The BEST episodes of Angry Video Game Nerd season 12
Every episode of Angry Video Game Nerd season 12, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Angry Video Game Nerd season 12!
The titular Nerd character is an ill-tempered and foul-mouthed video game fanatic. He derives comic appeal from excessive and inventive use of profanity, frequent displays of explicit gestures, and heavy consumption of beer, particularly Rolling Rock or Yuengling, to "soothe the pain". A particular characteristic is his favorable comparison of extremely repulsive and painful, usually firmly scatological, acts to playing the games he reviews. Varying amounts of physical comedy are mixed into the verbal abuse.
#1 - Home Alone Games with Macaulay Culkin
Season 12 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/15/2018
The Angry Video Game Nerd plays the Home Alone games with Macaulay Culkin! Sure, the Home Alone movie games have been covered before on AVGN, but never so many, AND with Mack himself.
#2 - EarthBound
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/18/2018
This video has been in the works since last October (2017), when I first started the playing Earthbound on the mini SNES Classic. It wasn’t originally meant to be an AVGN episode. It was for myself. I never played much of Earthbound before, but it’s a game that always appealed to me. Yes, even when I saw the ads in Nintendo Power. The only reason I never played it much was because I was too busy with Final Fantasy 3 (6) and Chrono Trigger. SNES has so many amazing masterpieces, it’s almost impossible to play them all. But after more than 20 years, I owed it to myself to complete Earthbound. The gameplay took me 45 and a half hours. After recording it all, I decided to put all those hours to good use, and make a video. At first, I didn’t think it would be an AVGN episode, but more of a casual “James review”. But I realized there were plenty of wacky moments in the game that the Nerd could react to. If you’re wondering about the characters’ names such as “Milly” and “Lilly”, my 4 year old daughter named them. To write the script, I had to search through 45+ hours of game footage, to confirm and describe accurately all the moments that I wanted to comment on. Then came a bunch of researching facts, and developing my own personal theories. It turned out, I had a ton to say. It became the longest single-part AVGN episode, by total accident (running nearly 40 minutes). On top of that, I couldn’t resist adding a dream scene with laborious green screen effects. In total, counting gameplay, writing, shooting, editing, the entire video took 137.5 hours to finish, making it the 2nd most time-consuming AVGN episode to date. (Episode 139: Mega Man still barely holds the record at 138.5 hours). Ironically Earthbound was meant to be a break for myself, but it turned into a major task, as all my other projects screeched to a halt. I had fun with this video and am happy with it, but now that it’s finally done, I hope to get back to my per
#3 - Tomb Raider Games
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/2018
The AVGN reviews a variety of Tomb Raider Games. Tomb Raider Chronicles (PS1), Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness (PS2), and Tomb Raider for the Ngage handheld device.
#4 - The Town With No Name (CDTV)
Season 12 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/2018
The chilling conclusion to the Amiga CD32 AVGN episode (162). The Nerd heads down to The Town With No Name in the MS Paint Wild West. It's for the Amiga CDTV... or, should I say the Amiga CD32 (AGAIN!).
#5 - Dirty Harry
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/17/2018
The Nerd questions whether his next bad game "feels lucky", as he looks at an NES game based on the Dirty Harry movie series that featured only three levels
#6 - Drake of the 99 Dragons
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/2018
Angry Video Game Nerd (XBOX) Drake of the 99 Dragons (Episode 158)
#7 - Amiga CD32
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/2018
The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews the Amiga CD32 console. Watch as the Nerd dives head first into some of the worst video games ever. The Amiga CD32 had such "gems" as Gloom, Kang Fu, Oscar, Naughty Ones, Morph, Beavers, Zool, Dangerous Streets, and of course Surf Ninjas for some reason.
#8 - Resident Evil Survivor
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2018
The AVGN reviews Resident Evil Survivor (PS1) in this Halloween themed episode.
#9 - Super Hydlide and Virtual Hydlide
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2018
The AVGN reviews Super Hydlide (GEN) and Virtual Hydlide (SAT), this is a follow up to his NES Hydlide review.