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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 Worst Episode
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    The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 14 - LJN Sports and Marvel Games
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S15:E14

    This is episode 200 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of every game published by LJN. This is part 2 of 3, with the final coming next week. The Nerd has been gifted the rights to LJN and will start fixing the company by remaking Back to the Future on NES with a developer friend. Unfortunately, he also has to review every other LJN game to complete the catalog of his new company. Oh, and since he already reviewed the movie based games, he will now tackle the sports and Marvel games!!

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  2. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 15 - LJN Wrestling and Other Games
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S15:E15

    This is episode 200 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of every game published by LJN. This is part 3 of 3, the final part! Making a video game has been harder than the Nerd and even the developer thought. But, while that process rushes to the deadline, the Nerd will review the last batch of LJN games to complete their awful catalog. These being the wrestling and miscellaneous games.

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  3. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 18 Episode 2 - My Horse Prince
    4.6/10(100 votes)

    S18:E2

    In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 214, The Nerd gets a new cell phone and tries out mobile gaming for the first time with My Horse Prince, a dating sim starring an anime girl and a talking horse with an attractive human face!

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  4. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 13 - LJN History & Movie Games
    5.0/10(156 votes)

    S15:E13

    This is episode 200 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of every game published by LJN. This is part 1 of 3, with the others coming very soon. LJN has been a thorn in the Nerd's side for 15 years now. With the sudden rights falling into his hands, the Nerd has decided to remake every LJN game as good as possible. However, he'll need to review every LJN game ever made (while Back to the Future gets re-developed.) Thankfully, the Nerd has already reviewed a lot of the LJN library... but, there's a lot of garbage he hasn't played yet to complete the 67 LJN titles released.

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  5. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 1 - Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown (GBC)
    5.3/10(151 votes)

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    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 188: Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown. The Nerd just wants to watch Shrek... but he ends up reviewing one of the worst fighting games on the Game Boy Color based on Shrek... until he's eventually captured by some creepy Shrek cultists. There's a lot going on. Shrek is love, Shrek is life after all.

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  6. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 6 - Sega Game Gear VHS Tapes
    5.7/10(109 votes)

    S15:E6

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 193: Sega Game Gear VHS Tapes. In the 1990's Sega and Howard Johnson's hotels teamed up for a weird promotion for the Game Gear. Kids could go "HoJo with Sega" during this summer promotion. Parents could rent a Game Gear the kids could play while on their vacation, or they could buy some of the Game Tips VHS tapes. These tapes are horrible, filled with basic walkthroughs, codes, and bull. They also have these wrap-around segments with a 90's surfer dude with a Foghorn Leghorn accent working at the Howard Johnson. He goes through almost every position on the hotel staff while making the life one of chubby businessman a living hell. The Nerd reviews this tape today and talks a little bit about the HoJo/Sega promotion.

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  7. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 20 Episode 3 - Crash Bandicoot Games with Caddicarus
    5.7/10(43 votes)

    S20:E3

    Angry Video Game Nerd episode 232. The Nerd takes a look at the wild history of Crash Bandicoot, from the original PlayStation classic to the strange sequels that followed. With a little "help" from special guest Caddicarus, the Nerd dives into platforming, kart racing, party games, crossovers, and some of the weirdest moments in Crash history. Featuring Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2, Crash Team Racing, Crash Bash, The Wrath of Cortex, Twinsanity, Crash of the Titans, and more.

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  8. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 13 Episode 9 - The Immortal (NES)
    5.8/10(149 votes)

    S13:E9

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 173: The Immortal for NES. The review part was filmed in one continuous shot. The Immortal is an isometric adventure game originally created for the Apple IIGS by Will Harvey and published by Electronic Arts. The main plot revolves around a wizard attempting to find his mentor in a large and dangerous labyrinth. The game is known for its high degree of graphic violence (it is much reduced in the NES version) along with its punishing difficulty. Let's see if the Nerd can tackle this game and his own dungeon.

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  9. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 7 - Carmageddon 64 (N64)
    5.8/10(109 votes)

    S15:E7

    Carmageddon is a vehicular combat video game released for personal computers in 1997. It was later ported to other platforms, and spawned a series of follow up titles. Carmageddon 64 was a port of Carmageddon II (originally for PC), and released for the Nintendo 64 in the year 2000. It was going to be published by Interplay, but Titus Interactive took it over (the same guys from Superman 64). It's a game where you race other cars... but it turns into mostly running over zombies, rather than people like in the original PC game. In the German version, you hit Dinosaur-like monsters rather than zombies. Go figure.

