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 […]
Time to do the most stereotypical review one can on Halloween – a “spooky” video game and one that, while it’s been done to death, is still a game which I enjoy the occasional play of: Haunted House for the Atari 2600. The premise is a simple one – you are venturing into a long […]
You know the score – another month on the horizon means another video from Microsoft advertising the 4 upcoming free games with an Xbox Live Gold membership. It’s never ending, but in a good way. Interestingly, this video mentions the Xbox Series S and Series X, so that’s cool – we’re acknowledging the soon to […]
Here we have another one of those more odd episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd where instead of focusing on one particular game, he spends time discussing a whole category of games which follow a similar theme – in this case, sports games on the Atari 2600! While certainly not mine, or the Nerds […]
Space Invaders was released in 1980 for the Atari 2600 (then Atari VCS) game system. It has the distinction of being the first arcade game to the officially licensed for any home game console, and would become the first “killer app” for the Atari 2600 – people would buy the console specially to play Space […]
2020 has been a hell of a year for pretty much everyone on Earth. As is obvious I’ve even stepped away quite a bit from this website and many related projects (although my work in the BBS scene took over, so it wasn’t time wasted) and this has caused obvious delays in, well, everything. I’ve […]
Welcome to Arlen, Texas. A perfectly average town with perfectly average people living perfectly average lives. In this case our story focuses primarily on Hank Hill and his family and friends. Following a quick introduction to Hank and his friends Dale Gribble, Bill Dauterive, and Jeff Boomhauer, we get to the focus of this first […]
Well well, it’s October and with perfect timing the next AVGN episode on the review list is the Halloween episode for 2012 – Ghosts n’ Goblins! That’s right, in this episode James takes on not just one of the more difficult games in the NES library, but a game that has haunted him since his […]
Well damn, it’s about time Microsoft realized that maybe, just maybe, October is the perfect month to have a lineup of games that fit with a spooky, scary, or otherwise “Halloween” theme. Let’s dive right in. On the Xbox One we have Slayaway Camp: Butcher’s Cut and Maid of Sker. Okay, Slayaway Camp doesn’t look […]
Can’t blame me for trying, right? This morning I got up and waited for the stroke of 10 A.M. central time for Xbox Series S/X preorders to begin, hoping there was a chance I might be able to secure one. I failed in that task. Trust me, I wasn’t seriously expecting to actually snag one, […]
The big news topic right now in gaming is Microsoft announcing this morning the purchase of ZeniMax Media and, by virtue of this purchase their acquisition of Bethesda, among some other smaller studios. Make no mistake, this is a major play on Microsoft’s part. Many, however, are wanting to treat this like it’s nothing special […]
Gaming is, very clearly from this site, a major hobby of mine, at least in the context of it’s very important to me. I actually don’t play games as often as one would think – I spend quite a bit of time working on various projects and rarely actually find time to sit down and […]
What a case of deja-vu: I feel like I wrote an article virtually identical to this one back in January. Oh, wait, that’s because I did. That’s right, the PlayStation fan base is already on the absurdity of somehow using social media reaction to judge something being better, or otherwise more liked on a whole […]
I had no idea the other day when Microsoft announced the Xbox Series S that so much information would be put out in such a short time regarding not only the S, but the final price of the X (499, as I and others expected once the S was announced) but also the launch date […]