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If you're at MAGFest 2026, you can catch a speedrun of AVGN 8-bit at the magFAST Room at 11:00PM EST! The run will be approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes long and will be attempted by GreenZSaber! You'll also be able to catch The Nerd himself, along with Justin Silverman from Retroware!
The backdrop will also resemble the Nerd room, as seen in the episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd! Oh, and the event will be R-rated, of course, so do make sure the young nerds are asleep before tuning in!
And if you're unable to attend the event in-person, you can also watch the speedrun live at the magFAST Twitch channel at 11:00 PM EST!
Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit brings back the GAMER RAGE with a whole new set of rage-inducing levels! Help the Nerd annihilate a corrupted monstrosity as you fight to save all of gaming from the infectious digital threat!
Take on enemies both new and familiar from across the AVGN universe, pickup helpful items, and take on Endless Challenge Mode to see if you're the best of the best!
And, on top of all that, you'll be able to enjoy live-action cutscenes featuring the Nerd himself! In addition to the intro and ending cutscenes, The Nerd will show up as you make progress on clearing out the digital menace! Play through the entire game to see them all!
For the first time in AVGN game history, you can battle through randomized rooms, take on every boss in the game, and obtain helpful items along the way in ONE penultimate mode! With rooms taken from every level of the game, you can expect a boss waiting for you after every 10 rooms you run through! But after defeating a boss, the difficulty will increase! The further you progress, the tougher the rooms will get!
And after you beat a boss, you can look forward to obtaining helpful items in the item shop! You'll meet the Game Weenie, who will show you 2 to 4 random items that you can purchase with the coins you collect in Endless Challenge! But, in the event you DON'T like what the Game Weenie has, you can rub his lamp to change them. But be careful--doing so will decrease his mood, which may affect which items appear in your reroll, along with how many items show up!
ITEM ICON
DESCRIPTION
SPIKE PROTECTOR (PASSIVE)
Allows you to take damage from spikes. Limited uses!
BROWN BRICKS (USABLE)
Throw brown bricks! Unlimited uses while in the item slot! I just love throwing BROWN BRICKS!
FLOOR SKIP (USABLE)
Skip a floor! Doesn't work on bosses.
GUN LOCK (PASSIVE)
Don't lose weapon power pips when damaged. Unlimited while in the item slot.
PIT PROTECTOR (PASSIVE)
Teleport back to safe ground when you fall into a pit. Limited uses!
COIN MAGNET (PASSIVE)
Vacuum up nearby coins! Doesn’t allow them to go through walls.
SUPER COIN MAGNET
Vacuum up nearby coins from further distances, even through walls!
MAX GUN (INSTANT)
Maximizes your weapon power pips!
GUN BOOSTER (PASSIVE)
Increases your weapon power pips by 1 for every floor you complete. Unlimited while in the item slot.
DIFFICULTY UP (INSTANT)
Increases the current run difficulty. Higher difficulty also means more coins!
DIFFICULTY DOWN (INSTANT)
Decrease the current run up difficulty.
REMOVE SHITTY CURSES (INSTANT)
Removes all active shitty curses.
1-UP (INSTANT)
Increases your current lives by 1 (max 3).
NERD RAGE (USABLE)
Grants you temporary invulnerability.
F-BOMB (USABLE)
Stuns enemies briefly and deals damage.
LOCAL BREW (USABLE)
Throws shitty beer at enemies.
ENDLESS SHIT PICKLE (USABLE)
Allows you to summon Shit Pickle to fight with you. Usable up to 5 times!
WEAPON INCREASE (INSTANT)
Increases your weapon power pips by 2.
SCOPE (INSTANT)
Gives you the upgraded scope, allowing you to charge your weapon!
BROKEN CARTRIDGE (USABLE)
Tilts the cartridge, causing all sorts of random chaos! Effects unknown!
HEALTH (INSTANT)
Refills a large amount of health.
SMALL HEALTH (INSTANT)
Refills a small amount of health.
SHITTY CURSE ICON
DESCRIPTION
REAPER
Causes a Flippin' Reaper to spawn on all horizontal rooms.
GREEN FACE
Causes a Green Face to spawn on all rooms.
HORRIBLE PIDERS
Randomly replaces the contents of treasure chests with a Skull Pider.
NO-PIP NOVEMBER
Causes you to no longer drop pips when damaged.
HALF GOLD
All gold received is halved.
SHIT FLY
Shit Flies will spawn randomly.
HARD AS BALLS
Everything behaves as it would on the "Hard as Balls" difficulty.
PIP REDUCER
Every floor removes a pip from your weapon level.
And is that...Fury Rhoads?! Why, yes. YES, IT IS! With the onset of Endless Challenge, you might also encounter levels and characters from lead developer Programancer's other titles, namely Prison City and the upcoming Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest!
Localization Error Fixed
Toggle for Golden Shitpickle Item added in Experience Options (Final Life Assist Item)
Golden Shitpickle behavior changed on bosses for Normal difficulty
Fixed issue where you can die on the spikes after defeating T.P. by making the player immortal during this time
Fixed an issue with the wave gun not damaging T.P.s eyes under some circumstances
Fixed an issue where setting Screen Scale on some platforms would change the option but not initialize the game with the preferred selection
Endless Challenge Mode with randomized progress and modifiers added
Adjusted Guillotine sensitivity causing it to not activate in some circumstances
Fixed an issue where sometimes pausing becomes impossible after the 4 Nerds fight
Made it so Festerdrome can't take a pot shot at you after you kill it
Adjusted drop platform hitbox on Festerdrome to allow you to better attach to them
Adjusted some enemy behaviors
Subtitle positioning adjusted across all platforms
Reverse London Letule no longer damages player on contact
And what better way to solidify the NERD RAGE than by choosing Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit as the Best Game You Suck At?!
With levels that will put your platforming skills to the test, not to mention all the LOVELY enemies waiting to annihilate you, there's little to doubt you'll complete AVGN 8-bit without a shred of frustration from dying at the same boss, or being unable to reach the end of a flying section with just one sliver of health remaining!
Avoid guillotines, deadly projectiles, and unintrusive hazards that will make you all the more determined to reach the end of that level! There's plenty of rage-inducing potential in AVGN 8-bit, so nominate us for the "Best Game You Suck At" in the Steam Awards!
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