It’s time to scrape the bottom of the barrel. In this episode, the Nerd takes a look at games produced by Tiger Electronics. As is discussed in the episode, any kid who grew up in the late 80’s or early 90’s will certainly remember these things and just how terrible they were! Before the episode […]
A yearly tradition…
December is almost upon us, which not only means we’re almost done with the year but we have one more set of games coming with Xbox Live Gold. The peanut gallery has weighed in with some strong dislikes on this video, but what do I have to say about the selection? Let’s find out. The […]
Here we have a far more normal AVGN episode – in this case, a look at the NES game Bill & Ted’s Excellent adventure. Amazingly, this episode is so straightforward there honestly isn’t too much to say about it. James of course addresses that it is based on the quite popular film but, like most […]
Here we have what has to be one of the weirdest Angry Video Game Nerd episodes, which is saying a lot given the history of this series. In this episode James takes a look at a variety of games based on the Toxic Avenger character or, more critically, the Toxic Crusaders cartoon based on the […]
I didn’t realize until the other day that I’ve been running a Bulletin Board System for the past 6 months! To be fair, this particular “version” of the board didn’t start until June 6th of 2020 – the previous few weeks the system was running on a Raspberry Pi as a “test” board, but in […]
Here we have what is, by far, my favorite episode of the entire series: Ikari Warriors! This is apparently a game James has had a problem with since he was a kid, and this is his chance to finally tear into it. He wastes no time either – beyond a few side comments early on […]
On November 22nd, 2005, the Xbox 360 launched to quite the celebration, both in the gaming scene and in the Mojave desert via an event known as “Zero Hour.” If you had told me then that 15 years later I’d be writing this article about the event, I’d have probably thought you were crazy. I […]
A couple of years ago I set out on a goal to have a more regular publishing schedule here on Xadara. The idea was Monday through Friday publishing which would result in around, if I posted an entry per day, a little over 20 entries a month. On the surface it was a fine idea […]
The same night I did repairs on my Core 2 Duo Mac mini, nicknamed “Lion” I found out there was a bit of an issue with my other Mac mini, the Core Duo system I used as a basic file host and affectionately dubbed “Miniserv” for its role as a Mac mini “server.” In this […]
I generally try not to get too political here, but given that 2020 has been one hell of a year on virtually all fronts I figured now is as good a time as any to just kind of let loose with what I’ve been wanting to say on this subject. That is, the way the […]
Yesterday I took one of my Mac mini’s (Lion, for those curious) to work again so I could do a bit of a deep clean on it. Something was rattling around in it and I didn’t want to turn it back on (it’s been out of use since the Spring) without getting whatever it was […]
The PlayStation 5 is big. Very big. Beyond it’s early 2000’s internet gateway look (seriously, it does look like an unused piece of networking kit that’s sitting in my closet right now) the overall size of the machine is pretty massive, especially when you compare it to the predecessor, the PlayStation 4. It also looks […]
If you’re a gamer you’ve no doubt heard that soon after the launch of the new Xbox Consoles, the Series X and the Series S, problems were reported primarily with the optical drive of the Series X but also, in at least one case I saw on twitter, the fan of the Series S. Naturally, […]
Guess who just found out they have email’s dating back 15 years? Yeah, me. I took some of the little free time I’ve had in the past few days to clean out all of my email archives. I’ve been letting things build up for too long, and am wanting now to take a pro-active role […]