List of Angry Video Game Nerd episodes

This is a list of episodes for the farcical retrogaming video gaming review series The Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN). The show revolves around reviews that involve acerbic rants about low quality video games, generally being 8-bit games and often featuring licensed characters.

Starting with season 2, new episodes were instead aired first on Gametrailers.com. After about a year, episodes aired on Gametrailers would be re-aired on James Rolfe's YouTube page, but in many cases, the episodes would be aired out of order.

Episodes 1-17 are included on the Angry Video Game Nerd: Volume 1 DVD set. Episodes 20-39 as well as a scene from episode 19 are included on the Volume 2 DVD set, which spans three discs. Episodes 40-62 are included on Volume 3, which again spans three discs. On the DVD, episode 46 has been shortened to cover only Super Mario Bros. 3. Episodes 63-84 are included on Volume 4, which also spans three discs. Volume 5 has three discs as well, including episodes 85-97. Beginning with Volume 6, to make up for the reduced amount of content per year, the special features have been expanded to keep each volume at three discs. Volume 6 includes episodes 98-107, as well as episodes from James Rolfe's You Know What's Bullshit series. The most recent release, Volume 7, includes episodes 108-114 on its first disc, while the other two discs are dedicated to an assortment of convention footage and best-of videos.

On March 17, 2010, Rolfe announced that he was suffering from burnout as a result of constantly writing, directing and starring in the videos, and that the show would be entering a brief hiatus. It was scheduled to return sometime in May 2010; however, an episode was released on April 30, 2010. Episodes are scheduled to be released the first or second Wednesday of each month, as opposed to two episodes per month due to other work. As of August 9, 2011 a complete list of episodes was revealed to have been created at Cinemassacre.com, announced through the AVGN Facebook page.

Two of the AVGN episodes have never officially made it to, or remained on YouTube. They are from season 2: episodes 18-19 (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Part 1 and 2). However, they are still available on Cinemassacre and ScrewAttack. Episodes 16 and 46, Rocky and Super Mario Bros, 3 respectively, were both removed from YouTube due to their usage of movie clips. Rocky was re-uploaded on Cinemassacre's YouTube page, with the same changes that were made to the DVD version. Super Mario Bros. 3 was given the same treatment, but was uploaded on Rolfe's personal channel. Episode 32, Atari Porn has never been released on YouTube officially.

Series overview

Season	Episodes	Duration	Notes
Pilots	2	May 2004	Recorded at James Rolfe's parents' house, after coming home from graduating college. These two episodes were made because he was bored. He had no idea that he would be making more.
1	15	April 2006 - December 2006	The year of YouTube, when the video-sharing site first became popular, and so did the Nerd. The Karate Kid episode was made as a one-off to close out the "trilogy", but unexpectedly got a cult following which grew. Rolfe kept making more episodes, and saw the series progress. Its title changed late in the season from "Nintendo" Nerd to "Video Game" Nerd. During this year, he was living in an apartment. His full-time job was editing corporate videos.
2	24	February 2007 - February 2008	Rolfe moved into a new apartment and began editing wedding videos full-time. Up until now, the Nerd videos were something he was doing in his free time, and had taken their toll. His life got too stressful to handle, so the Nerd series could have met its potential end. This was when GameTrailers entered the picture, offering him compensation for the first time. He signed a one-year contract to continue the series at two episodes a month.
3	23	February 2008 - February 2009	Rolfe renewed the contract with GameTrailers for another year, again with two videos a month. Up until now, the videos were all filmed in a corner of a room, but the Nerd's collection expanded and outgrew itself. Mid-season, he relocated and now the series was finally given a dedicated room to film in, being able to turn the camera around 360 degrees and show all four walls.
4	25	March 2009 - March 2010	Another renewal of Rolfe's contract, again for one year, at two episodes a month. By the end of this season, he had completely burned himself out.
5	12	May 2010 - April 2011	By this point, Rolfe felt the series became too much like a "job". With two videos a month, and less time than ever to make them, he was sacrificing his health, and felt he was beginning to make sub-par episodes. Additionally, the AVGN movie was getting nowhere and was stuck in limbo. With this season, he made the announcement that he would be cutting down to one episode a month. As a result, he believed the quality of each episode improved. The season kicked off with the longest Nerd episode to date, Action 52. The final episode of the season, Spielberg Games, ended with a cliffhanger for the AVGN movie.
6	5	July 2011 - December 2011	Originally, Spielberg Games was planned to be the last episode before the movie came out, but realizing it would take a lot longer than expected, Rolfe entered a shorter contract for six episodes in six months. The first one was a "making of" episode, but the first true episode of this season was Kid Kool. It transitioned permanently to HD with Dark Castle. It ended with Bible Games 3, before he took a long hiatus to go into main production on the AVGN movie.
7	13	July 2012 – present	This is what Rolfe calls the "Post-movie" season, meaning this is after he returned from his cross-country trip, shooting the AVGN movie in the Los Angeles area. Schwarzenegger Games was the big comeback episode. This season has been more loose and spontaneous. He has been releasing the episodes on his own, roughly one every two months, while he continues to work on the AVGN movie, all his other projects, and trying to balance his personal life. He said that he feels very refreshed to be doing it this way. There has been more genuine inspiration going into each and every episode.

Episodes

Pilots (May 2004)

Episode	Episode name	Length	Date	Games reviewed and episode notes
1	Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest	9:25	May 25, 2004	Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES). This is the Nerd's first game review ever. This is his first review of an NES game. He criticizes the game's difficulty, departure from the other games in the series, weaker bosses (blaming the lazy developers), the cryptic password system along with the secret passageways, collecting specific items that takes too long, the invisible pitfalls, the infamous shift from day to night with the unnecessary texture every few minutes. This episode was originally created on May 16, 2004 and previously only available as a part of a film compilation tape with other short films created or directed by James Rolfe. The Nerd re-visited this game five years later in "Castlevania, Part II", giving an honest opinion, saying that despite the game's main problems he admits that the game is not really that bad, praising its nostalgia value, graphics and music. The aspect of the Nerd hating the game with a passion in the video was simply a joke. In episode 119, the Nerd goes back to the game briefly to find another version that has fixed many of the problems he had previously complained about.
2	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	6:29	June 15, 2004	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES). This episode was originally created on May 28, 2004 and previously only available as a part of a film compilation tape with other short films created or directed by Rolfe. He bashes the game for its unforgiving difficulty, weapons that do absolutely nothing, random town people kill you for no reason. He considered Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as the worst NES game he ever reviewed or played. This is the first episode to have the Nerd on camera. The game was donated to Rolfe by a friend and title card artist, Mike Matei. In four out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the game at #1 on his lists of the top 10 hardest and worst NES games, the graphical elements (specifically the defecating birds) as the #2 weirdest moment in a video game, and the cane as the #1 most hated weapon or item. The line "Why don't the weapons do anything?" from the full intro theme originated from this episode. This game was "re"-revisited in 2010, where the Nerd tried to beat the game.

Season 1 (2006)

Episode	Episode name	Length	Date	Games reviewed and episode notes
3	The Karate Kid	4:29	February 10, 2006 (YT) April 8, 2006	The Karate Kid (NES). This episode was intended to be the last in the then-trilogy. The Nerd criticizes the game's awkward controls, difficult levels and its disappointing short length as well as its bad ending. Later he realized it was made by LJN who are notoriously known for adapting successful movies into bad-quality video games. This is also the first review of a game from LJN (a company that The Nerd has a strong hatred for). This is the first episode to feature the name "Angry Nintendo Nerd" onscreen.
4	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	3:46	April 24, 2006	Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES). Matei convinced Rolfe to continue making reviews because he found them funny, even though it was intended to be only a trilogy. This is when Rolfe and Matei uploaded the first 4 videos to YouTube, where the show started gaining popularity. The Nerd criticizes the game's difficulty, attack control, slippery driving stages control and long passwords. Rolfe has stated that the closing line "I want to nail Roger Rabbit to the fucking cross" was his favorite Nerd moment from 2006. The line "Why is the password so long?" from the full intro theme originated from this episode.
5	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	7:05	June 21, 2006	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES). This is the first video be to featured on ScrewAttack. The Nerd bashes the game for its difficulty and lack of faithfulness to the original cartoon. The line "Why can't a turtle swim?" on the full intro theme originated from this episode, as did "Cowabunga? Cowa-fucking piece of dog shit!". On his list of the top ten hardest NES games, Rolfe listed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at #9. As a first for the series, this episode has a title card.
6	Back to the Future	6:43	July 21, 2006	Back To The Future (NES), Back to the Future Part II & III (NES) This is the first review to feature multiple games. On the DVD, the clips from the first Back to the Future film were edited out. Several of the profane lyrics from the theme song were taken from lines used in this episode. The Nerd criticizes the first game for its monotonous gameplay, rendition of "The Power of Love", and lack of faithfulness to the original film, and the second game for its confusing locations, comparing the level design to Super Mario Bros., no save feature (which makes collecting items near impossible) and boring mini-games. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed Back to the Future Part II & III as the #8 worst game on the NES, and the skateboard in Back to the Future as the #9 most hated weapon or item.
7	McKids	7:07	August 30, 2006	M.C. Kids (NES) Despite criticizing the game for blatantly shilling McDonalds and also looking and playing a lot like Super Mario Bros. 3, the Nerd finds this game to be relatively decent overall. However, he notes that there were better platformers available for the NES, and the game has some annoying elements such as most of the levels being full of blocks which send the player all the way back to the start of the level.
8	Wally Bear and the NO! Gang	4:37 3:46 (without phone call)	September 1, 2006	Wally Bear and the NO! Gang (NES). A new scene, showing the Nerd calling the Wally Bear hotline, was added to the Season 1 DVD, and subsequently also to the YouTube re-release. This is also the first review of an unlicensed game. The Nerd bashes the game for its repetitive and monotonous gameplay and terrible music.
9	Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu	4:20	September 8, 2006	Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu (NES). This episode features special guest "Shit Pickle", an original animated character who appeared in other works by Rolfe, and is voiced by Rolfe himself.
10	Top Gun	7:35	September 15, 2006	Top Gun (NES), Top Gun: The Second Mission (NES). The Nerd has numerous criticisms of the first game, particularly the long sections without any enemy encounters, but notes that by far the biggest problem is the refueling and landing sequences, which he's completely unable to carry out successfully. In the later "Re-Revisited" episode, he attributed his difficulties to the misleading on-screen instructions given in the sequences. The Second Mission is felt to be a little better, but the Nerd finds its excessive difficulty to be a major drawback. The line "Why can't I land the plane?" from the full intro theme originated from this episode.
11	Double Dragon 3	4:10	September 22, 2006	Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (NES). Despite making clear his love for Double Dragon and Double Dragon II: The Revenge, the Nerd considers this to be a terrible sequel due to the massive increase in difficulty over the previous two games, which is only made worse by the player being given just one life, with no continues or password system. The Nerd is also shocked at the fact that the game misspells player character Billy Lee's name as "Bimmy" in the intro cutscene to the two-player mode. The line "The characters' names are wrong" from the full intro theme originated from this episode.
12	Friday the 13th	12:22	October 13, 2006	Friday the 13th (NES). This episode guest stars Matei as Jason Voorhees. During the review the Nerd is forced and threatened by Jason Voorhees to do a positive review of the game. At the end the video, the Nerd kills Jason and reveals that he in fact hates the game. He then starts a drinking binge where he falls asleep and Freddy's glove appears hinting the next review, which is A Nightmare on Elm Street for the NES. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the rocks in Friday the 13th at #10 on his list of the top 10 most hated weapons or items, and Jason Voorhees at #10 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests.
13	A Nightmare on Elm Street	14:46 13:27 (YouTube review)	October 31, 2006	A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES). This is part II of the Friday The 13th review. Both Rolfe and Matei assume the role of Freddy Krueger as body double and voice respectively. Towards the end of the video, The Nerd creates three clones of himself (one of which defecates on the game cartridge) which causes Freddy to chase him and his clones which are killed off. The Nerd punches Freddy with the Power Glove and wakes up from his dream and finds that he is wearing the Power Glove, hinting at his next review. The review was featured on the second disc of Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. On the ScrewAttack website, this video features an alternate opening and ending, and also features the song "Welcome to My Nightmare" by Alice Cooper over the end credits, rather than the "Vampire Killer" theme from Castlevania. The DVD version contains new music in place of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" music. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed Freddy Krueger at #9 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests.
14	The Power Glove	12:28	November 15, 2006	The Nerd reviews the Nintendo Power Glove. Games played include: Super Glove Ball, Metroid, Double Dragon, Castlevania, Kung Fu Heroes, Bubble Bobble, Lifeforce, Jackal, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, R.C. Pro-Am, Rad Racer, Top Gun, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Contra, and Super Mario Bros.. This is the first review which does not focus on a specific game or specific types of games throughout. After a lengthy set-up procedure, the Nerd tries the included Super Glove Ball, finding that the Power Glove works adequately well, but feeling that the game itself is boring and uninspired. He then moves onto trying it with popular NES games. Rad Racer and R.C. Pro-Am turn out to be the two games which work the best with the Power Glove, with the Nerd being able to control them almost as well as with the standard controller. With Castlevania, Kung Fu Heroes, Jackal, Zelda II and Contra, the Nerd finds the Power Glove to work well enough for the games to be basically playable, but ultimately finds it much too unreliable to get far into the games. The remaining games are all found to be unplayable. In Metroid and Super Mario Bros. the player characters perpetually jump at a reduced height, making it impossible to get more than a few screens into the game. In Lifeforce, the player's ship is constantly stuck to the top or bottom of the screen, and the Nerd cannot figure out how to shoot. In Punch-Out!! he cannot figure out how to dodge punches, meaning that he gets defeated almost immediately by Glass Joe, the game's easiest fighter. Double Dragon fares the worst, as the Nerd is unable to make his character do anything more than jitter around, causing him to tear the Power Glove off in frustration and use its inbuilt controller. By far the biggest shock turns out to be Top Gun, where the Nerd actually manages to land the plane, something he had never managed to do with the standard controller.
15	Chronologically Confused About Bad Movie and Video Game Sequel Titles	11:34	November 18, 2006	The Nerd discusses the confusing naming of sequels for various movie and video game franchises, including: Street Fighter, Mega Man, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Halloween, The Star Trek feature films, Rocky, Rambo, Alien, Bruce Lee films, Armour of God, Zombie, The Naked Gun. Note: In this episode, the Nerd makes a joke about the odd names of the Rambo movies and says, "What're they going to call the next one? John Rambo? As stated in his game review of Rambo, the next Rambo movie, ironically, DID have the working title "John Rambo" during filming. This is the first episode to use the name "The Angry Video Game Nerd".
16	Rocky	9:46	December 14, 2006	Rocky (SMS). While the Nerd compliments the game's graphics and sound as being impressive for an 8-bit title, he finds the gameplay underwhelming. The main flaw is felt to be the game's difficulty, as he beats Apollo Creed with no difficulty, only lose badly to Clubber Lang in the next round. The minigames included between the rounds are deemed to be needless, as they are supposed to make the fights easier, but in practice are not necessary to defeat Apollo, and prove no help in beating Clubber. The game's length is also criticized, as there are only three opponents (Apollo, Clubber and Ivan Drago). This episode includes the alternative ending where the Nerd throws the game off the stairs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was added to the Season 1 DVD, and then in the YouTube re-release. This is also the first review of a Sega Master System game. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the throwing of the game box from the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as #8 on his list of the top 10 video game abuses. On the DVD, the opening scene in which the Nerd is playing the first five Rocky films on every TV in his house, as well as clips from the Rocky movies played throughout the review, were edited out.
17	Bible Games	21:29	December 23, 2006	Bible Adventures (NES), Bible Buffet (NES), Super 3D Noah's Ark (SNES), Spiritual Warfare (NES), King of Kings: The Early Years (NES) Bible Adventures has three games, all of which are noted to be rip-offs of Super Mario Bros. 2. The Nerd notes that the "Noah's Ark" game can be unintentionally hilarious due to the sight of Noah running around carrying stacks of animals, though is also frustrating since he can easily drop them. "Baby Moses" proves to be glitchy, and the Nerd notes that it's more fun to deliberately throw Moses in the river and explore the levels. "David and Goliath" is felt to be the worst of the three due to poor level design. The Nerd actually feels Bible Buffet to be an okay game, but notes that it actually doesn't have much to do with the Bible or Christianity, save for some quizzes which he can't even answer due to not having the question sheets originally included with the game. Most of the time spent on Super 3D Noah's Ark covers the fact that it actually uses the engine and most of the level designs from the SNES incarnation of Wolfenstein 3D, and that the game is an unlicensed SNES cartridge which needs an official game to be connected via a pass-through port in order to work. The Nerd notes that it's not particularly bad, but finds it excessively hard for a Bible game aimed at children, and criticizes the fact that the Ark is full of goats rather than two of every animal. Spiritual Warfare is only briefly covered, but the Nerd notes that it's a rip-off of the original Legend of Zelda game. King of Kings: The Early Years is another multi-game cartridge. The first game, "The Wise Men" is criticized for bad controls and the requirement to answer Bible questions in order to get health power-ups. The Nerd skips over the second game, "Flight to Egypt" and finds the third game, "Jesus and the Temple" to be near-unplayable due to a section where the player character has to be guided over logs going down a waterfall; the logs not only come out in completely random patterns, but sometimes travel up the waterfall instead of downwards. When first released on the ScrewAttack website, this video was divided into two parts. This is also the first review of a SNES game. The opening theme is a parody of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the goats in Super 3D Noah's Ark as #13 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game, and the slingshot in Bible Adventures as the #8 most hated weapon or item.

