Angry Videogame Nerd X3

It has been quite awhile since my previous Angry Videogame Nerd (AVGN) entry, which covered his ninth and final DVD release. The folks at Cinemassacre have since been releasing the AVGN videos on glorious BluRay HD for the past couple of years. Today I am covering the third BluRay of AVGN videos, AVGN X3. Why start with X3? That is because X1 and X2 are collections of all the AVGN episodes and extra features from the first six DVD releases. I can see eventually revisiting those videos down the line and covering them here because there are countless classic episodes I would love to experience all over again and document my take on them here, but for now I want to focus on the content that is exclusive to this BluRay.

X3 consists mostly of previously releases episodes and extra features on the eighth and ninth DVD collections, so click here for my entries on those DVDs to get a refresher of their contents. The only AVGN episode that makes its home video debut in X3 is the Paperboy episode. While I disagree with the Nerd’s perspective of this arcade classic, it was nevertheless a hoot to endure as the Nerd (James Rolfe) gives Paperboy the vintage AVGN treatment, complete with countless vulgarities and a live action re-enactment of how difficult it truly is to deliver newspapers on a bicycle.

There are over six hours of extra features on the BluRay. Nearly five hours of them are from volumes seven and eight of the DVDs. If you have not seen them before then do not be intimidated by their length. James Rolfe and his primary crew member Mike Matei are a delight to watch breakdown how they produced the episodes. For extra features making their home video debut there is a live action trailer dedicated to one of AVGN’s most popular episodes covering the NES classic, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Aside from that there is over one hour of the complete run of the one-to-two minute sketches from the Cinemassacre segment, You Know What’s Bullshit!? These are fun little mini-rants about a wide range of everyday objects and topics like iTunes, DVD/BluRay cases, penguin movies, shoelaces and many more. They are a nice little bonus to round off the BluRay and I got a few chuckles from them, but they are in no way requisite viewing.

I originally was going to watch only the new home video content on Angry Videogame Nerd X3, but quickly changed my mind after firing up a couple of my favorite episodes from the previous DVDs like Big Rigs and Mega Man. I would up watching all the episodes contained on the BluRay as well as a vast majority of the previously released extra features. If you held off on getting the DVDs all these years then now is the time to jump in as the BluRays are packed with far more content and take up exponentially less shelf space than the DVDs. If you are one of the many moving away from physical media however and still want a way to dig into the archives you are in luck that way too because Cinemassacre has the complete run of AVGN episodes available for free on the AVGN website.

Past TV/Web Series Blogs

2013-14 TV Season Recap
2014-15 TV Season Recap
2015-16 TV Season Recap
2016-17 TV Season Recap
2017-18 TV Season Recap
Adventures of Briscoe County Jr: The Complete Series
Baseball: A Ken Burns series
Angry Videogame Nerd Home Video Collections
Mortal Kombat: Legacy - Season 1
OJ: Made in America: 30 for 30
RedvsBlue - Seasons 1-13
Roseanne – Seasons 1-9
Seinfeld Final Season
Star Trek: Next Generation – Seasons 1-7
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
Superheroes: Pioneers of Television
The Vietnam War: A Ken Burns series
X-Men – The Animated Series: Volumes 4-5