of Zelda, its act…

Ninja Gaiden is one of the Nerd's favorite games, but its extreme difficulty has prevented him from beating it. This game is so hard, you'd have to be a ninja to beat it. The Nerd seeks one out, who t…

The Nerd does a history lecture on the Swordquest games which were not just your average Atari action genre games but were actually games used for a promotional contest where gamers have a chance to w…

The Nerd does a lecture on the game Pong a very simple concept for a game that ended up spawning to many spin-offs and remakes. In this case he reviews every single Pong console he can obtain. Most of…

After getting so many request to review Action 52, the Nerd has no choice but to give what his fans want. The game is an unlicensed NES game compiled with 52 games. This seem to be a cool idea, until …

The Nerd reviews the 52nd game on Action 52 titled the Cheetah Men, which came with it's own single volume comic and a preview to a line of action figures that never got made. It looked like the best …

The Nerd is about to enjoy playing the NES Pac-Man, only to discover that it contains game glitches. He tries to blow the dust out of it and even try playing it on different NES consoles, but nothing …

The Nerd is surprised to get a lot of requests to review the second Zelda game which he comments is a good game. But decides to review it since the game was known for being harder than the other entri…

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews the Back to the Future video games and also revisits Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES), Top Gun (NES), Back to the Future (NES), and B…

After being surprised that people ignored his warning and played the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde game for the NES. The Nerd reluctantly decides to revisit the game to give it a more explored review on it.…

The Nerd randomly picks a Super Nintendo game to review which turns out to be Lester the Unlikely. The Nerd knows that the game isn't going to be fun just by seeing the main title screen and the intro…

The Nerd who appears only as an illustration is frustrated that the citizens of Gameville have all the good games, while he is stuck with the bad games. So the Nerd decides to ruin the citizens of Gam…

The Nerd reviews a NES game called Day Dreamin' Davey which features a very bland story about a kid who keeps falling asleep and is amazed by basic objects. The Nerd's main complaint about the game is…

The Nerd has a bad feeling about this!

The 100th episode has arrived! Nintendo's first accessory meets the Nerd! Featuring music by John Jennings Boyd and Lachlan Barclay.

The Nerd begins an epic journey through the world of games based on Spielberg films!

Follow the Nerd as he makes an episode from start to finish!

Kid Kool is anything but cool.

The rarest and most widely sought NES game ever.

The Nerd is back with a foul wretched Sega Genesis game from the depths of hell!

The Nerd returns just in time for the Holidays with another round of Bible games from Hell!

After a 6 month hiatus, the Nerd is back. And to honor his return to reviewing bad and challenging games, he decides to review some Schwarzenegger games for the NES. Mainly due to Schwarzenegger retur…

After doing an autograph signing at a convention, the Nerd receives a petition to review the NES game Ghost N' Goblins. While he comments that it's not a bad game, he does however admit that it's one …

The Nerd has for a while not done a review that's entirely dedicated towards sports games. The reason being of course is that he's not a big sports fan, he's a video game nerd to be exact. After getti…

The Nerd reviews Ikari Warriors for the NES. While the game at first appears to be a decent shoot 'em up game it's actually a really hard game to go through unless you have two people playing the game…

The Nerd reviews the Toxic Crusaders games for the Gameboy, Genesis, and NES. The games are so bad, he invited over the creator himself, Lloyd Kaufman to witness how bad they are. Lloyd, who is very p…

LJN rises again with a shitty game and James has to review it.

After clearing up the 7-year mystery of Taxman, the Nerd looks at an abundance of Tiger Electronic handheld games. You remember those, right? Basically a poor man's Game Boy? But those were only the b…

In light of the Halloween season, and to promote the Cinemassacre's Monster Madness reviews of the Alien franchise, the Nerd reviews Alien 3 on NES. So how does it fare? It's made by LJN. 'Nuff said.

In an ironic change of pace, the Nerd decides to review video games based on himself. Yeah, over the years, an abundance of AVGN games have been created independently by aspiring game designers. As a …

This Christmas, the AVGN takes us back to the past... before internet, and you had to buy things out of store catalogs. It's a holly jolly dose of nostalgia as the Nerd remembers back to all the Ninte…

Concluding his little Christmas wish-list tribute to the fans, the Nerd reviews some more big requests, like the Three Stooges, Boy and His Blob, Home Improvement on SNES, and a GOOD Spider-Man game. …

Due to popular demand, the Nerd breaks away from console games and decides to review a PC game from the current millennium. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing - more like Over the Road Disgracing.

