Angry Video Game Nerd (abbreviated as AVGN) is an American web television series of comedy-themed retrogaming reviews, created by and starring James Rolfe. The show revolves around reviews that involve acerbic rants about low quality video games.
Starting with season 2, new episodes were aired first on GameTrailers.com. After about a year, episodes aired on GameTrailers would be re-aired on James Rolfe's YouTube page, but in many cases, the episodes would be aired out of order.
Episodes are scheduled to be released the first or second Wednesday of each month, as opposed to two episodes per month due to other work. As of August 9, 2011, a complete list of episodes appears at Cinemassacre.com.
Three of the AVGN episodes have never officially made it to, or remained on YouTube. They are from season 2: episodes 18, 19, and 32 (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Part 1 and 2, Atari Porn). However, they are still available on Cinemassacre and ScrewAttack. Episodes 16 and 46, Rocky and Super Mario Bros. 3 respectively, were both removed from YouTube due to their usage of movie clips. Rocky was re-uploaded on Cinemassacre's YouTube page, with the same changes that were made to the DVD version. Super Mario Bros. 3 was given the same treatment, but was uploaded on Rolfe's personal channel. Atari Porn no longer has an official release on YouTube due to being flagged as inappropriate by YouTube's community guidelines, but has been uploaded by other YouTubers.
This is the Nerd's first game review ever.
This episode was originally created on May 16, 2004 and previously only available as a part of a film compilation tape with other short films created or directed by James Rolfe.
The Nerd re-visited this game five years later in "Castlevania, Part II". In episode 119, the Nerd goes back to the game briefly to find another version that has fixed many of the problems he had previously complained about.
This episode was originally created on May 28, 2004 and previously only available as a part of a film compilation tape with other short films created or directed by Rolfe. This is the first time James Rolfe appeared on screen as the Nerd. This game was "re"-revisited in 2010, in which the Nerd tries to beat the game.
(YT) April 8, 2006
This episode was intended to be the last. This is the first episode to feature the name "Angry Nintendo Nerd" onscreen.