Season 2 (February 2007 – February 2008)

This is the first season to be aired on GameTrailers. The episodes later on aired on YouTube after about a year or so.

Episode	Episode name	Length	Release date	Games reviewed and episode notes
18	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III - Part 1	11:44	January 25, 2007	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (movie). This is the Nerd's first movie review. Until the release of "How the Nerd Stole Christmas" (ep.97), this was the last of the new Angry Nerd episodes released on YouTube. However, this episode has been removed from his YouTube account due to apparent terms of use violation, and it now only airs on the Cinemassacre and ScrewAttack websites. The destruction of the VHS tape of the movie was chosen as the best moment of 2007, and, in a later out-of-character video, was given an honorable mention on his list of his top 10 video game abuse moments. The Nerd makes reference to his review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the line "cowa-fuckin' piece of dog shit!". This was the first Nerd episode to be shot at the James Rolfe's new apartment which he lived at until June, 2008. The Nerd considers the film to be the worst of the franchise, bashing the film for its lack of connection to its predecessors or cartoon, bad animatronics, low number of battle scenes, and dialogue, the latter of which he goes as far to count down his top 10 worst lines from the film. Note: At the Cinemassacre website both episode 18 and 19 were combined into one episode. Also, even though they were counted as AVGN episodes, James Rolfe later said that it should never have been the case, as it was originally meant to launch as a side series "The Angry Movie Nerd", but it never happened. This episode (apart from the scene where the Nerd destroys the Tape) is not included on the AVGN Volume 2 DVD due to Copyright reasons.
19	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III - Part 2	10:47	January 25, 2007
20	Atari 5200	10:39	(GT) February 13, 2007 (YT) July 25, 2008	Atari 5200 (console) The Nerd also does a short review about the history of the Atari 5200. He criticizes its enormous physical size, using the same connection box for both power and TV, and most of all its malfunctioning controllers, which renders him unable to actually play any games for the system. He tries to use a Trak-Ball controller, but fails due to him not owning any compatible games. He then buys another 5200 controller, but got scammed since it lacked the required adapter to plug it into the console. This is the first video to be featured on GameTrailers, as well as the first review of a console and the first episode to have the current intro. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Atari 5200 as the #10 worst video game console of all time.
21	Ghostbusters	17:29	(GT) February 27, 2007 (YT) Aug 6, 2008	Ghostbusters (NES). The Nerd bashes the game for its monotonous gameplay and lack of connection to the original film. He also points out that the Ghostbusters theme plays monotonously throughout the entire game. He also criticizes the game for having to spend money on equipment and gasoline. During the stair climb level, he comments that you have to continuously press A to move, rather than being able to use the D-pad. He elects to use a NES Max Turbo controller, to save him the effort of constantly pressing the button. Out of frustration with being unable to avoid the ghosts on the stairway, he uses a Game Genie to give him invincibility to the ghosts. After this, he manages to defeat the final boss, Gozer, only to be rewarded with the infamous typo-filled ending message, which causes him to break down in tears. After mentioning the Ghost Vacuum item in the game, the Nerd pretends to prank call a store, asking if they sell a Ghost Vacuum. The store clerk is actually a voiceover provided by Kyle Justin, marking Justin's first appearance in an AVGN video. The DVD and YouTube versions of the episode features a sound-alike version of the Ghostbusters theme that plays over the opening of the video; the GameTrailers version featured no music during these scenes. However, clips from the movie and TV series were removed and replaced with still images. This is the first episode in which the Nerd cries. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the game as the #7 worst on the NES, and the ghost food as the #3 most hated weapon or item.
22	Ghostbusters: Follow-Up	11:27	(GT) March 20, 2007 (YT) Aug 26, 2008	Ghostbusters (NES), Ghostbusters (2600), Ghostbusters (SMS). Before reviewing the 2600 and Master System versions, the Nerd continues his rant on the NES game, criticizing its typos, inconsistency with the characters from the movie, dull graphics, and the fact the game has only four levels. He subsequently finds the 2600 game to be very similar to the NES game, and a better title by the standards of that system. The Master System version, while still mediocre overall, is also noted to look, sound and play far better than its NES counterpart. In the YouTube re-release and the DVD, clips from the Ghostbusters movie are removed, and replaced with artwork by Matei, to avoid copyright claims. This is the first review of an Atari 2600 game.
23	Ghostbusters: Conclusion	13:11	(GT) April 3, 2007 (YT) Sep 9, 2008	Ghostbusters II (NES), Ghostbusters (Genesis). This is the first review of a Sega Genesis game. The DVD and YouTube versions of the episode features a cover version of the Ghostbusters theme that plays during the ending of the video, and also features a cover version of the Elvis Presley song "Devil in Disguise". Also, clips from the movie were removed and replaced with a still image of the movie poster. While praising Ghostbusters II for being a more playable game, he criticizes the game's controls, demo, lack of a pause button and the fact that the player has to play through the final level four times over. He gives much more positive feedback about the Genesis Ghostbusters game, praising its graphics, controls and boss battles, but he gave some criticism on the game's difficulty and once again lack of Winston Zeddemore the fourth ghostbuster, however still he regards as the best Ghostbusters-based game he had played until that point.
24	Spider-Man	10:32	(GT) April 17, 2007 (YT) Sep 22, 2008	Spider-Man (2600), Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six (NES), The Amazing Spider-Man (GB), Spider-Man 2 (GBA). 2600 game, the nerd finds it difficult, repetitive and boring. NES game he criticizes its awful controls, and confusing level design. the Game Boy game he bashes the controls that are even worse than the NES version, with the slow attacks and jump delays. before ending the review, he briefly talks about Spiderman 2 for the Game Boy Advance, he does not give an opinion on the game, but points out the first mission in the game where spider-man delivers pizza's. This is the first review of a Game Boy game, as well as a Game Boy Advance game. Kyle Justin guest stars as Spider-Man, and also sings a parody of the theme song from the 1967 Spider-Man TV series. The Nerd uses the NES top-loader for the first time, and has used it as his primary NES (excluding the Nintoaster) later on because, despite only supporting RF, works more effectively than the normal model. Spider-Man also introduces the Nerd to Yuengling, a beer brewed by a local brewery, after calling Rolling Rock "Shit Rock" and "corporate bullshit". The Nerd would sometimes drink Yuengling in place of Rolling Rock in later episodes. Rolfe stated most of the episode was unscripted.
25	Sega CD	13:12	(GT) May 2, 2007 (YT) Nov 18, 2008	The Nerd reviews the Sega CD video game system. Games reviewed include: Ground Zero: Texas, Slam City with Scottie Pippen, Double Switch, Night Trap, Corpse Killer (though he is unable to review it, despite having "a lot to say about it", due to the game's tendency to freeze), Time Gal, Lethal Enforcers, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Road Avenger, Jurassic Park, Prize Fighter, Sol-Feace, The Terminator, Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, Dracula Unleashed, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wonder Dog, Sewer Shark, Sonic CD The Nerd notes there to be two main types of game on the Sega CD, the first of which generally play much like normal Genesis games, but feature CD soundtracks and occasionally FMVs. He feels that these games are generally quite decent, albeit not overwhelmingly better than their non-CD counterparts, citing Sonic CD, The Terminator and Sol-Feace as examples of this type of game (he also mentions Snatcher in the following part, despite not having a copy of it due to its rarity). The remaining games are the all-FMV "interactive movie" titles, which the Nerd deems to have been the main reason why the system failed, since they have very little actual gameplay and look awful due to the system's hardware limitations. He claims that the only redeeming value is that they can be unintentionally hilarious due to the bad, low-budget acting usually involved. He ultimately concludes that the Sega CD is not a total waste of time, but that the Genesis lacked the processing power to properly use the CD storage medium. This is the first review of a Sega CD game. Also, this is the first episode to feature the full-length AVGN theme song.
26	Sega 32X	9:04	(GT) May 15, 2007 (YT) Dec 6, 2008	The Nerd reviews the Sega 32X console. This episode continues where the Sega CD episode left off. Games played include: Primal Rage, Doom, Virtua Fighter, Star Wars Arcade. This is the first review of a 32X game. Unlike the Sega CD, the Nerd finds the 32X to have no redeeming features whatsoever. In addition to noting how inconvenient it is to hook up and how it was released just months before the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation, the Nerd finds himself not liking any of the games on the system. Doom is the only one he feels plays particularly well, and even then he notes that the game suffers from horrible music and the level count being severely cut down (he also notes that Knuckles' Chaotix is supposedly good, but was unable to find a copy in time for the review). The Nerd ends the review by physically destroying his 32X (which he paid just $2.50 for), first shooting it with an arrow and then setting it alight (though another 32X can subsequently be seen attached to his Genesis in most subsequent reviews). James briefly discusses how inconvenient it is that companies like Sega and Nintendo suddenly decided to stop placing game labels on the top of each game cartridge, as well as mocking the add-ons themselves, regardless of the quality of the games. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the 32X as the #7 worst video game console of all time.
27	Silver Surfer	11:17	(GT) June 5, 2007 (YT) Dec 8, 2008	The Nerd reviews Silver Surfer (NES). He criticizes the game for its extreme difficulty, failing to beat even a single level. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the game at #3 on his list of the top 10 hardest NES games.
28	Die Hard	9:03	(GT) June 19, 2007 (YT) Jan 21, 2009	Die Hard (NES) At the beginning, The Nerd implies that the cover of the game that shows a building on fire bears an eerie resemblance to the September 11 attacks, he criticize the game's punishing difficulty, the graphics, pointless power-ups, and confusing navigation. however he does praise the game's faithfulness to the film it's based on. The YouTube version is slightly different from the GameTrailers version. The GameTrailers version features a cut after the theme song and shortens a silent break seen in the YouTube version. One of the game cutscenes shows up blank on the YouTube version.
29	Independence Day	6:09	(GT) July 3, 2007 (YT) July 4, 2009	Independence Day (PS) This is the first review of a PlayStation game. The Nerd criticizes its mediocrity, graphical pop-ins, stiff controls, useless radar and a slow password system. At the end of the review he's compares the game to Top Gun because of their similarities. Despite hating both games based on successful films, he respects Top Gun for its nostalgic value.
30	The Simpsons	13:17	(GT) July 17, 2007 (YT) Feb 3, 2009	The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants (NES), The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World (NES) While noting that they were popular games at the time of their original release, when both The Simpsons and Nintendo were at the height of their popularity, in retrospect the Nerd finds both games to be terrible. He faults them both for bad controls, in particular having to use the same button for running and jumping, and finds the level design in Bart vs. the Space Mutants to be tedious, confusing and overly difficult, which results in him not being able to get past the second level. He considers Bart vs. the World to be a little better due to having a more straightforward design (which results in him being able to finish the game), but still finds the overall gameplay bland, and the levels still very difficult and also far too long, especially in the latter stages.
31	Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout	8:43	(GT) August 7, 2007 (YT) Feb 16, 2009	The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout (NES). In a reversal of most of his NES game reviews, the Nerd actually finds this game far too easy, albeit still with a few annoyingly hard moments. The ending, which reveals that the other Looney Tunes characters (who appear as the end-of-level bosses) were just playing a prank on Bugs, also leaves him annoyed, and he takes his anger out on Bugs, who has been annoying him throughout the video. Mike Matei guest stars as Bugs Bunny. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed Bugs Bunny (known as "The Damn Bunny") at #1 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests.
32	Atari Porn	10:03	(GT) August 22, 2007 (YT) N/A	The Nerd reviews pornographic games that were developed for Atari 2600: Custer's Revenge, Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em, Bachelorette Party, Bachelor Party, Gigolo, Philly Flasher, Cathouse Blues, Knight on the Town, Jungle Fever. This episode is also known as "Atari Porno" on GameTrailers. There is no official release of this video on YouTube, though it has been uploaded by unaffiliated third parties.
33	Nintendo Power	14:42	(GT) September 4, 2007 (YT) Jun 4, 2009	Nintendo Power (magazine) The Nerd reviews, tells and recites his memories of reading the Nintendo Power magazine. Justin sings a cover of a song from a Nintendo Power commercial. The Nerd shows a scene from Rambo on the NES and tells he will review it in the future. He also tells that he will review Fester's Quest in the next episode.
34	Fester's Quest	9:25	(GT) September 18, 2007 (YT) July 1, 2009	Fester's Quest (NES), The Addams Family (Genesis). The nerd criticize Fester's Quest for its notorious difficulty, weak weapons and 3D maze section that add nothing to the game, due to being so difficult he gives up after the first boss. he give a short review on the genesis game, like Fester's quest, he bashes the game's difficulty and the sensitive controls. Rolfe portrays all members of the The Addams Family, all except for Cousin Itt, who is played by Kyle Justin singing a parody of The Addams Family theme song. This episode also appears in black-and-white, excluding game footage. In his Batman: Return of the Joker review, the Nerd admits to considering the music to be one of Fester's Quest's redeeming qualities, just like any game helmed by Sunsoft in general. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the game at #10 on his list of the top 10 hardest NES games, and Fester's Gun at #6 on his list of the top 10 most hated weapons or items. Shortly after the opening sequence, the Nerd dressed as Uncle Fester makes a reference to a phrase Donatello said in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.
35	Texas Chainsaw Massacre	12:46	(GT) October 9, 2007 (YT) Oct 8, 2008	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2600). He gives the game credit for making it one of the first video games the player plays the villain, but he criticizes the game's repetitive nature, graphical flaws and poor sound effects. This episode guest starts Matei as Leatherface and Chop Top, and Steven J. Klaszky (credited as Jimmie Jim Slugg) as the hillbilly. This episode uses the same version of the theme song as used in the Rocky (SMS) review. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Chainsaw Family at #3 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests. According to Rolfe on the Angry Video Game Nerd Vol. 2 DVD commentary, the original ending was going to involve a longer chase sequence, which would result in Leatherface getting stuck on some rocks, and the Nerd would then decapitate him with his own chainsaw. But the plan was cut short because the sun was setting.
36	Halloween	16:05	(GT) October 30, 2007 (YT) Oct 30, 2008	Halloween (2600), Haunted House (2600), Frankenstein's Monster (2600). This is part II of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre review. While choosing what game to review, the Nerd briefly looks at the infamous E.T., but then passes by. This episode uses an introduction based on the opening credits for Halloween. Guest stars Michael Mulvey and Lil' Liam Mulvey as the kids, Matei as Michael Myers, and Nicole Mulvey as the neighbor. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Trick or Treaters at #4 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests.
37	Dragon's Lair	9:22	(GT) November 20, 2007 (YT) Jul 15, 2009	Dragon's Lair (interactive movie), Dragon's Lair (NES) The Nerd criticizes the extreme difficulty and unorthodox obstacles, stating that it would be impossible to beat until having memorized all of the obstacles.
38	An Angry Nerd Christmas Carol: Part 1	5:54	(GT) December 18, 2007 (YT) Dec 17, 2008	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (NES). The episode starts with a flashback to the ending of A Very Nerdy Non-Canonical Captain S Christmas. The opening music is a rock cover of "Oh What a Merry Christmas Day" fused with the AVGN theme. Guest stars Stuttering Craig, co-founder of Screwattack.com, as the Ghost of Christmas Past.
39	An Angry Nerd Christmas Carol: Part 2	9:42	(GT) December 23, 2007 (YT) Dec 19, 2008	Shaq Fu (SNES), Far Cry Vengeance (Wii), Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Wii), Boogie (Wii) This episode guest stars Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom from ScrewAttack as the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, respectively. The sprite for Dracula's appearance from Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is used for the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come showing the Nerd reviewing Nintendo Wii games in the future. This is the first Nerd episode with Super Mecha Death Christ, who can be seen in one of the images that flash on the screen quickly. This is the first review to feature a 7th generation console, in this case, the Wii.
40	Chronologically Confused About the Legend of Zelda Timeline	19:01	(GT) January 8, 2008 (YT) Jul 19, 2009	The Nerd discusses the confusing timeline of The Legend of Zelda series. This episode was a previously unreleased episode originally written in November 2006. The episode begins with Rolfe introducing the video followed by a rock-styled theme song, while showcasing fan art. This is the first episode to feature Rolfe as himself, out of character.
41	Rambo	13:14 13:01	(GT) January 22, 2008 (YT) Aug 7, 2009	Rambo (NES), Rambo: First Blood Part II (see also: Rambo (1985 video game)) (SMS), Rambo III (SMS) The Nerd is decidedly unimpressed by the NES game, finding that in addition to being a rip-off of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the game somehow both follows the film's storyline too much and too little at the same time, causing it to have many seemingly irrelevant sequences that slow the game's pacing, while also featuring bizarre scenarios such as Rambo fighting a giant spider. In addition, he also complains about the game's difficulty and overly long password system. By contrast, the Master System game is felt to be much better, though the Nerd notes that it still has some flaws such as the player characters moving very slowly, and a glitch that can cause them to spawn inside a solid object. He also attempts to play the system's Rambo III game, but is unable to get very far due to the unreliable light gun that the game has to be played with. The Nerd uses the last few minutes of the review to address the title of the latest Rambo movie, adding to points made in his Chronologically Confused about Movie Titles video. He says that while the "John Rambo" title he mooted in that video would have sounded silly, it would at least have been distinct from the prior films, and that calling the fourth film "Rambo" meant it could easily be confused with Rambo: First Blood Part II. In two out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Chinese letter attack in the NES game as #4 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game, and the incineration of the game as #9 on his list of the top 10 video game abuses.