After ten years of reviewing crappy games, and yet another one about driving a bus through a desert for 8 hours, the Nerd considers giving up the ship...until he makes a miraculous discovery.

Here's the review everybody's been waiting for: E.T. for the Atari 2600. Taken right from the AVGN's critically-acclaimed movie, he goes over every step of the game and determines once and for all if …

LJN made a Beetlejuice game too. The Nerd criticizes it for all the usual LJN shortcomings and foibles they include with all their games, as well as names a few new ones.

For twelve consecutive days, the AVGN does mini-reviews of requested games. On the first day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: a game called Tagin' Dragon.

On the second day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: ALF on Sega Master, and a game called Tagin' Dragon.

On the third day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: crazy CrazyBus, ALF on Sega Master, and a game called Tagin' Dragon.

On the fourth day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: Ren and Stimpy: Fire Dogs, crazy CrazyBus, ALF on Sega Master, and a game called Tagin' Dragon.

On the fifth day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ren and Stimpy: Fire Dogs, crazy CrazyBus, ALF on Sega Master, and a game called Tagin' Dragon.

On the sixth day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: Olsen Twins on GameBoy, Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ren and Stimpy: Fire Dogs, crazy CrazyBus, ALF on Sega Master, and a game called Tagin' Dragon.

On the seventh day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson, Olsen Twins on GameBoy, Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ren and Stimpy: Fire Dogs, crazy CrazyBus, ALF on Sega Master, a…

On the eighth day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: Lethal Weapon on Nintendo, VIP with Pamela Anderson, Olsen Twins on GameBoy, Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ren and Stimpy: Fire Dogs, crazy CrazyBus…

On the ninth day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: Porky's on Atari, Lethal Weapon on Nintendo, V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson, Olsen Twins on GameBoy, Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ren and Stimpy: Fire …

On the tenth day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: a slow-loading HyperScan, Porky's on Atari, Lethal Weapon on Nintendo, V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson, Olsen Twins on GameBoy, Rocky and Bullwin…

On the eleventh day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: Universal Studios on GameCube, slow-loading HyperScan, Porky's on Atari, Lethal Weapon on Nintendo, V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson, Olsen Twi…

On the twelfth day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: a crappy LJN game system, Universal Studios on GameCube, slow-loading HyperScan, Porky's on Atari, Lethal Weapon on Nintendo, V.I.P. with P…

The Nerd stumbles across a super rare Super Famicom game that is said to be the worst game ever made. He's reviewed some horrible titles before, like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, CrazyBus, Big Rigs, Dese…

Unable to find any games shitty enough for a review in the cartridge department, the Nerd turns to a console he's yet to cover: The Turbographx 16. And no better way to introduce the black sheep of th…

The Nerd talks about a game on the Sega Dreamcast, the final Sega home console, and while he doesn't have much beef with it, he gets to review a crappy Dreamcast game. Simply known as "Seaman," it's a…

On Halloween night, the Nerd finds a flaming bag of shit on his doorstep. And in that bag is The Crow for Sega Saturn. Not based on the 1994 movie, but the inferior 1996 sequel, and plagued with horri…

The Nerd is a big Mortal Kombat fanatic, and yet he never checked out a little N64 game called Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero. In light of the Christmas season and the subzero chill in the air, h…

When the Nerd plays through some Mega Man X games which are more graphics and text than game play, he considers calling it quits (again). But he somehow gets transported back in time to 2007, 2006 and…

The Nerd delivers an NES classic, the infamous Paperboy. The game about delivering newspapers and having to avoid getting hit by every single inane object on the streets. It may sound easy, but the AV…

Television-to-video game adaptations more often than not are monumental disasters, and nobody knows this better than the Nerd, who decides to play the Beavis and Butt-head game for Sega Genesis. Did t…

When attempting to review video games based on a beloved franchise from his childhood, the Nerd stumbles upon evidence of a parallel universe and realizes that everything he knew to be true might be w…

The Nerd and his clumsy pal Keith wreck the halls with some interactive Sega gear. These VR wannabes rank up with the Power Glove, Roll'n Rocker and all that other useless, overpriced shit we wanted a…

The Nerd goes "Mighty Morphin" bad, as he takes on a collection of games for the Famicom, NES, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy, based around Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

For the first time in his series, the Nerd tackles a game from a later generation of consoles that does nothing to the reputation of a certain blue hedgehog – Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) for the Xbox 36…

While clearing up his game room and getting stranded on another planet, the Nerd questions why a bad game has trashed a particularly good classic movie, when he reviews Planet of the Apes for the Play…

Another selection of accessories receives a good thorough look from the Nerd. This time, its a collection of accessories for the Game Boy, including good ones – like the Game Boy Camera and the Game B…

Treasure is truly lacking within another bad game designed to be used in a contest, as the Nerd finds out what it's like to play Treasure Master for the NES.

