The Angry Video Game Nerd: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Angry Video Game Nerd Season 2.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Virtual Boy
Feb 19, 2008 · 15 min
The Nerd investigates the infamous handheld that gave us headaches...in 3D!
The Wizard of Oz
Mar 4, 2008 · 11 min
The Nerd plays the Super Nintendo adaption of the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie. Something that can't be made into a good game. Mainly due to the addition of weird enemies and locations
Double Vision: Part 1
Mar 25, 2008 · 10 min
The Nerd does a review on the two competing consoles to the Atari 2600 Intellivision and Colecovision. He starts his review on Intellivision first and also does a review on most of
Double Vision: Part 2
Apr 8, 2008 · 8 min
The Nerd does a follow up to the previous review by showing us the features of the Colecovision. The controllers aren't any different from the Intellivision, while most of the game
The Wizard and Super Mario Bros 3
Apr 22, 2008 · 10 min
The Nerd decides to review a good game for once which is Super Mario Bros. 3. Before he reviews it, he talks about the movie The Wizard which is how American gamers first learn abo
N.E.S. Accessories!
May 14, 2008 · 14 min
The Nerd reviews all the crap Nintendo tried to market along with the NES. Zapper guns, LaserScopes, Roll'n Rocker, and other accessories one needs to look "cool" while playing vid
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
May 21, 2008 · 17 min
In honor of the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the AVGN reviews the games based on the original trilogy. Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari, Temple of
Star Trek
Jun 11, 2008 · 11 min
In a Star Trek theme review, the Nerd dons a yellow Starfleet uniform and decides to review a couple Star Trek related games, cause reviewing all of them would be too much for him
Superman
Jun 26, 2008 · 12 min
The Nerd reviews two of the earlier Superman theme games. The first one for the Atari 2600 is not just bad in graphics but is confusing to navigate. While the Superman game for the
Superman 64
Jul 8, 2008 · 11 min
The Nerd complies to his fan requests to review Superman 64 which he decided to pull everyone's leg by reviewing the Superman game for Commodore 64. His main complaint is the load
Batman: Part 1
Jul 22, 2008 · 12 min
AVGN gets dressed up like Batman to review a series of games based on the Caped Crusader. First up, a Commodore 64 game, which sucks and is given "the Bat punishment." While he pra
Batman: Part 2
Aug 11, 2008 · 10 min
The Joker holds AVGN hostage and forces him to play the NES, Game Boy and Sega versions of Return of the Joker. They all suck. It enrages the Bat-Nerd so much, he breaks free and f
Deadly Towers
Aug 19, 2008 · 8 min
As a special incentive, the AVGN has his fans write his dialogue as he sets out to rant and rave about an NES game he wishes never existed.
Battletoads
Sep 3, 2008 · 8 min
The Nerd and his guitar guy from behind the couch, Kyle Justin, join forces to play Battletoads on Nintendo proving that, with just one player the game is a mild challenge, but wit
Dick Tracy
Sep 19, 2008 · 15 min
Game on the chopping block this week: Dick Tracy on Nintendo. The world's most popular yellow-coated detective in the world's most frustrating, nonlinear game. Watch as the Nerd st
Dracula
Oct 15, 2008 · 12 min
In this special Halloween episode, the Nerd reviews games that star one of the most popular icons in horror film: Count Dracula.
Frankenstein
Oct 28, 2008 · 14 min
The Nerd and his diabolical creation, Franken-Nerd, play games dedicated to that other popular horror movie icon: Frankenstein.
CD-i: Part 1 - Hotel Mario
Nov 12, 2008 · 8 min
After spending $700 on a CD-i and games, the Nerd reviews Hotel Mario.
CD-i Part 2: Zelda Wand of Gamelon
Nov 25, 2008 · 13 min
The Nerd now reviews one of the three Zelda games for the CD-i. Out of the three he decides to play Zelda: Wand of Gamelon first cause the Nerd thought it be cool to control Zelda
CD-i Part 3: Faces of Evil and Zelda's Adventure
Dec 9, 2008 · 14 min
In the third and final video in the Nerd's CD-I series he plays through Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda's Adventure. Link: The Faces of Evil plays similarly to Zelda: The Wand of
Bible Games 2
Dec 23, 2008 · 17 min
It's Christmas time once more, and this time the Nerd decides to play more Bible games. This time most of the ones he's reviewing are official licensed games. The most obscured gam
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
Jan 7, 2009 · 10 min
The Nerd reviews one of the first Genesis games he ever played which is Moonwalker. He expressed that at the time anything with Michael Jackson was worth buying and the idea of con
Milon's Secret Castle
Jan 27, 2009 · 12 min
When it comes to secrets, Milon's Secret Castle is filled with them. When the Nerd tries to play this game, he finds it to be unusual that two entrances to the castle lead right ba