Season 3 (February 2008 – February 2009)

Episode	Episode name	Length	Release date	Games reviewed and episode notes
42	Virtual Boy	15:34 15:03 (First release)	(GT) February 19, 2008 (YT) Aug 24, 2009	The Nerd reviews the Virtual Boy video game console. He also mentions that the list of games he reviews is one game short of being the console's entire U.S. library. Games include: Mario's Tennis, Galactic Pinball, Teleroboxer, Red Alarm, Virtual Boy Wario Land, Panic Bomber, Mario Clash, Nester's Funky Bowling, Virtual League Baseball, Vertical Force, Golf, 3D Tetris and Waterworld. He judges the console's library to be decent overall, and says that Virtual Boy Wario Land was the system's best title, albeit Teleroboxer was the one which made the best effort at simulating the virtual reality experience. The two games he singles out for the biggest criticism are Red Alarm and Waterworld, noting that the former game could potentially have been one of the best titles for the system, but was rendered near-unplayable by using wireframe graphics instead of rendered polygons, while the latter he simply deems to be very poor overall. Ultimately, in addition to the very obvious problem of the system causing eye strain and all the graphics being in red-and-black, he deems the main problem to be the fact that the developers didn't seem understand the difference between virtual reality and just having 3D imagery. The one game he omits is Jack Bros., which he could not acquire due to it being "rare, expensive and probably not worth Jack shit." However, he later received a copy of the Japanese version and a review is added on the DVD and its subsequent YouTube re-release. In this update, the clip from the Waterworld film was edited out. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Virtual Boy as the #2 worst video game console of all time.
43	The Wizard of Oz	11:32	(GT) March 4, 2008 (YT) Sep 11, 2009	The Wizard of Oz (SNES) Matei guest stars as the Cowardly Lion. The events of the episode sync up with Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon, in reference to the Dark Side of the Rainbow combination. While acknowledging the 1939 film as a classic (though questioning the motives of Glinda, for not telling Dorothy that she can just use her ruby slippers to transport herself home), the Nerd considers this adaptation to be one of the worst games in the entire SNES library. He criticizes the mediocre sound and graphics, lack of faithfulness to the film or the book, the bizarre collection of enemies, and the fact that of the four player characters, only the Cowardly Lion is particularly useful. Ultimately however, the game's fatal flaw is judged to be its extremely unreliable collision detection, which makes it possible to randomly fall through the platforms and die. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Cowardly Lion at #8 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests. The episode starts up with a parody of the MGM logo, and is followed by a medley consisting of various fan-made renditions of the AVGN theme. It is also one of the few instances where, in the Nerd character, Rolfe's wedding ring is visible (when he is "attacked" by a clock).
44	Double Vision: Part 1	10:04	(GT) March 25, 2008 (YT) Sep 17, 2009	The Nerd reviews the Intellivision. Games played include: Space Battle, Mission X, Utopia, Masters of the Universe: The Power of He-Man, Vectron, Tron: Deadly Discs, Thin Ice, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Space Spartans, Microsurgeon, Frog Bog, Buzz Bombers, Space Hawk, Boxing, Snafu. The Intellivoice Voice Synthesis Module was used with: B-17 Bomber, Bomb Squad and Space Spartans. The opening credits feature a techno remix of the AVGN theme song, which is followed by Kyle Justin singing a cover of "Double Vision" by Foreigner. This is the first review of an Intellivision game.
45	Double Vision: Part 2	8:24	(GT) April 8, 2008 (YT) Sep 25, 2009	The Nerd reviews the ColecoVision. Games played include: Montezuma's Revenge, Rocky Super Action Boxing, Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park, Campaign '84, Chuck Norris Superkicks, Dance Fantasy, Dr. Seuss' Fix-Up the Mix-Up Puzzler, Learning with Leeper, Looping, Robin Hood, Slurpy, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, WarGames, War Room. Also shown was the Expansion Module #1 which allows Atari 2600 games to be played on the Colecovision. This is the first review of a ColecoVision game. On the DVD, Parts I and II were presented as a single video, and the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey was replaced for the opening scene of the ColecoVision review.
46	The Wizard / Super Mario Bros. 3	17:19	(GT) April 22, 2008 (YT) Nov 8, 2009	The Wizard (movie), Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES). The Nerd looks at how Super Mario Bros. 3 includes possible Satanic references and the cartridge later comes alive and attacks him. The living weapon Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 BC 4.0 Beta, originally from Cinemassacre's animated movie Wizard of Oz 3: Dorothy Goes to Hell, comes in help of the Nerd. The battle between the possessed cartridge and Rolfe and SMDC was selected as the best moment of 2008. On the DVD, the review for The Wizard was edited out, in order to avoid copyright issues (though it is still mentioned in passing, when Rolfe talks about how SMB3 was introduced in the film). This episode opens with another medley of fan-made theme song renditions.
47	NES Accessories	13:51	(GT) May 14, 2008 (YT) Nov 24, 2009	The Nerd reviews several accessories for the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Super Scope for the SNES. The NES Zapper was used with: Freedom Force, Hogan's Alley, Duck Hunt, Shooting Range, Wild Gunman, Barker Bill's Trick Shooting, Gotcha! The Sport!. The Miracle Piano was played with Miracle Piano Teaching System. The Power Pad was played with World Class Track Meet. The Speedboard is featured, but no games are used with this. The Konami LaserScope was played with: Laser Invasion, Duck Hunt. The LJN Roll & Rocker was played with: Adventure Island, Excitebike, Skate or Die, Kung-Fu, Metal Gear, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, 1943, Beetlejuice. The Brøderbund U-Force was played with: Super Mario Bros., Kung-Fu, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Top Gun. The Nerd finds that the Miracle Keyboard works reasonably well, though notes that the included games don't penalize the player for incorrect key presses, making it actually more effective to just hit the keys at random. The LaserScope is found to be highly impractical due to its cumbersome design and constantly having to yell "fire!" to shoot, though the Nerd does get some amusement by killing the ducks in Duck Hunt by yelling curse words at them, which still activate the LaserScope. The Nerd is especially scathing about the Roll & Rocker, as not one of the games he tries to play with it is even vaguely playable, and the standard NES controller still needs to be used anyway (for the A, B, Start and Select buttons), making it completely pointless. The U-Force turns out to actually work reasonably well, much to the surprise of the Nerd, considering its poor reputation (which had previously caused ScrewAttack to name it the worst video game peripheral ever in one of their own videos the previous year). R.O.B. makes an appearance but is not reviewed (until episode 100 on March 2011). This video was changed a few days after its release to explain that the Nerd's problem with the Super Scope was due to his use of a flat-screen TV. This episode also features the debut of one of the Nerd's cats, Boo, and Rolfe's wedding ring is visible when he puts Boo on the Roll & Rocker. Rolfe mentioned in a later video called, "James and Mike Play Mario Paint" that he paid $50 just for the Speedboard, and used it in that video to put the mouse for the game on.
48	Indiana Jones Trilogy	18:43 17:25 (YouTube version)	(GT) May 20, 2008 (YT) Dec 12, 2009	Raiders of the Lost Ark (2600), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (NES), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (NES, Taito (DVD-only), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (NES, Ubisoft), Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures (SNES). This episode does not use the AVGN theme music, instead opting for an Indiana Jones styled intro sequence. To commemorate the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Nerd takes a look at one game for each of the original three Indiana Jones films. First of all he looks at the Raiders of the Lost Ark game for the Atari 2600, and while he notes that it was an ambitious game for the 2600, he ultimately judges that the console simply was not advanced enough to handle such a game, and that having to use two joysticks and the unclear solutions to the puzzles only made it more frustrating. Next, he looks at the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom game for the NES, which in turn was based off the arcade version of the same game. The Nerd says that while it may have been a good arcade game (though admits not being old enough to remember that version well), the NES version was wrecked by awful controls, repetitive gameplay and, again, a lack of clarity on how to progress through the game. Finally, the Nerd plays the Ubisoft Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade game. Though this game is a more traditional side-scroller, the Nerd ultimately judges it to be the worst of the three games, due to the terrible-looking monochrome graphics and excessive difficulty, which ultimately culminates in two extremely lengthy and tedious boss fights. As a coda, the Nerd briefly discusses Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures, which he likens to the Super Star Wars games as an example of a classic movie adaptation done well. On the DVD release and subsequent YouTube re-release, new footage is shown of both cartridges for Temple of Doom, and footage of the Last Crusade game by Taito is added. The Nerd considers this version a huge improvement over the Ubisoft game, even if it has some flaws such as needless puzzle segments and a long, confusing stage in the Nazi castle. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the confusing navigation in Temple of Doom as #5 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game, and the whipping of the Last Crusade cartridge as #9 on his list of the top 10 video game abuses.
49	Star Trek	10:45	(GT) June 11, 2008 (YT) May 7, 2009	Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Vectrex), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (2600), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (ColecoVision), Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (NES). This is the first review of a Vectrex game. The Nerd also does a brief review of the Vectrex. The introduction is a parody of the introduction to Star Trek: The Original Series with an NES in lieu of the Enterprise. Matei guest stars as a Klingon and a Metron. The Nerd also gives a quick review and history of the Vectrex while reviewing Star Trek: The Motion Picture on that system. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Klingon at #7 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests. This is the first 2008 video to be re-released on YouTube.
50	Superman	11:46	(GT) June 26, 2008 (YT) Jan 1, 2010	Superman (2600, but played on the 7800), Superman (NES). The Nerd does not review Superman 64, but promises that he will do so in the next episode as he displays a tremendous amount of mail from frustrated fans requesting it be done. The title screen is based on the cover of Action Comics # 1. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the talking Statue of Liberty in the NES game as #7 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game.
51	Superman 64	10:37	(GT) July 8, 2008 (YT) Jan 13, 2010	Superman: Man of Steel (C64), Superman 64 (N64) The Nerd begins the review by pretending to think that "Superman 64" is actually Superman on the Commodore 64. He notes that the game is actually decent for the most part, with solid graphics and sound and a variety of gameplay styles. He finds the third stage to be excessively hard however, and also criticises the load times and copy protection the game uses (though notes that these were problems with most Commodore 64 games). As for Superman 64, the Nerd finds it to be one of the worst games of all time. The main flaws are noted to be the terrible controls and bad collision detection, which make it extremely hard to get anywhere in the game. The Nerd also criticizes the fact that half the game effectively amounts to flying through rings, and the other half generally involves picking up cars, and sometimes also flying the cars through rings. He also takes issue with the game's music, questioning why the John Williams theme wasn't used (in actuality this was because the game was based on the 1990s animated series, which did not use Williams' theme). Ultimately, in a parody of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, the Nerd destroys the game cartridge by throwing it into Earth's sun. This is part II of the Superman review. This is the first review of a Nintendo 64 game, as well as a Commodore 64 game. The Nerd also does a brief review on the Commodore 64 system. Some bits of this episode were filmed in the Nerd's original gaming room in New Jersey, but most was filmed in the new gaming room in Pennsylvania. The episode starts with a fan-made electronic remix of the theme song. This is also the first review of a floppy disk based game.
52	Batman Part I	11:45	(GT) July 22, 2008 (YT) Jan 27, 2010	Batman: The Caped Crusader (C64), Batman (NES), Batman Returns (SNES), Batman Returns (Sega CD), Batman Returns (Lynx), The Adventures of Batman & Robin (SNES). He focuses mainly on the game Batman Forever (SNES). The Nerd criticizes The Caped Crusader for weird controls, bad hit detection, confusing menus, and criticizes the Commodore itself for the keypad busting at random. He praises the NES game for having dark and stylish graphics, fun gameplay, and challenging difficulty. He praises the SNES version of Batman Returns for having satisfying beat-'em-up gameplay. While praising the Sega CD version's graphics, he criticizes the game for having too much driving stages, and being boring. He criticizes the Atari Lynx version for having bad graphics, no jump-attack move, and overall difficulty. For Batman Forever, he heavily criticizes the controls, mainly "Up" controlling your jump, also calling the controls to use your grappling hook and jump down "like a cheat code." He also criticizes the similarities to Mortal Kombat, which slows down the gameplay, the stock villains, and the fact that it takes a long time to kill your enemies. Mike Matei guest stars as the Joker. The title card is based on the cover for Batman #1. This is the first episode filmed entirely in the Nerd's new video game room. This is also the first review of an Atari Lynx game.
53	Batman Part II	9:42	(GT) August 10, 2008 (YT) Jan 29, 2010	Batman: Return of the Joker (NES), Batman: Return of the Joker (GB), Batman: Revenge of the Joker (Genesis). Again, Matei guest stars as the Joker. The opening is a parody of the 60's Batman TV series opening and is animated by Matei. Most of this episode revolves around Batman: Return of the Joker, which the Joker forces the Nerd to play. The Nerd gets very quickly frustrated by the NES version of the game, but actually considers it to be a decent game overall, only prevented from being great by its unbalanced difficulty, with the stages being far too hard and the boss fights too easy. Unsatisfied with this outcome, the Joker then makes the Nerd play the Game Boy version of Return of the Joker, and this time the Nerd finds it to be an outright bad game, due to the poorly executed grappling hook mechanic. The Joker then inflicts even more pain on the Nerd by making him play the Genesis game Revenge of the Joker, which the Nerd considers to be the worst incarnation of the game due to the terrible controls and not being able to get past the first few screens due to some seemingly unkillable gargoyles. The Nerd's rage at this last version of the game helps him escape, and he gets his revenge by inserting all the bad Batman games up the Joker's rectum. This episode features custom versions of the 1960s Batman theme as well as the 1989 film version, both produced by Chris Holland. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Joker at #5 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests.
54	Deadly Towers	8:20	(GT) August 19, 2008 (YT) Feb 28, 2010	Deadly Towers (NES). The Nerd requested for fans of the series to write this episode for him by emailing him with facts about the game and dialogue. The chosen submitters are credited at the end of the episode. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the sword in Deadly Towers at #7 on his list of the top 10 most hated weapons or items.
55	Battletoads	7:52	(GT) September 3, 2008 (YT) Mar 17, 2010	Battletoads (NES). Kyle Justin complains that he is always behind the couch during reviews. The Nerd allows him to participate in this episode and play the game in two-player mode with him (although the Nerd did not know it had such a mode). This review centers on the two-player mode itself because the players can hit each other, thereby making the game more difficult to play. The Nerd wraps up the review by saying that while the single-player mode is still great, the two-player mode is completely unplayable, and Kyle decides that life behind the couch is better after all. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the game at #2 on his list of the top 10 hardest NES games.
56	Dick Tracy	14:04 14:59 (YouTube version)	(GT) September 16, 2008 (YT) Mar 28, 2010	Dick Tracy (NES) Rolfe states that the video game adaptation of Dick Tracy is the most frustrating review he has ever done. His anger shown in the video is genuine because he has tried to finish the first level for over 20 years since he had the game, which has never been accomplished due to the high difficulty. Especially criticized are the snipers stationed atop every building, which are nigh impossible to shoot. The version seen on the DVD (and YouTube) is significantly different from the GameTrailers version. Certain parts where the Nerd shows clips from the movie are replaced by still photos of the corresponding scenes, and the Nerd also added some updates based on questions he got from his fans.
57	Dracula	11:57	(GT) October 14, 2008 (YT) Oct 2, 2009	The Nerd shortly reviews Dracula games: The Count (VIC-20), Dracula (Intellivision), Drac's Night Out (NES), Dracula: Crazy Vampire (GBC), Sesame Street: Countdown (NES), Bram Stoker's Dracula (NES), Bram Stoker's Dracula (SNES, Genesis, Sega CD) This is the first review of an unreleased game, as well as a VIC-20 game, and a Game Boy Color game. The Nerd also does a short review on the Commodore VIC-20 while reviewing The Count for that system. On the DVD, Rolfe's comparison of the Dracula: Crazy Vampire select screen music to the overture from The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) (which, in turn, he compares to "Echoes" by Pink Floyd) was edited out. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the credit of Fred Fuchs in Bram Stoker's Dracula as #11 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game. Fuchs is also a running joke throughout the series. Note: Rolfe mispronounces the name Fuchs as "fucks". It is pronounced to rhyme with "books" and is the German word for fox.
58	Frankenstein	14:08	(GT) October 29, 2008 (YT) Oct 13, 2009	The Nerd reviews a few games based on Frankenstein's Monster: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (SNES), The Adventures of Dr. Franken (SNES); although the video mostly focuses on the game, Frankenstein: The Monster Returns (NES). Matei, in his 10th on-camera appearance in a Nerd video, guest stars as Franken-Nerd.
59	CD-i Part I	7:57	(GT) November 12, 2008 (YT) Apr 14, 2010	Hotel Mario (CD-i) In this first part of a three-part episode, the Nerd reviews the Philips CD-i interactive multimedia CD player, along with Hotel Mario. He bashes the console for its large size (which is shown to be even larger than the Atari 5200), the player 1 controller port being on the back of the console and its odd controller designs. He criticizes Hotel Mario for its 1980s arcade-style gameplay, confusing elevator controls and annoying enemies that get in the way and re-open doors. The opening credits show the Nerd's entire video game collection in his room. This is the first review of a CD-i game. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the CD-i as the #6 worst video game console of all time.
60	CD-i Part II	12:35	(GT) November 25, 2008 (YT) Apr 20, 2010	Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (CD-i) In this second part of a three-part episode, the Nerd reviews Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. He criticizes the game for its cheesy cutscenes (which he considers even worse than the Legend of Zelda Saturday morning cartoon), terrible controls (especially for jumping and collecting Rupees), frequent dark areas, confusing door entries, maneuvering, short enemies, bad hit detection, lack of recovery time and ridiculously easy bosses. However, he lends praise to its music and graphics.
61	CD-i Part III	14:15	(GT) December 9, 2008 (YT) Apr 28, 2010	Link: The Faces of Evil (CD-i), Zelda's Adventure (CD-i) In this final part of a three-part episode, the Nerd reviews Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda's Adventure. He criticizes Faces of Evil for the same reasons as the above-mentioned Wand of Gamelon. He considers Zelda's Adventure to be a little better than the other two games, but still has criticisms for its use of digitized actors as sprites, long loading times, bad voice acting, lack of music, tedious menus, confusing layouts and misleading maps. In the end, he throws all four of the reviewed games to the ground, before supposedly throwing the entire CD-i console after the screen fades to black.
62	Bible Games II	17:00	(GT) December 23, 2008 (YT) Dec 19, 2009	Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land (NES), Noah's Ark (NES), Joshua (NES), Menace Beach (NES), Sunday Funday (NES), Moses the Exodus (CD-i), David and Goliath (CD-i), The Story of Samson (CD-i), King James Bible (GB). This is the first sequel to an AVGN episode. The "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" parody used as the theme to the original Bible Games review is recycled here. First AVGN episode to be in widescreen and in HD. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the "kill all babies" text in Exodus as #18 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game, and Sunday Funday as the #10 worst game on the NES.
63	Michael Jackson's Moonwalker	10:04	(GT) January 7, 2009 (YT) Jul 14, 2010	Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Genesis) The Nerd considers this to be decent for an early Genesis title, noting that it contains some good renditions of popular Michael Jackson songs, finds it cool that the game uses Jackson's dance moves for special attacks, and particularly enjoys it when Jackson turns into a robot to fight enemies. However, the Nerd also notes numerous flaws with the game, including the gameplay quickly getting repetitive, the latter stages being excessively hard and having confusing layouts, and having to use Bubbles to lead Jackson to the boss fights. The episode was released five months before the death of Michael Jackson on June 25.
64	Milon's Secret Castle	11:33	(GT) January 27, 2009 (YT) Sep 14, 2010	The Nerd reviews Milon's Secret Castle (NES) which he criticizes the unusual difficulty and lack of continues. He notably consults Nintendo Power Magazine's Classified Information section for help, and is shocked to find that there is an entire article dedicated to getting through the first level. He also thinks that using "bubbles" as a weapon makes it look like a "game for little girls". Special criticism is reserved when the Nerd finds a room full of money which seems impossible to reach.

