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 […]
August seems to have been generally regarded as a pretty good month in the realm of the Xbox Live Games With Gold program, so naturally a gamer has to ask: what does September hold for us? Let’s take a look! Alright, starting off for the Xbox One we have Hitman: The Complete First Season and […]
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 […]
I thought some of you out there might find it a little funny, after waiting nearly a month for the thing to come in, and having it in my possession for over a week and a half, I still haven’t even opened the dang thing! There’s a few reasons. For one, I’ve just been preoccupied […]
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 […]
Remember back on Amazon Prime day back in the middle of July? Remember how they had the PlayStation Classic going for 20 bucks? Well, I ordered one, as mentioned in this previous article, and it only just the other day came to me. Amazing had over-sold units by quite a bit, it would seem, and […]
The 90’s was an interesting time for animation. After a few decades of what amounted to “cartoons are just for kids” thinking, things had begun to change. On one hand, Nickelodeon introduced their Nicktoons line, animation made for the kids that adults could watch and enjoy with them — made for entertainments sake. On the […]
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 […]