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• A sad piano version of the Angry Video Game Nerd theme song at the beginning of the episode as the Nerd depressingly complains about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian-Ukrainian War, shitty games and being dormant for the Back to the Future on NES remake while it's raining outside.

• At the end of the sad piano rendition, the music cues to a more uplifting rendition of the Angry Video Game Nerd theme song (similar to Mega Man and LJN Wrestling/Other Games) as the sun shines that he's going to update the Back to the Future NES game as he realized that it can take time with updates being done.

• He reads a letter from the newly-thawed Jack Philips (played by Tom Lynskey) to review three shitty games (Titanic by Shenzhen Nanjing Technology, Titenic and Titanic Mystery, all on the Famicom).

• The 8-bit theme song plays with a Morse code sound that says (.- ...- --. -.), referring to the Angry Video Game Nerd.

• Reappearance of the Shit Scale.

• The ending that has the Nerd talking about Titanic: Honor and Glory, then playing Titanic: Adventure Out of Time.

• The Nerd compares that Titanic: Adventure Out of Time has its animations during each conversation compared to Drake of the 99 Dragons, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and two Zelda CD-i Games (Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon).

• He noticed that an image of a ViewMaster that has SpongeBob SquarePants in it in a 3DO Interactive Multiplayer episode while talking about Doom on 3DO would show that the SpongeBob SquarePants games episode is next.

• The AVGN giving some closing comments in a crappy animated style of the conversations from Titanic: Adventure Out of Time.

• The very ending showing Captain Edward Smith (played by Mark Hyre) and Molly Brown (played by Margaret Hyre) swearing about the game while in Heaven, inside the Grand Staircase with a modern flatscreen TV and an NES game console. Smith turns off the TV and removes the cartridge on a Nintoaster while Molly grabs a hammer to break the game off, ending the episode.

As much as I like AVGN, I can't help but be concerned about this next season of the show. I thought I heard people say James was going to retire AVGN after Episode 200, but seeing as Episode 201 was just posted a day or two ago, it seems to be an indication that James isn't planning on retiring AVGN anytime soon. Again, I love AVGN, but I honestly feel that if James is going to continue making these videos, he's going to run out of ideas eventually and continue declining in quality. I know that James has said that he still enjoys doing AVGN videos, and that you shouldn't force a man to quit doing what he loves doing, but I honestly feel that this next season of AVGN is only going to hurt James in the long run.

BTW I hate Pucca.

Based on his reviews of them?

Excluding games that barely qualify as a game like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, Big Rigs, Desert Bus, Crazy Bus, and Hong Kong 97.

Obviously, the game he considers the worst that isn't one of the above is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

But I think a few of them might have been even worse.

One that always stood out for me was Ghostbusters for NES. It's a perfectly horrible mix of overly repetitive and monotonous gameplay (driving and catching ghosts) and extreme excessive difficulty (Zuul building). He even briefly said - before changing his mind - that this game was worse than Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The other, and he made a point of avoiding playing it even to review it for a while and shuddering every time it came up, was ET. Let's review all the things that earned it its reputation and eventual review:

1. You keep falling into pits, and they're annoying to get out of, but you have to go in there to get pieces to the phone, and they're in a different pit each time

2. There are scientists who take you to a building and FBI agents who take all your phone pieces and it's hard to outrun them without falling in a pit, and they run over them

3. Once you have the phone pieces you have to find the exact Phone Home space on the map, which is a random unmarked space that is different every time

4. Even if you get all the phone pieces and find the call zone, it won't work if there's a scientist or FBI agent on the screen

5. And even if you make the call, you have to go back t the landing zone within the time limit. Once you're there you have to wait for the time to reach zero, and again, it won't work if there's scientists or FBI on the screen.

6. Through ALL this, ET can die from running around too much

So yeah, so many things that make it excessively difficult and annoying.

What do you think? Are there any games you thought were worse than Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or at the very least on par with it?

Personally I liked Mortal Kombat 1 Ports and Rip-Offs episode the most.

I mean it’s pretty horrible especially for a Tony Hawk game.

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Pacman for the Atari 2600

WWE 2K20

Mario Party 10

Mario's Time Machine

Spongebob Revenge Of The Flying Dutchman

Meat Shift (PC)

SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge (PS3)

Fallout 76 (PS4)

Daikatana (PC/N64)

Alvin and the Chipmunks (WII/DS)

I want the nerd to do a review on Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble for the SNES.

I mean in last episode, every time they kill each other they just "respawn" with another board game. Or maybe its just all in his head?

And I have a question: in review on "Darkwing Duck" on TurboGrafx16 AVGN said that he never made review on a games from this console. But he actually did: in review on "Street Fighter 2010" one of the games he reviewed was on TurboGrafx16.