It’s show time! The Angry Video Game Nerd is back with a new episode! This year’s Halloween installment takes an assault on another LJN game, Beetlejuice, for the NES, based on the hit movie by Tim Burton.
See the Beetlejuice movie review here.
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October 15, 2014 at 12:11 am
Fuckin’ A! New AVGN!!
October 15, 2014 at 12:12 am
eh…almost lol
October 15, 2014 at 6:32 pm
Don’t give up hope! There’s always next time!
October 15, 2014 at 9:01 pm
LAST!
October 16, 2014 at 1:17 am
Fuckinβ A! New AVGN!!
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October 26, 2014 at 4:49 pm
I saw Your MOVIE!!! very funny, i enjoyed it. Conspiracies are real BTW. especially 9/11. im not an idiot and neither are you. the area 51 thing, idk but i would bet money its true too.
November 27, 2014 at 12:27 am
Seriously?
November 21, 2014 at 2:34 pm
I just had an awesome idea. How about an AVGN/Board James crossover episode where they review all the different console ports of board games like Monopoly and shit? How cool would that be?
December 10, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Damn, that is a pretty good idea.
September 19, 2015 at 7:17 pm
Well, it’s not as you imagined, but we finally got an AVGN/Board James crossover after all π
http://cinemassacre.com/2015/09/05/video-game-board-games-board-james/
June 9, 2015 at 8:34 pm
*episode
October 15, 2014 at 12:11 am
There can be only one!
October 15, 2014 at 8:19 am
HAHA A FAILED FIRST COMMENT IN DISGUISE. WHAT A LOSER!
October 15, 2014 at 6:31 pm
There can be only FIRST!
October 15, 2014 at 12:15 am
YESS!! Another AVGN halloween episode, this is the best October yet! TuT
October 15, 2014 at 12:18 am
WASN”T expecting to see this tonight! YUUS π
October 15, 2014 at 12:21 am
Is the Nerd going to be wearing thicker glasses from now on? Also, is it just me or is the aspect ratio of the game footage slightly distorted?
October 15, 2014 at 12:23 am
Best olayed with the rollin rocker!
October 15, 2014 at 12:31 am
Bahahaha, the Fred Fuchs cameo!
October 15, 2014 at 12:32 am
Sincerely, Fred Fucks!
October 15, 2014 at 12:33 am
That is the classic Angry Video Game Nerd we all know and love. Great job, James! I LOVED this new episode! It was amazing, funny, and true! Please keep it up! I love your videos so much!
October 15, 2014 at 1:25 am
Yes, LGN sucks ass. But ever since I was a kid and still to this day, I really enjoy Alien 3. I son’t know why. I just find it to be a fun, challenging game.
October 15, 2014 at 7:02 am
The fact that the Nerd hates LGN is more of a running gag than anything else. Sure in the NES era they made some horrid games, but in the SNES era they made some really good ones like Maximum Carnage.
October 15, 2014 at 4:59 pm
LGN?
October 15, 2014 at 1:33 am
A new AVGN makes my heart go aflutter, even if it’s a shorter episode but I suppose that’s acceptable when he’s also working on Monster Madness. Hell, I don’t care – as long as it’s new AVGN, it’s welcome. π
You wanna know something sad though? This and another LJN game the Nerd has tackled, Roger Rabbit, was done by a beloved studio many thought could do no wrong until the 2000s rolled along… RARE. So before you say all of Rare’s games were masterpieces before Stairfax Temperatures (Blame Jontron) or Stabbed in the Goolies (Blame me.) think again.
October 15, 2014 at 1:34 am
Oh, and I forgot to mention: Maybe I shouldn’t judge since I’m a lesbian, but James… those sideburns do not befit your handsome looks.
November 17, 2014 at 12:01 pm
I always hated RARE and think every game they made is as lame as this one so I never understood all the love. Maybe it was Goldeneye? I gotta admit, I am not in FPS so I never experienced this game that everyone loves so much…
November 27, 2014 at 12:30 am
Do you hate donkey kong country and conker’s bad fur day? If so…. What DO you like?
October 15, 2014 at 1:35 am
no fuckin way!!!!
October 15, 2014 at 1:59 am
Pleasantly surprised to see a new AVGN video! Awesome.
October 15, 2014 at 2:20 am
These types of AVGN episodes are my favourite. Simple, informative, and as always, fucking hilarious. Thank you!
