Cat Mario

[Elok]

Caught my students playing this the other day. Apparently it's been around for a while (whipped up by a Japanese college student in the late 2000s), but it's new to me. Basically, it's classic Mario Bros. gameplay, except:

1. You control some sort of white cat-person, and
2. The developer was motivated by a seething hatred for the entire human race.

The game is absurdly hard . . . no, not even hard. Random and frustrating. Bizarre, unpredictable things ambush you constantly to kill you without warning. Or, in some cases, they just put you in a situation where you can't continue except by killing yourself. It's possible to win the game, but only by painstakingly memorizing every unfair trick the game throws at you so you can dodge them in sequence. Anyway, it's still less stupid than arguing with Ben, so

http://www.cat-mario.com

[ZEE]

Elok made a Nerd-Thradeâ„¢ you guise!

[Sava]

k

[AAAAAAAAH!]

I got bored playing it after like half a minute.

[Sava]

farther than i got

[Egbert]

arguing with Ben, so

http://www.cat-mario.com

I would rather argue with Ben.

I didn't try this game and I've never argued with Ben.

[Elok]

I actually never played it. It's just fun to watch a high-schooler go through half a level, get killed by a stupid unfair trap, hiss "this is stupid!" then go right back and get killed the same way on his next life. For some reason, the whole class found the thing incredibly addictive.