Season 4 (March 2009 – March 2010)

Episode	Episode name	Length	Release date	Games reviewed and episode notes
65	Atari Jaguar Part I	8:23	(GT) March 16, 2009 (YT) Aug 14, 2010	The Nerd discusses the history of Atari, competition between different consoles for superior processing capabilities and the Atari Jaguar video game system. The Nerd does not review any games in-depth, but compares the graphics of games including: Zool 2 (Jaguar) vs. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Genesis), Brutal Sports Football (Jaguar), Checkered Flag (Jaguar) vs. F-Zero (SNES), and Cybermorph (Jaguar) vs. Star Fox (SNES). He notes that despite Atari's repeated highlighting of the system's (supposedly) 64-bit architecture, in practice the games look at best only a little better than their SNES and Genesis counterparts. The introduction features a montage of various video game controllers, with the last one being the Atari Jaguar controller.
66	Atari Jaguar Part II	14:21	(GT) March 25, 2009 (YT) Aug 25, 2010	Tempest 2000 (Jaguar), Alien vs. Predator (Jaguar), Doom (Jaguar), Attack of the Mutant Penguins (Jaguar), Kasumi Ninja (Jaguar), Cybermorph (Jaguar) Despite the console's reputation, the Nerd enjoys some of the titles, finding Tempest 2000 to be a fun and addictive puzzle game, Doom to be a very good port of the PC original despite lacking in-game music, and Alien vs. Predator to also be very good. However, he criticizes Attack of the Mutant Penguins for being confusing and nonsensical, Kasumi Ninja for being a sub-par Mortal Kombat clone, and Cybermorph for having sluggish controls, excessive pop-up, and an extremely annoying AI co-pilot. In the end, the Nerd says that the Jaguar isn't one of the worst consoles ever, or even the worst stand-alone Atari console (which he considers to be the 5200), but that it clearly under-delivered on the claims Atari made about its capabilities. The Nerd also discusses the Jaguar CD add-on, but is unable to review any games because of hardware failure. However, a fan sent him a working Jaguar CD soon after this video was released. He later made a video about it in 2013 with Mike and him playing some Jaguar CD games. This sequence also features audio commentary by inventor Richard Daluz, creator of various home appliances which utilize game system components, including the "Nintoaster", which would later be first used in the Action 52 review and then most of the newer episodes. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the special moves in Kasumi Ninja as #12 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game, and the Jaguar CD as the #4 worst video game console of time.
67	Metal Gear	13:17	(GT) April 8, 2009 (YT) Nov 10, 2010	Metal Gear (NES) The Nerd also includes a short Chronologically Confused About Metal Gear Sequels segment. A day after the video was released on YouTube, it was flagged for unknown reasons. Rolfe points out the "I feel asleep!" quote from a guard, complaining that "you get shot even when he's asleep". Upon further analysis, one can note that the quote was supposed to be "I fell asleep!", as the guard has just awoken from his doze.
68	Odyssey	10:58	(GT) April 21, 2009 (YT) Nov 26, 2010	Magnavox Odyssey (console) Games played include: Tennis, Skiing, Simon Says, Football, Hockey, Analogic, Cat & Mouse, Haunted House, Submarine, States, and Roulette. The Nerd reviews the console with the Nerdy Turd as the second player. He also introduces an accessory, the Odyssey Gun, without discussing its use in games, but giving it positive mention that it looks like a realistic rifle.
69	X-Men	14:11	(GT) May 6, 2009 (YT) Nov 27, 2010	The Uncanny X-Men (NES), Wolverine (NES), X-Men (Arcade), X-Men (Genesis), X-Men 2: Clone Wars (Genesis) After taking note of the game being from the notorious company LJN, The Nerd bashes The Uncanny X-Men for its sensitive character select screen, level layouts, graphics and annoying CPU AI. He treats Wolverine more fairly, admitting the graphics are decent, but criticizes its unforgiving difficulty, use of Wolverine's claws (which drain the player's health), poor hit detection and lack of recovery time. He also takes note of the game also being from LJN. He lends praise to the Konami arcade game, despite the lack of a home release. He admits that the X-Men Genesis game is good, but criticizes its stage select code, the fact that Wolverine's claws are still retractable, and part of the game requiring the player to reset the console without any in-game hint given. He states that X-Men 2 is a great game, despite giving criticism to the game's cold open.
70	The Terminator	14:54	(GT) May 19, 2009 (YT) Jan 7, 2011	The Terminator (NES), The Terminator (SNES), The Terminator (Sega CD) This episode does not use the AVGN theme music, opting instead for a Terminator-styled intro sequence. The Nerd finds the NES game to be one of the worst games he has ever played, due to awful controls and music, and the fact that it is possible to fall through platforms and die. Even an attempt to cheat and gain extra lives (by attaching a wrench to the controller) fails to help, due to the game inexplicably limiting the player to six lives. The SNES version fares better, with the Nerd complimenting the decent arcade-style gameplay, but ultimately finding it a mediocre game overall due to the excessive difficulty and overly long levels. Finally, the Nerd briefly revisits the Sega CD game, which he had previously looked at in his Sega CD review, and despite having some minor issues with the controls, he ultimately deems it to be a good game, and a strong contender for the best Terminator-series game overall.
71	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	13:25	(GT) June 2, 2009 (YT) Jan 11, 2011	T2: The Arcade Game (SNES), T2: The Arcade Game (Sega Genesis), T2: The Arcade Game (Game Boy), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (NES), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Game Boy), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (SNES). This episode uses an intro sequence reminiscent of Terminator 2's opening. The Nerd considers both the SNES and Genesis ports of The Arcade Game to be mindless and redundant, but considers the latter version better and both to be novelty for the time. However, he dismisses the Game Boy version as "pathetic". He criticizes the NES version for its unforgiving difficulty and monotonous gameplay, but lends praise for its faithfulness to the film. Though lending praise to the Game Boy version's graphics, he criticizes the game's unforgiving difficulty, especially the fact that the player is only given a single life throughout the entire game. He considers the SNES game to be the worst. Though considering the intro funny, he bashes the game's unforgiving difficulty (like the Game Boy game, there is only a single life and no continues or passwords) and awful controls, especially while driving (even considering it the worst driving control he has ever come across).
72	Transformers	12:43	(GT) June 17, 2009 (YT) Jan 18, 2011	Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth (C64), Transformers: Convoy no Nazo (Famicom) This is the first episode to feature the Family Computer (Famicom) and the Family Computer Disk System, which were given a short review. This is the also the first review of a Nintendo Famicom game, as well as an audio-cassette based game. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the farm with the dinosaur in the C64 game as #16 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game.
73	Mario Is Missing!	9:30	(GT) July 1, 2009 (YT) Feb 15, 2011	Mario Is Missing! (NES), Mario Is Missing! (SNES), Mario's Time Machine (NES), Mario's Time Machine (SNES). This episode uses a C64 version of the theme song. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the involvement of King Kong in the NES version of Mario Is Missing as #3 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game.
74	Plumbers Don't Wear Ties	20:38	(GT) July 21, 2009 (YT) Mar 8, 2011	3DO Interactive Multiplayer (console), Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (3DO) This is the first AVGN video to feature a game for the 3DO, and he even does a very brief review of the system. The Nerd declares the game as one of the worst FMV games he has ever seen in his life (though as far as gameplay, he still awards that title to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), so much so that he does not want to expose its existence to his children, which was what he admitted during the AVGN movie trailer screening. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the entire game as #1 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game, and the 3DO console as the #8 worst video game console of all time. This is also the first review of a 3DO game.
75	Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle	16:58	(GT) August 5, 2009 (YT) Mar 15, 2011	The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (NES), Crazy Castle 2 (GB), Crazy Castle 3 (GB), Crazy Castle 4 (GBC), Woody Woodpecker in Crazy Castle 5 (GBA) In-between lengthy fights with Bugs Bunny (and later Woody Woodpecker), the Nerd reviews the various games and says that while none of them are really that bad, they all follow the same formula and the gameplay quickly gets repetitive. He does say that Crazy Castle 2 and 5 are a little better than the others relatively speaking, as 2 has smaller stages and introduces some new gameplay elements over the first, while 5 has 32-bit graphics and actually gives Woody an attack (which Bugs didn't have in his games), but otherwise the only significant positive he notes about the games is that they have simple, four-character passwords. Matei guest stars as Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker (as of May 2014, this is Matei's last appearance in a Nerd video). Kyle Justin also makes an appearance. This is the second sequel to an AVGN episode. Also, this is the second time that this episode uses the same version of the theme song as used in the Rocky (SMS) review since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2600) review. This episode marks the first time that Rolfe, Matei and Justin all appear together in an AVGN episode. This is also the only time that the Nerd has "died" in an episode with a guest.
76	Super Pitfall!	11:07	(GT) August 20, 2009 (YT) Mar 22, 2011	Super Pitfall (NES) In this episode it is seen that the Nerd owns Super Mario 4 Rambo.
77	Godzilla	15:46	(GT) September 4, 2009 (YT) Apr 14, 2011	Godzilla: Monster of Monsters (NES), Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters (NES), Godzilla (GB), Super Godzilla (SNES), Godzilla: Kaijuu Daikessen (SFC), Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (Xbox), Godzilla: Save the Earth (Xbox), Godzilla: Unleashed (PS2) The Nerd begins with Monster of Monsters, and identifies several major issues including the confusing and redundant map screen, slow gameplay and the unforgiving time limit placed on boss battles. Despite this, as the review progresses he admits that it was probably still the best NES or SNES-era Godzilla game to be released in the west, as it at least offered self-explanatory gameplay, a decent selection of monsters and allowed the player to cause destruction as Godzilla, which was the main thing he wanted from the game. Godzilla 2 turns out to be a turn-based strategy game in which the player controls the army and battles Godzilla and other monsters. Not only does the Nerd find the game's title highly misleading when it has virtually nothing in common with Monster of Monsters, he notes that there is no real skill or strategy involved, since the outcome of each battle is decided by a slot machine minigame. Despite a promising intro sequence with realistic portraits of Godzilla and other well-known monsters, the Game Boy Godzilla turns out to be a cartoonish puzzle game. Offended by this, the Nerd immediately switches it off without really reviewing it. Super Godzilla, despite having impressive graphics, turns out to be another disappointment for the Nerd, as he finds the fighting engine highly confusing and poorly explained within the game itself, and notes that Godzilla is actually hurt by destroying buildings. Eventually, the Nerd finds a Godzilla Nintendo game that he likes, Kaijuu Daikessen. Though he finds it to be relatively average for the fighting genre, he admits being highly disappointed that it was only ever released for the Super Famicom, and that the repeatedly hinted-at US release never occurred. This is the first review to feature the Super Famicom, as well as Xbox and PS2 games, although the latter two were not reviewed in detail. The Nerd also does a brief review on the Godzilla movies. (Rolfe reviewed all the films, including the 1998 American remake, for Monster Madness '08). The scene where the Nerd played the newer Godzilla games, concludes that he was born too early and comes up with a new swear word (which is actually censored, but in the making of the episode, it turns out to be "scunt") to describe the older games was considered the best moment of 2009. At the Magfest 2012 AVGN Q&A Panel, Rolfe explained that the reason why the Nerd played the newer Godzilla games in the episode was because he thought "that was pretty funny" and explained that he made it like the Nerd does not even know about newer games. He also said that he "played it out like he was really like, having never held an Xbox controller". He said in the end that he sees the Nerd as an outdated guy who literally lives in the past, considering that in real life, Rolfe was more familiar with older games than newer ones to some degree.
78	Wayne's World	12:15	(GT) September 24, 2009 (YT) May 3, 2011	Wayne's World (NES), Wayne's World (SNES) The Nerd (wearing a Wayne's World hat from the movie) reviews the Wayne's World game on NES. He criticizes the NES game for its bland graphics, headache-inducing music, bare faithfulness to the movie (when Garth is fighting drums in the first level), the fact that you restart the level on one death, and the pathetic attack (especially Wayne's kick). After playing the game, the Nerd throws it to Garth and lets him smash the NES cartridge to pieces. Next, he reviews the SNES game. He considers this version better than the NES game. However, with him criticizing the repetitive sound clips from Wayne (when he gets an item or gets hit), the confusing level design, familiar music, clunky controls, and the inclusion of Elvis as a boss, he still considers the game bad. After reviewing it, he hurls on the SNES cartridge. Footage from both Wayne's World films is used, as well as one clip from Borat (which were edited out of the DVD release).
79	Castlevania Part I	10:08	(GT) October 8, 2009 (YT) Oct 3, 2010	Castlevania (NES) This is the first Halloween special that does not revolve around a game based on a horror movie (or a novel), instead, the Nerd has a marathon of his favorite horror game series. This is the first review to have four parts. In this video, he reviews Castlevania. He admits that the game is a classic, but criticizes the game's unforgiving difficulty. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the game at #8 on his list of the top 10 hardest NES games, and the discovery of a pork chop in a wall and the fake credits as the #14 and #9 weirdest moments in a video game, respectively.
80	Castlevania Part II	12:47	(GT) October 21, 2009 (YT) Oct 12, 2010	Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES), Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES) This is the second time the Nerd reviews Castlevania II, and his first reviewing the prequel game Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, which he calls the best (but hardest) of the NES Castlevania games. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed Castlevania III at #7 on his list of the top 10 hardest NES games. In the video, the Nerd clarified Castlevania II is a heavily flawed title but praised for its nostalgic and atmospheric levels.
81	Castlevania Part III	12:52	(GT) November 5, 2009 (YT) Oct 20, 2010	Super Castlevania IV (SNES), Castlevania: Dracula X (SNES), Castlevania (N64). The Nerd considers Super Castlevania IV to be the best game in the series, praising its graphics and sound (which he notes are doubly impressive considering it was one of the earliest SNES titles), improvements to the control and gameplay, strong level design and overall atmosphere. Dracula X is felt to be a decent game overall, but a major step-back from IV (which the Nerd notes is likely because it originated on the TurboGrafx-16), with the Nerd finding it far more similar to the third game. The Nerd is particularly scathing about the Nintendo 64 Castlevania game, which he accuses of being the worst in the series and temporarily killing his interest in the games. He finds the controls and camera terrible, the selection of enemies ill-conceived, the music to be totally lacking, and the puzzles tedious and nearly impossible to solve.
82	Castlevania Part IV	9:48	(GT) November 19, 2009 (YT) Oct 27, 2010	Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis), Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS) Bloodlines gets a generally positive reaction from the Nerd, who says that it isn't quite as good as Super Castlevania IV, but is nonetheless a strong entry in the series. Despite preferring the classic Castlevania style over the one adopted by Symphony of the Night and beyond, the Nerd nonetheless admits that it's a very good game.
83	Little Red Hood	14:54	(GT) December 3, 2009 (YT) May 13, 2011	Little Red Hood (NES) In this episode it is seen that the Nerd owns some of the rarest NES titles, Cheetahmen 2 and 6-in-1. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the game as the #6 worst on the NES, and the dog as the #5 most hated weapon or item.
84	Winter Games	10:28	(GT) December 23, 2009 (YT) Dec 20, 2010	Winter Games (NES) The Nerd considers Winter Games to utilize the worst controls in a video game.
85	Street Fighter 2010	17:56	(GT) January 6, 2010 (YT) June 10, 2011	Street Fighter 2010 (NES), Fighting Street (TurboGrafx-CD), Street Fighter: The Movie (Sega Saturn) While the Nerd is initially confused by Street Fighter 2010 not being a fighting game and seemingly having no relation whatsoever to the rest of the series (other than Ken being the main character), he ultimately deems it to actually be a good game overall, in spite of its punishing difficulty, especially in the final stage. Far harsher words are given to Fighting Street, the TurboGrafx CD adaptation of the original Street Fighter; the Nerd deems it to be one of the worst fighting games he has ever played, and expresses astonishment that Capcom ever greenlit a sequel to it. Street Fighter: The Movie fares a little better, with the Nerd considering it an okay game, but he notes that it seems styled more after Mortal Kombat than any of the Street Fighter games, and that the various Street Fighter II revisions are still much better. This is the first review of a TurboGrafx-16 plus TurboGrafx CD game and a Sega Saturn game. The opening for the episode shows all of the title cards by Matei made for previous episodes (2006–09). The episode also has a small introduction/review of the TurboGrafx-16. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed Street Fighter 2010 at #5 on his list of the top 10 hardest NES games. On the DVD, the brief clips of Back to the Future Part II at the beginning were replaced by still photos of the corresponding scenes.
86	Hydlide	8:28	(GT) January 20, 2010 (YT) June 14, 2011	Hydlide (NES). The Nerd makes some comparisons to The Legend of Zelda (NES).
87	Ninja Gaiden	15:40	(GT) February 4, 2010 (YT) June 14, 2011	Ninja Gaiden (NES). In addition, the Nerd presents the Ninja Gaiden trilogy on NES. He comments that they are good, but also extremely difficult and that he had yet to beat them at the time. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed Ninja Gaiden at #4 on his list of the top 10 hardest NES games, and the frequent "What the...?" quote in Ninja Gaiden II. as the #8 weirdest moment in a video game. This is also the first episode to feature Kevin Finn, who plays a ninja that helps the Nerd improve his gaming skills by outlandish means.
88	Swordquest	9:12	(GT) February 18, 2010 (YT) July 2, 2011	Swordquest (2600). The Nerd reveals the epic quest for the real treasures behind the mystery of the Swordquest releases. He explains how the first two games were released and the tournaments for the first two treasures were held, but as Atari began to die out, the tournament for the third game, Waterworld, was never held, and the last game, Airworld, was never even made. The Nerd ends it by showing his anger towards the last two tournaments not being held. This is also the first review to use an orchestral remix of the AVGN theme.
89	Pong Consoles	12:00	(GT) March 6, 2010 (YT) July 18, 2011	Pong (Various) The Nerd reviews the classic Pong game on various consoles that mostly automatically contain Pong. Consoles reviewed include: Unisonic Tournament 1000, APF TV Fun, Wonder Wizard, RCA Studio II, TV Scoreboard, Super Pong Tellagame, Colorsport VIII, Ricochet, 4 Way Video Game, TV Game 6, Volley 6, Magnavox Odyssey 4000, Fairchild Channel F, Coleco Telstar, Coleco Telstar Arcade. Also, it is his second review to feature a 7th generation console (the Xbox 360 with gameplay from Grand Theft Auto IV), but not reviewed in detail. This is the first review of an Xbox 360 game. This is the last episode in the series to use the old timeslot (usually two episodes per month) due to Rolfe suffering from burnout. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Coleco Telstar Arcade and the RCA Studio II as the #5 and #3 worst video game consoles of all time, respectively.

Season 5 (May 2010 – April 2011)

This season started the new "One episode per month" format.

