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This holiday season, Sony will release Playstation 4, the most advanced video game system ever.

All the young people will go crazy — because it will have all of these fancy graphics.

But, you see, what those 21 and younger don’t realize is that video games reached their prime some 20 years ago.

So we decided to do a post for all of our ol’ heads out there, for when video games really were the shit.

Here’s video game feelings only those born in the ’80s will know about.

Feeling sad when you turn on your system and you see this screen

So you do this

And then you feel all good again

The two fucks you don’t give when cheating in Duck Hunt

Feeling cool as shit cause you think you’re the only person who knows how to skip levels in the original Super Mario game (You’re not, bro.)

Feeling anger because you have to buy six batteries for 20 minutes of Sonic on Game Gear

Feeling defeated after getting KO’d by fucking cheating ass Mike Tyson, again (ahhhhhhhh.)

Feeling accomplished because you saw how dope all the Street Fighter 2 endings were

Getting especially teary-eyed for Ryu’s ending

Oh, and never actually seeing Dhaslam’s ending because he was fucking useless

Feeling agony after realizing you bought a video game system that was probably going to fail

Feeling pretty amped that you can play as Bill Clinton in NBA Jam

Feeling grown because you play insanely violent games

Feeling confused about why certain video games were being made

Thinking “wow, this could be done soooo much better” while paying the original Grand Theft Auto

Feeling accomplished because you knew the Konami Code by heart: (Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right B, A)

Feeling ambitious for heading to Barnes & Nobles to steal a video game cheat book

Ditto for GamePros (RIP 1989-2011)

Feeling confident that you can convince your friends that Dreamcast was the future