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The Angry Video Game Nerd is an adult web television series of comedic retrogaming video reviews created by and starring James Rolfe. The show's format revolves around his commentary and review of older, but unsuccessful video games which are deemed to be of particularly low-quality, unfair difficulty or poor design. The series began as a feature on YouTube and later became a program on ScrewAttack Entertainment before moving to GameTrailers exclusively. The show was renamed The Angry Video Game Nerd to prevent any trademark issues with Nintendo and due to the fact he started reviewing games from non-Nintendo consoles such as those made by Atari and Sega. Rolfe's character, "The Nerd" is a short-tempered and foul-mouthed video game fanatic. He derives comic appeal from excessive and inventive use of anger, profanity, and habitual consumption of alcohol while reviewing video games.
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Episode 1 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Part 1
Release Date: 2007-01-25The Nerd tackles his first movie review and sits down to watch the third entry in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film trilogy – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Parts 1 & 2 included.
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Episode 2 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Part 2
Release Date: 2007-01-25The Nerd tackles his first movie review and sits down to watch the third entry in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film trilogy – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Parts 1 & 2 included.
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Episode 3 - Atari 5200
Release Date: 2007-02-13The Nerd finds attempts to play the Atari 5200. However, after struggling to set up the console, he is unable to play any games as both the standard Atari 5200 joystick and Trak-Ball controllers don’t work.
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Episode 4 - Ghostbusters (NES)
Release Date: 2007-02-27Part 1 of 3. If there’s something bad, and you don’t like it, then you need the Nerd. He’s soon tackling something worse than ghosts, when he reviews Ghostbusters for the NES.
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Episode 5 - Ghostbusters: Follow-Up (NES, Atari 2600, SMS) (Part 2)
Release Date: 2007-03-20Part 2 of 3. The Nerd is once more being called out to bust down more bad games based on Ghostbusters, as he looks at those made for the NES, Atari 2600 and Sega Master System.
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Episode 6 - Ghostbusters: Conclusion (NES & Genesis) (Part 3)
Release Date: 2007-04-03Part 3 of 3. It’s a third outing for the Nerd against more bad games based on Ghostbusters, as he reviews two more made for the NES and Genesis.
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Episode 7 - Spider-Man (Atari 2600, NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance)
Release Date: 2007-04-17The Nerd has his hands full, swatting down bad video games based upon comic book character Spider-Man, created for the Atari 2600, NES, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance.
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Episode 8 - Sega CD
Release Date: 2007-05-02The Nerd reveals how some console add-ons were never worth owning, as he takes a look at the Sega CD – an add-on for the Sega Genesis – and finds out what the games made for it are like.
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Episode 9 - Sega 32X
Release Date: 2007-05-15The Nerd finds out what another add-on for the Sega Genesis is like – the 32X – and tries out some of the games that were made for it, including Primal Rage and Doom.
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Episode 10 - Silver Surfer (NES)
Release Date: 2007-06-05Another superhero has had a bad game made about them, so the Nerd delves in to find out just what it’s like to play Silver Surfer for the NES.
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Episode 11 - Die Hard
Release Date: 2007-06-19The Nerd fins the front cover of the Die Hard game to be a little controversial due to it depicting a skyscraper being blown up which he advices that we all know what it reminds us of. Though he puts that issue aside and starts playing the game on his NES. While the terrorists in the game are able to take 3/4's of John McClain's health away, the Nerd's biggest complaint for the game is the dark areas that only light up when you enter the area which makes it inconvenient when there's a terrorist lurking in that area and you don't know it unless you go into that area. ...
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Episode 12 - Independence Day
Release Date: 2007-07-04The Nerd reviews Independence Day for Playstation 1 and it's basically an average flight simulator like any other video game that involves flight simulator. The main complaint the Nerd has for the game is that objects don't appear until you're a few feet in front of them. While getting items on the ground is suicide cause it's hard to not touch the ground without taking some damage. The Nerd concludes the game with wishing everyone a great Fourth of July but advices everyone to stay away from the Independence Day game.
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Episode 13 - The Simpsons
Release Date: 2007-07-17The Nerd reviews Bart vs. The Space Mutants and Bart vs. The World, two licensed Simpsons games for the NES. He cites bad controls and ludicrous concepts as the games' low points.
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Episode 14 - Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
Release Date: 2007-08-07The review starts off in the same fashion as a Looney Tunes short film. The Nerd reviews Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout which is nothing more than a poor man's Super Mario Bros. style slide scroller game. While the game is generous of providing extra lives, it however suffers from being unorganized by having breakable blocks placed over bottom-less pits and enemies that can hurt you even if you hurt them. Upon reviewing the game the Nerd is visited by Bugs Bunny himself, which the Nerd gives out his hatred by beaten the daylights out of the poor rabbit while trying to ...