The Nerd wrestles with a ton of bad NES and SNES games based on wrestling, including WWF WrestleMania Challenge, WWF Royal Rumble, WCW SuperBrawl Wrestling, and Saturday Night Slam Masters.

The Nerd takes a look at arcade classic Polybius, while he also delves into the urban legend surrounding the mentioned side-effects of the playing the game.

Following his time with Polybius, the Nerd is reborn as "RoboNerd", whose prime directives are to play bad games, and keep gamers safe from them. These include a selection of NES games based on the or…

The Nerd has some unfinished business, as he continues on with his review of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) for the Xbox 360.

The Nerd won't be making a call to Charlie's Angels anytime soon, as he plays a bad GameCube game based on them.

Another bad Star Wars game has emerged, so the Nerd must channel the force to help him review Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi for the PlayStation.

The Nerd has rotted out his brain with such an insane amount of bad games, that this Christmas he gets himself a PlayStation with a compilation of video games from the Lightspan Adventures series to h…

When the Nerd finds a copy of Nintendo Power exuding a belief that EarthBound was a rotten game, he later finds reviews that show how glamorous the game was and reveals a fanbase for a title he now ha…

The Nerd question whether his next bad game "feels lucky", as he looks at a NES Game based on the Dirty Harry movie series that featured only three levels.

No meditation can prepare The Nerd for his first review of a bad Xbox game, Drake of the 99 Dragons - a game featuring well-made "Saturday cartoon" artwork that was intended to be the basis for a comi…

While the Tomb Raider franchise has featured a variety of good games, the Nerd decides to raid the tombs of three that do Lara Croft no justice, and that were made for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, …

For the annual Halloween Special, the Nerd reviews Resident Evil Survivor for the PlayStation.

The Nerd returns to the Hydlide franchise with Super Hydlide for the Sega Genesis and Virtual Hydlide for the Sega Saturn.

The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews the Amiga CD32 console. Watch as the Nerd dives head first into some of the worst video games ever. The Amiga CD32 had such "gems" as Gloom, Kang Fu, Oscar, Naughty O…

Continuing from the previous episode, the Nerd tackles the CDTV game The Town with No Name. Due to not owning the actual console that it was made for, he is forced to play it on the Amiga CD32.

The Angry Video Game Nerd plays the Home Alone games with Macaulay Culkin! Sure, the Home Alone movie games have been covered before on AVGN, but never so many, AND with Mack himself.

The Angry Video Game Nerd is chronologically confused about the Kingdom Hearts timeline. With Kingdom Hearts 3 on the horizon, the AVGN will explore the goofy order of the KH games. You think it's jus…

The AVGN pulls out and reviews as many video game magazines as he can find, except for Nintendo Power. From Atari Age, to GamePro, to some lesser known gaming magazines, the 80s and 90s were filled wi…

The AVGN reviews the Aladdin Deck Enhancer! In this Angry Video Game Nerd (episode 167) the Nerd gets the gift that keeps on giving from Aladdin... an upper decker! Well, the Aladdin "Upper Decker" En…

Pepsiman!! Episode 168 of the Angry Video Game Nerd pits the AVGN vs. Pepsiman, the Japanese PlayStation classic. There was so many junk food video games in the 1990's. From MC Kids, to the Burger Kin…

The AVGN already covered Superman for the N64 about 11 years ago. Well, it's back... with a vengeance! Superman 64 was released for Nintendo 64 in 1999. It was based off Superman The Animated Series o…

Life of Black Tiger: Angry Video Game Nerd episode 170. The AVGN is playing the most modern game he's ever played before on the PlayStation 4. But, of course it might be one of the worst games he's ev…

In this AVGN the Nerd covers Chex Quest, a pack-in game for Chex Cereal from 1996. This is Angry Video Game Nerd episode 171. Chex Quest is a non-violent first-person shooter video game created in 199…

In this AVGN the Nerd reviews Trespasser, a Jurassic Park FPS PC game from 1998. The game was billed as a "digital sequel" to the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, on which it is based. The gam…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 173: The Immortal for NES. The review part was filmed in one continuous shot. The Immortal is an isometric adventure game originally created for the Apple IIGS by …

