You know, when I was 15, 16, 17-years-old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games. The thing that old people don’t understand is – you know if you’ve never heard Bob Dylan, and someone listened to him for 15 minutes, you’re not going to get it. You are just not going to understand. You have to put in hours and hours to start to understand the form, and the same thing is true for gaming. You’re not going to just look at a first-person shooter where you are killing zombies and understand the nuances. There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to The Rite of Spring once and understand what Stravinsky was all about. It seems like you should at least have the grace to say you don’t know, instead of saying that what other people are doing is wrong. The cliché of the nerdy kid who doesn’t go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it’s also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It’s beautiful. That kind of obsession is going to lead to a sophisticated 30-year-old who has a background in that artform. It just seems so simple, and yet I’m constantly in these big arguments with people on the computer who are talking about, “I would never let my kid do this and this in a video game.” And these are adults who when they were children were dropping acid and going to see the Grateful Dead. I mean, the Grateful Dead is provably s***ty music. It’s impossible – it’s theoretically impossible to make a video game as bad as the Grateful Dead. I throw that out there as a challenge.

The most BOSS way to win a game of Mario Kart

Real Life Mario Kart!

I’m still stuck in the 90′s. I don’t think I will ever get over it. The carefree days of playing video games, taking a break when the ice cream man rang his jingle and not having to worry about bills, insurance, rent, office politics, and the myriad of other bullshit that seems to haunt being a grown up. The only comfort I take is to remember the good ol’ days and the good ol’ days consisted in a lot of video game playing, specifically NES. Here’s a selection of 10 awesome NES games, the boss fights and the ending to help you take a break from being a grown-up.

Mike Tyson’s Punch Out

The Legend of Zelda

Contra

Metroid

Mega Man 1

Double Dragon 3

Castlevania

Battletoads

Bubble Bobble

Bionic Commando

Although you may have lost all faith in MTV, with shows like Jersey Shore, The Hills and whatever soul sucking programming they seem to conjure up nowadays, keep that tiny shred of hope alive for the fallen channel, as long as they stil continue to air True Life. An awesomely interesting documentary series that hits at the hearts of the affected youth of a nation. Here’s a full episode entitled I’m A Gamer. This one goes out to anyone who has ever put in 12 hours a day, 7 days a week trying to beat the newest and greatest game that came out that summer.

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Oh god, I can’t wait to resume my murderous killing spree!

Asshole Mario

I Wanna Be The Guy