WATCH: Teens Struggle to Play Old-School ‘Mega Man’
Kids these days, with their win buttons and auto-aiming and Easy modes. They don’t know how rough gamers had it back in the day, amirite?
To help prove that contemporary teens, with their fancy phones and Bieber hair and insane pizza, are kinda sucky gamers, the folks at the REACT YouTube channel made a bunch of them play the original Mega Man on NES with little to no guidance.
It wasn’t pretty.
The kids get an A for effort, though. Mega Man is one of the hardest games ever. From the very start, the patterns are tricky, the platforming requires serious patience, and the enemies are irritating. It’s a glorious video game, an all-time great, but it’s no cakewalk. Everyone has a rough go the first time he plays Mega Man.
Still, my inner child is thrilled that Generation Z, with their cool headphones and wireless everything and depressing misunderstanding of the word “literally,” got smacked down by the Blue Bomber. “Even [today’s] Bosses aren’t as hard as the first enemy,” laments one broken teen. “This is so not fair,” says another.
Damn skippy, Skippy. Now do like we did, press Continue, and show Cut Man the ugly end of a Mega Buster (or eBay a Game Genie and cheat away. I’m not judging.)
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