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 174: Spawn Games. Todd McFarlane's character Spawn was crazy popular in the 90s. Popular enough to 'spawn' a huge run of comics, toys, movies, cartoons, and severa…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 175: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. People love this game. People say it's the greatest game for the Nintendo 64. Some say it's the best game of all time. Rea…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 176: Raid 2020. 11 years ago the Nerd said he might review Raid 2020 in the year 2020, and now that time has come. Raid 2020 is a cyberpunk action game developed a…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 177: Mortal Kombat 1 Ports. Mortal Kombat is the ultimate arcade fighting game, developed by Midway in 1992. Acclaim released four official ports in North America…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 178: Mortal Kombat Rip-Offs. Mortal Kombat was a defining moment for fighting games. With it came a ton of sequels and even more rip-offs trying to ride on its su…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 179: Dennis the Menace. Hey! Mr. Wilson!! Here's the Nerd playing the 1993 Super Nintendo game Dennis the Menace. It's a licensed game based on the movie, which is…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 180: The Incredible Crash Dummies... or "Crash Test Dummies" if you prefer (not the 90s band). The game was published by LJN (on the NES) and was based on the cart…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 181: Bad Final Fight Games. The Nerd reviews the bad Final Fight games. That's right, there's bad final fight games. Final Fight Revenge for the Sega Saturn and Fi…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 182: Mission: Impossible. The game is an action-adventure shooter developed by Infogrames and loosely based on the 1996 film of the same name starring Tom Cruise. …

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 183: Ecco the Dolphin. Ecco is an action-adventure game originally developed by Ed Annunziata and Novotrade International for the Sega Genesis and published by Seg…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 184: Countdown Vampires for the PlayStation 1. Countdown Vampires is a survival horror game developed by K2 LLC and published by Bandai. It's basically Resident Ev…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 185: The Legend of Kage for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Kage is an action game that was released by Taito in 1985. Players take role of the young Iga ninja …

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 186: Taito Legends. These Taito compilations are for the PlayStation 2 and include 68 games total. (Volume 1 came with 29 games and Volume 2 has a bunch more, with…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 187: The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man. The Nerd reviewed the first two Simpsons NES games 13 years ago. Now he's back to review the third awful Simpsons…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 188: Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown. The Nerd just wants to watch Shrek... but he ends up reviewing one of the worst fighting games on the Game Boy Color based on Shr…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 189: Darkman. Darkman is a 1990 kinda-superhero, total-revenge movie by Sam Raimi. It bridged the gap between his work on Evil Dead and Spiderman. The game was cre…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 190: Fear and Loathing in Vegas Stakes. The Nerd has set out to Last Vegas with his trusted attorney to review some of the worst games imaginable... in a parody of…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 191: 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. The 3DO gaming console has been talked about before on AVGN, in the Plumbers Don't Wear Ties episode. But, the Nerd is back to re…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 192: Corpse Killer (3DO). Corpse Killer is a game released for the Sega CD, Sega CD 32X, 3DO, Sega Saturn, Windows 95 and Macintosh computers that features live-ac…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 193: Sega Game Gear VHS Tapes. In the 1990's Sega and Howard Johnson's hotels teamed up for a weird promotion for the Game Gear. Kids could go "HoJo with Sega" dur…

Carmageddon is a vehicular combat video game released for personal computers in 1997. It was later ported to other platforms, and spawned a series of follow up titles. Carmageddon 64 was a port of Car…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 195: Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. Also known in Japan as "Hello! Pac-Man." Pac-Man 2 is a side-scrolling adventure game in the Pac-Man series. Instead of being a…

The Rocketeer is a 1991 film from Walt Disney Pictures, based upon the comic book character of the same name Set in 1938 Los Angeles, California, The Rocketeer tells the story of stunt pilot Cliff Se…

Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 197: Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! (for Sega Genesis). Greendog is a platform game developed by Sega Technical Institute and Interactive Designs for the Sega …

This is episode 198 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of the Commodore 64 and a bunch of it's licensed and weirder games. The Commodore 64, also known as the C64 or the CBM 64, is an 8-bit…

This is episode 199 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of the Commodore 64 horror games. Freddy and Jason are back with a review of Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th on Commodore …

This is episode 200 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of every game published by LJN. This is part 1 of 3, with the others coming very soon. LJN has been a thorn in the Nerd's side for 15 …

This is episode 200 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of every game published by LJN. This is part 2 of 3, with the final coming next week. The Nerd has been gifted the rights to LJN and w…

This is episode 200 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of every game published by LJN. This is part 3 of 3, the final part! Making a video game has been harder than the Nerd and even the de…

