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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...
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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 471 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/21/2009. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing".

  • Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!
    9.1/10471 votes
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    #1 - Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 6/21/2009

    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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  • Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
    9.0/10381 votes
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    #2 - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 3/18/2014

    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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  • N.E.S. Accessories!
    8.8/10339 votes
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    #3 - N.E.S. Accessories!

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2008

    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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  • Bible Games (NES & SNES)
    8.6/10393 votes
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    #4 - Bible Games (NES & SNES)

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/23/2006

    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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  • Superman 64
    8.6/10370 votes
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    #5 - Superman 64

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 7/8/2008

    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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  • Action 52
    8.6/10293 votes
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    #6 - Action 52

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 4/30/2010

    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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  • R.O.B. the Robot
    8.6/10295 votes
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    #7 - R.O.B. the Robot

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/3/2011

    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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  • AVGN Games!
    8.6/10279 votes
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    #8 - AVGN Games!

    Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/2013

    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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  • Friday the 13th (NES)
    8.5/10401 votes
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    #9 - Friday the 13th (NES)

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/13/2006

    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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  • Ghostbusters (NES)
    8.5/10335 votes
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    #10 - Ghostbusters (NES)

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/27/2007

    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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  • Batman: Part 1
    8.5/10293 votes
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    #11 - Batman: Part 1

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 7/22/2008

    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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  • Back to the Future Re-Revisited
    8.5/10241 votes
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    #12 - Back to the Future Re-Revisited

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 9/3/2010

    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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  • Star Wars
    8.5/10254 votes
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    #13 - Star Wars

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 2/3/2011

    The Nerd has a bad feeling about this!

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  • Game Boy Accessories
    8.5/10201 votes
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    #14 - Game Boy Accessories

    Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 8/15/2017

    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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  • EarthBound
    8.5/10223 votes
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    #15 - EarthBound

    Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 4/17/2018

    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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  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)
    8.4/10383 votes
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    #16 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/31/2006

    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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  • Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
    8.4/10331 votes
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    #17 - Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 8/7/2007

    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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  • Atari Porn
    8.4/10295 votes
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    #18 - Atari Porn

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 8/22/2007

    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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  • Nintendo Power Memories
    8.4/10297 votes
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    #19 - Nintendo Power Memories

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 9/4/2007

    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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  • Cheetahmen
    8.4/10263 votes
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    #20 - Cheetahmen

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 6/6/2010

    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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  • The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode
    8.4/10207 votes
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    #21 - The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 7/6/2011

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

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  • Tiger Electronic Games
    8.4/10255 votes
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    #22 - Tiger Electronic Games

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 9/6/2013

    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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  • Hong Kong 97
    8.4/10290 votes
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    #23 - Hong Kong 97

    Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2015

    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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  • Home Alone Games
    8.4/10245 votes
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    #24 - Home Alone Games

    Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 12/14/2018

    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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  • Chronologically Confused About Bad Movie and Video Game Sequel Titles
    8.3/10362 votes
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    #25 - Chronologically Confused About Bad Movie and Video Game Sequel Titles

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/28/2006

    The Nerd discusses the naming of sequels for various movie and video game franchises he has seen or played.

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