Here we have the 2011 Halloween AVGN episode – Dark Castle for the Sega Genesis. The Nerd introduces the episode pondering on why the NES had so many terrible games for it, and decides to give the big, bad 16 bit Sega Genesis a go as a change of pace, and the game of choice […]
Here we have a very special Angry Video Game Nerd episode. Not only is does this one cover an incredibly important game in Nintendo history, the Nintendo World Championships competition cartridge, but it also features a crossover between both James Rolfe as the Nerd and Pat Contri as Pat the NES Punk. During this time […]
Recently Sony finally got off its butt and actually announced some information about the PlayStation 5, including system specifications and details on its backwards compatibility or, more correctly, its lack thereof, but still left quite a bit to the internet rumor mill. I thought it would be nice to cut through the lies and attention-seeking […]
We’re in quite a unique time in history, what with the whole Coronavirus situation and how that’s affecting life for most everyone on Earth in some way. That being said, most people are trying to, in one way or another, keep things pretty normal in their lives during this, and that’s no exception here on […]
Next up in season 6 of The Angry Video Game Nerd we have a much more traditional episode than the previous one — this time an 8 minute look at the NES game “Kid Kool.” Of note is right at the opening we have the “new” Nerd intro for widescreen episodes, where 2 separate panes […]
It’s time again to take a look at the upcoming months Games with Gold lineup, but things are a bit different this time around. Thanks to the current Coronavirus issue, there appears to be no video for the April games with Gold assortment. Yep, no video to accompany things, just an image from the Xbox […]
Welcome to Season 6 of The Angry Video Game Nerd. At this time James was still getting production of the movie underway, and this time period, the late half of 2011, would mark a final spurt of Nerd episodes before a 6 month break as filming of The Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie would […]
Season 5 of the Angry Video Game Nerd was a bit of a departure from the previous few years of the show. This season had far fewer episodes than previous ones, as James began to focus his efforts on other projects including the beginning of production in earnest of The Angry Video Game Nerd: The […]
It amazes me, weeks into what has quickly become a global pandemic and, in my eyes, a defining event in all our lives (more so than even September 11th, 2001) that there are people out there trying to live their lives like nothing is happening — as if this isn’t something to be concerned about. […]
With many people being forced to stay home during this pandemic the overall infrastructure of the internet is being somewhat taxed by far more people than normal using it for video watching, gaming, teleconferencing, what have you, at any given time. While the overall infrastructure seems like it can handle the overall load the fact […]
The vilification of gaming in the media is never ending, and even now, during the Coronavirus Pandemic and the often mandatory quarantines being enacted around the world, news outlets out there are still trying to find ways to attack gamers and their hobby as the source of some kind of problem — in this case, […]
I try very hard not to have to cover more serious subjects here. It can be, quite honestly, depressing, to cover much of what goes on in the world, and while I do share very strong opinions from time to time on my hobbies, I do fully acknowledge, regardless of how supportive or critical I […]
You know, I always find myself at a crossroads with what to write about. This site is, as I’ve said numerous times, about whatever I want it to be at a given moment; whatever has caught my attention and interest, or what I’m focusing on at that time. This has, of course, resulted in quite […]
Yes, I’m going to take this opportunity to gloat. After months of people constantly throwing out a rumor that the PlayStation 5 would “play every PlayStation game ever” Sony announced today, among other things about the system, that it would not be backwards compatible with anything but, apparently, the “top 100 PlayStation 4 games” and […]
Today marks 13 years since I decided “fuck it, I need a website” and registered the domain name xadara.com. In the past I’ve gone over the history of the site — how it started as a site for a music game related personal project, became more of a “general purpose” blog with some static, outdated […]