The Nerd takes a look at the wild history of Crash Bandicoot, from the original PlayStation classic to the strange sequels that followed. With a little “help” from special guest Caddicarus, the Nerd dives into platforming, kart racing, party games, crossovers, and some of the weirdest moments in Crash history. Featuring Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot […]

I teamed up with Vinny from Vinesauce to break down the highs and lows of Universal’s Epic Universe park… from the Universal Monsters and Super Nintendo World to the third Harry Potter area in Orlando. We get into the new rides, the crowds, the prices, and whether Epic Universe lives up to the hype.

James returns to the Top 10 format for a deep dive into everything wrong with modern movie theaters: from $30 popcorn buckets and the IMAX scam, to Nicole Kidman’s spiritual AMC ad, recliner sear squeaks, the theater becoming everything but a theater, and the “concession voucher” workaround for streaming TV finales. A spiritual follow-up to […]

We review Mortal Kombat II (2026)… and we filmed the whole review inside an actual movie theater. We both liked it, and we dig into why some video game movies get it right while others completely miss the mark. We also break down the upcoming wave of video game movies on the horizon and talk […]

We went out to Arizona to check out the real Biosphere 2 and review the 1996 movie Bio-Dome, and what was supposed to be a simple video turned into us getting stranded in the middle of the desert. We talk about what the science experiment actually was, why the movie even exists, and whether ir […]

We took a trip out to Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania to check out one of the last remaining Pizza Hut Classic locations… and it honestly felt like stepping back into the 90s. (This was actually filmed a while ago, back in September of 2025, when we filmed at Reaper’s Revenge haunted hayride near Scranton, PA for Monster […]

James and Mike reminisce about things that have happened over the last 20 years with the channel. There is so much we can’t come close to mentioning everything. But we go over the history of this YouTube channel and many videos and stories that have happened.

April 6th 2006 was the day that the ‪JamesNintendoNerd‬ channel was created (even though the first video was posted on April 8th), making today the 20th anniversary of the Angry Video Game Nerd and Cinemassacre on YouTube! For the special occasion here is a lost Angry Nintendo Nerd episode from 2006 on the Nintendo Miracle […]