Watch Today’s Youth Understand Our Pain as They Get Mercilessly Wrecked by NES Mega Man

No one even taught them the pause trick? Harsh.

Dan Van Winkle

Published: Dec 15, 2014 01:05 pm

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Depending on your age, you may remember a time when video games were hard. I’m talking controller throwing, unapologetically emotionally damaging, brutally hard. To heal those wounds in a totally healthy, schadenfreude-driven way, watch kids of today play the original Mega Man and get equipped with nothing but lasting psychological torment.

Too bad they only played the first Mega Man, though. I would’ve loved a live reenactment of “I Can’t Defeat Airman.”

Yes, video games were once so hard that people wrote songs fueled by the emotional scars they left.

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Dan Van Winkle

Dan Van Winkle (he) is an editor and manager who has been working in digital media since 2013, first at now-defunct Geekosystem (RIP), and then at The Mary Sue starting in 2014, specializing in gaming, science, and technology. Outside of his professional experience, he has been active in video game modding and development as a hobby for many years. He lives in North Carolina with Lisa Brown (his wife) and Liz Lemon (their dog), both of whom are the best, and you will regret challenging him at Smash Bros.