Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 48: Indiana Jones Trilogy – Episode Review

Ah, Indiana Jones. A rather well loved film series from the same man who brought us Star Wars… and a film series which seems to have gotten the same treatment as Star Wars all those years later. This Angry Video Game Nerd episode focuses on games from the Indiana Jones trilogy and was released originally …
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The Shutdown Of The Wii Shop

Nintendo announced back in 2017 that in 2019 the Wii shop would be shutting down, a process which would in effect mark the end of the life span of the Nintendo Wii. Right now we’re in the middle of this process. Back in March of 2018 the ability to purchase and add Wii Points to …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 45: Double Vision: Part 2 – Episode Review

Moving on from the explosive end of the previous episode, we have part 2 of Double Vision. Just as part 1 covered the Intellivision, part 2 covers the Colecovision, a mighty system in its own right. Released in 1982, the Colecovision came a few years after the Intellivision, and well into the life of the …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 42: Virtual Boy – Episode Review

Time to get into Season 3 of The Angry Video Game Nerd, and this particular season starts off rather strong with the Nerd’s review of Nintendo’s first true failure of a gaming system, the Virtual Boy. The Virtual Boy is quite the unique console, seemingly designed for virtual reality, it really never got much further …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 41: Rambo – Episode Review

Time to finish off Season 2 of The Angry Video Game Nerd, and we have quite the review to go out on – Rambo, on the NES! Now, this is a game I actually had for my NES when I was a kid. I have vague memories of playing it and not having a good …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 40: The Legend of Zelda Timeline – Episode Review

We have another odd Nerd episode here – one discussing the timeline for “The Legend of Zelda” game series, at least as it was in 2006. This comes off the previous “Movie and Video Game sequels” video, but was shelved, only to be tweaked a bit and released in January 2008, making it out of …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 38 / 39: An Angry Nerd Christmas Carol – Episode Review

It’s time for the 2007 Christmas Episodes – An Angry Nerd Christmas Carol! This was a pair of episodes released in December 2007 which follow the classic holiday story of “A Christmas Carol” but with the Nerd replacing Scrooge. Christmas is still key, of course, but the idea here is how it relates to the …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 37: Dragon’s Lair – Episode Review

Dragons Lair was an amazing game for its day. At least, an impressive one, anyway, for appearances, if not for gameplay. It used a LaserDisc system to play video clips that the player would react to, making decisions to progress in the game. Think “Quick Time Events” in games like God of War, Shenmue, and …
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E3 Is Not A Contest

I feel myself having to say this point blank every single year. The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, is a trade show. It is not some kind of contest. There are no “winners” or “losers” at the event, it is simply a trade show, just as much as CES is for general …
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The Full Nintendo Direct E3 2018 Presentation

Finishing out the “big 3” presentations for E3 2018, we have the Nintendo Direct stream from earlier today. The big deal for this one is, of course, details on the new Super Smash Bros. game, titled “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” but Nintendo did cover a solid assortment of new titles, some in greater detail than …
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Free Video Game Day 2018

Today was quite the interesting one in the gaming community, and was something I actually wasn’t aware of till just a few weeks ago: Free Video Game Day. It functions much like Free Comic Book Day does for, well, the comic book community. The different is FCBD is sponsored by the comic book industry, directly …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 34: Fester’s Quest – Episode Review

As promised in the Nintendo Power episode, the next video James did for the Angry Video Game Nerd covered the NES game Fester’s Quest, a rather unique video game adaptation of the classic Addams Family franchise. The entire episode is really a tribute to the Addams Family, with James playing all the members of the …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 33: Nintendo Power – Episode Review

Here we go, time to cover one of the more popular episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd! This time around, the Nerd doesn’t take a look at a game – oh no, he takes a look at the one thing that every kid who grew up playing Nintendo wanted other than the next new …
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Game Player’s Gametape Vol. 1 No. 7

It’s been a while since we took a trip back to 1989 and these old tapes discussing strategies on various games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, so we might as well get back to em! In this case, Volume 1, Tape 7. This tape features the games: A Boy And His Blob, Rolling Thunder,  Castlevania, …
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How The Current World-Record Speedrun For Super Mario Bros. Was Possible

I’m not one to care too much for speed runs in games – while there are ardent followers of these record attempts, I find them an interesting curiosity at best. That being said, the ways in which players figure out nuances of the games in order to shave off fractions of seconds and achieve new …
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