Megaman

Today I start my epic quest to test myself... to test how many times I can possibly swear and throw a controller before it breaks, to test how frustrated I get when I'm not washing down my games with hours of Blu-ray quality androgyny, to test out the theory I hold that I might not honestly be that good at video games, however painful that would be to admit.

Tonight I'm starting to play Megaman for NES.

Time:

9:30 - 10:19 pm

Progress:

64% through Cut Man Stage

Lessons:

• Blue bouncy balloon animals bounce under your feet and are complete dicks. These are the first things I encountered. They'll swallow you alive unless you can somehow kill them or swallow them with the side-scroll.
• There are some places you have to plan to stand during the ladders + shooters stages, and some times when booking it is all you can do to not get hit.

(note the wincing)

• I can't avoid getting hit by things that are orange and shoot out in 8 directions at once.
• I got just past the gas-power pogo stick by running the hell away from it, and then died from a screw that came out of the floor. A screw.