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  10. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 8 - Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (Sega Genesis)
    5.8/10(104 votes)

    S15:E8

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 195: Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. Also known in Japan as "Hello! Pac-Man." Pac-Man 2 is a side-scrolling adventure game in the Pac-Man series. Instead of being a maze game like the majority of its predecessors, Pac-Man 2 incorporates light point-and-click adventure game elements. The Nerd is playing the Sega Genesis version. He joins Pac-Man exploring and interacting with the world and characters around him. Take on a task, and then take a wild ride on a mine cart or set off on an intense hand-glider flight while fending off some unrestful ghosts. This game was coined "the first ever interactive cartoon" by the game's manual.

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  11. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 3 - Fear and Loathing in Vegas Stakes
    5.9/10(134 votes)

    S15:E3

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 190: Fear and Loathing in Vegas Stakes. The Nerd has set out to Last Vegas with his trusted attorney to review some of the worst games imaginable... in a parody of the book/film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Nerd reviews Vegas Stakes (SNES), Vegas Dream (NES), Caesar's Palace (GEN), Road Runner's Death Valley Rally (SNES), and of course the heaviest trip of all... LSD Dream Emulator (PS1).

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  12. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 10 - Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! (Sega Genesis)
    5.9/10(99 votes)

    S15:E10

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 197: Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! (for Sega Genesis). Greendog is a platform game developed by Sega Technical Institute and Interactive Designs for the Sega Genesis console, and was published by Sega in September 1992. Greendog is one unlucky surfer. He lost his board and got stuck with a cursed necklace. Greendog has to fight his way past a lot of crazed creatures and monsters to find the Aztec treasure or he'll never get rid of the curse! But the real curse is The Nerd having to play this game!!

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  13. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 10 Episode 5 - Sega Activator Interactor Menacer
    6.0/10(237 votes)

    S10:E5

    The Nerd and his clumsy pal Keith wreck the halls with some interactive Sega gear. These VR wannabes rank up with the Power Glove, Roll'n Rocker and all that other useless, overpriced shit we wanted as kids to look cool. Time for our heroes to try them out and see how poorly they worked. Hilarity and collateral damage will ensue.

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  14. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 5 - Corpse Killer (3DO)
    6.2/10(108 votes)

    S15:E5

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 192: Corpse Killer (3DO). Corpse Killer is a game released for the Sega CD, Sega CD 32X, 3DO, Sega Saturn, Windows 95 and Macintosh computers that features live-action full motion video in a format similar to other games developed by Digital Pictures. It was later remastered for Steam, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. But the Nerd is playing it on the 3DO. In the game, an unnamed United States Marine is airdropped onto a tropical island on a top secret mission to stop the evil Dr. Hellman, who plans to release his army of zombies on the world. He is bitten by a zombie and also meets an attractive female reporter and a Rastafarian male driver. Four of the marine lieutenant's comrades are captured by Hellman and turned into zombies. To rescue them, the lieutenant infiltrates Hellman's compound and shoots each of them with bullets coated with extract from Datura plants, which can turn freshly-created zombies back into humans.

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  15. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 15 Episode 9 - The Rocketeer (NES & SNES)
    6.3/10(99 votes)

    S15:E9

    The Rocketeer is a 1991 film from Walt Disney Pictures, based upon the comic book character of the same name Set in 1938 Los Angeles, California, The Rocketeer tells the story of stunt pilot Cliff Secord who stumbles upon a hidden rocket-powered jet pack that he thereafter uses to fly without the need of an aircraft. His heroic deeds soon attract the attention of Howard Hughes and the FBI, who are hunting for the missing jet pack, as well as the Axis operatives that stole it from Hughes. Also in 1991, a game published by Bandai came out for the Nintendo Entertainment System. A year later the Super Nintendo game also came out. In this review the Nerd covers both games, dons his old Nerd Shirt, and builds the ultimate transportation device: the RocketBeer.

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  16. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 7 Episode 5 - Toxic Crusaders
    6.4/10(264 votes)

    S7:E5

    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.

