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Recap / The Angry Video Game Nerd Season Six

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    The Making of an AVGN episode (Featuring Barbie (NES)) 
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James Rolfe appears in camera to address the common question he would get: What goes into making an Angry Video Game Nerd episode. He spends a half hour going into the process of making a simple episode (although a behind-the-scenes extra does show parts of how R.O.B. and Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout was made). He uses Barbie for the NES as an example of how to make an episode.

After that is done, the episode starts off proper with the Nerd putting in Barbie. He finds it odd that the concept is Barbie living a dream about the things she has to do later. He finds the controls to be awkward, and the variety of enemies so outlandish, it's hard to take it seriously. There was not a whole lot to be said about the game as the Nerd ends up losing, in a girl's game, and just swears it off afterward.

    Kid Kool (NES) 
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Kid Kool for the NES was developed by Vic Tokai, better known for Decap Attack for the Sega Genesis, and Psycho Fox for the Sega Master System, where Kid Kool plays much similar to those games. The objective is that the King is ill, and the main character has to collect seven different herbs to treat him. While the graphics are fine, there are some weird things about the game, such as the method of attacking (with the power-up), the weird continue sequence (the king has the power of immortality and is able to revive the player if they lose all their lives), and the day-to-night transitions using different colors (some choices of colors being weirder than others, such as purple and orange). The Nerd finds that the game has several problems, such as poor jump controls, being required to learn how to skip a body of water perfectly, the lack of vertical scrolling, poor placement of invisible blocks (which causes more obstructions than surprise), among many other problems. The Nerd argues that there could not had been a big demand for Kid Kool, and argues that the game developers should had taken their time to make a more refined product. In the end, the Nerd finds out the hard way that the game has multiple endings, with one he got being that he took too long to complete the game, in which the King had passed away.

    Nintendo World Championships (NES) 
Featured games: Super Mario Bros. (NES), Rad Racer (NES), and Tetris (NES) as part of the NWC cart

The Nerd is beside himself with glee as he has just received a box of games he ordered off of Ebay, for one of the games included is the incredibly rare Nintendo World Championships 1990 cartridge, used in the Nintendo Power-sponsored tournament of the same name and inspired by the Video Armageddon tournament from The Wizard. He rummages through the box, only to be crestfallen when he finds the copy of NWC he had ordered was merely an easily and cheaply attainable reproduction cartridge.

Determined to make his collection as complete as possible, he calls a collector just as insane as himself if not more so: Pat the NES Punk. To his delight, Pat claims that he has a copy of NWC. The Nerd invites him over to "authenticate" the cartridge.

Pat brings over his NWC cart: one of the grey individually numbered carts that was used in the tournament. The Nerd claims that the cart is a "fake" and offers to take it off his hands in exchange for the box of games he had ordered. Pat mocks the cheap and easily attainable games the Nerd was offering, taking a moment to realize that what he thought was merely a copy of The Legend of Zelda was actually a golden NWC cart, which was offered as a sweepstakes prize by Nintendo Power and was even more rare than the grey tournament carts. The Nerd tries to offer Pat his grey NWC cart back, claiming the gold carts were mere giveaways that didn't even have a proper label, just a cheap NWC logo put on with Elmer's glue.

Eventually, the two decide to settle the matter the only way they know how: by competing with each other at Nintendo World Championship 1990.

Using the reproduction cart, the two begin the game, only for the Nerd to realize that all there was to the NWC cart was stripped down versions of other Nintendo games: players were tasked with obtaining 50 coins in Super Mario Bros. as quickly as possible, finishing in the fastest on the first course of Rad Racer, and getting as many points as possible within a time limit in Tetris.

Realizing that the NWC cart was an overglorified piece of shit, the Nerd destroys both the gold and grey carts with a hammer. He offers a shocked Pat his reproduction cart. The two have a good laugh until Pat tries to strangle the Nerd.

(Don't worry, the carts that were destroyed were stunt doubles. The genuine carts were left intact.)

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    Bible Games 3 
Featured games: King James Bible (GB), Caltron 6-in-1 (NES, featuring Adam & Eve), Spiritual Warfare (Gen), Bible Adventures (Gen), and the King of Kings (NES, featuring Flight to Egypt)

The Nerd gives a brief recap about his previous episodes, featuring the highlights of the two previous episodes on games based on the bible. He was reluctant to do a third episode, knowing that the third entries of anything is never as good, but chose to do it anyway so he can have closure for all these games.

The first game he looks at is the King James Bible for the Gameboy, which he initially thought back in Bible Games 2, it was just the bible itself. However, it does have some minigames, being hang-man (but with sheep escaping every time you fail) and a word scrambler. He then briefly looks through the bible within the game and decides to do a word search for the word "ass", leading to numerous results, which he then comically decides to recite these verses (even one that literally said "the dumb ass").

The Nerd would then pull up the Caltron 6-in-1 cartridge, and even go into the history behind this cartridge, being that Caltron went out of business sometime after manufacturing these cartridges and sold off their inventory to Myriad, who repackaged the remaining cartridges with a completely different sticker, but made no internal changes otherwise. Despite this, it ends up being much more rare and demanded even higher prices on ebay. As for the game itself, the Nerd doesn't find the games itself to be bad, but what he did find was that they were copy cats of other existing games (Buster Bros, Space Harrier, etc), except for Arabian Night. The one game he focused in this collection is Adam & Eve, which is a rip-off of Balloon Fight, featuring a pair of asexual twins with different colors who are facing cartoon-serpents in place of the regular enemies from Balloon Fight, among many other elements changed. Ultimately, it has no real connection with the bible story it is suppose to be based on.

As the Nerd calms down a bit, he decides to go into the genesis versions of two Wisdom Tree games. He briefly talks about Spiritual Warfare, with his major complaint being the lack of a save feature like Zelda (even the NES version had a battery save function). In Bible Adventures, the games are the same as the NES, just with better graphics and music. He did manage to get farther in David & Goliath, and even beat Noah's Ark, only to find the ending underwhelming.

With all that covered, the Nerd was not done yet. He insisted that he never wants there to be a Bible Games 4, so he decided to settle some unfinished business with his review of Flight to Egypt, included in the King of Kings cartridge. He finds the game to not be very special at all, hence why he initially ended it before saying "it's bad", but admits that it's even worse. He was able to beat the game and to see the ending, but it was just the one scene with one sentence, and that's it. The Nerd even beat the game again to see if he skipped the ending by accident, but that was not the case. He is aware of a screen that will appear in the game that says "give your heart out to Jesus", and assumes that you have to beat all three games to see this. He decides that he will not go through the effort, but he will give his heart to Jesus. So he quickly and harshly dissects his heart right out of his chest, calling out to Jesus!

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