October 15, 2014 at 2:27 am
Yeahhh a new AVGN π And on one of my fav movies ever ^^
This game is a real shit, ahaha !
https://www.facebook.com/beetlejuicethemovie
October 15, 2014 at 2:32 am
You’re in top form James. Good shit!
October 15, 2014 at 2:32 am
Awesome! A new AVGN episode, and an enjoyable one at that! The terminology style from your Kid Kool episode is a nice throwback IMHO. Oh, LJN. You can’t be too mad at them though James. They’ve singlehandedly provided you with a lot of review material over the years.
October 15, 2014 at 4:45 am
Right! I was trying to remember which episode had the terminology. Good stuff.
October 16, 2014 at 1:30 am
Glad I could help.:)
October 15, 2014 at 3:36 am
Ive waited eons for you to review this, thank you
October 15, 2014 at 3:53 am
FRED FUCHS!!!!!! Yesssss. James, you make every October better than it already is. This game is definitely ass. And the music….eehhhhhh
October 15, 2014 at 4:19 am
congrats on your movie man!! Glad to have you back, this was a great episode seeing the LJN logo is hilarious, heres to hoping you make it to 200 episodes someday =) keep it real mr nerd!!!
its so sad how movies almost always turn into such horrible games, movie games should be outlawwed… if theres ever another game made based on AVGN you should make it an RPG where your trying to save kids from playing/buying shitty games
October 15, 2014 at 4:44 am
Yay! Glad to have a new episode – the first new one since the movie, right? I want The Nerd to take another diarrhoea dump on game or something, tho… That’s my favourite bit!
October 15, 2014 at 6:35 am
these sideburns tho
October 15, 2014 at 6:56 am
Funniest shit in a long time man, Keep up the good work!
October 15, 2014 at 7:04 am
Nice vid. I was hoping for an appearance by the ghost with the most though. After all, it’s a Halloween episode and you did say his name three times.
October 15, 2014 at 8:08 am
Yeah, the zoom on the cardridge while he said 3 times beetlejuice makes me think that there’s something going in the next AVGN…i smell a motherfucker. Hope it’s not me. xD
October 15, 2014 at 7:13 am
Hey! Nice to see a new AVGN after the movie. π
Oh, btw, you sure LJN sends out such invitations, or is it just that they listen in on the market and when no other respectable company will take the idea (license problems or not true to the origins) they’ll gladly pick it up?
Just my 2 cents of my brain capacity… π
October 15, 2014 at 7:14 am
u reviewd da movie and the game
October 15, 2014 at 7:19 am
New AVGN before work!! Made my day James! π
October 15, 2014 at 7:37 am
I knew there would be a new avgn around Halloween. I just hope there will be more to come soon.
October 15, 2014 at 7:51 am
Awesome episode, and damn how this game sucks.
October 15, 2014 at 7:56 am
Wasn’t expecting an AVGN vid !
Awesome stuff π
October 15, 2014 at 8:00 am
I love the ending. Punish that game Nerd! Punish it! Punish it!
October 15, 2014 at 8:11 am
Was anyone else expecting Mike to appear as Beetlejuice? Wasted opportunity!
October 15, 2014 at 12:09 pm
I was expecting Mike as Beetlejuice. I think it could have been better if they did something like that. The episode was decent enough, but definitely a missed opportunity. An episode like the Halloween one would have been great. And yes, I appreciate James doing an AVGN episode after all the hard work on the moive and doing a daily episode of MM. Yes and Yes. Fan since 2008. 30 years old(always wonder about the ages of posters on here….) This message is solely the opinion of an avid Cinemassacre fan!
October 15, 2014 at 2:50 pm
James is 34. Mike is around the same age, if not the same. They’re from the year 1980.
October 17, 2014 at 9:10 am
Well, I was talking about the comment posters. Just wondered because most found it hilarious. Curious about the age range based on the reception of videos.
October 15, 2014 at 8:18 am
A nice review with several clever jokes. =D
Quite enjoyable indeed ^^ What surprised me a little were the glasses, but I suppose after the ET review is now officially a numbered Episode too, it makes sense.
October 15, 2014 at 10:16 am
Yeah LJN is the publisher. But, this doesn’t excuse the company for publishing such shit. The fact is, companies don’t care about the quality of a product as much as they care about the profit it will make. I’m beginning to think that LJN had some side deal with the Holloywood film industry. The amount of film-based games LJN is an anomaly. All things being equal and fair, there wouldn’t be one company that just happened to publish film-based games. Methinks that LJN was a marketing arm of the Hollywood film industry.
