Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 72: Transformers – Episode Review

In this Angry Video Game Nerd episode James takes a look at a couple of games in the Transformers franchise, one for the Commodore 64 and one for the Nintendo Famicom. Opening up, the Nerd poses the question of what format you usually play games on. For the most part, in the case of the …
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Adding Images To AVGN Articles – The Final Update

It took quite a few hours of downloading, image selecting, editing, uploading, and article refinement to make it happen, but it’s actually complete — every single Angry Video Game Nerd episode review here on Xadara has at least one image associated with it! I’d estimate it took about 5 hours of solid work to make …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 71: Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Episode Review

Naturally, you can’t have a review of games based on the film The Terminator without covering games made based on its sequel – “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”, and James wasted no time after the previous episode releasing this one to cover games based in the amazing 1992 sequel to the 1984 classic. The episode opens …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 70: The Terminator – Episode Review

The Terminator franchise, at least, at the time of the early 90’s, was pretty amazing. With “The Terminator” in 1984 and “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” in 1992, the struggle for humanities survival from an apocalypse of its own creation was well established in popular consciousness and with the rise in popularity of game consoles, it …
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Adding Episode Images to AVGN Articles – Progress Update 2

Last month a began a process to update all of my previous Angry Video Game Nerd episode reviews to have images from the episode being reviewed. This was something I neglected when starting the project and in retrospect wish I had done from the beginning. In any case, the last batch of episodes I did …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 69: X-Men – Episode Review

Ah, the X-Men; an incredibly well loved superhero franchise originating in the 60’s which experienced somewhat of a revival of popular interest in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Growing up I was quite familiar with the franchise, at least in the state it was presented at that time, and recall quite a few games …
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September 2019 Xbox Live Games With Gold

August seems to have been generally regarded as a pretty good month in the realm of the Xbox Live Games With Gold program, so naturally a gamer has to ask: what does September hold for us? Let’s take a look! Alright, starting off for the Xbox One we have Hitman: The Complete First Season and …
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I, For One, Welcome The End Of Loot Crate

If you’ve at all been a part of gamer / geek culture over the past 7 years or so in any capacity you’ve no doubt heard of Loot Crate, one of the earliest of the now seemingly ubiquitous “random item box” subscription services. Well, they are going bankrupt and, quite honestly, I feel no sadness …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 68 Bonus – Behind The Scenes

A little bit of something different as an immediate follow-up, here we have the “behind the scenes” footage of James and Mike playing the Magnavox Odyssey. This is basically the raw footage filmed for the episode, and is quite funny in its own right seeing as it’s 2 friends sharing the experience of playing the …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 68: Odyssey – Episode Review

The entire concept of the Nerd can be summed up in the first lines of the AVGN theme song — “He’s gonna bring you back to the past.” Well, you can only go so far with the realm of gaming and in this episode James goes back about as far as you can, to 1972 …
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It’s Funny, I Still Haven’t Opened My PlayStation Classic

I thought some of you out there might find it a little funny, after waiting nearly a month for the thing to come in, and having it in my possession for over a week and a half, I still haven’t even opened the dang thing! There’s a few reasons. For one, I’ve just been preoccupied …
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Stop With The Crazy Game Console Rumors

The time frame before the release of a new game console is an interesting one. Thanks to the nature of things, companies tend to hold off on announcing many details of their products too early. There are various reasons for this — building up fan base hype (something I rather dislike,) to avoid letting competition …
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Adding Episode Images to AVGN Articles – Progress Update 1

The other night, after publishing my review of episode 67, I finally began the task of adding images to my previous episode reviews. I wanted to “liven up” the reviews since I had never put in episode images before — I thought it wouldn’t be necessary, and I didn’t want to waste space in the …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 67: Metal Gear – Episode Review

Ah, Metal Gear. Quite the well loved series these days, it had a rocky start in the West, not really gaining popularity until the PlayStation and Metal Gear: Solid, in 1998. Metal Gear has quite the interesting history, having started in the MSX computer platform in Japan. The NES “port” of the original game (if …
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My PlayStation Classic Finally Arrived. Yay?

Remember back on Amazon Prime day back in the middle of July? Remember how they had the PlayStation Classic going for 20 bucks? Well, I ordered one, as mentioned in this previous article, and it only just the other day came to me. Amazing had over-sold units by quite a bit, it would seem, and …
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