The Angry Video Game Nerd

AVGN appears in the latest Pop-Fiction episode.

No turning back.

James recounts some cherished memories of Sega's beloved Hedgehog, Sonic.

Making of Crazy Castle bonus feature.

James and Mike take a look around the Nerd room.

Filmmaking advice and Cinemassacre updates from James.

You want the first details of the AVGN movie? James divulged them at his panel at MAGfest X. Catch the whole thing here.

The Nerd gets nostalgic for all things Mortal Kombat – well, the original trilogy anyway.

Con Bravo was my first appearance at a gaming convention outside the USA. It took place in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. I was glad to be there. My schedule was jam-packed with interviews, panels and autograph signings, one of which was taking place at A&C Game Store in Toronto. Unfortunately, my wife and I spent the first day sitting at the airport waiting for our flight which was delayed perpetually. Turns out, after hours and hours of waiting, the flight was straight out CANCELLED. No one was there in person to help us rebook our flights. Their customer service was shit. After waiting on hold on the phone and struggling to get any wi-fi access out of our laptop, we found out there were no more flights open until the next day. Eventually, we chose to rent a car and drive. I wasn’t going to let anyone down! Since we missed the first day, my schedule got really crammed. Furthermore, my main panel got cancelled, because the line at the autograph signing was never-ending.

This is a 32 minute guide to relaxation and inner peace. It’s something I always thought about doing as a joke, sort of like something Andy Kaufman would’ve done. It’s kind of along the lines of reading the Mega Man 2 book out loud. It’s also something that you can genuinely enjoy and use to help yourself relax or drift away to the land of sleep.

The Nerd revisits the classic kart racer that started it all.

Impromptu video where Mike Matei discusses his involvement with the AVGN videos, and gives his outside perspective of AVGN and James Rolfe’s other films. See James’s inside story with <a href="http://cinemassacre.com/2008/12/20/cinemassacre-200/">Cinemassacre 200</a> and <a href="http://cinemassacre.com/2010/06/21/the-dragon-in-my-dreams/">The Dragon in my Dreams</a>.

“Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie” is a passion project by independent filmmakers James Rolfe and Kevin Finn, based on the popular web series. The film is being produced outside the studio system, entirely funded by fan donations. Principle photography took place in Spring of 2012, in the Los Angeles area, with Jason Brewer as the DP. Additional filming is taking place on the East Coast. Editing is in its early stages. The film is inspired by the famous Atari video game burial of 1982. Atari produced a game based on the biggest blockbuster movie of that year, E.T., and rushed it to meet the deadline for the Christmas shopping season. It was a commercial failure and millions of unsold game cartridges were buried in a desert landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Coincidentally, it’s not too far from Roswell, the landing site of a different kind of E.T. The Trailer features music by Bear McCreary (Battlestar Gallactica, The Walking Dead).

Coverage of the live event hosted by James Rolfe, celebrating the release of the AVGN Movie Trailer on November 9th 2012, at the historic Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where The Blob was filmed.

AVGN Volume 6 is officially here and James is here to give you a personal walkthrough of it's contents.

James Rolfe and Mike Matei check out a strange NES cart sent in as a donation.

It's a simple question but James has all his favorites broken down by category.

As the whole internet knows, the Atari landfill, resting place of the worst game of all time, will be excavated after 30 years.

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People were enjoying AVGN even since they were a sperm cell in their dad's ball sack.

Prepare to laugh so hard you'll do physical damage to yourself.

Lets hope that James doesn't get caught at Walmart.

We now get off at faster speeds with DSL modems.

For the past 20 years, this "episode" only existed as raw footage.