This is episode 201 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), which starts off Season 16. The Nerd promised himself in 2006 to review The Last Ninja on NES one day, and today's the day! The Nerd learned du…

This is episode 202 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) and The Nerd is talking Contra! After years of playing nothing but crappy games, The Nerd's dreams are fulfilled through a wish on a monkey's pa…

This is episode 203 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)! The Nerd auditions a handful of Wii games before landing on a game he just had to show off: Purr Pals! Raise your own digital kitten by feeding…

This is episode 204 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)! When it comes to movie-based games, you’d think The Nerd covered them all by now, but here’s another one based on the Bruce Willis film, Hudson…

This is episode 205 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)! In this episode of AVGN, the Nerd wants nothing more than to play DOOM on his Commodore 64... but first, the Icon of Sin must punish him with e…

This is episode 206 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)! In this episode of AVGN, the Nerd talks about everyone's favorite Lasagna Eating Orange Cat, Garfield. From Atari to Sega Genesis, The Nerd wil…

This is episode 207 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)! Let's take a look back at an alleged NES Classic, Kid Icarus. Does it stand up with the Titans of the Era, or is it a Mount Olympus of Poop??? …

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 208, The Nerd opens up a can of worms and takes a gross out look back at the Earthworm Jim series! Often hailed as classics, The Nerd looks to find out if the original…

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 209, The Nerd dons his leather hat and whip again to pick up where he left off in 2008, playing more bad games based on the Indiana Jones films series! This time thoug…

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 210, The Nerd is opening up a bag of jelly beans and flipping through the pages of Nintendo Power, in his quest to beat the David Crane NES classic, A Boy and His Blob…

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 211, The Nerd has his final confrontation with the NES game that has tortured him his entire life: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!! And he'll need some help from a wiser, mor…

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 212, The Nerd crosses another game off his bucket list with the Super Nintendo RPG classic, Final Fantasy III... or Final Fantasy VI as its known outside the States!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 213, The Nerd heads under the Goon Docks to dig up buried treasure, but instead of One Eyed Willie's gold he finds something worse than the Fratellis: Goonies 1 and 2!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 214, The Nerd gets a new cell phone and tries out mobile gaming for the first time with My Horse Prince, a dating sim starring an anime girl and a talking horse with a…

The Nerd celebrates 20 years of Angry Video Game Nerd in AVGN episode 215, with the series that started it all and this time he's going to decide what the greatest Castlevania game of all time is for …

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 216, The Nerd plays a Super Nintendo classic as he tries to achieve a lifelong dream of getting a Megalopolis and Mario statue in SimCity, at any cost!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 217, The Nerd performs a magic trick by sticking his hand in the N64 shelf and pulling out the only 3D platformer starring a glove and a ball: Glover!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 218, The Nerd wakes up with a throbbing headache and his memories missing, so he searches his NES library for clues in hopes to solve the mystery and end this bad case…

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 219, The Nerd digs up another vampire game for Super Nintendo but instead of Dracula, this one's based on the classic silent horror film based on Dracula: Nosferatu!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 220, The Nerd is grabbing his A.I. Controller and jumping down the Sunsoft frog hole to play the NES classic, Blaster Master!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 221, The Nerd seeks out his old foe the Glitch Gremlin to help him defeat an even greater threat in A.I. Man, but can they put their past behind them and work together…

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 222, The Nerd is looking at the only video game mascot series starring a gecko! Originally 3DO's answer to Mario and Sonic, Gex would go on to spawn two sequels with E…

In Angry Video Game Nerd 223, The Nerd takes a look back at some of his favorite retro video game commercials after referencing them for years.

The Nerd revisits a game that he couldn't even get past the first screen on in the past, now with the sole purpose of beating it - Dragon's Lair for the NES!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 225, The Nerd takes a look back at the Metroid series' early beginnings with the original Metroid for NES, Metroid II: Return of Samus on Game Boy, and Super Metroid o…

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 226, The Nerd pulls out the SNES Mouse to play a Nintendo classic with very special guests Grodius Maximus and Sawborg Destructo of GWAR!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 227, The Nerd battles his primitive urge to curse while playing through Werewolf: The Last Warrior on NES, before succumbing to his fate and transforming into a Swearw…

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 228, The Nerd goes back to the future with a game based on a movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a time-traveling special agent, Timecop!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 229, The Nerd celebrates the Christmas season by being good and playing another ET game, this time on PlayStation!

In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 230, The Nerd plays possibly the worst Contra game ever made: Contra Force!