Episode	Episode name	Length	Date	Games reviewed and episode notes
90	Action 52	26:50	(GT) April 30, 2010 (YT) July 21, 2011	Action 52 (NES) "Shit Pickle" makes a brief cameo. The Nerd does not play Cheetahmen, which he hinted he would review in the next episode. He also plays it on the Nintoaster, built by friend and technician Richard Daluz. This is also the new longest episode to focus on a single game, beating Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. In the episode, he makes a comment that most of the games are space shooters. Special criticism is reserved for the fact that it originally cost almost $200 (around $4 per game counting tax) when it was first released, and the fact that two of the games (Alfred N The Fettuc and Jigsaw) don't even work. He then ends the review with a rapid-fire criticism of the game for crashing, dying in midair, bad controls, bad graphics, bad music, misleading titles and power-ups, and games that cannot be won or lost or make no sense, set to clips from the game. In three out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the game at #10 on his list of the top 10 worst video game controls, the #3 worst game on the NES, and the Storm Over the Desert and Timewarp Tickers games as the #10 and #6 weirdest moments in a video game, respectively. On the DVD, the scene in which the Nerd mentions the title screen music ripping off Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock's "It Takes Two" was edited out. The trailer of that video was flagged for unknown reasons and gave James a Community Guidelines Strike, The trailer has been re-uploaded.
91	Cheetahmen	20:25	(GT) June 9, 2010 (YT) Aug 11, 2011	Action 52 (NES), Cheetahmen II (NES), Action 52 (Genesis) This episode serves as the conclusion to the Action 52 review. He criticizes the game for the weapons, bosses and nonsensical storyline (which is also noted to be a blatant rip-off of Captain N: The Game Master), but praises a special jumping glitch. Cheetahmen II turns out to be much the same, with the only real improvement being a health bar. Special criticism is for the last few levels being called "Level 3", and the fact that after beating the fourth level boss, the game fails to progress to the fifth level, leaving the player in what the Nerd calls Limbo. (The Nerd subsequently accessed the fifth and sixth levels in the following video via a glitch) The Nerd concludes the Action 52 saga by reviewing the Sega Genesis version of the game, which he notes to be a vast improvement over its NES counterpart, albeit still bad overall. He also deems the game's incarnation of Cheetahmen to be worse than either NES game, due to the cartoonish graphics and music, repetitive gameplay and extreme difficulty. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed Action 52 and Cheetahmen II as the #3 and #2 worst on the NES respectively.
92	Game Glitches	16:07	(GT) July 8, 2010 (YT) Sep 2, 2011	The Nerd reviews various glitches and bugs in both past and present video games, including those in Pac-Man (NES), Super Team Games (NES), Metal Gear (NES), Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (NES), Mega Man 2 (NES), Mega Man 5 (NES), Cheetahmen II (NES), Double Dragon (NES), Super Mario Bros. (NES), Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES), Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES), Super Mario World (SNES), Mountain King (2600), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii), and Rocky (PS2). In keeping with the theme, the intro has been deliberately glitched. This episode guest stars Kevin Finn as the Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin. It is also one of the few videos in which the Nerd loses in the end when the Glitch Gremlin causes glitches in the real world. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Glitch Gremlin at #6 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests.
93	Zelda II	15:07	(GT) August 4, 2010 (YT) Nov 15, 2011	Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES) The Nerd references this game as being commonly requested, and while he does a review in the traditional AVGN style, he points out that it is not that bad, but does agree that it is very difficult. Kevin Finn reappears as the Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin. He also briefly reviews the first Zelda, referencing how the third labyrinth is shaped like a swastika and the confusing monster titles, including Like-Like, Tektite, Pols Voice, Gibdo, Rope, and Keese. The opening also includes part of the Zelda song at the end of the last video of the CD-i review. The Power Glove makes an appearance towards the end. While the Nerd notes that he has never beaten the game's final boss, he actually manages to unintentionally defeat the boss with the use of the Power Glove as he moves his hands.
94	Back to the Future Re-Revisited	23:04	(GT) September 3, 2010 (YT) Dec 1, 2011	Top Gun (NES), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), Back to the Future (NES), Back to the Future Part II & III (NES), Back to the Future Part III (Genesis), Super Back to the Future II (SFC) The Nerd revisits some of his previous reviews before doing justice to the Back to the Future Trilogy on NES. For the most part, his criticisms of the two NES games are the same as in the original review. He notes that as the first game progresses it does start to follow the events of the film a little more, though still suffers the same monotonous gameplay and poor graphics and music. Playing Part II & III in more detail, he deems the game to be even worse than the first one. Despite researching how to play it, he makes no progress whatsoever during two hours of trying to beat the Part II segment, and then uses a cheat code to skip to the Part III segment, but can't make any progress there either. The Genesis Part III game fares little better. While the graphics are noted to be decent for the time, the Nerd says that the game's music is terrible, and that the gameplay is both repetitive and far too difficult. Despite not beating the first stage, he notes that the game has only four stages anyway, and calls it "pathetic." By contrast, Super Back to the Future II turns out to be by far the best Back to the Future-related game the Nerd had played until that point. Though he doesn't go into much detail, he nonetheless is exasperated that the game was never released outside of Japan. He ends the video by saying that he has one more game to revisit, one he wishes to not have to touch again. This is the third time that this episode uses the same version of the theme song as used in the Rocky (SMS) review since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2600) review (the second was in the Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle episode).
95	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Re-Revisited	16:40	(GT) October 7, 2010 (YT) Oct 31, 2011	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES) The Nerd gives Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a longer and more in-depth treatment. The title card is based on a poster for the 1931 film version starring Frederic March.
96	Lester the Unlikely	10:44	(GT) November 4, 2010 (YT) Dec 26, 2011	Lester the Unlikely (SNES), The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe (CD-i) The Nerd calls the game an "experiment to create the worst video game character in history" and makes jokes about possible sequels. His main criticism regards the terrible player controls. He also returns briefly to the CD-i, stating that he would rather play The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe instead, but changes his mind.
97	How The Nerd Stole Christmas	12:07	(YT) December 6, 2010	Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage (NES), Circus Caper (NES), Fist of the Northstar (NES) In a parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the Nerd talks about a variety of games in rhyme, with many hand drawn illustrations by Matei. This is the first new episode since the TMNT 3 movie review to be released on YouTube before GameTrailers. Composer Bear McCreary arranged the "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" parody song with NES-styled audio elements.
98	Day Dreamin' Davey	14:00	(GT) January 5, 2011 (YT) Dec 30, 2011	Day Dreamin' Davey (NES) The Nerd's main problem with the game is the premise of playing out a boy's daydreams, which he considers to be poorly conceived and uninteresting. Aside from that, he says that the game isn't actually too bad overall, with the graphics, sound and gameplay being generally decent, but he gets annoyed by the repetitive level designs, the puzzles being very obtuse, and the last level being a let-down after a much better penultimate level.
99	Star Wars	22:28	(GT) February 3, 2011 (YT) February 9, 2012	The Nerd reviews several Star Wars games: Star Wars: The Arcade Game (Atari 2600), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Atari 2600), Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle (Atari 2600), Star Wars: Jedi Arena (Atari 2600), Star Wars (Famicom), Star Wars (NES), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (NES), Super Star Wars (SNES), Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (SNES), Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (SNES), Shadows of the Empire (Nintendo 64). This is the last episode to be shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio. It's also one of the rare episodes where the Nerd says the games are overall not bad, while the Famicom game is terrible, due to its difficulty and lack of a continue or save feature, as well as criticizing the NES games for their difficulty. He does, however, say the NES games are playable and faithful to the films.
100	R.O.B. the Robot	18:52	(GT) March 3, 2011 (YT) Mar 15, 2012	Gyromite (NES), Stack-Up (NES) On the 100th video anniversary special, the Nerd rants about the bad games and consoles ever made, but then he decides to play Gyromite. He gets help from R.O.B. when it is a two-player co-op game. When the Nerd asks R.O.B. to play another game, R.O.B. chooses Stack-Up, but the Nerd hates that you must control a video game to control a robot, so he claims R.O.B. as a bad accessory. When the Nerd tries to play a different game, R.O.B. eliminates all "shitty" games, and the Nerd will have a world without bad games, but at the cost of every game being Gyromite or Stack-Up and at the good games' existence, so he battles R.O.B. after an attempt on his life. The episode ends with a shot of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, the first review. This episode is the second to be shot in 16:9 widescreen (first one being Bible Games 2), along with other episodes in the future. The intro to this episode features clips from previous 4:3 episodes and the theme song up until the vocal comes in. An explosion that expands across the widescreen frame takes place, and all of the title cards Mike Matei drew flash toward the screen until it ends with the R.O.B. title card; this is the last Nerd episode to have a title card. This episode features music by John Jennings Boyd and Lachlan Barclay. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed R.O.B. at #4 on his list of the top 5 worst gaming accessories.
101	Steven Spielberg Games	21:18	(GT) April 6, 2011 (YT) April 12, 2012	Jaws (NES), Hook (NES), Jurassic Park (NES), Jurassic Park (Sega Genesis), Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition (Sega Genesis), Jurassic Park (Super NES), Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues (SNES), Jurassic Park (Sega CD), Jurassic Park Interactive (3DO), UFI und sein gefährlicher Einsatz (Aliens Return, Atari 2600) While the Nerd says that Jaws is actually somewhat faithful to Jaws: The Revenge and definitely not the worst LJN game, he nonetheless considers it poor overall due to the gameplay being extremely repetitive. Hook is heavily criticized for its generic, overly difficult gameplay, and poor graphics and music. The episode mostly focuses on the Jurassic Park games. The Nerd considers both Genesis games and the first SNES game to be quite decent, if rather hard, and he compliments the atmosphere and stylish graphics of the first Genesis game, along with the first-person segments of the first SNES game. The Chaos Continues is criticized for its difficulty, poor level design and large segments which feature no dinosaurs. The NES game is felt to be a poorly downsampled port of the first SNES game. The Sega CD game turns out to be an adventure game, a genre which the Nerd doesn't like anyway, but even then he considers it to be boring and difficult to make any progress through. The 3DO game is considered to be the worst, with the Nerd criticizing the bizarre and poorly designed minigames, along with the usage of "lookalike" actors who don't look anything like the characters in the movie. Throughout the review, the Nerd avoids reviewing E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial (Atari 2600). At the end, the Nerd picks up the game and shudders in dismay. The video fades to black and a "to be continued" message appears, to be reviewed in Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie. The movie was originally intended to come out shortly after this video was published, but was pushed back due to unforeseen difficulties in filming. This is the second episode in which the Nerd cries, albeit silently. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the boxart with "E.T. Go Come" as #15 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game. This is the first episode to have a split screen effect in its opening wherein two separate frames are showing different AVGN clips at the same time, possibly to take advantage of the widescreen format. This practice would be repeated in future episodes.

Season 6 (July 2011 – December 2011)

Episode	Episode name	Length	Date	Games reviewed and episode notes
102	The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode	35:05	(GT) July 7, 2011 (YT) May 1, 2012	Barbie (NES) James Rolfe gives us a look at the making of a typical AVGN episode, using Barbie as the example. At the end is the finished Barbie episode. This is the longest episode to date, beating Action 52 by over eight minutes. This is also the second episode to feature Rolfe as himself, out of character. The Barbie review alone runs for 3 minutes.
103	Kid Kool	8:14	(GT) August 3, 2011 (YT) May 7, 2012	Kid Kool (NES) This is the first AVGN video filmed in 1080p HD, as well as the first where the YouTube trailer was HD but the video on GameTrailers was not. The Nerd bashes Kid Kool for seven design flaws, which he gives names to: inability to backtrack ("one-way bullshit"), ridiculously fast running ("two-geared diarrhea"), awkward jump control ("jump fuckness"), requirement to skip across water ("topside aquatic ass"), vertical scrolling ("air suspension shit-lift"), random and numerous invisible blocks ("invisi-bitches") and frequent dropping down ("free-falling fuck-balls"). In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the game as the #9 worst on the NES, and #8 worst control in a video game.
104	Nintendo World Championships	17:02	(GT) August 26, 2011 (YT) May 16, 2012	Nintendo World Championships (NES) This episode guest stars and is co-written by Pat Contri, known as "Pat the NES Punk". The Nerd tells that he has recently bought a box of games off of eBay, with Nintendo World Championships listed as one of them. After opening the box, he is disappointed to find out that the cart is in fact a reproduction cart, and soon calls over the NES Punk to attempt to take his rare gray copy by lying about giving it the "Nerd Seal Of Approval", but when the Nerd offers the box of games to him, Pat finds that the box also contains a rare gold copy of the game. After daydreaming about owning the gold and gray copies, the two compete in a winner-takes-all duel to see who wins both the cartridges. The Nerd is surprised that the game is three games (Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer and Tetris) in one, but in a time limit. He eventually decides that the whole game is not worth it and smashes both the cartridges, then offering the NES Punk the reproduction, before Pat starts laughing maniacally and the episode cuts to black right before Pat strangles the Nerd. It is shown post-credits that the smashed carts were props, although the others seen were real. James confirmed both carts actually belong to Pat.
105	Dark Castle	12:07	(GT) October 6, 2011 (YT) October 1, 2012	Dark Castle (Genesis), Dark Castle (CD-i) The Nerd plays what he calls the worst Sega Genesis game of all time, but considers the CD-i version to be even worse, based on control. In two out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed Dark Castle as having the #1 worst control in a video game, the "Saddam was here" graffiti as the #19 weirdest moment in a video game.
106	Bible Games III	14:14	(GT) December 7, 2011 (YT) December 11, 2012	King James Bible (GB), Caltron 6 in 1 (NES), Spiritual Warfare (Genesis), Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land (Genesis), Joshua (Genesis), Bible Adventures (Genesis), King of Kings: The Early Years (NES) The Nerd finishes the Bible Games Trilogy. This is the first episode filmed in HD, but the second review in HD, first one being Bible Games II.

Season 7 (July 2012 – Present)

This season started over seven months later due to production of the Angry Video Game Nerd Movie and has a more "back to basics" approach. Starting with this season, episodes that are posted on Gametrailers and Cinemasscare are later posted on YouTube with a day or so. This hasn't been done since Season One.

