• Air date: 23 Jul '12 27 episodes
      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. A feature-length film, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, is expected to be released between 2013 and 2014.
  • List of Episodes (27)
    • 1. Schwarzenegger Games

      23 Jul '12
      After a 6 month hiatus, the Nerd is back. And to honor his return to reviewing bad and challenging games, he decides to review some Schwarzenegger games for the NES. Mainly due to Schwarzenegger returning to acting after finishing his term as Governer. When it comes to Arnold, his action films are always appealing to watch. As for video game adaptations it's the complete opposite. They either don't feature the main character to resemble Arnold or the game-play and level layouts are a complete
    • 2. Ghosts n' Goblins

      23 Oct '12
      After doing an autograph signing at a convention, the Nerd receives a petition to review the NES game Ghost N' Goblins. While he comments that it's not a bad game, he does however admit that it's one of the hardest NES games to play. So the Nerd decides to review the game since it's Halloween related. As he's playing it he expresses that the fair thing about the game is that you're given unlimited continues so that way you don't have to keep restarting the game. The biggest flaw to the game
    • 3. Atari Sports

      17 Dec '12
      The Nerd has for a while not done a review that's entirely dedicated towards sports games. The reason being of course is that he's not a big sports fan, he's a video game nerd to be exact. After getting requests to do a review on sports games, the Nerd complies to his fans by playing Atari sport genre games. Mainly cause those are the first sports games made for a home console. Most of the games don't resemble the actual sport either due to the limitation of graphics or due to the unusual rules
    • 4. Ikari Warriors

      06 Mar '13
      The Nerd reviews Ikari Warriors for the NES. While the game at first appears to be a decent shoot 'em up game it's actually a really hard game to go through unless you have two people playing the game. Desperate to beat the game, the Nerd revives Guitar Guy who has been dead for sometime by using the Ikari Warrior continue code. The Guitar Guy is surprised to be alive again and originally believed that the Nerd had forgotten him cause the original theme song hasn't been used for so long. The
    • 5. Toxic Crusaders

      30 Apr '13
      The Nerd reviews the Toxic Crusaders games for the Gameboy, Genesis, and NES. The games are so bad, he invited over the creator himself, Lloyd Kaufman to witness how bad they are. Lloyd, who is very proud of his Toxic Avenger movies, agrees to play the games. However, when he and the Nerd play the NES version, they couldn't handle the complicated levels and game play. The idea of having a select button for the stronger attack move baffles the Nerd and Kaufman.
    • 6. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

      30 Jun '13
      LJN rises again with a shitty game and James has to review it.
    • 7. Tiger Electronic Games

      06 Sep '13
      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...
    • 8. Alien 3

      21 Oct '13
      In light of the Halloween season, and to promote the Cinemassacre's Monster Madness reviews of the Alien franchise, the Nerd reviews Alien 3 on NES. So how does it fare? It's made by LJN. 'Nuff said.
    • 9. AVGN Games!

      20 Nov '13
      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.
    • 10. Wish List (Part 1)

      17 Dec '13
      This Christmas, the AVGN takes us back to the past... before internet, and you had to buy things out of store catalogs. It's a holly jolly dose of nostalgia as the Nerd remembers back to all the Nintendo, Atari, VHS and action figures we all asked Santa to bring us. Also, he does some mini-reviews of bad Sonic games. Part 1 of 2.
    • 11. Wish List (Part 2)

      19 Dec '13
      Concluding his little Christmas wish-list tribute to the fans, the Nerd reviews some more big requests, like the Three Stooges, Boy and His Blob, Home Improvement on SNES, and a GOOD Spider-Man game. The biggest surprise and the biggest Christmas miracle of all time occurs when the Nerd discovers who made that awesome Spider-Man game.
    • 12. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

      19 Mar '14
    • 13. Desert Bus

      28 May '14
    • 14. E.T. Atari 2600

      10 Oct '14
    • 15. Beetlejuice

      14 Oct '14
    • 16. Tagin' Dragon

      11 Dec '14
    • 17. ALF

      12 Dec '14
    • 18. CrazyBus

      13 Dec '14
    • 19. Ren & Stimpy: Fire Dogs

      14 Dec '14
    • 20. Rocky and Bullwinkle

      15 Dec '14
    • 21. Mary-Kate and Ashley "Get a Clue"

      16 Dec '14
    • 22. V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson

      17 Dec '14
    • 23. Lethal Weapon

      18 Dec '14
    • 24. Porky's

      19 Dec '14
    • 25. HyperScan

      20 Dec '14