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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 4 Episode 10 - Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!
    9.1/10(509 votes)

    #1 - Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!

    S4:E10

    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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  2. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 8 Episode 1 - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
    9.0/10(423 votes)

    #2 - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

    S8:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 6 - N.E.S. Accessories!
    8.8/10(370 votes)

    #3 - N.E.S. Accessories!

    S3:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 5 Episode 11 - R.O.B. the Robot
    8.7/10(326 votes)

    #4 - R.O.B. the Robot

    S5:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
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  5. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 17 - Bible Games (NES & SNES)
    8.6/10(415 votes)

    #5 - Bible Games (NES & SNES)

    S1:E17

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 10 - Superman 64
    8.6/10(400 votes)

    #6 - Superman 64

    S3:E10

    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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  7. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 11 - Batman: Part 1
    8.6/10(317 votes)

    #7 - Batman: Part 1

    S3:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 5 Episode 1 - Action 52
    8.6/10(323 votes)

    #8 - Action 52

    S5:E1

    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...

    Director:Unknown
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  9. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 7 Episode 9 - AVGN Games!
    8.6/10(306 votes)

    #9 - AVGN Games!

    S7:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 12 - Friday the 13th (NES)
    8.5/10(431 votes)

    #10 - Friday the 13th (NES)

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Unknown
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  11. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 4 - Ghostbusters (NES)
    8.5/10(363 votes)

    #11 - Ghostbusters (NES)

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 5 Episode 5 - Back to the Future Re-Revisited
    8.5/10(262 votes)

    #12 - Back to the Future Re-Revisited

    S5:E5

    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).

    Director:Unknown
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  13. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 11 Episode 4 - Game Boy Accessories
    8.5/10(227 votes)

    #13 - Game Boy Accessories

    S11:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 12 Episode 1 - EarthBound
    8.5/10(253 votes)

    #14 - EarthBound

    S12:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 20 Episode 5 - Batman: Dark Tomorrow
    8.5/10(29 votes)

    #15 - Batman: Dark Tomorrow

    S20:E5

    Angry Video Game Nerd episode 234: Batman: Dark Tomorrow (GameCube). The Joker is BACK and forces The Nerd to take on Kemco's notorious GameCube action-adventure, one of the most reviled Batman games ever made thanks to its broken controls, confusing level design, and infamous ending.

    Director:James D. Rolfe
    Writer:James D. Rolfe

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  16. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 13 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)
    8.4/10(410 votes)

    #16 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 14 - Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
    8.4/10(360 votes)

    #17 - Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout

    S2:E14

    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 ...

    Director:Unknown
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  18. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 15 - Atari Porn
    8.4/10(316 votes)

    #18 - Atari Porn

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 16 - Nintendo Power Memories
    8.4/10(320 votes)

    #19 - Nintendo Power Memories

    S2:E16

    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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  20. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 12 - Batman: Part 2
    8.4/10(302 votes)

    #20 - Batman: Part 2

    S3:E12

    The Joker holds AVGN hostage and forces him to play the NES, Game Boy and Sega versions of Return of the Joker. They all suck. It enrages the Bat-Nerd so much, he breaks free and fights off the Joker, and then, as a final Bat punishment, he shoves every single bad Batman game up the Clown Prince of Crime's ass.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 5 Episode 2 - Cheetahmen
    8.4/10(287 votes)

    #21 - Cheetahmen

    S5:E2

    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...

    Director:Unknown
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  22. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 5 Episode 10 - Star Wars
    8.4/10(276 votes)

    #22 - Star Wars

    S5:E10

    The Nerd has a bad feeling about this!

    Director:Unknown
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  23. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 6 Episode 2 - The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode
    8.4/10(230 votes)

    #23 - The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode

    S6:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
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  24. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 7 Episode 7 - Tiger Electronic Games
    8.4/10(281 votes)

    #24 - Tiger Electronic Games

    S7:E7

    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...

    Director:Unknown
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  25. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 9 Episode 1 - Hong Kong 97
    8.4/10(322 votes)

    #25 - Hong Kong 97

    S9:E1

    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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Best Episodes Summary

"Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!" is the best rated episode of "The Angry Video Game Nerd". It scored 9.1/10 based on 509 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/21/2009. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing".