"No. No, no, no, no! No! No! NO! NO!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO[smashes controller]"
"Sweet, full health, all energy tanks, and...[walks into boss room, dies in five seconds]...really? Are you kidding me?"
See, this is what brings the worst out of a lot of people: Video games. I love them. I love them to death! I have emulators of old systems on my laptop, and I kept my old Playstation so I can play NFL Blitz with my older brother. As ridiculous as that game is, there is never a dull moment.
While there are incredible sports games like Tecmo Bowl, Madden, Blitz and NBA Jam, there are some games that were meant to question your faith. Contra is tough, unless you know your "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start" by heart. The code goes for most games, but it doesn't do JACK for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I've gotten as far as inside the Technodrome, but never made it to Shredder. Impossible.
You know what else is impossible? Battletoads. Check for yourself.
Nowadays, you have your video games where you can set the difficulty, whether they are role playing games, or one-on-one battles and tournaments. Some companies, such as Capcom, have not given up with the old-fashioned 8-bit games. Their fall 2008 release of Mega Man 9 excited millions of gamers and followers of the Mega Man series. I, for one, can vouch for that.
I played the Mega Man games since I was a small child. Mega Man 9 brought me joy when I had first played it, mainly because I haven't seen a new 8-bit video game in a long, long time.
About two stages into the game, I encountered this:
Umm...what? This is what I'm dealing with? The game is impossible, folks. Unless you are a true gamer, play this. It's ten dollars, so I would not recommend beating it. What they say is correct, you will have at least one hundred game overs before you beat it. My count is currently 40, on pace for 40,000 before I can beat the game.
I get upset about my sports teams, but video games hit the hardest. Had they not existed, I would probably be the most peaceful person on the planet, and work as a political leader trying to get a nation back on the right track.
...that sounds boring. I think journalist or teacher sounds like a fine career.
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