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- For his 200th episode, the Nerd has decided the time has come to finally put an old rivalry with his to rest, to officially run the well dry once and for all. It's AVGN vs. LJN, and he's reviewing the rest of the library.
- 2004– 41mTV-MA7.8 (113)TV EpisodeWith the world on the verge of ending on New Years Day 2020, the Nerd spends his last week on earth reviewing a beloved game in the Zelda franchise: Majora's Mask. He plans to take off that mask and expose the monster beneath.
- The Nerd has long-since wondered why the Super Nintendo RPG EarthBound had earned such a bad reputation, or at least according to Nintendo Power. So he decides to actually give the game a try, and it's unlike any game he's ever reviewed...and not just because it's good.
- 2004– 35mTV-MA8.5 (199)TV EpisodeJames Rolfe steps out of character to take us through the entire process, from script to screen, that comes from making an episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd.
- The Legend of Kage was only the beginning. The Nerd reviews a PlayStation 2 port of classic Taito arcade games, ranging in nearly every genre.
- It's a Christmas miracle when the Nerd relives fond memories of his youth by finally beating Final Fantasy VI, or III to those in the U.S. It's an epic masterpiece, but fraught with peril that takes precious time, but is it all worth it?
- The PS4, PS5, XBox Series X - that's kid stuff. The AVGN spotlights the old school Commodore 64 computer system, with the biggest library of games and the longest load times of any system in history.
- While waiting for his copy of Doom (1993) to load on his Commodore 64, the Nerd makes a deal with the Devil to play other console versions of Doom, ranging from good, bad, and downright ugly.
- 2004– 28mTV-MA7.9 (83)TV EpisodeThe Nerd takes a sentimental look back at two of the most awesome games in the NES library: Contra and Super C.
- The AVGN reviews a game console that was such an epic fail, it brought about the death of the company who made it. With some sloppy, glitchy, and creepy games to add to the mix, the Nerd is in for a hell of a ride.
- 2004– 27mTV-MA6.2 (106)TV EpisodeThe Nerd and his lawyer take a road trip to Las Vegas, all while playing an assortment of casino themed video games, and have some very zany adventures in the process.
- 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 discovers what those games are. So he does a marathon run on the first 51 games and every single one either has characters dying in mid-air, characters too small to identify, too many space shooter genre games, games that make no sense, enemies that don't die, games that keep crashing, & whole bunch of other disastrous elements. After being tortured by only 51 out of 52 games. The Nerd only has one game left to review which is also the game that has the most publication on Action 52 which is a group called the Cheetah Men.
- The Nerd discovers a message he'd left himself back in 2006: to finish reviewing The Last Ninja, the absolute worst ninja game ever made.
- Feeling nostalgic for the days of gross-out humor and over-the-top cartoony wackiness, the Nerd plays the Earthworm Jim trilogy and sees if it still holds up.
- The Nerd intends to conquer Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the bane of his existence, once and for all. But he needs help. Pairing up with his older self, they exorcise the demon from the game that tainted the NES library.
- Nothing says Christmas like a world famous, lazy orange cat. The Nerd is serving up some yuletide laughs as he reviews horrible games based off Garfield that will make you hurl your lasagna.
- 2004– 26m7.7 (46)TV EpisodeThe Nerd goes back to the past - to the distant year of 2008 to review some more Indiana Jones games before the release of "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".
- Being a fan of The Goonies, the Nerd plays the video game adaptations on NES: one we never got in America, and one we wish we never got.
- 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 2004 where he interacts with his past selves and review newer Mega Man games.
- 2004– 24mTV-MA6.6 (106)TV EpisodeWhile stranded on a remote tropical island inhabited by strange creatures and a working Windows 98 PC, the Nerd looks at Trespasser, a forgotten, glitched Jurassic Park first-person game.
- A review 12 years in the making: the AVGN looks at Color Dreams' shameful attempt at an action game.
- 2004– 24mTV-MA6.5 (76)TV EpisodeThe Nerd continues his look at Commodore 64 games, playing the spookier titles to celebrate Halloween, however his old adversaries, Freddy and Jason, urge him to play their games so that they may return and take their long-awaited revenge.
- The Nerd prepares to play some video games based off corporate mascots, until Pepsiman suddenly appears in his room and forces him to play Pepsiman on PlayStation.
- 2004– 23mTV-MA6.5 (147)TV EpisodeA horrendous game for the PS4 poises Nerd to confront infamous game developer Fred Fuchs in the heart of the jungle.
- 2004– 23mTV-MA8.5 (231)TV EpisodeThe 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 Back to the Future Part II & III (NES).
- The Nerd reviews a Nintendo accessory thought to be long-forgotten in the 'anals' of history: a shameful marketing ploy that lied about enhancing NES games.
- The Nerd goes to Hell and faces an eternity in the worst game of all time - unless he can beat all five Spawn video games. So, with the crazy Clown hounding him at every turn, the Nerd sets about his demonic task.
- 2004– 22mTV-MA7.4 (27)TV Episode
- The AVGN reviews various console ports of one of the bloodiest fighting games of all time.
- After reviewing the various home ports of the original Mortal Kombat, the Nerd looks at all the knock-off games that tried to capitalize on MK's success.
