Following up from the end of the previous episode, this time The Nerd takes a look at many accessories produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System during its life. Really, it’s a subject that a book could easily be written on, but here I think James does an okay job demonstrating some of the items available […]
It’s been 5 months since the last Angry Video Game Nerd episode review. 5 months since the last entry in a little pet project that on the surface seems so absurd yet when you think about it makes so much sense, as his “reviews” are really their own cinematic pieces beyond the nature of just […]
Apparently today marks 20 years since the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VIII, an RPG with a mixed reception in the community but one that I absolutely adore. Let’s go back to the mid to late 90’s. RPG’s were big. Really big. The genre which had been a bit more of a niche in the […]
In the time span since the announcement of the PlayStation Classic and the subsequent announcement of the 20 games on the console, there’s been quite a bit of debate on if this latest mini retro console is actually something you should buy. People have done comparisons on the value of actual PS1 hardware and the […]
Mobile games are generally not my thing – I’ve found a few in the past that have been fun for a while, but I don’t go out of my way to find and play them, so when I was approached by Freakout Games on twitter to review their game Solbot: Energy Rush I was a […]
Think of every first-person shooter game you’ve ever played. Now imagine those games as classic 2D platformers. Now imagine if the developers of those games were in it for the art, and for the love of creating a quality game as opposed to yet another cash grab. The game you’re imagining would probably come close […]
A good while back I wrote about wanting to do some good old game reviews here on Xadara. That’s part of what this blog was originally supposed to focus on, just my love of gaming (especially the classics) and tech, with a very healthy dose of specific reviews of individual games, consoles, and other things […]
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 […]
This is the point where, from a historical perspective the Angry Video Game Nerd start to really get interesting – the “Double Vision” episodes. For those previous years, the character and the series were generally focused on games from the Nintendo Entertainment System, with some branching out Sega Genesis and Super NES topics with only […]
The Wizard Of Oz episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd is one I consider somewhat pivotal at the very least in my personal experience with the series, as this is actually the first episode of AVGN which I saw when it was new. I recall a friend and his brother watching it in early […]
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 […]
It took over a year to do, but the episode reviews for AVGN Season 2 are complete. I’ve covered all 24 episodes and it’s a strange thing to do – going back over these videos somewhat nostalgically and taking a slightly different look at them, trying to figure out just what makes them work, for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]