Star Wars Expanded Universe: Shadows of the Empire.Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on Atari 2600.Christmas Special 2010 ( How The Nerd Stole Christmas).Nintendo Days Re-Revisited + Back to The Future Trilogy (includes re-reviews of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Top Gun, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?).Castlevania Part 4 ( Castlevania Bloodlines and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night).Castlevania Part 3 ( Super Castlevania IV, Castlevania: Dracula X, and Castlevania 64).Castlevania Part 2 ( Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse).Mario Is Missing! (and Mario's Time Machine).CDi Part 3 ( Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda's Adventure).CDi Part 2 ( Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon).Superman 64 (And Superman: Man of Steel on Commodore 64).The Wizard (film) and Super Mario Bros 3.Chronologically Confused about The Legend of Zelda Timeline.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (Movie Review).Chronologically Confused about Bad Movie and Video Game Sequel Titles.Top Gun (and Top Gun: The Second Mission).Duck Tales (technically a Video Game Vault review and not an actual AVGN episode, though he's in character as The Nerd).Toilet Video (video made for ScrewAttack's Toilet Tuesday series parodying the Nintendo 64 Kid).Back to The Future (and Back to the Future Part II & III).He produced an Angry Video Game Nerd Movie, which can be viewed on-demand here. In Real Life, Rolfe and Doug Walker (The Nostalgia Critic) are good friends and Rolfe has even guested in several other That Guy With The Glasses projects, including Cameos in both of the site's subsequent anniversary specials. See the Critic's page for more details (and TGWTG Year One Brawl for said crossover). The AVGN had a long and violent "rivalry" with The Nostalgia Critic that came to a head with a Battle Royale With Cheese in October 2008, and another in May 2009, this time a Massive Multiplayer Crossover with his guitar guy in the fray. When he isn't getting his nerd on, James Rolfe maintains a website at where he showcases various other ventures, including his own independent films and an annual "Monster Madness" feature each October counting down to Halloween. Aside from giving reviews, the Nerd has also given a bit of video game history, such as a summary of the infamous Console Wars. Note, however, that a handful of episodes are not so much about a single shitty game as they are about a certain console or accessory (there are even a few that aren't about video games at all). The Nerd gets frequent unwanted visits from the stars of the games he plays, from Bugs Bunny to Freddy Krueger. His reviews inevitably spiral downward into a barely-coherent rant peppered liberally with Cluster F-Bombs and scatological references culminating in a violent frothing rage that puts the Incredible Hulk to shame. During its lifespan of nearly a decade, the console introduced now-classic characters like Mario, Link, and Mega Man, saw video games shift from thinly veiled excuses to kill bad guys to complex plots, and produced scores of truly great games, some of which remain classics to this day.īut it also produced some real stinkers, and that's where the Angry Video Game Nerd comes in. The Nintendo Entertainment System was a landmark in the history of video gaming - it was the first Japanese console to make a splash in the US, the first console released after The Great Video Game Crash of 1983, and the first console that most members of Generation Y have firsthand memories of playing. "The Nerd" holds a specific torch of hate towards licensed games, especially ones published by LJN Toys, which he sees as manipulating hopeful and oblivious kids into buying complete trash. James Rolfe is the Angry Video Game Nerd, formerly Angry Nintendo Nerd before he stopped focusing on just the NES (and realized he couldn't sell T-shirts with someone else's trademark on them), a misanthropic, foul-mouthed, chronically ill-tempered gaming geek with a predilection for Rolling Rock beer who plays weird, old, and, more often than not, Nintendo Hard games, some of them with the worst Fake Difficulty imaginable.
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