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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 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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  1. 9.1/10(485 votes)

    #1 - Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!

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    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. 9.0/10(395 votes)

    #2 - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

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    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.

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  3. 8.8/10(353 votes)

    #3 - N.E.S. Accessories!

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    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.

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  4. 8.7/10(309 votes)

    #4 - R.O.B. the Robot

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    S5:E11

    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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  5. 8.6/10(409 votes)

    #5 - Bible Games (NES & SNES)

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    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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  6. 8.6/10(384 votes)

    #6 - Superman 64

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    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. 8.6/10(303 votes)

    #7 - Action 52

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    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...

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  9. 8.6/10(290 votes)

    #8 - AVGN Games!

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    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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  10. 8.5/10(419 votes)

    #9 - Friday the 13th (NES)

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    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.

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  11. 8.5/10(305 votes)

    #10 - Batman: Part 1

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    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.

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  12. 8.5/10(252 votes)

    #11 - Back to the Future Re-Revisited

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    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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  13. 8.5/10(265 votes)

    #12 - Star Wars

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    The Nerd has a bad feeling about this!

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  14. 8.5/10(211 votes)

    #13 - Game Boy Accessories

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    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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  15. 8.5/10(232 votes)

    #14 - EarthBound

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    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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  16. 8.4/10(401 votes)

    #15 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)

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    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.

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  17. 8.4/10(272 votes)

    #16 - Cheetahmen

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    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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  18. 8.4/10(266 votes)

    #17 - Tiger Electronic Games

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    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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  19. 8.4/10(301 votes)

    #18 - Hong Kong 97

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    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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  20. 8.4/10(254 votes)

    #19 - Home Alone Games

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    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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  21. 8.3/10(377 votes)

    #20 - Chronologically Confused About Bad Movie and Video Game Sequel Titles

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

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  22. 8.3/10(315 votes)

    #21 - Virtual Boy

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    The Nerd investigates the infamous handheld that gave us headaches...in 3D!

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  23. 8.3/10(293 votes)

    #22 - Batman: Part 2

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    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.

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  24. 8.3/10(246 votes)

    #23 - Swordquest

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    The Nerd does a history lecture on the Swordquest games which were not just your average Atari action genre games but were actually games used for a promotional contest where gamers have a chance to win actual treasures made of gold and other minerals. Only three games were made when it was planned to be a four game series. However due to the 1983 video game crash, Atari pulled the plug on the production of the fourth and final game and the two remaining contests never happened.

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  25. 8.3/10(256 votes)

    #24 - Desert Bus

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    After ten years of reviewing crappy games, and yet another one about driving a bus through a desert for 8 hours, the Nerd considers giving up the ship...until he makes a miraculous discovery.

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  26. 8.3/10(247 votes)

    #25 - Seaman

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    The Nerd talks about a game on the Sega Dreamcast, the final Sega home console, and while he doesn't have much beef with it, he gets to review a crappy Dreamcast game. Simply known as "Seaman," it's a game about the aquatic reproductive system (what can you expect from a game named after jizz), it's interactive, it's freaky, and the has the voice of Mr. Spock for some reason.

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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 485 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".