This list goes through what the author thinks are the top ten ways to tell if you are horrible at video games. People who fit into too many of these categories should probably give up on gaming.

You go into the third round with Glass Joe in Mike Tyson’s Punchout

In most fighting games, the first person you fight is not even meant to teach you how to play the game. It’s just meant to give you confidence in order to fight the next opponent, where you really start developing your skills to beat a game. This is seen nowhere more conspicuously than fighting Glass Joe in Mike Tyson’s Punchout. He should go down the first round if there is any hand-eye coordination in the gamer. Glass Joe basically stands still and lets you hit him. He’s a human punching bag and has a 1-99 record for the reason (who the hell did he beat?). Even when he stands back and pretends like he’s getting pumped up, he comes back down to the ring and does nothing but wait 3 seconds to give a slow uppercut. If you are in the third round with Glass Joe, Von Kaiser was ganna pulverize you. It is ironic though that Glass Joe had such a high ranking on our “Top 10 fighters from Punchout” list. Why? You’ll just have to go and read it to see for yourself.

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