To get into the holiday spirit James and John are playing a Christmas themed platformer starring Santa Claus (and his evil alter ego Anti-Claus)!

James and John are attacking another beat ’em up game with the modern sequel to a classic series in Streets of Rage 4!

It’s the Halloween season so James and John are going at it in the claymation fighting game ClayFighter to see if it still holds up!

James and John are running and gunning their way through hordes of gore-filled monsters in Iron Meat to see if they can defeat The Meat!

James and John go head to head in the Neo Geo Double Dragon fighting game based on the movie!

James and John are teaming up and battling their way through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ latest beat ’em up, Shredder’s Revenge!

James and John are working together and going head-to-head in Lemmings for the Super Nintendo in a new Neighbor Nerds!

James and John are going down to South Park to play the original Nintendo 64 game and the epic RPG on Xbox Series X, South Park: The Stick of Truth!

James and John head online for some Overwatch 2 multiplayer and then try their hands at beating The Password Game!

James and John are jumping into Grand Theft Auto 5 today, plus James surprises John with footage of the very first thing they ever recorded together!

James and John played through Super Mario World together as neighbors growing up, so they’re playing through it again and with the same Nintendo Players Guide they used in 1992!

James and John are playing a new twist on SNES racing classic F-Zero! Featuring multiplayer battle royale with up to 99 players, can they win the Grand Prix?!

Santa’s Elves versus… Lemmy?! James and John are playing a Christmas game with a heavy metal twist, straight out of Zombies Ate My Neighbors!

James and John are digging into some more Nintendo 64 games with the pro wrestling classic WCW/nWo Revenge!

Today James & John are playing Prison City, a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle Techno-Terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses. Reminds us of old NES games like Power Blade, Shatterhand, and Batman.

It’s Friday the 13th and that’s exactly what game James and John are playing!

James and John are setting up the 32X to beat the dinosaur crap out of each other in the arcade fighter Primal Rage!

James and John are playing some classic video games based on board games in this episode of Neighbor Nerds, with Monopoly for NES and Clue for Sega Genesis!

My former next door neighbor and friend of 30 years John joins me again for another video and this time they’re playing the Nintendo 64 classic photography game, Pokemon Snap!

One thing that every gamer, young and old, can probably agree on is that water levels in video games are usually pretty bad. Now of course there are games that nail this concept, especially ones that take place entirely underwater, but that’s not what this video is about! Today I’m looking at a handful of […]

When you think of the NES, you think of a lot of bad games thanks to The Nerd, but I wanted to take a little time to look at some of the really good ones today that people don’t talk about and are worth playing!

The brand new Legend of Zelda game Tears of the Kingdom is finally out on Nintendo Switch! Breath of the Wild is probably my favorite modern Zelda game, so I was excited to jump into the sequel. These are just my early first impressions from launch weekend!

I bring back my old buddy John who I’ve known for 30 years to play some more NES games! Today we’re taking a look at Where’s Waldo and The Great Waldo Search. Let’s see if the games are anywhere near as good as the books.

Top Gun: Maverick is finally here after years of waiting, so how does it stack up against the other Top Gun 2? You know, Top Gun: The Second Mission for the NES! Which is better? The game? Or the movie? That’s the battle we’re going to settle today! Top Gun: Maverick is directed by Joseph […]

Last year, I did a series of videos of me playing me 3-year-old daughter’s Mario Maker 2 levels. Now she’s 4 and has designed some more stages for me to play, so let’s see how they turned out and if I can actually complete them!

Long ago, I inherited some NES games from my childhood friend. Many of them were even used in AVGN. Now, we reunite to play those actual game cartridges once again!

James Rolfe and Mike Matei compare all three versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters.

Abobo’s Big Adventure (ultimate tribute to NES) has been a request for a long time and we finally got around to it, here’s Part 2!

Abobo’s Big Adventure (ultimate tribute to NES) has been a request for a long time and we finally got around to it!

James and Mike finally lay to rest the infamous jump in TMNT on NES.

This week we’re playing Doom 64 on Nintendo 64!

James and Mike play Goat Simulator for PC!

James and Mike mess around with the Super Game Boy!

This week, we play an arcade classic called Sky Kid! Originally developed by Namco and brought to the NES by Sunsoft! Interesting note, the game ran on Pac-Land hardware (the first video game Mike ever played)!

This week we do a quick review of Zombies Ate My Neighbors! A great co-op game for the Super Nintendo!

James and Mike take a quick look at Castlevania: Bloodlines for Sega Genesis!

Guest Ryan Schott joins James Rolfe and Mike Matei to play an indy game that may even be worse than Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari 2600!

This week James Rolfe and Mike Matei play along with special guest Doug Walker (The Nostalgia Critic).

This week James and Mike are playing Aquaman for GameCube!

This week, James Rolfe and Mike Matei try out the first Double Dragon game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This home port had many disadvantages in comparison with the arcade version, but is a classic in its own right. Near the end of the video, we also try out Mode B where players fight against […]