Episode	Episode name	Length	Date	Games reviewed and episode notes
107	Schwarzenegger Games	22:26	(YT) July 23, 2012	Total Recall (NES), Last Action Hero (NES), Conan (NES), Commando (NES), Predator (NES) In celebration of the release of The Expendables 2, the Nerd reviews games based on movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Despite reminiscing about how frustrating he found Total Recall as a child, and how the game is still very difficult today, he nonetheless admits that it is much better than most of the other games in this video, as it at least offers decent graphics and sound, some interesting level designs, and follows the movie's story quite well. The Nerd is far more scathing about Last Action Hero, criticizing the game's usage of screenshots from the movie (which are near-illegible in the game due to the NES's graphic limitations), mediocre in-game graphics which make Jack Slater look nothing like Schwarzenegger, and boring, repetitive gameplay. Conan fares even worse, and is judged to have poor graphics, terrible controls (in particular, pressing down on the D-pad to jump), and unbalanced difficulty, with the first stage being extremely difficult and the following ones too easy. On top of that, it turns out that the game is actually based on Robert E. Howard's original stories rather than the films Conan the Barbarian or Conan the Destroyer, causing the Nerd to realize that he wasted his time reviewing the game. The Nerd briefly touches on Commando, conceding that it has absolutely nothing to do with the film Commando, but is a good game nonetheless. Finally, the Nerd reviews Predator, which takes up the bulk of the video; while the Nerd notes that Conan is worse, he also identifies many faults with this game. On top of graphical and control issues, he criticizes the lack of faithfulness to the film, faulty collision detection, glitches that force the player to use a "suicide code" (which the Nerd notes can easily be activated by accident) to kill the player character when it becomes impossible to proceed, and making the titular Predator seem completely unthreatening by having so many of them easily killed during the game. This is the second new episode since the TMNT 3 movie review to be released on YouTube prior to GameTrailers and the How the Nerd Stole Christmas video that was exclusively released on YouTube. This episode reveals that the Guitar Guy, played by Kyle Justin, is dead because at the end of this episode, just before the Nerd plays Predator all over again, Justin's skeleton is seen with his hat and guitar. In five out-of-character videos, Rolfe listed the "big mode" in Predator as #20 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game, the ending as the #10 worst ending in a video game, the grenades as the #4 most hated weapon or item, the ending, and Conan as having the #3 worst control in a video game, and being the #4 worst game on the NES.
108	Ghosts n' Goblins	17:04	(YT) October 23, 2012	Ghosts n' Goblins (NES) This is one of the hardest NES games the Nerd has ever beaten, ironically also being the first NES game Rolfe ever played (packaged with the NES he got for his eighth birthday). Rolfe later listed this game at #6 on his list of the hardest games on the NES, and the flame at #2 on his list of the most hated weapons or items. This episode was exclusively released on YouTube, Cinemassacre and GameTrailers two days before the game's re-release on the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS.
109	Atari Sports	12:42	(YT) December 17, 2012	Various sport-themed games (Atari 2600) The Nerd plays a compilation of sports games for the Atari 2600, after ranting about the over-abundadance of sports games. Football (Atari 2600), Realsports Football (Atari 2600), Super Challenge Football (Atari 2600), Super Football (Atari 2600), Basketball (Atari 2600), Home Run (Atari 2600), Super Challenge Baseball (Atari 2600), Real Sports Baseball (Atari 2600), Ice Hockey (Atari 2600), RealSports Volleyball (Atari 2600), Boxing (Atari 2600), RealSports Boxing (Atari 2600), Tennis (Atari 2600), RealSports Tennis (Atari 2600), Grand Prix (Atari 2600), Math Gran Prix (Atari 2600), Karate (Atari 2600), International Soccer (Atari 2600), Pelé's Soccer (Atari 2600), Golf (Atari 2600), Miniature Golf (Atari 2600) In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the graphic of the batter in Real Sports Baseball as #17 on his list of the top 20 weirdest moments in a video game.
110	Ikari Warriors	20:39	(YT) March 6, 2013	Ikari Warriors (NES) The Nerd plays Ikari Warriors. Justin reappears as the Guitar Guy (his first appearance in a Nerd review since the Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle episode) after the Nerd uses the continue code to revive him. This episode also features the AVGN theme song for the first time since the Dark Castle episode. Especially criticized is the enormous length of each level. Also receiving criticism is the aiming controls, speed of the character, tanks exploding upon depleting their fuel tanks and repetitive music. The episode was mostly improvised, including Justin's music.
111	Toxic Crusaders	14:42	(YT) April 30, 2013	Toxic Crusaders (GB), Toxic Crusaders (Genesis), Toxic Crusaders (NES) The Nerd plays the Toxic Crusaders games, based on The Toxic Avenger film and Toxic Crusaders TV show. Featured is special guest star Lloyd Kaufman, director of The Toxic Avenger series and co-founder of Troma Entertainment. In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed "Toxic Crusaders" on NES as having the #7 worst control in a video game.
112	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure	17:52	(YT) June 30, 2013	Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure (NES) The Nerd reviews Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure. He considers the game to be terrible even by LJN standards, bashing every single aspect of the game, such as its lack of music (stopping after approx. 30 seconds), tedious phone dialing, confusing circuit navigation, delayed screen scrolling, inability to walk on grass (which the Nerd considers as bad as flaws such as the snipers in Dick Tracy), random passageways, and having to find essential items by jumping into random parts of the scenery. In the end, he states that the game is "the worst LJN game on the NES", and that "they weren't thinking". In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the game as the #5 worst on the NES.
113	Tiger Electronic Games	18:39	September 6, 2013	Tiger Electronics handheld and wrist games, Game.com (with Lights Out, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Duke Nukem 3D, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Batman & Robin, Resident Evil 2), R-Zone (with Batman Forever) After briefly reminiscing about his initial Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde review, and how he mistakenly referred to the NES game Wall Street Kid as "Tax Man" (which in actuality is a Pac-Man clone for the Apple II), the Nerd moves onto reviewing Tiger Electronics' line of LCD video games. While he concedes that they were very popular, likely due to their affordable nature, the Nerd deems every single one of the games to be extremely primitive, clunky and barely even playable. He then moves onto the company's line of wrist games, which he considers to be even worse due to their awkward, cramped layout and even more simplistic gameplay. He also complains about the blister packaging commonly used for consumer products, leading to an appearance by the Bullshit Man from Rolfe's You Know What's Bullshit? series. Next, the Nerd looks at the Game.com handheld console, and while noting that it had some innovative features for its time, he considers them to have been poorly executed, and the console's overall game library very poor, albeit still better than their LCD games. Finally, he tries out the company's R-Zone system, which he judges to be the worst video game console of all time, due to not only suffering every problem that their LCD games had, but also being extremely awkward to play due to the games being projected in red-and-black right in front of the player's eye. The only positive aspect he mentioned though is that unlike the Virtual Boy, the R-Zone has a headstrap In an out-of-character video, Rolfe listed the Game.com and the R-Zone as the #9 and #1 worst video game consoles of all time, respectively.
114	Alien 3	10:17	(CM) October 21, 2013 (YT) October 22, 2013	Alien 3 (NES) The Nerd reviews Alien 3. He criticizes the backwards control scheme, layout and lack of faith to source material when games such as Contra, Metroid and Xenophobe, which are not even tie-ins to the Alien franchise, copied more from the films than the official game did. He also shows his dislike for the fact that before reaching the end, you must rescue prisoners, yet there is no counter telling you how many are left, and there is a time limit; another criticism is that there are no games based on Alien or Aliens, just Alien 3, which he blames on the fact that the game was made not to be of good quality, but to market the film. However, he commends the music and does not consider it to be a bad LJN game (that title is held by Bill & Ted). This episode also advertises Monster Madness, in which Rolfe reviews 31 horror/monster films every October; the episode was released the same week he was reviewing the Alien franchise, with the review for the Alien 3 film posted the following day.
115	AVGN Games!	21:55	November 20, 2013	The Angry Video Game (PC), AVGN Pixel Land Blast (PC), AVGN KO Boxing (Atari 2600 rom), AVGN Planet (PC), AVGN Game Over I and II (PC), The Angry Video Game Nerd (Atari 2600), AVGN Vs. Dr. Wily (NES), Texting of the Bread (iOS), AVGN Adventures (PC) The Nerd comes around full circle, reviewing his own games. Board James makes a cameo and talks about an AVGN Monopoly game. After the Nerd asks him about his jail time, he said he was framed for his crime, and placed the blame on his Dream Phone. The Nerd is seen playing the PC games on a Commodore 64, but he does admit that he's actually playing on a modern computer while reviewing AVGN Game Over. Seemingly he's seen playing Texting of the Bread on an old phone. AVGN Adventures is the most recent game ever reviewed by the Nerd, since it only came out two months before the review, on September 20, 2013. This is also the first review of a PC game and a 21st-century game. Note: The Nerd (not Rolfe himself) does not recognize the character "Mike".
116	Wish List: Part 1 - Sonic the Hedgehog & more!	15:07	December 17, 2013	Skate or Die! (NES), Bad Dudes (NES), Karate Champ (NES), Sonic Blast (Game Gear), Sonic Labryinth (Game Gear), Sonic R (Saturn), Sonic Shuffle (Dreamcast), Shadow the Hedgehog (Gamecube), Where's Waldo? (NES) For Christmas, the Nerd looks over old department store catalogs and reminisces over some of the games displayed within. Then he begins to look at the wish list of games that his fans have wanted him to look at, beginning with various Sonic the Hedgehog games and Where's Waldo?. The Nerd states that while Skate or Die was a popular game of its time, he criticizes its awkward controls and short length. He considers Bad Dudes to be dated, and criticizes its sluggish gameplay, lousy hit detection, and backwards controls. He heavily bashes Karate Champ for its dreadful graphics, hit detection and controls, even stating that the game contains the worst controls in all of gaming. Next, the Nerd reviews the "bad" Sonic games he has been requested to do. He criticizes Sonic Blast for its sluggish gameplay, as he does for Sonic Labyrinth, in addition to its messy controls. However, he states that with portable games, compromises have to be made. He considers Sonic R and Sonic Shuffle to be poorly made ripoffs of Mario Kart and Mario Party. Before playing Shadow the Hedgehog, he said he finds it strange to see a Sega game on a Nintendo console. As for the game, he states that he plays it poorly, but it is at least better than the aforementioned games, and does not consider it terrible. Next, he reviews Where's Waldo?. He bashes it for its monotonous gameplay, short length, overlong and unnecessary cutscenes and bad minigames. He ends this part by mocking the title character's random movement to stages in the cutscenes. Note: This is the first time that the Nerd has covered games for the Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Gamecube.
117	Wish List: Part 2 - Bubsy 3D & more!	15:27	December 19, 2013	A Boy and His Blob (NES), The Three Stooges (NES), Home Improvement (SNES), Pit Fighter (SNES), Bubsy 3D (PS1), Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage (SNES) The Nerd concludes his list of requests from fans. He starts by reviewing A Boy and His Blob, which he does not consider bad, but states that it is a tedious game. Next, he reviews The Three Stooges. Aside from considering the intro funny, he criticizes its depressing plot, repetitive gameplay, bad graphics, broken controls and boring minigames. On the SNES, he reviews Home Improvement. He criticizes its generic stage designs, weak weapons, unforgiving difficulty, and even gives special mention to its manual, which reads "REAL MEN DON'T NEED INSTRUCTIONS". Though considering the original arcade version of Pit Fighter to be a classic, he declares the SNES version as the worst game on the console, bashing its dull graphics, broken controls and unforgiving difficulty. The centerpiece review is of his second-most requested game (after E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Bubsy 3D. He bashes the game for its simplistic objective, lack of enemies, dull graphics, awkward controls, camera movement and annoying voice acting, and states the game itself feels like it "was barely started at all". He finishes with a review of Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage, which he praises as a good beat-'em-up game. He later discovers that the game was published by LJN and is shocked about the fact that they have made a game that's decent.
118	Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing	15:44	March 19, 2014	Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing (PC) Due to several fan requests, the Nerd reviews Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. When he first tries the game, he questions what the complaints were, claiming that he rather enjoys the game. He points out the flaws in its graphics, stage design, inability to lose even on the most recent editions, nonexistent hit detection and physics, and misleading info on the cover. He also points out the phrase "You're Winner" after the end of the race. The Nerd considers the game the worst in terms of programming and quality control (though as far as frustration and overall experience, he still awards that title to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). At the end of the review, the Nerd ponders on how fast he can go in reverse, another criticism in which the truck goes faster in reverse than forward. The result causes the truck to not only go ridiculously fast, but also causes an ear-piercing noise, making the Nerd to stop holding the reverse key, though doing so causes him to crash into the video store room (a new portion of Rolfe's basement). Note: Not counting the AVGN games and all games on the home computers prior to Windows, this is the first PC game the Nerd has ever reviewed.
119	Desert Bus	15:30	May 28, 2014	Desert Bus (from Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors) (Sega CD), Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Redacted (hack of original NES game) The Nerd looks at the unreleased Sega CD game Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, mainly focusing on the mini-game Desert Bus, which many claim to be even worse than Big Rigs. He criticizes the game for being so monotonous, as it takes 8 hours (in real time) to get from Tucson to Las Vegas in the game and that the player has the option of driving back and forth between the two locations but just to only earn points, with absolutely no way to pause the game. He also notes how there are no passengers in the bus the player is driving, that the scenery never really changes for the entire duration of the in-game trip, and that this mini-game was made in response to the controversy surrounding violent video games at the time the game was being made, resulting in an 'overly realistic' game. Not willing to waste his time on the game, he uses a clamp to hold the A button down so that the bus keeps driving but then finds out that because the bus veers slightly to the right, the player cannot ignore the game at all. The Nerd becomes so frustrated by the game, believing that he had failed in his 10-year mission to warn the world about shitty games due to the fact that many others have played this game (so much so that there is even a fan-made adaptation of the game for the Atari 2600) and suffered through it, that he announces that he is retiring. A brief montage of moments from previous Nerd videos plays before the Nerd decides to look at one more game; Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Redaction. As it turns out, this game, which is a hack of the original NES game, improves on a lot of the issues that the Nerd had with the game when he first reviewed the game 10 years ago, though he notes that certain annoying parts of the game, like having to collect hearts to buy items and invisible floors, are still there. Still, he notes that the improvements made here are 'a good start'. While the townspeople in the original version of the game only gave cryptic riddles that did not help in any way, the Redaction version of the game actually has them giving helpful advice, some of which the Nerd had never knew until that time, like how Dracula's nail could be use to break barrier blocks. Also, the day to night transitions are much faster and are not as interrupting of the gameplay as they were in the original game. After seeing a text box that gives away the answer to how to pass through the one wall (which he had said was the most cryptic part of the game), he decides not to retire after all as he realizes that the 'word of the Nerd' has indeed been heard. The video ends with him realizing that it is now time for him to 'take things further' and do something to top everything he has done so far. Note: Ten year anniversary of the AVGN.

Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014)

Main article: Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie

At the end of the Spielberg Games review, it was implied that E.T. would be reviewed in The Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie. Eventually, at TooManyGames 2011 and Magfest 2012, Rolfe confirmed that he will review E.T. in the film. E.T. programmer, Howard Scott Warshaw, will also make an appearance in the film.

