Angry Video Game Nerd ''The Angry Video Game Nerd'' (abbreviated as ''AVGN'') is an American retrogaming review comedy web series created by and starring James Rolfe. The series centers on Rolfe's titular skit character, often simply shortened to "the Nerd" (sometime ...

'' (abbreviated as ''AVGN'') is an American

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of comedy-themed

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reviews, created by and starring

James Rolfe James D. Rolfe (born July 10, 1980) is an American YouTuber, online personality, filmmaker, and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the comedic retrogaming web series '' The Angry Video Game Nerd'' (2004–present). His spin-of ...

. The show revolves around reviews that involve acerbic rants about low quality video games. From the beginning of season 2, new episodes were aired first on

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.com, but are since now aired at Cinemassacre.com, with episodes later being re-aired on Rolfe's own YouTube channel. Episodes are usually scheduled for release on the first or second Wednesday of each month; originally, Rolfe's early work schedule allowed for two episodes per month, but other work commitments changed this to its present arrangement. The only AVGN episode, although still available for viewing, that never officially made it to/remained on YouTube was ''Atari Porn'', which was removed after the site flagged it for inappropriate content per its community guidelines. The two part review of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3'' was removed for copyright issues, however an edited version was reuploaded in 2020 as one video. Two other episodes were later removed for using movie clips from copyrighted films – ''Rocky'' and ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' – but were later reuploaded to YouTube after being amended and changed to comply with the website's policies.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2004–06)

Season 2 (2007–08)

Season 3 (2008–09)

Season 4 (2009–10)

Season 5 (2010–11)

Season 6 (2011)

Season 7 (2012–13)

Starting with this season, episodes no longer aired on GameTrailers

Season 8 (2014)

Episodes 5 to 16 were released as part of the "12 Days of Shitsmas" event in December 2014.

''Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie'' (2014)

At the end of the Spielberg Games review, it was implied that ''

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'' would be reviewed in ''The Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie''. Eventually, at TooManyGames 2011 and Magfest 2012, Rolfe confirmed that he would review ''E.T.'' in the film. ''E.T.'' programmer,

Howard Scott Warshaw Howard Scott Warshaw (born July 30, 1957), also known as HSW, is an American psychotherapist and former game designer. He worked at Atari in the early 1980s, where he designed and programmed the Atari 2600 games ''Yars' Revenge'', ''Raiders of th ...

, also makes an appearance in the film. The film premiered July 21, 2014.

Season 9 (2015)

Season 10 (2016)

Season 11 (2017)

Season 12 (2018)

Season 13 (2019)

Season 14 (2020)

Season 15 (2021)

Season 16 (2022)

Season 17 (2023)

Clip Collection videos

Bad Game Cover Art

In 2015, from December 1 to 25, a series of mini episodes was released in the style of an

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, in which the Nerd comments on poor examples of video game cover art. The following list these episodes:

#shorts

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featuring the Angry Video Game Nerd.

Home releases

These DVDs and Blu-rays have not been sold in stores, with the exception of the ScrewAttack store.

References

External links

AVGN Full Episode List
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