Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures is a video game adaptation of The Angry Video Game Nerd. The game starts with the nerd and company playing games, when they are transported inside the television to Game Land. The game plays much like a classic Mega Man game, with the nerd platforming and shooting his way through levels.
It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on September 20, 2013, and can be found here. It was developed by FreakZone Games, and published by Retroware in conjunction with ScrewAttack. It was also released on the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U according to Nintendo, though the digital downloads for these versions are no longer available. Also known as The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures on some promotional material.
The remastered version is available as part of a compilation release, which has a website here.
- Bottomless Pits: The Nerd encounters these in Game Land.
- Cutscene: One happens at the opening of the game to explain the plot.
- Easy Mode Mockery: Play on easy and the gun is changed to a pink color.
- Exposition Fairy: Naggi the fairy greets the Nerd after he arrives in Game Land.
- Expy: Naggi is one of Navi from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, being a green fairy instead of a blue one.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: The digital versions of the game for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS can no longer be purchased due to the closure of eshop for those platforms, meaning only consoles that had downloaded them when they were available on the eshop can play those versions.
- Licensed Game: Of The Angry Video Game Nerd.
- The Merch: A pixel pin was produced for PAX East 2024, and can be seen on the Retroware website here.
- Multi-Platform: Released on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U.
- Retraux: Designed to look like an older game.
- Trapped in TV Land: The premise of the game is that the Nerd and his friends are dragged into the Game Land.