At the end of every month I like to set up a “goals list” for the next month on this website in the form of these “What’s coming” articles. Each month I make some progress but never really “complete” these goals. This month is going to be different, as I’m not going to set any […]
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 […]
I was watching an old episode of Oddity Archive the other day and while it was based on a rather grim topic (nuclear disaster preparedness in the UK) an image was shown in the episode for a brief moment which, I would have to guess based on context in the episode, is from a film […]
So, there’s been another gap in me writing here and as usual I’d like to write about it, for what use it is to others who may read this. As usual, it’s had to do partially with me being tied up with other things, but also has to do with me spending time doing something […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve been meaning to toss this one out there but have been a bit busy the past few weeks, but now that I have a bit of time I might as well share this little tidbit, for what it’s worth to you, the reader. Late the other week, around the 2nd of August, I was […]
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 […]
You know, I never expected the Angry Video Game Nerd episode reviews to get as far as they did — I’m in Season 4 and am incredibly optimistic on where this is going, as it’s gone from being just a fun little side project to something to really enjoy! In retrospect, however, I didn’t plan […]
Moving right along from where the previous episode left off, we find the Nerd playing a selection of Atari Jaguar games. This gives us a good look at what the system had to offer over the course of its life. The Nerd begins by taking a look at what are probably the best games for […]
It’s time to begin taking a look at what I consider the best season of The Angry Video Game Nerd (Season 4) and what a better way to start off than a history episode! No, I’m not being sarcastic, I actually rather like the episodes where the Nerd talks about the back story of some […]
Sometimes, in the life of a web site, you need to start fresh. The thing is, you can’t just delete everything and truly start like new. Well, you can, but that isn’t exactly the best course of action since it would greatly hurt ranking in search engines and already existing back links to content. That’s […]