video game angst.

i am notoriously bad at all video games.

pac-man and/or mrs pac-man? i get so nervous whenever a ghost gets remotely close to me that my little pac-man commits suicide. every. single. time.

frogger? i'm paralyzed with fear when trying to cross the road.

sonic the hedgehog? no thanks. i am so slow and cautious (dangers are lurking everywhere!) that i could never get him to go fast enough to go around the loops.

super mario bros 1 and 3? um. adequate. after like 15 years of practice i think i can almost make it halfway through the game. it's those stupid ice levels that get me everytime. why do they have to make things so slippery?

super mario bros 2? i don't last two seconds. wtf?

anything that's 3d? i can't figure out how to move when i am given more options than just left/right and up/down. i inevitably get stuck in a corner and can't maneuver my way out of it.

but tetris, man. i am fucking amazing at tetris. i am pretty sure i will stay up all night working on beating this (mostly because i am assuming it would take all night just to get to the next level.) (via kottke.org, a website recently pointed out to me by the lovely jillian.)