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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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    The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 14 - Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - 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 ...

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  2. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 12 - Batman: Part 2
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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  3. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 15 - Dick Tracy
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Dick Tracy

    S3:E15

    Game on the chopping block this week: Dick Tracy on Nintendo. The world's most popular yellow-coated detective in the world's most frustrating, nonlinear game. Watch as the Nerd struggles to find out-of-reach clues, tries to dodge impossible projectiles, and worst of all, realizes you only get 1 life and no continues.

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  4. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 4 Episode 11 - Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle

    S4:E11

    Bugs Bunny gets revenge on the Nerd by forcing him to play not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE Crazy Castle games! It's a pie-throwing, bomb-bursting, game-smashing, fist-flying, anvil-crashing, carrot-chomping, all-out bombastic barrage of loony proportions!

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  5. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 1 - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES)
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES)

    S1:E1

    The Nerd makes his first ever game review, and tries to tackle Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest for the NES, revealing the many flaws and issues that came with it. This is Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 1.

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  6. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 7 - Spider-Man (Atari 2600, NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Spider-Man (Atari 2600, NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance)

    S2:E7

    The 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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  7. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 18 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    S2:E18

    The 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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  8. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 19 - Halloween
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Halloween

    S2:E19

    Sometime 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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  9. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 20 - Dragon's Lair
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Dragon's Lair

    S2:E20

    Due 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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  10. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 2 - The Wizard of Oz
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Wizard of Oz

    S3:E2

    The Nerd plays the Super Nintendo adaption of the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie. Something that can't be made into a good game. Mainly due to the addition of weird enemies and locations that don't look like something you'd find in either the movie or the original books. The Nerd's main complaint is the large number of glitches the game has where various platforms make the characters in the game fall through. While playing the game, the Nerd is visited by the Cowardly Lion who won't shut up through out the review.

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  11. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 5 - The Wizard and Super Mario Bros 3
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Wizard and Super Mario Bros 3

    S3:E5

    The Nerd decides to review a good game for once which is Super Mario Bros. 3. Before he reviews it, he talks about the movie The Wizard which is how American gamers first learn about the game as it was a product placement along with the NES Power Glove. While the Nerd doesn't find the story for The Wizard to be great, he did admit that it holds a place in the gaming community. After putting his review on the Wizard aside he starts to play Super Mario Bros. 3, while it has a lot of hard parts it is really fun to play, however the Nerd couldn't help but notice the game ...

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  12. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 6 - N.E.S. Accessories!
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  13. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3 Episode 14 - Battletoads
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Battletoads

    S3:E14

    The Nerd and his guitar guy from behind the couch, Kyle Justin, join forces to play Battletoads on Nintendo proving that, with just one player the game is a mild challenge, but with two players, it's damn near impossible!

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  14. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 4 Episode 4 - Odyssey
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Odyssey

    S4:E4

    The Nerd reviews the very first home video game console in existence: the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. Watch as he and a hilarious special guest play the most primitive of video games ever created.

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  15. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 4 Episode 10 - Plumbers Don't Wear Ties!
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 18 Episode 6 - Deja Vu (NES)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Deja Vu (NES)

    S18:E6

    In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 218, The Nerd wakes up with a throbbing headache and his memories missing, so he searches his NES library for clues in hopes to solve the mystery and end this bad case of Déjà Vu!

    Director:James D. Rolfe
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  17. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 4 - 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

    S15:E4

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 191: 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. The 3DO gaming console has been talked about before on AVGN, in the Plumbers Don't Wear Ties episode. But, the Nerd is back to review some of the other awful games for the system, however, there are a few gems in there too. The "REAL" 3DO Interactive Multiplayer was a game console hardware platform originally released in 1993 (with the first models released by Panasonic and other models released by other companies in 1994.) Cheap production cost of CDs led to a large amount of shovelware being released for the system. In this review, the Nerd covers Gex, Road Rash, DOOM, Way of the Warrior, Crash N Burn, Soccer Kid, Battle Chess, Street Fighter II, Alone in the Dark, Cyberia, PO'd, Demolition Man, Virtuoso, a bunch of American Laser Games stuff (Mad Dog McCree and Crime Patrol), and more.

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  18. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 9 - Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu (NES)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu (NES)

    S1:E9

    The Nerd takes a look at the poor quality behind the game Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu for the NES. First appearance of “guest reviewer” Shit Pickle, a cartoon pickle with feces as hair.

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  19. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 10 - Top Gun (NES)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Top Gun (NES)

    S1:E10

    The Nerd tackles two more bad NES games based on another film – Top Gun – and finds out how some elements of their gameplay are just impossible to do.

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  20. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 12 - Friday the 13th (NES)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  21. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 13 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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  22. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 1 Episode 14 - The Power Glove (NES)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Power Glove (NES)

    S1:E14

    The Nerd finds out how good (or bad) Nintendo’s Power Glove is, by using it to play a variety of games on the NES.

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  23. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 3 - Atari 5200
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Atari 5200

    S2:E3

    The 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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  24. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 4 - Ghostbusters (NES)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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  25. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2 Episode 6 - Ghostbusters: Conclusion (NES & Genesis) (Part 3)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Ghostbusters: Conclusion (NES & Genesis) (Part 3)

    S2:E6

    Part 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout" is the best rated episode of "The Angry Video Game Nerd". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/7/2007. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Batman: Part 2".