Bad gamer habits.

** WARNING: You better bet there’s f***ing foul language all over this b***. **

At the end of my shift today I heard laughter erupting from one of the rooms in our employees only area. Gazing past many many people crowded in a little room I was able to catch what everyone was watching: a YouTube video of a guy cussing the hell out of one of those “Impossible Mario” (or Kaizo Mario as I’ve heard it called) levels. Watching those levels being played without audio is funny enough (just search YouTube for “Impossible Mario”), but this added commentary– done by a guy who obviously was just over-dubbing his own vocal to the video– really made it hilarious.

It brings to mind, however, the kinds of things I would say or have said when playing video games that were just WAY too hard. I can recount many times where I’d get to a point in the night where I’d be so tired and so bereft of sleep that I’d start talking to myself. These videos sound exactly like me as a kid. More than enough times I’ve said, “Ok, Mario, that was not my fault. That was your fault. I push the buttons, you jump. That’s how it works.” As if any of this made a fucking difference!

Other favorites of mine: “Listen… I know you don’t like me, Toad, but all I’m asking you to do is drive you FUCKING kart through FUCKING Rainbow Road in this FUCKING race. You don’t have to be #1 the whole time but AT LEAST stay on the FUCKING track for one full FUCKING minute!!!”

It’s really bad when you’re doing a marathon run of SimCity (the original) while singing the entirety of BoyzIIMen’s Cooleyhighharmony in mid-broken voice and neglected girlfriend on your bed. So very, very sad.

Anyway, to share in the hilarity, I’m embedding here the three parts of… well, I don’t know the official title since it looks like four people have uploaded this same video in three parts… let’s put it this way. This guy has a lot of fans. Be sure to watch in order, and you might find yourself stopping at the middle of part 2 since it does get a little repetitive and somewhat hard to watch all the way to the end. Part 1, though, is absolutely the best. Minus the Family Guy comment.

So, what dumb shit have you ever said when frustrated at a video game?

Posted on 3 November '08 by , under Blog Entries.

5 Comments to “Bad gamer habits.”

#1 Posted by Taku128 (04.11.08 at 00:29 )

I’ve cut down on yelling at games recently, so I can’t think of anything in perticular. I do still throw the controller from time to time though. My comments were always generic insults though. (Fuck you, fucking asshole, ect.)

Also, Kaizo Mario is a perticular hack of Super Mario World that’s pretty popular. Here’s a video of someone playing it. He’s pretty funny at times, although sometimes he can get repetitive. Sometimes he speeds up his videos to fit under the youtube time limit instead of making multiple parts, and this is one of them. I’d say Syobon Action (a game in the style of Mairo) is one of his best though, so I’d recomend checking it out first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp3SzkGs7XA (Syobon Action)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IXXvgCuzVE (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaz3Dug6z20 (Part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlDMNyZpS7I (Final Part)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjucfXCiheY (Kaizo Mario World Part 1, too many parts to link)

#2 Posted by Patrick D (04.11.08 at 16:26 )

Yah, this is one of the funniest things on the web. I found this two or three years ago.

#3 Posted by Captain Awesome (05.11.08 at 03:46 )

My girlfriend and I cracked up while watching this, and she’s definitely not one for profanity.

One of my earliest slip ups that I can remember was during a multi player game of Opposing Force (an expansion pack for Half Life) at a friends place. As an avid fan of South Park at the time (I couldn’t have been older than 13 or so) upon getting killed by a friend for the umpteenth time, I leapt out of my chair and yelled “Fuck you, you shit eating cockmaster, go fucking die!” only to see his mother’s (a devout Christian who abhors ANY “foul” language) horrified expression as she was standing behind me at the time, I wasn’t invited over for quite some time after that.

Also, Family Guy does suck.

Long live Futurama.

#4 Posted by mike (05.11.08 at 10:42 )

I’m aaaaaaaaaallllllllllways cursing at video games. Even though it’s all very harmless and I don’t actually retain any of my anger even mere moments after expressing it, I know it annoys Meri ^^;;.

I am also basically just full of generic obscenities. I’m all about blaming it on the game, too, Jeff. It’s never my fault; that’s impossible. It’s either the game or the controller. For example, my messing up in “MvC2″ on Dreamcast is never actually my fault; it’s that stupid controller that makes me jump all the time when I’m trying to do a fireball.

Very similar to hurling curses at the game, I’m all about trash-talk, too. I think the majority of it came from living with Andrew in college, combined with long rounds of “Street Fighter” and “Mario Party”. It’s a way of living for me. I absolutely cannot play a competitive game without trash-talking.

#5 Posted by TriforceCaptre (06.11.08 at 13:55 )

I do all kinds of things when I get mad at a game. Everything from a simple “FUCK!” to giving the controller a little flip into the air (catching it of course, this is only an annoyed reaction, not quite at the pissed off point yet) to demonstrating for the character what button makes him jump and what he should do when I press it (both with words and a very primitive form of sign language) and of course ultimately the throwing down of a controller or a profanity filled rant. I’ve gotten better at controlling myself though, I get just as pissed sometimes, but I’m more careful about my reactions. Controllers are way too expensive these days to risk accidentally breaking them.