It’s time for the 2011 Holiday episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd, and in this case we have the third and, so far, final installment of “Bible Games” — games produced with Christian themes targeted towards religious audiences, with virtually all of them, by the nature of their subject matter, being (ironically) unlicensed by …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 105: Dark Castle – Episode Review
Here we have the 2011 Halloween AVGN episode – Dark Castle for the Sega Genesis. The Nerd introduces the episode pondering on why the NES had so many terrible games for it, and decides to give the big, bad 16 bit Sega Genesis a go as a change of pace, and the game of choice …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 104: Nintendo World Championships – Episode Review
Here we have a very special Angry Video Game Nerd episode. Not only is does this one cover an incredibly important game in Nintendo history, the Nintendo World Championships competition cartridge, but it also features a crossover between both James Rolfe as the Nerd and Pat Contri as Pat the NES Punk. During this time …
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5 Things We *Know* The PlayStation 5 Will Do
Recently Sony finally got off its butt and actually announced some information about the PlayStation 5, including system specifications and details on its backwards compatibility or, more correctly, its lack thereof, but still left quite a bit to the internet rumor mill. I thought it would be nice to cut through the lies and attention-seeking …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 103: Kid Kool
Next up in season 6 of The Angry Video Game Nerd we have a much more traditional episode than the previous one — this time an 8 minute look at the NES game “Kid Kool.” Of note is right at the opening we have the “new” Nerd intro for widescreen episodes, where 2 separate panes …
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April 2020 Xbox Live Games With Gold
It’s time again to take a look at the upcoming months Games with Gold lineup, but things are a bit different this time around. Thanks to the current Coronavirus issue, there appears to be no video for the April games with Gold assortment. Yep, no video to accompany things, just an image from the Xbox …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 102: The Making of an Angry Video Game Nerd Episode – Episode Review
Welcome to Season 6 of The Angry Video Game Nerd. At this time James was still getting production of the movie underway, and this time period, the late half of 2011, would mark a final spurt of Nerd episodes before a 6 month break as filming of The Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie would …
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Angry Video Game Nerd – Season 5 Review
Season 5 of the Angry Video Game Nerd was a bit of a departure from the previous few years of the show. This season had far fewer episodes than previous ones, as James began to focus his efforts on other projects including the beginning of production in earnest of The Angry Video Game Nerd: The …
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YouTube, Microsoft, And Sony Are Limiting Connection Speeds To Help Conserve Bandwidth
With many people being forced to stay home during this pandemic the overall infrastructure of the internet is being somewhat taxed by far more people than normal using it for video watching, gaming, teleconferencing, what have you, at any given time. While the overall infrastructure seems like it can handle the overall load the fact …
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No, Online Gaming Is Not “The Biggest Threat To Internet Bandwidth” In The Coming Weeks
The vilification of gaming in the media is never ending, and even now, during the Coronavirus Pandemic and the often mandatory quarantines being enacted around the world, news outlets out there are still trying to find ways to attack gamers and their hobby as the source of some kind of problem — in this case, …
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It Looks Like I Was Right About The PlayStation 5 Backward Compatibility Rumors
Yes, I’m going to take this opportunity to gloat. After months of people constantly throwing out a rumor that the PlayStation 5 would “play every PlayStation game ever” Sony announced today, among other things about the system, that it would not be backwards compatible with anything but, apparently, the “top 100 PlayStation 4 games” and …
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Now Playing: Grand Theft Auto – Vice City Stories (PS2)
In this first “now playing” entry we’re taking a quite look at Grand Theft Auto – Vice City Stories. Remember, this is just a look at whatever I’m playing at this moment, and presumes you know at least something about the game or the series it’s a part of — if not, this may all …
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The Strange Story Of My European PlayStation 3 – Part 7: Some Final Thoughts And Things I’ve Noticed
In the last entry I wrapped up the testing of the system following its modding and found everything was in good shape – the project was, as far as I’m concerned, a complete success, and I had a European PlayStation 3 with a US power supply, modded to be able to play any game I’d …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 101: Spielberg Games – Episode Review
Here we go: Episode 101 of the Angry Video Game Nerd, and the end of Season 5! This time the Nerd is taking a look at a bunch of games based on films by the acclaimed director Steven Spielberg. Of course, since we’re talking about games based on the NES (for the most part) based …
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Introducing “Now Playing” – A Look At Whatever Game I May Be Enjoying At That Moment
I’ve recently finally really taken time to enjoy just sitting back and playing games again; I worked my way through Halo: Reach again recently and right now have been finally working through Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. During the past week or so of playing it I’ve made the occasional post on twitter about …
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