October 15, 2014 at 10:19 am
Yeah it’s confirmed. LJN was a marketing arm of MCA. The only reason they made these games was to promote the films. See the LJN wiki page for the source.
October 15, 2014 at 2:51 pm
Oh. Hmmm. I wonder if the movie studios had a saying in how the games were made… we gotta dig a little deeper to find this information. Unless it’s on the Wiki as well?
October 15, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Bitch barrier is when you go anally toying deep and its the second sphincher about 8 inches deep in your ass that stops you going deeper at first.
October 15, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Yeah new AVGN epsisode and a good one too
October 15, 2014 at 2:09 pm
and it keeps on getting funnier every single time i see it!
October 15, 2014 at 2:22 pm
James seems to get better every episode!
This was entertainment at itΒ΄s best – Happy Halloween too, motherfucker! (^.^)/
October 15, 2014 at 2:34 pm
It was good, but I miss the more wacky AVGN episodes with Bugs Bunny and R.O.B. I was expecting Motherfucker Mike dressed as Beetlejuice to bother the AVGN through out the episode, until the AGVN gets tired and battles him. Then says Beetlejuice 3 times and banishes him back to hell. I do understand though that those sort of episodes take more time to make, but it sure would be awesome.
October 15, 2014 at 3:02 pm
Hilarious! Great job on this one, had me laughing real good.
October 15, 2014 at 3:06 pm
The Nerd is back, and he’s still as hot as he always was! Great video james. The Betelgeuse thing went over my head.
October 15, 2014 at 3:49 pm
So violent!!!!!!!!!
October 15, 2014 at 4:16 pm
So glad I never played this, I would have cried at how bad it is. Way worse than Roger Rabbit or anything like that, looks worse than Ghostbusters
October 15, 2014 at 4:19 pm
I actually liked Roger Rabbit, despite it being shitty. This game was shit incarnate. One of the last NES games I played before I moved on to the Sega Genesis.
October 15, 2014 at 4:17 pm
13:53 is too long for this turd sandwich of a game!
October 15, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Great video, but I’m amazed the stomping at the end didn’t lead to you falling through the floor. It seemed like the perfect set up.
October 15, 2014 at 4:39 pm
Nice! I new he was gonna make a halloween one.
October 15, 2014 at 4:40 pm
The only thing that could have made this better is if at the end when you’re stomping the cartridge, you had fallen through the floor via
pinpoint piss taking.
October 15, 2014 at 5:00 pm
HELL YEAH, NEW NERD EPISODE!
October 15, 2014 at 5:05 pm
π Whoa no time see demolishing cartriege,
October 15, 2014 at 5:18 pm
For your Christmas review, please consider reviewing Daze Before Christmas on Snes or Santa Claus Saves the Earth on Playstation.
October 16, 2014 at 9:07 pm
Daze Before Christmas is actually a decent game though.
October 15, 2014 at 5:36 pm
Dem Mutton Chops man.
October 15, 2014 at 6:06 pm
AVGN!!!!! Great review
October 15, 2014 at 6:11 pm
The LJN letter was signed by Fred Fucks!!!!!!!
October 15, 2014 at 6:18 pm
an awesome film.. but a shity game.. thanks a lot LJN.. you assholes
October 15, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Will someone STOP giving him damn LJN games? Enough’s Enough.
October 15, 2014 at 6:31 pm
I know you may not enjoy the game’s music James, but check out this awesome cover by Halifax’s Nerd Army, you’ll surely enjoy the metal ish melodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTJswYqvTlA&list=UUcMnXXjr5oUILUPEP-D_dmw&index=30
October 15, 2014 at 6:48 pm
I used to play an MSDOS Beetlejuice game all the time as a kid, it was really weird like shooting enemies in 8 directions on a floating chess board.
Thanks for continuing to make videos, James! This one froze up for a second and said “Powerups-Powerups-Powerups” & then continued, I LOLed.
October 15, 2014 at 7:57 pm
I love that old CRT monitor hiss feedback you can ever so slightly hear in the background.
October 15, 2014 at 8:12 pm
he’s back!!!!
