  Video games piss me off. They do. I'm sure they piss you off to sometimes. Be it me dying on the last level, falling in the same god damn hole four times in a row, or not being able to escape an attack no matter how hard I try, sooner or later I am gonna get pissed. I've broken games, thrown controllers, you name it. My dog has seen me slam my controller into the wall so many times, she runs under the covers at the mere sight of one. What follows is a collections of games that make me want to rip every hair out of my head in frustration.
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a name that
causes chills to climb up and down my back. This game is hard. If I had a penny for
every time I have died trying to disarm those god damn bombs I could afford to hire someone to beat this game for me. Lets not forget
the fact that this game also has regenerating enemies, so no matter how many times you kill that foot soldier, he'll be right back
in a moment. The part of this game that pisses me off more than any other, is
the nearly impossible jump you have to make after you disarm the bombs in level 2. The jump is as
awkward as it gets, and if you miss it, you gotta go through a world of shit to get back and try again.
 True Story: Once after about fifteen attempts at the aforementioned impossible jump, I decided I hated Ninja Turtles, and I didn't care to ever play NES again. I started cussing and yelling, and ended up throwing my NES in the trash, and leaving it there all day. My mom got it out later and put it back in my room.
 Robocop 2, a game to me that ranks high up there in the
"piss you off" category. To start this little diatribe you gotta look first at the things that build up the frustration. First off, the control is shit. The way
Robocop moves in this game reminds me a bit of the tin man in Wizard of Oz before he gets oiled down. Its hard to control him. You have to time your jumps just right which is difficult in itself, and when
Robocop takes off walking he looks like those old people who power-walk through the malls for exercise. The plot's also pretty lame. From what
I understand you have to go around gathering up these vials of "nuke" and contain them or something to that effect. Well here in lies the frustration. Its difficult to collect all of the nuke because some of it's on the ledges above and some is on the ground below. Now you cant go back to get both so you have to choose whether to go up or down. Now I do everything I can to get the most nuke possible. I mean I really tried hard. Yet
every time after I clear the goddamn level I get an incoming message saying I haven't contained enough nuke so I have to start the level over again, and for some reason visit the gun range for practice. After about an hour of this bullshit
I'm almost ready to commit hari kari. - Kabuki
The Battle of OlympusA story about sven666's friend While playing Battle of Olympus, and getting to the last level after an infinite amount of time, its just impossible to even find the last boss... So after trying for hours to find it, he dies.... Reaction : He head butts the controller into oblivion. Needless to say it breaks, but it doesn't break as in it doesn't work or something rattles inside, no no, he hits it so hard the plastic actually shatters into hundreds of tiny pieces!!! Get this, he's done it FOUR times, with the same game and same problem. He has some serious anger management issues. On this game I can understand why though. You have to spend 30 minutes (no joke) inputting that damn 50 figure code and when you do, it just leads you to a place of torment anyways.... -sven666  Fester's QuestI was playing playing Fester's Quest, a long time ago, using one of those TV's that you had in the 80īs where colors were a bit faded...Anyway, in this game you got better shots by collecting red power ups and worse by getting green ones. Simple ?, NO. On this TV it was IMPOSSIBLE to see the difference between the two. This meant it was a gamble every time. In this game everything but the most powerful shots is shit. After spending hours collecting these fuckin power ups I got so frustrated I decided to hit something, the door. This resulted in 4 broken knuckles and 6 months in a plaster over my entire arm... -sven666
 The Adventures of Link
I was about six years old and my cousin was about eight. We were playing The Adventure of Link in my mom's room. I was playing and he was helping me remember where things were, like always. I came to the area where the little bubbles float up from the canyons you have to jump over without getting hit. I was still only like six, so my reflexes and stuff weren't that developed yet and I jumped, hit a bubble, and was hit back into the canyon and, needless to say, died. That was my last life and I had made some pretty good progress...I was like "oh well" when all of the sudden my cousin goes Karate kid on my ass and sends a roundhouse kick right into my mouth.. Well okay, maybe it wasn't a roundhouse kick but damn, he wasn't even playing the game! After I rolled around on the ground crying and bleeding like a wuss, a couple of my front teeth had been knocked loose and a week or so later fell completely out. I had to walk around like a damn hockey player until my teeth came back in. Just thought I'd share my childhood trauma that happened because of the NES. - Scott
In Conclusion: Yeah, so you are probably thinking I am some type of baby who throws a tantrum every time he loses, but I'm really not. On most occasions I take defeat pretty well, but like everyone else, I lose it sometimes. If you got anything to add to this email me at twitchyx@yahoo.com. |
Ninja Gaiden makes me extremely angry. Normally after 30 minutes of play I am near a heart attack. Everything about this
game angers me. The enemies regenerate, so if you kill them they come right back.
Kinda redundant if you ask me. Some of the jumps are nearly impossible. And what happens if you die? You start back at the beginning of the level.
True Story: Once during an all night gaming session of Ninja Gaiden, I kept dying over and over again on one ledge jump were an enemy waited and would knock me off
every single time. After about 20 failed attempts to get pass the enemy, I just completely lost it. I yanked the cart
out of the NES, and started yelling "this is bullshit" over and over again. I guess I figured the best place to put
"bullshit" was in the toilet, so in the game went. About thirty minutes later, I calmed down and had to go
find a glove to get it out.
The Karate Kid is infuriating. I guess the programmers decided that since the game only had four
levels they damn well better be the four hardest levels in vide game history. The enemies
come up on you fast, often times in groups of two or three. You're bound to take
a hit or two. Especially level 3 when the damn wind blows you back two steps for every step you take. I would rather jump into the
fiery gates of hell than replay level 4 where those guys have the spears that can't be blocked. I'm getting angry just thinking about it. If
Daniel-son were here right now I would kick his Italian ass.
Rolling Thunder is absolutely without a doubt impossible. Two hits and you die. Just like that. Not to mention that this game has like twenty levels in it. I tried and tried and tried to beat this p.o.s. game, but it is simply not ever gonna happen. I would get so far, just to die and start all over again. After awhile I just had to give it up and except that the game is unbeatable.
True Story : Once after getting to level 10 in this game, and dying because of a simple error, I completely lost it. I threw my NES on the floor, pulled my hammer out of a drawer, and smashed it. The hammer ended up breaking a pretty big hole in the
plastic casing, but the system still worked as normal.