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Episode 15 - Atari Porn
Release Date: 2007-08-22The Nerd does a brief history lecture on General George Armstrong Custard, only cause he's about to review one of the adult theme games for the Atari 2600. The game in general is "Custard's Revenge" which like the other Atari adult games was unlicensed and the Atari company had nothing to do with them. And just for fun, the Nerd reviews other Atari adult games only to find that each one either made no sense in how the game play is mastered or how the ideas for the games looked like they were thought up by sick minded game developers.
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Episode 16 - Nintendo Power Memories
Release Date: 2007-09-04The Nerd does a tribute to the magazine Nintendo Power by showing selected ads that were made exclusive to the magazine, the posters, the walk-through content, and the fan letters that are answered by the staff. The Nerd praises it for being the earliest way to know how to beat the toughest Nintendo games. Before the Internet became more common to use the only way to know how to beat a game is by magazine subscription. Besides the magazine being very nostalgic, the Nerd also points out some things that he finds absurd like how the posters are hard to take out, the ...
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Episode 17 - Fester's Quest
Release Date: 2007-09-18Dressed as every member of the Addams Family, the Nerd reviews Fester's Quest, an overly long and overly difficult game that he deems is not worth the effort. He destroys it with Gomez's train and moves on to the movie licensed game on Sega. Another creepy and kooky game.
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Episode 18 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Release Date: 2007-10-10The Nerd goes to a small yard sale run by a hillbilly. All of the games on sale were all bad ones. The one that caught the Nerd's attention was the Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the Atari 2600. After negotiating with the red neck, the Nerd got the game along with another rare 2600 game for free. The Nerd returns home with his newly bought 2600 games and starts to play the Leatherface game first. Which he immediately sees why it's such a rare game, is because the object of the game is to cut people down with a chainsaw. While the graphics aren't too detail it's not as ...
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Episode 19 - Halloween
Release Date: 2007-10-31Sometime after the Nerd escape from Leatherface, the crazed fan, and the red neck. He's now safe at home, but isn't in a good mood cause he has to baby sit two kids he doesn't like. In the mean time, he decides to review an Atari 2600 game which happens to be a game adaption of John Carpenter's Halloween. The game the Nerd got as a bonus when he purchased the Leatherface game from the crazed red neck that knocked him out with a banjo. The game is a complete opposite to the Leatherface game, cause you don't control Myers in the game but instead you control Laurie ...
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Episode 20 - Dragon's Lair
Release Date: 2007-11-20Due to popular demand, the Nerd reviews Dragon's Lair. Not the arcade classic, but the poorly programmed and extremely difficult NES version. He can barely make it past the first screen due to his character dying with one hit and a dragon that's nearly impossible to kill.
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Episode 21 - An Angry Nerd Christmas Carol: Part 1
Release Date: 2007-12-18The Nerd receives a crappy present which is a NES game of Home Alone 2. So he decides to review the game only to find the choice of enemies and the layouts of the levels to be very terrible. His main complaint about the game is that some platforms you can't get on and there are some enemies you can't stun. After he can't take the game anymore he rants on about how he hates poorly made games and how he hates the holiday of Christmas in the same mannerism as Scrooge from the Christmas Carol. After shaking his game shelf a Sega Genesis game comes off the top shelf and ...
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Episode 22 - An Angry Nerd Christmas Carol: Part 2
Release Date: 2007-12-24The Nerd is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past who shows him his childhood of when he played the NES as a kid and when he first got his Super Nintendo. After reliving his youth, he's now being greeted by the Ghost of Christmas Present who shows what him what he's about to review later on which turns out to be Shaq Fu for the Super Nintendo. As the Nerd watches himself play the bad game he sees how frustrated he himself gets from playing a poorly marketed game that basically just has Shaq placed in a poorly executed fighting game. The game was so bad that a website...
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Episode 23 - Chronologically Confused About the Legend of Zelda Timeline
Release Date: 2008-01-08The Nerd does a review on the time-line of Legend of Zelda in the same fashion as his previous review on confusing titles to sequels of movies and games. For this one he talks about the Zelda games made up to the year 2008. And tries to piece together how each of them fit as one whole time-line. Only to discover that most of them are less connected than the other. Which in the end he concludes that the franchise doesn't need to have a well explained time-line when each game is worth playing without knowing what occurred in any of the other games.
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Episode 24 - Rambo
Release Date: 2008-01-22With the upcoming release of the fourth Rambo movie, the Nerd reviews Rambo for the NES. The game suffers from four problems which are: confusing navigation on the landscapes, pointless chat options, unnecessary use of animals as enemies, and the idea of the screen blinking red when low on health. The Nerd also reviews some other Rambo games but couldn't find a single one that actually is fun to play. He feels the games should of taken advice from Contra on how to make a commando theme game more fun.