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  17. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 14 Episode 8 - Ecco the Dolphin (Sega Genesis)
    6.4/10(124 votes)

    S14:E8

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 183: Ecco the Dolphin. Ecco is an action-adventure game originally developed by Ed Annunziata and Novotrade International for the Sega Genesis and published by Sega in 1992. The original game followed the exploits of a young dolphin named Ecco as he searched the seas, and eventually time itself, for his missing pod. The game is known for being super unique with a great art style, but it's also known for being hard, frustrating, and unfair.

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  18. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 14 Episode 9 - Countdown Vampires (PS1)
    6.4/10(111 votes)

    S14:E9

    Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) episode 184: Countdown Vampires for the PlayStation 1. Countdown Vampires is a survival horror game developed by K2 LLC and published by Bandai. It's basically Resident Evil, but with vampires instead of zombies. In Countdown Vampires, you play Keith Snyder, a tattooed celebrity bodyguard who has come to the ritzy Desert Moon Hotel on New Year's Eve 1999. When a fire starts in the hotel, the ceiling sprinklers go off. Rather than spray water, they drop an oozing dark liquid all over the glamorous guests. This liquid, whatever it is, turns the other guests into vampires. Now it's your job to find an antidote while fending off preying bloodsuckers, flesh-eating zombies, and bone-crushing monsters. Through the game you'll explore eight different locations--from woodland areas to bars to casino floors--to solve the mystery. It also happens to be one of the worst tank-controlled PS1 games of all time.

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  19. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 18 Episode 1 - The Goonies 1 & 2
    6.4/10(77 votes)

    S18:E1

    In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 213, The Nerd heads under the Goon Docks to dig up buried treasure, but instead of One Eyed Willie's gold he finds something worse than the Fratellis: Goonies 1 and 2!

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  20. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 8 Episode 5 - Tagin' Dragon
    6.5/10(190 votes)

    S8:E5

    For twelve consecutive days, the AVGN does mini-reviews of requested games. On the first day of Shitsmas, the Nerd was forced to play: a game called Tagin' Dragon.

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  21. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 13 Episode 1 - Chronologically Confused about Kingdom Hearts
    6.5/10(139 votes)

    S13:E1

    The Angry Video Game Nerd is chronologically confused about the Kingdom Hearts timeline. With Kingdom Hearts 3 on the horizon, the AVGN will explore the goofy order of the KH games. You think it's just Kingdom Hearts 1 and Kingdom Hearts 2? Guess again. There's 358/2 Days, Birth By Sleep, Dream Drop Distance, and many more. There's almost more re-releases than the games themselves. Oh, and the release order still isn't as confusing as the story line. Final Fantasy + Disney = 1 Confused Nerd

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  22. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 13 Episode 6 - Life of Black Tiger with Gilbert Gottfried (PS4)
    6.5/10(179 votes)

    S13:E6

    Life of Black Tiger: Angry Video Game Nerd episode 170. The AVGN is playing the most modern game he's ever played before on the PlayStation 4. But, of course it might be one of the worst games he's ever played. Life of Black Tiger is a mobile game ported to the PS4 where you play as an emo tiger fighting the wild and humanity to save his cute baby. Gilbert Gottfried guest stars as a certain game designer that's never been seen on the show before.

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  23. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 13 Episode 8 - Jurassic Park: Trespasser (PC)
    6.5/10(137 votes)

    S13:E8

    In this AVGN the Nerd reviews Trespasser, a Jurassic Park FPS PC game from 1998. The game was billed as a "digital sequel" to the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, on which it is based. The game is noted for the involvement of the film's director, Steven Spielberg and actors Richard Attenborough and Minnie Driver. The ambitious game ultimately received mixed to negative reviews at the time and disappointed many reviewers.

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  24. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 17 Episode 1 - Kid Icarus
    6.5/10(89 votes)

    S17:E1

    This is episode 207 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)! Let's take a look back at an alleged NES Classic, Kid Icarus. Does it stand up with the Titans of the Era, or is it a Mount Olympus of Poop??? Find out in this episode of AVGN!!!!!

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  25. The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 19 Episode 1 - Gex Trilogy
    6.5/10(49 votes)

    S19:E1

    In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 222, The Nerd is looking at the only video game mascot series starring a gecko! Originally 3DO's answer to Mario and Sonic, Gex would go on to spawn two sequels with Enter the Gecko and Deep Under Cover. Do the Gex games hold up as platforming classics or are they simply petrified gecko crap?

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Worst Episodes Summary

"LJN Sports and Marvel Games" is the worst rated episode of "The Angry Video Game Nerd". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/10/2021. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "LJN Wrestling and Other Games".