Related videos

Episode name	Length	Release date	Notes
Toilet Tuesday	0:48	August 27, 2006	As part of ScrewAttack's Toilet Tuesday series, this is a parody of the Nintendo 64 Kid, an internet meme.
The Anger Begins	1:28	September 29, 2006	This is a 1988 home video which contains footage of a young Rolfe getting angry at his Super Mario Bros. game on his birthday.
Wii Salute (History of Video Game Wars)	4:49	November 19, 2006	The Nerd reenacts the competition between video game consoles (mainly the competition between Nintendo and Sega). At the end he claims to support Nintendo's success with their Wii console.
Top 10 Angry Video Game Nerd Moments of 2006	4:08	December 31, 2006	The top ten best moments from the 2006 episodes are featured on Screwattack.com.
DuckTales (Video Game Vault, a ScrewAttack featurette)	1:53	February 10, 2007	DuckTales (NES). This is a positive review for ScrewAttack's Video Game Vault series.
The Best and Worst Gaming Peripherals (ScrewAttack Top 10 Episode)	7:30	May 8, 2007	The Nerd makes a brief appearance on the fourth worst video game peripheral to talk about the Power Glove again.
A Very Nerdy Non-Canonical Captain S Christmas	15:52	August 4, 2007	Home Alone (NES). Wrath of the Black Manta (NES) is also heavily featured in the Captain S action sequences, but it is not reviewed by the Nerd. Because Captain S is considered family friendly, the Nerd's usual foul language was greatly toned-down for this episode, though he does swear at the end (bleeped out with a sound effect from Super Mario Bros.).
Top Ten Nerd Moments 2007	9:23	January 1, 2008	The top ten best moments from the 2007 episodes are featured on Cinemassacre.com. 10. Nintendo Power spoof (Nintendo Power) 9. Grading the grammar and spelling of the end title screen of Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters: Follow-Up) 8. Getting frustrated at constantly dying and imitating the death screen image of Silver Surfer crying (Silver Surfer) 7. Fighting Frankenstein's Monster with the Super Scope (Halloween) 6. Literally "eating his shorts" (The Simpsons) 5. Destroying the 32-X (Sega 32-X) 4. Destroying the game in the style of The Addams Family (Fester's Quest) 3. His "war" with the game "Die Hard (Die Hard) 2. Fighting Bugs Bunny (Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout) 1. Destroying the VHS copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (At the time, this video was only available on ScrewAttack's website).
Nostalgia Critic - Nerd Rant	2:15	April 18, 2008	Film reviewer Doug Walker, the The Nostalgia Critic, issues a video ultimatum to the Nerd on his website, starting their storyline feud.
Nostalgia Critic - Nerd Rant 2	4:47	April 19, 2008	The Nostalgia Critic escalates his feud with the Nerd.
Nostalgia Critic - Nerd Rant 3	2:52	April 23, 2008	The feud continues.
AVGN responds to the Nostalgia Critic!	2:02	June 12, 2008	The Nerd responds to the Nostalgia Critic.
Nerd Challenge	2:38	June 15, 2008	The Nostalgia Critic challenges the Nerd to review a low grade movie.
The Battle of Epic Proportions	4:26	June 29, 2008	The Nerd and the Nostalgia Critic meet for the first time and, along with Captain S, get into a three way brawl. The fight ends with a temporary truce: the Nerd agrees to review a low grade movie and the Critic agrees to review a low grade video game.
AVGN: E3 recap 2008	5:32	July 19, 2008	The Nerd goes to E3 and recaps some of his favorite games.
AVGN: PROMO – Deadly Towers: Special Episode	2:26	July 20, 2008	The Nerd challenges viewers to write an episode for an upcoming review of Deadly Towers for the NES.
Ricky 1 Review	7:28	July 28, 2008	Ricky 1 (movie) The Nerd reviewing a film, per his agreement with the Nostalgia Critic.
Video Game Review	12:16	August 3, 2008	Bebe's Kids (SNES) The Nostalgia Critic reviewing a video game, per his agreement with the Nerd. Kyle Justin cameos performing an alternate of the AVGN theme. The video ends with the Critic reinstating the feud.
Piece of Meat	3:59	August 12, 2008	The Nerd is featured in a music video parody by Cinevore Studios of the Britney Spears single "Piece of Me".
NC Vs. AVGN: Last Showdown	4:26	September 24, 2008	The Nerd challenges the Critic to a final battle. The Critic travels by map to meet the Nerd for the final battle which is announced to be on October 10, 2008.
Chronologically Confused About AC/DC	5:19	September 30, 2008	The Nerd rants about the inconsistency of available songs on the band's international albums and those in its native Australia.
AVGN Vs. NC: The Final Battle	7:18	October 10, 2008	The final battle takes place in the Nerd's room. Many scenes are parody references to films and games, including The Matrix, Street Fighter and Star Wars. Super Mecha Death Christ and the Nintendo suit from the Super Mario Bros. 3 review also make an appearance. Rolfe later listed the Nostalgia Critic at #2 on his list of the top 10 unwanted guests.
James Rolfe – Meet the Nerd!	3:13	October 29, 2008	Rolfe is interviewed by GameZombie.tv.
Frankenstein Outtake	0:30	November 4, 2008	This is an outtake from the AVGN Halloween special of Frankenstein. In this outtake, Rolfe sings part of the Muppet Babies theme song.
Top 10 AVGN Moments of 2008	12:48	February 26, 2009	The top ten best moments from the 2008 episodes are featured on Screwattack.com. 10. Complaining about the huge AC Adaptor for the ColecoVision (Double Vision) 09. Getting confused as to why Superman has to go to the stock market (Superman Part I) 08. Listening to the pause music (Battletoads) 07. Literally dropping "F-bombs" (CD-i Part III) 06. Complaining about the irritating voice in the Connect-the-Dots game (Bible Games) 05. Fighting the Joker (Batman Part II) 04. Getting shocked to see the game he is playing say, "Kill all babies" (Bible Games) 03. Playing "The Count" on the Commodore Vic-20 (Dracula) 02. Shouting profanity into the LaserScope (NES Accessories) 01. Fighting the possessed NES cartridge with Super Mega Death Christ (Super Mario Bros. 3)
My NES Collection	6:15	March 7, 2009	Rolfe gives an overview of his collection of NES games.
Mike and I playing Odyssey	5:53	April 27, 2009	Mike Matei comes up with ideas for the Odyssey review with Rolfe. They candidly play various games for the system.
One Year Anniversary Brawl	20:13	May 10, 2009	The Nerd, Nostalgia Critic, Nostalgia Chick, Justin, and various others from Channel Awesome and GameTrailers are featured in a brawl, which ends in a truce brokered by That Guy with the Glasses.
Atop the Fourth Wall, Episode 29: Wolverine: Adamantium Rage	17:50	May 15, 2009	Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (Sega Genesis) The Nerd Makes a brief cameo.
Critic and Nerd Joint Review	18:14	June 10, 2009	Following the advice of That Guy with the Glasses from the TGWTG Team Battle, the Nerd and Nostalgia Critic review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Making of the Coming Out of Their Shells Tour (1990). They both agree that this documentary about a TMNT rock band is even worse than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3. They are also baffled that the documentary portrays the Turtles as actual people, rather than the fictional characters they are, and criticize the poor costuming and animatronics. The show opens with the season 3 and 4 theme from ALF.
Ghostbusters Xbox 360 Review	6:46	August 13, 2009	Ghostbusters (Xbox 360) Rolfe reviews the new Ghostbusters game for the Xbox 360 as himself. The Nerd briefly appears at the start, but Rolfe explains to him that he is not needed for the video, as this Ghostbusters game is actually good, so he leaves.
Crazy Castle Outtake	4:42	August 20, 2009	This is an outtake from the AVGN Crazy Castle review. In this outtake, Rolfe has a hard time trying not to laugh while saying his lines.
The History of Super Mecha Death Christ	6:57	November 25, 2009	The history of Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 BC 4.0 Beta is revealed.
Top 10 AVGN Moments of 2009	11:50	February 11, 2010	Gametrailers.com features the top ten best AVGN episodes of 2009. 10. Ranting about the "beginners trap" (Super Pitfall!) 09. Questioning why Simon would eat a "porkchop" he just found lying inside a wall (Castlevania: Part II) 08. Complaining about a scene where the boss in the game orders the woman to remove her clothes (Plumbers Don't Wear Ties) 07. The Famicom turning into Optimus Prime (Transformers) 06. Defecating on the Atari Jaguar as if it were a toilet (Atari Jaguar: Part II) 05. His rampage at the end of the review (Moonwalker) 04. His failed plan to rack up a ton of lives (Terminator) 03. Destroying the game (Winter Games) 02. Fighting Bugs Bunny (Crazy Castle) 01. His rant about the bad Godzilla games (Godzilla)
Top 20 AVGN Rants	15:48	March 17, 2010	The Nerd picks his personal top 20 favorite rants, as he is taking his rest.
E3 2010: Nintendo Booth Tour	4:15	June 16, 2010	The Nerd visits the Nintendo booth at E3 2010 and briefly comments on Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii), The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii), and Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii).
E3 2010: Day 2	4:47	June 17, 2010	The Nerd visits other booths at E3 2010 and briefly comments on Mortal Kombat (PS3/360), Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (WiiWare/PSN/Xbox Live Arcade), Hard Corps: Uprising (PSN/Xbox Live Arcade), Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (PS3/360), Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (Xbox Live Arcade), Epic Mickey (Wii), and Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame (Wii/DS).
E3 2010: Day 3	5:21	June 18, 2010	The Nerd visits other booths at E3 2010 and briefly comments on Busy Scissors (Wii), GoldenEye 007 (Wii/DS), Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (PS3/360/PC/Wii/DS), Jurassic Park, Back to the Future: The Game, Resident Evil 5 (PlayStation Move), Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS), and Nintendogs + Cats (3DS).
Holiday Memories	13:30	December 7, 2010	The Nerd revisits the holiday specials from the past four years.
TMNT Tournament Fighter Challenge SNES	5:36	June 21, 2011	Rolfe and Matei take part in a challenge playing TMNT Tournament Fighter as part of the Turtle Tuesdays series.
Chronologically Confused About TMNT DVD’s	7:40	April 26, 2011	The Nerd rants about various issues with the DVD availability of both the 1987 and 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.
Ninja Baseball Bat Man	3:31	July 29, 2011	In a short episode that is not part of the main series, the Nerd reviews Ninja Baseball Bat Man (Arcade).
