![]() There is “Assholevania,” a send-up of James Rolfe’s own love for the Castlevania franchsie “Beat It & Eat It,” a puerile domain filled with the sights and sounds of Atari porn software like Custer’s Revenge “Blizzard of Balls,” a wintry hell born out of the AVGN Christmas specials and others. The Nerd and his friends are sucked into the television and transported to Game Land, divided into eight levels inspired by the show’s many themes. On the surface, Adventures is both an homage to and parody of the AVGN web series. Quite the paradox, but one that FreakZone achieved quite handily. In other words, FreakZone had to take shit and simultaneously make it not shit. The last group is his main claim to fame, but for an official Nerd game to work, it would have to draw inspiration from all three categories while at the same time being enjoyable enough to play over prolonged periods. The games that the Nerd typically plays fall under one of three categories: otherwise decent games that feature relentless difficulty, average games with a number of very curious or backwards design choices, and outright festering ass. Rig: Intel Core i3-380M, 6GB of RAM, GeForce GT 425M, Windows 7 64-bit Only by folding pain over pleasure could we truly begin to understand.Īngry Video Game Nerd Adventures (3DS, PC, Wii U) AVGN show partner ScrewAttack knew that the only way to do a Nerd game justice would be to assign development to a team with experience making palatable the most unpalatable of media dreck. ![]() There was once a Z-grade movie of sinister renown called MANOS: The Hands of Fate, which was recently translated into videogame form by FreakZone Games. No, we must dive into the deepest corners of his psyche. ![]() You can’t just film yourself playing any ol’ NES game, spout a few curse words, post the poorly edited footage onto YouTube, then call it a day. To know the Nerd, you have to become the Nerd. Why does he do it? Is he a masochist? Does the rage that burns inside with every sudden death and game-breaking bug fill him with purpose? Why does the pain give him so much power? ![]() For years, James “Angry Video Game Nerd” Rolfe has suffered the worst that retro gaming could toss at him for the sake of your amusement. ![]()
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