October 15, 2014 at 8:17 pm
Nice fuckin game! *honk-honk*
October 15, 2014 at 8:39 pm
YAY
October 15, 2014 at 8:50 pm
OMG a new Nerd vid, way to go james it has been a long time coming. Keep em comin’.
October 15, 2014 at 10:40 pm
*Pause* SICK CHOPS!
October 15, 2014 at 10:57 pm
I have to say that I enjoyed the episode. But you said his name 3 times, and there was no Mike Matei dressed as Beetlejuice. π
October 17, 2014 at 3:33 pm
Word.
October 15, 2014 at 11:09 pm
Good episode, but I’m disappointed we didn’t get to see Mike Matei as Betelgeuse show up to annoy him.
October 16, 2014 at 12:01 am
Why didn’t Mike dress up as Beetlejuice?
October 16, 2014 at 4:10 am
This was a shitty game!!
October 16, 2014 at 5:00 am
Nice! I liked the setting and also the comparison to the star beetlejuice was a funny twist, haha. I do think this episode may haunt the Nerd someday again because the ending was not included…
October 16, 2014 at 7:00 am
That was good.
October 16, 2014 at 7:52 am
The game is no worse than the movie. The movie is a steaming pile of overrated shit.
October 16, 2014 at 7:56 am
Requiem for a Dream sucks
October 16, 2014 at 11:26 am
Agreed. Ellen Burstyn was great in it, but I thought it was one of the most annoying movies I’ve ever seen. Chk, fzzz, pop click…. every five fucking seconds with that shit. It got old fast.
October 16, 2014 at 12:10 pm
Nerd, make a Hong Kong 97′ review for SNES. This game is rock bottom of the gaming industry
October 16, 2014 at 3:39 pm
Signed by Fred Fucks, perfect!
October 16, 2014 at 5:09 pm
I’m surprised that Beetlejuice didn’t make an appearance to play this shit himself.
October 16, 2014 at 5:11 pm
They based it on the star and not the movie, hahaha. I loved that rant. There were some great jokes in this review. It really is a disappointing game that doesn’t make sense and has very little to do with the movie. Stomping on the game was different. It was simple, but effective. I guess you were referencing back to stomping on the bugs? By the way, what was up with the password that kept appearing?
October 16, 2014 at 10:14 pm
Such a great new episode James. I’ve always been proud and never doubted. Whenever it seems like games for Halloween episodes are running low on ideas find a better one.
October 17, 2014 at 2:41 am
Holy mutton chops, Nerdman! One of your least entertaining Halloween specials…
October 17, 2014 at 4:09 am
Please review to I wana be the guy! This game is verrrrrrrrrry fun…….But…. so many people said, ‘It horrable difficult…..’
October 17, 2014 at 10:26 am
Hey I just wanted to say ive been a long time fan, ive seen all episodes more than once and some even more than that. How the nerd stole cristmas is by far my favourite episode, also I love all the console reviews like Jaguar, Sega CD/32x, Oddysey etc. I grew up with the NES myself and know of all the moments of glory and despair. The AVGN movie didnt click for me sadly, im not sure if it was bad acting or just too corny, or if the AVGN persona just didnt fit so well in a full length movie setting. Kind of reminded me of Austin Powers although thats a great movie. However dont let the critics bring you down, improve what has to be improved and follow your goals. I am always grateful to see a new J n M Monday and new AVGN episodes, they are always top notch entertainment.
-Jamz
October 17, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Sincerely … Fred Fuchs?
flol
October 17, 2014 at 3:32 pm
LJN: Guaranteed to be ASS.
Another awesome AVGN halloween episode.
October 17, 2014 at 5:19 pm
This was one of those games I rented as a kid that sucked ass.
October 17, 2014 at 9:13 pm
Loved this episode, just as I have all the others, but man you’ve got to lose them sideburns. They’re getting out of control, and really starting to make you look creepy.
October 18, 2014 at 5:48 am
I can’t get over how they have you running around in the daytime. Beetlejuice doesn’t do anything during the day and is inactive, having him diurnal clashes with the character and doesn’t work.
October 18, 2014 at 9:01 am
I’m indifferent about your angryness and other stuff people regularly bitch about, I’m just here to say that although the game may be horrible I do appreciate that you included a decent amount of gameplay footage in the video. During 2011 and 2012 your videos tended to contain only 5 to 10% gameplay footage and 90 to 95% retardation which just put me off watching your videos until some time in 2013 when I noticed you went back to your older style where you actually reviewed the games.