Family Game Funness	27:22	August 5, 2011	Rolfe and guest Pat Contri (Pat the NES Punk) play family-oriented NES games such as Pictionary, Bible Buffet, Family Feud and MTV's Remote Control. They attempt to play Battleship, but discover it is single player only.
River City Ransom	2:30	October 22, 2011	Nerd mini review from the 2nd Annual NES Marathon.
Nerd Memories: Contra	7:13	November 2, 2011	Contra (NES) Rolfe talks about his memories of playing and beating the original Contra. This special features him as himself, out of the nerd character.
Pop Fiction Episode 22: Cheetahmen II	11:08	March 23, 2012	The Nerd works with Pop Fiction to tackle Cheetahmen II.
Nerd Memories: Sonic	6:19	March 30, 2012	Sonic 1 (Sega Genesis), Sonic 2 (Sega Genesis), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Sonic 3 (Sega Genesis) Rolfe steps outside the Nerd character to recount some cherished memories of Sega's beloved Hedgehog, Sonic. He also admits that bad Sonic games are one of his biggest requests despite liking the ones he played so far. In episode 116 of AVGN, (Wish List Part 1) the Nerd mentioned that Sonic 2 made him buy a Sega Genesis.
Nerd Memories: Double Dragon	6:35	May 2, 2012	Double Dragon (NES), Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES), Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone (NES) Rolfe talks about his memories of playing the Double Dragon series.
Nerd Memories: Mortal Kombat	8:52	July 4, 2012	Mortal Kombat (SNES) and (Sega Genesis), Mortal Kombat II (SNES), Mortal Kombat 3 (SNES) Rolfe talks about his childhood memories of the original trilogy games of Mortal Kombat.
SNES Vs. Sega Genesis, Parts I, II	26:45 (combined)	August 13, 2012 (Part I) August 15, 2012 (Part II) August 17, 2012 (Combination video)	Rolfe talks about his experiences with the 16-bit Wars and the two consoles involved, the SNES and Genesis. He also included clips of a previous debate he did at age 11, and while his opinions stand, he decided to explain them more in-depth now that he is older and can be more constructive in his reasons. Framerate: Genesis wins Console Design: Genesis wins Backwards Compatibility: SNES wins Native Controllers: SNES wins Game Boxes: Genesis wins Graphics: SNES wins Sound Quality: SNES wins Games: SNES wins SNES wins over Genesis 5-3. Even though Rolfe still enjoyed both consoles and feels that they helped shape the console industry, he felt that the SNES naturally had improved over the Genesis due to technological advancements of a later time, with a more notable library of games for good measure (for the most part).
The Nerd's Anger Management	32:26	August 29, 2012	In this audio only video, the Nerd shows the viewer how to relax.
Nerd Memories: Killer Instinct	5:59	September 1, 2012	Killer Instinct (SNES) Killer Instinct 2 (Nintendo 64) Rolfe talks about when he saw and played Killer Instinct as a teenager.
Nerd Memories: Super Mario Kart	4:06	October 3, 2012	Super Mario Kart (SNES) Rolfe remembers when he first played Super Mario Kart.
Mike talks about the AVGN Experience	17:46	November 7, 2012	Matei discusses his involvement with the AVGN videos, and gives his outside perspective of AVGN and Rolfe's other films.
Magfest 2013 AVGN Panel	13:03	January 14, 2013 February 18, 2013 (YT)	Rolfe goes to Magfest 2013 and asks the audience several questions, re-enacts quotes from various AVGN episodes and allows them to play some video games that he reviewed.
The Roast of The Angry Video Game Nerd	1:12:45	August 2, 2013	Rolfe is featured in a parody of a Comedy Central Roast at Too Many Games 2013 where he is comically critiqued by other independent film makers and reviewers. Present at the event (either personally or via video): Justin Silverman, Doug Walker, The Nostalgia Critic, "Stuttering" Craig Skistimas, Pat "The NES Punk" Contri, Brent Black, Brett Vanderbrook (Captain S), Stephanie Yuhas, Matt Conant, Noah Houlihan, Fraser Agar, Keith Apicary and Newt Wallen.
AVGN: Top 10 Hardest NES Games	9:18	October 10, 2013	The first in a new series of clip collection vids.
AVGN: Top 10 Worst Video Game Control	16:16	November 1, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Moments the Nerd Lost His Mind	6:03	November 3, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Worst NES Games	7:55	November 7, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Most Epic Nerd Moments	22:24	November 10, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 20 Weirdest Video Game Moments	12:17	November 15, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 5 Worst NES Music	2:20	November 17, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 5 Worst Gaming Accessories	6:20	November 24, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Worst Video Game Consoles	10:16	November 27, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Nerd's Game Abuse	8:53	December 1, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Toughest Video Game Jumps	7:47	December 5, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Nerd's Unexpected Moments	12:40	December 8, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Most Unfair Gaming Moments	5:36	December 13, 2013	Clip collection vid.
Game Theory: What's Wrong with the AVGN?	10:24	December 14, 2013	In an episode of Game Theory the Nerd is psychologically analyzed.
AVGN: Top 5 Bad Game Movie-Clips	7:51	December 15, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Worst Video Game Endings	7:31	December 26, 2013	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 5 Most Ingenious Nerd Ideas	3:41	January 2, 2014	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Problems With Games	12:33	January 8, 2014	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Most Hated Weapons or Items	6:50	January 15, 2014	Clip collection vid.
The Worst EVER! - Villains feat. brentalfloss and the Angry Video Game Nerd	6:13	January 18, 2014	brentalfloss, the Nerd (out of character) and others offer their opinions on the worst video game villains.
AVGN: Top 5 Musical Episodes	7:45	January 22, 2014	Clip collection vid.
AVGN: Top 10 Nerd's Unwanted Guests	15:51	January 29, 2014	The last of the clip collections.
Abandoned AVGN Episode: Secret Scout (NES)	4:32	April 30, 2014	An unfinished review. Included on the AVGN Volume 6 DVD.
The Original Nerd Room	4:15	May 20, 2014	James Rolfe returns to his childhood room where he filmed the first two AVGN episodes almost ten years earlier and gives a brief overview.
Bayou Billy/The Punisher - AVGN & Pat the NES Punk	17:34	July 3, 2014	A special episode where Pat argues to the Nerd that LJN released a few passable games while the Nerd argues that even Konami released a few bad ones.

DVDs

These DVDs have not been sold in stores and are only available via the ScrewAttack store.

DVD name	Release date	Episodes
The Angry Video Game Nerd: Volume 1	November 18, 2007	Disc 1: "Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "The Karate Kid", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Back to the Future", "McKids", "Wally Bear and the NO! Gang", "Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu", "Top Gun", "Double Dragon 3" Disc 2: "Friday the 13th", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "The Power Glove", "Chronologically Confused: Movie/Game Sequels", "Rocky", "Bible Games"
The Angry Video Game Nerd: Volume 2	November 15, 2008	Disc 1: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" (Video Destruction Scene), "Atari 5200", "Ghostbusters" (all three parts), "Spider-Man", "Sega CD", "Sega 32x", "Silver Surfer", "Die Hard", "Independence Day", "The Simpsons" Disc 2: "Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout", "Atari Porn", "Nintendo Power", "Fester's Quest", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Halloween", "Dragon's Lair", "An Angry Video Nerd Christmas Carol" (both parts)
The Angry Video Game Nerd: Volume 3	December 12, 2009	Disc 1: "Chronologically Confused 2: The Legend of Zelda Timeline", "Rambo", "Virtual Boy", "The Wizard of Oz", "DoubleVision" (both parts), "The Wizard & Super Mario Bros. 3", "NES Accessories", "Indiana Jones Trilogy" Disc 2: "Star Trek", "Superman", "Superman 64", "Batman" (both parts), "Deadly Towers", "Battletoads", "Dick Tracy", "Dracula", "Frankenstein" Disc 3: "CD-i Games" (all three parts), "Bible Games 2"
The Angry Video Game Nerd: Volume 4	December 15, 2010	Disc 1: "Michael Jackson's Moonwalker", "Milon's Secret Castle", "Atari Jaguar" (both parts), "Metal Gear", "Odyssey", "X-Men", "Terminator", "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", "Transformers" Disc 2: "Mario is Missing!", "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties", "Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle", "Godzilla", "Castlevania" (all four parts), "Wayne's World" Disc 3: "Super Pitfall!", "Little Red Hood", "Winter Games"
The Angry Video Game Nerd: Volume 5	December 9, 2011	Disc 1: "Street Fighter 2010", "Ninja Gaiden", "Hydlide", "Swordquest", "Pong Consoles", "Action 52", "Cheetahmen", "Game Glitches" Disc 2: "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link", "Nintendo Days Re-Revisited", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Re-Revisited", "Lester the Unlikely", "How the Nerd Stole Christmas", "Mike's Game Glitches" Disc 3: Special features
The Angry Video Game Nerd: Volume 6	December 4, 2012	Disc 1: "Day Dreamin' Davey", "Star Wars Games", "R.O.B. the Robot", "Spielberg Games", "Kid Kool", "Nintendo World Championshops 1990", "Dark Castle" (in HD) Disc 2: "Bible Games 3" (in HD), "Schwarzenegger Games" (in HD), "Contra Memories", "Bubble Bobble", "Secret Scout: Aborted AVGN Review" (DVD exclusive), commentaries, You Know What's Bullshit (most episodes, 2007–present) Disc 3: "The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode: Barbie", plus other features
The Angry Video Game Nerd: Volume 7	December 13, 2013	Disc 1: "Ghosts n' Goblins", "Atari Sports", "Ikari Warriors", "Toxic Crusaders", "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Tiger Electronic Games", "Alien 3" Disc 2: "SNES vs. Genesis Debate", Commentary of the year, Original Nerd Room 2004, Current Nerd Room Tour 2013, Outtakes, Magfest 2013, SGC 2013, TooManyGames 2013 Disc 3: AVGN Countdowns.

References

General

• Each AVGN video is located at:
  • Official AVGN YouTube Channel (2006–present)
  • GameTrailers – ScrewAttack section (2007–present)
  • Cinemassacre AVGN section (2004–present)
  • ScrewAttack – AVGN section (2009–present)
• Post by James Rolfe about the seasons list

Specific

External links

• AVGN Full Episode List at Cinemassacre Productions