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Getting Fired From Groupon Is Like Playing Battletoads. Wait, What?
Andrew Mason is the CEO and founder of Groupon, a deal-of-the-day website. Or, well, he was — he was fired recently. Notifying the Groupon staff about his departure in an email, he made a ridiculously specific video game reference to Battletoads, which Wired breaks down for us.
This Sega Genesis Mod Shocks You Every Time You Die
This mod is called “GeneZap” and its motto is “No pity for bad players”. It’s a dog shock collar programmed to zap the wearer whenever he screws up or takes damage in any of half a dozen Sega Genesis games. (I’m guessing the first four letters are pronounced as two syllables, as in “Genesis”, not “Gene” as in Okerlund.)
What If Games Had A Super-Easy Mode?
Are video games too hard for you? College Humor imagines a world where all games have a super-easy mode, just for you. Check out the super-easy versions of The Legend of Zelda, Wii Fit, Battletoads, Sonic and more.
Are These The Ten Hardest Games?
“Hard” in gaming is relative. What I might think is easy, you might think is not. What you might is a piece of cake, I may find impossible.
This Is Battletoads?
Machinima just can’t help itself. We’ve seen Castlevania, Mario, Contra, and now here we are with Battletoads as reenacted within Half-Life 2.
The Most Difficult Games Of All Time?
GameTrailers countdown of the 10 Most Difficult of all time brings back so many painful memories for me. For once, I played every game on the list, and the development of the dirty mouth I have today can be directly traced back to many of these. The only games I take exception to are F-Zero GX – the only racing game series I ever excelled at – and Battletoads, which while difficult to be sure, was nowhere near number one difficult. Ug. I’m going to need an antacid.