- The Nerd does a review on the first home console Star Wars games all the way to the ones made in the mid-90s. When it comes to Star Wars, it's such a huge franchise that making video game adaptations is a good way to expand it. Doing this task lead to certain video game developers to develop both hard and unusual Star Wars games. The hardest game the Nerd plays is the Famicon version which gives you no life bar and only three continues and a start-all-over-from-the-beginning type of game. Out of all of the games, the Nerd praises the Super Star Wars game for the Super Nintendo and Shadows of the Empire for the Nintendo 64 to be the best Star Wars games. He could review the later games, but there's way too many Star Wars games to review at once.
- 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 returning to acting after finishing his term as Governer. When it comes to Arnold, his action films are always appealing to watch. As for video game adaptations it's the complete opposite. They either don't feature the main character to resemble Arnold or the game-play and level layouts are a complete mess. The Nerd saved all of the criticism for the Predator game for the NES. Mainly due to the pink camos for the jungle levels, Predators being too easy to kill, and weird enemies that don't belong in the Predator universe.
- 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 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 special tribute, the Nerd gives them each their 15 seconds of fame.
- The Angry Video Game Nerd tracks down the legendary Polybius arcade cabinet at an arcade reseller; and in the process slowly descends into madness.
- This Halloween season, the Nerd visits the Resident Evil franchise by reviewing the worst of the bunch.
- For his first Christmas review, the Nerd decides to review a few unlicensed Bible games for the NES and Super Nintendo. The most obscured game of the bunch would have to be Super Noah's Ark 3D. Only cause it's the only first person shooter where you get to play as Noah. The game is basically a clone of Wolfenstein 3D which is a better first person shooter to play. The Nerd is confused as to why there are so many goats inside the ark and the reason for Noah to be attacked by goats is a mystery.
- 2004– 21mTV-MA7.0 (95)TV EpisodeThe 3DO was ahead of its time and horrendously overpriced, but does its library of games still hold up? The Nerd reviews a plethora of 3DO games of all genres to see for himself.
- 2004– 21mTV-MA9.1 (463)TV EpisodeThe Nerd looks for the worst full motion video game on the ill-fated 3DO, only to discover the worst video game he's ever seen...at least it would be, if it had any gameplay. Or video.
- The Nerd reviews certain video games all based off of Speilberg movies. Starting with Jaws for the NES, which the Nerd complains that the concept is boring when all you do is collect sea shells in order to get power ups that'll allow you to kill the shark quicker. The second game he reviews is Hook for the NES, which is sadly a poorly executed plat-former game resembling nothing like the movie. The Nerd then reviews several Jurassic Park games that are either appealing to play or are contain annoying concepts. Out of all of them, the Nerd regards the 3DO version to be the worse. And finally to conclude his review he reviews a German Atari game featuring E.T. which is not related to the infamous American E.T. game. Upon completing his review the Nerd looks upon the E.T. game itself and shudders from the sight of it. Knowing that one day he's going to have to over come his fears and review the game for his fans.
- 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. Desperate to beat the game, the Nerd revives Guitar Guy who has been dead for sometime by using the Ikari Warrior continue code. The Guitar Guy is surprised to be alive again and originally believed that the Nerd had forgotten him cause the original theme song hasn't been used for so long. The Guitar Guy agreed to help Nerd beat the game if he can play the main theme song again which the Nerd allowed him to do so. After that they both discovered how long and tedious it takes to beat one level of Ikari Warriors. Their main complaint is the main character walk incredibly slow yet the enemies move faster.
- 2004– 21mTV-MA7.1 (120)TV EpisodeThe Nerd revisits the vomit-inducing kingdom of Hydlide by reviewing the two next generations of Hydlide on the Sega Genesis and the Sega Saturn.
- The Nerd reviews Darkman on NES, based off an insane movie that's like Robocop and Batman thrown in a blender.
- 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 game cause all of the efforts seem to be poured into it the most compared to the other games. However the game isn't any better than the other 51 games. It suffers from unusual glitches and the attack moves are worthless to certain enemies. After finishing all 52 games, the Nerd decided to play the unreleased Cheetah Men 2 game. It's so rare that only 1500 cartridges were made and are sold for a high price on various online auction websites. Usually the sequel to a game improves in something, except the Nerd finds out that the Cheetah Men 2 game has more glitches and very bland level designs. The biggest insult of all is that you're unable to proceed any further after beating a certain boss. To wrap up his review he decides to play the Sega Genesis version of Action 52, which consists of some newer games as well as some of the games from the first Action 52 only slightly more playable. While the Cheetah Men game for Genesis is even harder than the other two, while frustrated the Nerd that he's unable to beat the first level of it.
- The Nerd brings himself further into the 21st Century by reviewing a mobile game. It's about an anime girl falling in love with an eccentric Centaur.
- 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 wrong.
- 2004– 20mTV-MA7.8 (162)TV EpisodeThe Nerd looks at some Power Rangers games, from the American releases on Nintendo and Genesis, to the horrific Game Boy adaptations, to the Japanese Famicom originals. With the new Power Rangers movie set to morph into theaters soon, the Nerd's angry inner child is pumped.
- After 11 years, Superman 64 returns and the Nerd can explore further into the game. After all, you have to be able to do more than just go through rings and pick up cars - right?
- 2004– 19mTV-MA6.9 (90)TV EpisodeThe Nerd reviews a real menace of a game, as the 1993 Dennis the Menace movie was made into a terrible Super Nintendo game.
- 2004– 19mTV-MA7.6 (233)TV EpisodeThe 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 made up to the year 2008. And tries to piece together how each of them fit as one whole time-line. Only to discover that most of them are less connected than the other. Which in the end he concludes that the franchise doesn't need to have a well explained time-line when each game is worth playing without knowing what occurred in any of the other games.