Halloween (1983, Atari 2600) by Wizard Video Games

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GAMES FROM THIS EPISODE OF THE AVGN:
–Halloween (Atari 2600)
-Haunted House (Atari 2600)
-Frankenstein’s Monster (Atari 2600)

Wizard Video Games made 2 Horror-based games in 1983. The first one AVGN and I both addressed was The...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1983, Atari 2600) by Wizard Video Games

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To be quite honest, before the AVGN episode came out, I never knew this game existed. Of course, the 2600 was before my time. I never owned one as a kid, and I didn’t play one very often growing up...

Fester’s Quest (1989, NES) by Sunsoft

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GAMES FROM THIS EPISODE OF THE AVGN:
–Fester’s Quest
-Home Improvement
-The Addams Family (SNES)
-Addams Family Values (SNES)
-The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (SNES)
-The Addams Family (Genesis)

Coming off of the immensely-boring Bugs B...

The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout (1990, NES) by Kemco

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There’s a theme with the AVGN Trials I have noticed at this point: not every game the Nerd ever reviewed is a good watch. Of course, there’s the good games… and then there’s the games that are “so bad that they’re good”.

And then there’...

DuckTales (1989, NES) by Capcom

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The AVGN reviewed DuckTales?

Sure did! See the video above? People were stunned by this, but that was one of my favorite points of the trials: the AVGN reviews a lot of games, and they’re not always “A shitload of fuck”...