The Best Episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd
Every episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd!
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.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Angry Video Game Nerd" is "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!", rated 9.1/10 from 468 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!" aired on 6/21/2009 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing".
9.1/10 468 votes#1 - Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 2009-06-21
Watch as the Nerd tackles one of the worst games of all time. "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties" for the 3DO. A strange odyssey of a game consisting of still images, poor editing, poor direction, no story and worst of all, no game play! What were they thinking?
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9.0/10 375 votes#2 - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 2014-03-18
Due to popular demand, the Nerd breaks away from console games and decides to review a PC game from the current millennium. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing - more like Over the Road Disgracing.
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8.8/10 338 votes#3 - N.E.S. Accessories!
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2008-05-14
The Nerd reviews all the crap Nintendo tried to market along with the NES. Zapper guns, LaserScopes, Roll'n Rocker, and other accessories one needs to look "cool" while playing video games.
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8.6/10 390 votes#4 - Bible Games (NES & SNES)
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2006-12-23
It’s Christmas, so the Nerd sees how bad a number of unlicensed religious-themed games were on both the NES and SNES, including Super 3D Noah’s Ark – a game built on the same game engine as Wolfenstein 3D.
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8.6/10 366 votes#5 - Superman 64
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 2008-07-08
The Nerd complies to his fan requests to review Superman 64 which he decided to pull everyone's leg by reviewing the Superman game for Commodore 64. His main complaint is the load time takes forever and he finds the Commodore controller to be so stiff that he resulted in using an alternate controller. After that he does review Superman 64 for the Nintendo 64 as the fans wished him to do so in the first place. Once he dived into the first level he already finds it to be terrible when all you do is fly through rings under a short time limit. When it comes to video game...
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8.6/10 286 votes#6 - Action 52
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 2010-04-30
After getting so many request to review Action 52, the Nerd has no choice but to give what his fans want. The game is an unlicensed NES game compiled with 52 games. This seem to be a cool idea, until the Nerd discovers what those games are. So he does a marathon run on the first 51 games and every single one either has characters dying in mid-air, characters too small to identify, too many space shooter genre games, games that make no sense, enemies that don't die, games that keep crashing, & whole bunch of other disastrous elements. After being tortured by only 51...
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8.6/10 291 votes#7 - R.O.B. the Robot
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 2011-03-03
The 100th episode has arrived! Nintendo's first accessory meets the Nerd! Featuring music by John Jennings Boyd and Lachlan Barclay.
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8.5/10 396 votes#8 - Friday the 13th (NES)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2006-10-13
The Nerd prepares for Halloween by taking a look at why the NES game based on Friday the 13th is more frustrating than scary.
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8.5/10 332 votes#9 - Ghostbusters (NES)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2007-02-27
Part 1 of 3. If there’s something bad, and you don’t like it, then you need the Nerd. He’s soon tackling something worse than ghosts, when he reviews Ghostbusters for the NES.
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8.5/10 288 votes#10 - Batman: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2008-07-22
AVGN gets dressed up like Batman to review a series of games based on the Caped Crusader. First up, a Commodore 64 game, which sucks and is given "the Bat punishment." While he praises the NES adaptation of the 1989 movie and the SNES adaptation of Batman Returns, not to mention the SNES game of the Animated Series, he deems the Atari Linx and Sega CD games to be crap, but the worst of all is Batman Forever on SNES. As if all that weren't bad enough, one of Batman's arch-nemeses pays the Bat-Nerd a visit.
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8.5/10 237 votes#11 - Back to the Future Re-Revisited
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2010-09-03
The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews the Back to the Future video games and also revisits Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES), Top Gun (NES), Back to the Future (NES), and Back to the Future Part II & III (NES).
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8.5/10 250 votes#12 - Star Wars
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 2011-02-03
The Nerd has a bad feeling about this!
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8.5/10 204 votes#13 - The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 2011-07-06
Follow the Nerd as he makes an episode from start to finish!
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8.5/10 276 votes#14 - AVGN Games!
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 2013-11-20
In an ironic change of pace, the Nerd decides to review video games based on himself. Yeah, over the years, an abundance of AVGN games have been created independently by aspiring game designers. As a special tribute, the Nerd gives them each their 15 seconds of fame.
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8.5/10 197 votes#15 - Game Boy Accessories
Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 2017-08-15
Another selection of accessories receives a good thorough look from the Nerd. This time, its a collection of accessories for the Game Boy, including good ones – like the Game Boy Camera and the Game Boy Printer – bad ones, and even a patented one that was aimed for use in hospitals.
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8.5/10 220 votes#16 - EarthBound
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 2018-04-17
When the Nerd finds a copy of Nintendo Power exuding a belief that EarthBound was a rotten game, he later finds reviews that show how glamorous the game was and reveals a fanbase for a title he now has to play. So he does – via the Super NES Classic Edition – and provides an insight about the game's various flaws but well thought-out gameplay.
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8.4/10 379 votes#17 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2006-10-31
It’s Halloween, and the Nerd isn’t really that scared when he reviews the NES game based on the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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8.4/10 324 votes#18 - Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2007-08-07
The review starts off in the same fashion as a Looney Tunes short film. The Nerd reviews Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout which is nothing more than a poor man's Super Mario Bros. style slide scroller 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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8.4/10 292 votes#19 - Atari Porn
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2007-08-22
The Nerd does a brief history lecture on General George Armstrong Custard, only cause he's about to review one of the adult theme games for the Atari 2600. The game in general is "Custard's Revenge" 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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8.4/10 293 votes#20 - Nintendo Power Memories
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2007-09-04
The Nerd does a tribute to the magazine Nintendo Power by showing selected ads that were made exclusive to the magazine, the posters, the walk-through content, and the fan letters that are answered by 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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8.4/10 257 votes#21 - Cheetahmen
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2010-06-06
The Nerd reviews the 52nd game on Action 52 titled the Cheetah Men, which came with it's own single volume comic and a preview to a line of action figures that never got made. It looked like the best game cause all of the efforts seem to be poured into it the most compared to the other games. However the game isn't any better than the other 51 games. It suffers from unusual glitches and the attack moves are worthless to certain enemies. After finishing all 52 games, the Nerd decided to play the unreleased Cheetah Men 2 game. It's so rare that only 1500 cartridges were...
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8.4/10 253 votes#22 - Tiger Electronic Games
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 2013-09-06
After clearing up the 7-year mystery of Taxman, the Nerd looks at an abundance of Tiger Electronic handheld games. You remember those, right? Basically a poor man's Game Boy? But those were only the beginning...
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8.4/10 285 votes#23 - Hong Kong 97
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 2015-03-26
The Nerd stumbles across a super rare Super Famicom game that is said to be the worst game ever made. He's reviewed some horrible titles before, like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, CrazyBus, Big Rigs, Desert Bus and Superman 64 to name a few, but this takes this crap factor to a whole new level.
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8.4/10 238 votes#24 - Home Alone Games
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 2018-12-14
The Angry Video Game Nerd plays the Home Alone games with Macaulay Culkin! Sure, the Home Alone movie games have been covered before on AVGN, but never so many, AND with Mack himself.
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8.3/10 360 votes#25 - Chronologically Confused About Bad Movie and Video Game Sequel Titles
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2006-11-28
The Nerd discusses the naming of sequels for various movie and video game franchises he has seen or played.
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