![double dragon 3 avgn double dragon 3 avgn](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOGU0ZDhjNDYtNWI4MC00NGQ1LTg0MTQtYTcxNzdmZTYzODQ5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTM3MDMyMDQ@._V1_.jpg)
- DOUBLE DRAGON 3 AVGN MOVIE
- DOUBLE DRAGON 3 AVGN PLUS
- DOUBLE DRAGON 3 AVGN SERIES
- DOUBLE DRAGON 3 AVGN TV
The season marks better written and more elaborate episodes, again with great uses of special effects, editing techniques and humor. The season also marks location change to the new “Nerd Room” starting in the “Batman” episode, the first episode shot in 1.78:1 widescreen in “Bible Games 2”, a review of one of the most requested games ever - the abomination “Superman 64”, and the 2 worst choices Nintendo ever made - the Virtual Boy, and the licensing of Mario and Zelda characters for games on the failed CD-i gaming console. During the season, the Nerd gets visits by a cast of characters from the games such as Spider-Man, Bugs Bunny, Leatherface, and Michael Meyers, mostly to torment the Nerd.Ģ008 marks season 3, marks some big changes, including the first time an actually good game is reviewed with “Super Mario Brothers 3”, though it’s not all a pat on the back, as the satanic references and the appearance of Super Mecha Death Christ shows. The Nerd reviews not only games themselves, but consoles such as the bulky Atari 5200, the life-support add-ons to the Sega Genesis: the Sega CD and the 32X. Episodes became longer with more intricately written content, with more time give to the game background and better explanations on the examples of badness with colorful euphemisms with yelling and screaming. Season 2 in 2007 proved that Rolfe had much more to offer.
![double dragon 3 avgn double dragon 3 avgn](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avgn/images/e/e8/Bimmy_and_Jimmy.png)
DOUBLE DRAGON 3 AVGN SERIES
Regardless, it’s quite incredible that the template for the series was established so well in the first season. Though there are some misfires such as the unfunny “Shit Pickle” character making a cameo appearance in episode 9 “Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu” or the updated ending of “Wally Bear and the No Gang” having a horror themed ending that didn’t fit with the rest of the episode.
DOUBLE DRAGON 3 AVGN MOVIE
Episode 3 “The Karate Kid” (1987, NES) shows some great editing and some destruction special effects, the Halloween-timed episodes of “Friday the 13th” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” features Jason and Freddy respectively tormenting the Nerd with great horror movie lighting and editing, and every episode features very good overviews of the games filled with colorfully fowl-worded yet almost poetic profanity, many times involving diarrhea. Rolfe returned in 2006 to make the first episode with the moniker and title “The Angry Nintendo Nerd” for a series of videos uploaded to YouTube to showcase bad video games on the 8 bit NES, though the name eventually changed with episode 15 in 2006, officially renamed “The Angry Video Game Nerd”, which was more fitting as he then reviewed other console games such as the Sega Master System “Rocky” in episode 16, The 2006 “Season 1” episodes featured Rolfe in character becoming much more creative in the making of the episodes. Critical as that sounds, the first two episodes were like seeing first drafts or pilot films rather than finished products, and what came afterward was a drastic step forward. The review barely shows what the game is.
DOUBLE DRAGON 3 AVGN TV
And when it does show the game, it is not footage directly from the game, but a camera shooting a TV monitor at an angle. For the second the camera was on Rolfe for more than half the time of him and not enough on the game. There were “ums” and “uhs” in the narration and overall it was not well written. With the first review, it’s just footage of gameplay with narration that is badly scripted.
![double dragon 3 avgn double dragon 3 avgn](https://doubledragon.kontek.net/mailbag/images/ddcosplay2.jpg)
He shows the absurdly difficult game that has haunted him for years, but only plays the game for a short time, while being on camera in his white button down shirt and glasses that would become a trademark. Hyde” (1989), this time appearing in front of the camera explaining to the audience that it really is the worst game ever made and is torture to play. A few months later, Rolfe made a new video to explain about the NES game “Dr. Rolfe starts the review with a simple “This game sucks”, and explains the difficulty, the cryptic nature of the game, and the unnecessary night/day shift.
DOUBLE DRAGON 3 AVGN PLUS
With more than 100 Internet episodes made almost entirely by James Rolfe himself, directing, acting, writing, and editing, plus one feature length theatrical film for the 10th anniversary, volumes of DVD releases of the series, the series still goes strong (although not as frequent) to this day.īack in 2004, Rolfe made a video showing gameplay of “Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest”, the 1988 NES sequel to the classic Konami adventure game “Castlevania” from 1986. Since 2004, “The Angry Video Game Nerd” with his trademark white button up shirt, glasses, and bottles of Rolling Rock beer has taken us back to the past, by playing and reliving the childhood frustrations of old video games. “AVGN X”: The First 100 Episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd