♪ (old-school video game music) ♪
(Finebros) So today is going to be a little bit different.
- Okay. - I couldn't tell.
(Finebros) Instead of playing against each other
- you'll be playing with each other. - Okay, good.
Whoo! Yeah, no losing for me.
Teamwork!
Got this. I'm really bad, so...
- hopefully you can carry us there. - It's okay. Yes.
Lucky you. You get me as a partner.
- (laughing) - Watch us not even get past
- the first level. - Rude!
(Finebros) Have you ever played co-op?
Cooperation never runs in-between the two of us.
(Miracle) No, it's always a competition, which I'm winning.
(Michael) The closest that we've ever been together was in the womb.
- Ooh, that was cute. - Don't touch me.
(Finebros) And you will be playing this.
Look at-- oh, what's that?
- "Contra"-- or what does that say? - "Contra."
I can't read that. "Contra"?
- "Contra"? - What is that?
(Finebros) Contra is considered to be one of the hardest video games ever.
Oh.
Oh no.
Oh, is it really?
(Finebros) Especially considering this is your first time playing it
- and don't know any of the strategies. - Okay.
You're just pushing us into the deep end here?
Do you guys just like making us mad?
No, that's the whole point-- to make us frustrated.
- Do you know who we are? - I mean, we dominate.
- Do you know who we are? - Let's be real.
- Do you know who we are? - Come on. M and M.
(exhales)
- (clearing throat) - How do you play this game?
Uh, yeah.
(Finebros) You'll each have three lives and three continues.
Play as a team and try to make it as far as you can.
Okay.
(Finebros) All right, Geneva, select 2 Players.
(Geneva) Select.
(Finebros) And now press Start. Good luck!
(Shannon) Jungle.
- ♪ (action chiptune) ♪ - Okay.
- (Madison) Okay, I'm the blue guy. - (Labib) Okay, I'm right behind you.
(Madison) Should I go first?
(Ethan) Okay, you're-- wait, I think I'm that dude.
(Daniel) I look like Conan.
- (Sam) Wait, am I blue or red? - (Morgan) Oh, what is that thing?
(Sam) Is that a monkey?
(gunfire)
- (Morgan) Am I am shooting you? - (Sam) Don't shoot me!
- (Miracle) Hey, don't-- - (Michael) Hey, kill 'em.
Shoot them. Shoot 'em all dead.
- (Megan gasps) - (death chiptune)
(Megan) What the heck? He just came out of nowhere.
(Ethan) Wait, can I go down? No, we can't go down there?
Oh, lame.
(Daniel) Oh... (grunts)
- (death chiptune) - (Ethan) Oh, go-- I died already?
- (Daniel) We died. - (Ethan) Yeah, 'cause that guy
just kinda bum rushed.
(Michael) You can handle that. You can handle that too.
(Miracle) No! (gasps) Michael, you don't need me to--
(Michael) Oh, heck no.
(Sam) This way, sergeant. Oh my gosh!
- (Morgan) Oh, shoot. - (Sam) What the hell?
(Morgan) Am I-- which one am I? Am I red or blue?
(Sam) I don't know.
(Mikaela) Pew! Pew! Ooh, I did some--
Okay, there we go. Shoot!
- (Geneva) Wait, shoot down. - (Mikaela) Okay. How do you--
(Geneva) Just run around.
- (Labib) Keep shooting. Just keep-- - (Madison) Don't shoot me.
- (gunfire) - That's me.
(Daniel) Who is that?
(button mashing)
(Daniel) I don't know what that was.
- (Sam) Kill him! - (frustrated groan)
- (Morgan) How do I--? - (Sam) Yes, we got him.
(Morgan) Wait, how do you shoot? I think you got killed.
(Sam) The game-- I just died.
(Shannon) How do you kill anyone, though?
- How do you get down there? - (Megan) I don't know.
- (gunfire) - (death chiptune)
- (Shannon) Oh! - (Megan) Wait, I got down?
He just-- how'd you get down there?
- (Shannon) I don't know, but-- - (Megan) He just ran--
- What? - (Shannon) Already?
(Miracle) Wait, are they on our team?
I think-- no, no, no, no, no!
- (Miracle) I got them. - (Michael) Shh!
(Miracle) Shh! Okay, I'm in front.
Follow me.
(bridge explodes)
(controller clatters)
(Miracle) You just put me off a bridge!
- (bridge explodes) - (Daniel) Oh. I think--
(Ethan) You just destroyed what we were supposed to go on.
(Mikaela) Okay, there's people below us. Let's keep on going.
- (Geneva) Oh! - (Mikaela) Oh, shoot! Shoot!
Aah, ooh, hah. Literally, shoot.
(Geneva) Oh, I'm dead. It's all up to you.
- (Mikaela) What? - (Geneva) It's all up to you.
(Mikaela) Oh my goodness gracious.
(Sam) You can live when you go in the water?
- (Madison) Where do they go-- - (Labib) I guess they are
basically committing suicide.
This is smart. Let's just stay in the water
and they'll jump first.
Oh, [bleep]. Okay, we died.
(Madison) Oh, don't get shot!
- (Madison) How many lives do you have? - (Labib) Oh, I'm dead.
- (Madison) You're dead? - (Labib) Yeah, I died.
(Madison) Oh, I beat you. (cheeky laugh)
(Labib) This is supposed to be team thing.
- (Labib) This was a trial run. - (Madison) I'm so confused.
Game over?!
♪ (action chiptune) ♪
- (Madison) Can we play again? - (Labib) Yeah, we need-- yeah.
(Ethan) I don't think we're supposed to swim.
(Daniel) I don't think so either.
- (Ethan) I think I'm dead. - (Daniel) And I can't jump.
(Ethan) Yeah, we weren't supposed to swim.
You blew up the bridge! (laughing)
(Daniel) I died. I'm... okay.
(Ethan) That was a failed effort.
(Miracle) Jump! Jump!
- (Michael) I can't get on. - (Miracle) Go.
I mean, I'm leaving you behind. Oh yeah.
(death chiptune)
(Michael) Yeah, that's what I thought. Karma's a...
- (Miracle) Okay, that wasn't our fault. - (Michael) That was a warm up.
- (Michael) That was a warm up. - (Miracle) It was warm up.
- (Morgan) Ah! Ah! - (gunfire)
How do I jump? Oh my god.
(Sam) I don't understand who these little guys are.
(Morgan) Yeah, I don't get it either.
- ♪ (game over chiptune) ♪ - (Morgan, sarcastically) Okay, cool.
We did great.
(Mikaela) Ooh, I don't know what I just did.
Damn. I've got this.
Okay, okay. Oh, thank you.
- (Geneva) You almost beat it. - (Mikaela) Aah!
(Geneva) Just run away. Just run away.
- (Geneva) I died already. - (Mikaela) She left me hanging.
(Geneva) Literally, the first 20 seconds I died.
(Mikaela) No, I died. Oh, no I didn't. Aah!
Listen, sucka.
- (death chiptune) - What?!
Where'd you come from?
What was that?
- (Labib) That was just practice. - (Madison) Yeah, that was just practice.
(Labib) We were joking around.
(Shannon) You're right. This is hard.
- (Ethan) We're continuing that? - (Daniel) Yeah.
(Ethan) We need to get past Stage 1.
One of us needs to be standing closer to the front
so then we can move the camera along.
(Labib) Okay, so number one thing: let's not get shot.
(Madison) Okay.
(Mikaela) You take the bottom and I'll take the top.
(Geneva) Oh, wait, that's you? Okay.
- (Mikaela) Yeah. - (Geneva) I can help you, don't worry.
- (Michael) I'm in the front, all right? - (Miracle) Team.
(Michael) For real, for real, stay together.
- Kill him. - (Miracle laughs)
- You can't keep dying-- - (Michael) Chill out.
- We got this. - (Miracle) I died.
(Michael) Kill 'em, kill 'em, kill 'em.
Shoot 'em.
- (death chiptune) - All right, I got him.
(Miracle) We can do it.
(Megan) How do you get down it-- oh, see?
He just appeared out of nowhere with a bat.
(Morgan) I think we can just run past-- okay, not him though.
- (Sam) Wait! - (Morgan) We can't past him.
(Michael) Just stay on your feet the whole time.
(Miracle) Okay, I'm sorry buddy. I'm sorry.
This is just really stressing me out, you know?
(Michael) It's okay. Hey, look down.
Oh, they can shoot from the bottom too.
(Miracle) Wait, how do you even shoot down?
(Michael) That's a good question.
- (button mashing) - (Miracle) Maybe use all the arrows.
- (button mashing) - (Michael) That's not working.
(gasping) Oh!
(Megan) Ooh! No!
Aww! Shannon, I'm dead.
- (Shannon gasps) - (Megan) You got him!
(Shannon) But I died.
(Shannon) The story of my life right there.
(Sam) Okay, I'm doing such a good job.
- (Morgan) Oh, I died already. - (Sam) Oh, no. Come back.
(Daniel) I just died.
(Ethan) Shoot it, shoot it, shoot it.
(Daniel groans) I don't know what that--
(Ethan) All right, you pick it up.
- (Mikaela) Are those good? - (Geneva) There's somebody behind you.
(Mikaela) Are those good? I don't know.
(Geneva) I'm not sure. Just shoot everything in sight.
(Mikaela) Just shoot it all.
- (Michael) Whoa, watch out! - (Miracle) Oooh!
(Michael) For real, for real. Right here, right here.
- (Michael) Down, down. - (Miracle) Oh, down.
(Michael) No, down, shoot it right, stupid.
(Miracle) What do you want me to do?!
(Michael) Dodge bullets.
♪ (game over chiptune) ♪
(Ethan) Okay, ready? Get over here.
Get over here. Go, go, go!
- (Ethan groans nervously) Dammit! - (Daniel) Come on.
(grumbling)
(Morgan) Oh, wait, you're gonna fall though.
(Sam) Okay, now I'm really SCARED!
(both laugh)
(Sam) Oh my god!
(Madison) Oh, you could go down in the water.
(gasps) If we go down, do we still get shot?
(Labib) Oh, no, they can't hit us.
Do we have a limited-- oh, we're like fish, basically.
- (Mikaela) Duck. - (button mashing)
(Geneva) Go-- I can't jump in the water.
(Mikaela) Just go down-- wait, shoot, shoot!
(Ethan) We can't get out of the water.
- (gunfire) - All right.
- You have to get killed and I died. - (Daniel groans)
(Ethan) I don't wanna die though.
I'm not that-- okay, you just have to run to it.
All right, that works.
- (death chiptune) - (Labib) Oh, no! I got shot again.
(Madison) Oh, go down. Go down.
(Labib) You die after one shot? That's not fair. Okay.
(Madison) Where am I? Oh my gosh, that's me.
Aaah! Aaah!
- (Labib) That's BS. - (Madison) I'm still going.
Oh no, I died. Oh no, I'm still going!
(Labib) Dude, you're good. You're good. Keep going, keep going.
- (Geneva) You stay down there. - (Mikaela) Oh, shoot.
Oh, shoot! I died too. Ahh, we suck.
- (Geneva) We died at the same time. - (Mikaela) We both died at the same time.
That's together. That's a team.
(Labib) I mean, Call of Duty, if you get shot 10 times--
- (death chiptune) - (Madison) Aww, he came outta nowhere.
- (Labib) That's-That's cheating. - (Madison) This game's so hard.
- (Sam chuckles) - (Morgan) Oh, I got lifted up
all the way back here.
- (Sam) Oh, I have one more life. - (Morgan) I died again.
- I think I'm done. - (Sam) Oh my god.
(Morgan) See, now it's you by yourself
'cause we're terrible at these games.
Are you supposed to shoot them or no?
- (death chiptune) - (Sam) Ah, [bleep].
♪ (action chiptune) ♪
(Sam) What the hell is that?
(Morgan) We made it so much farther this time.
(Ethan) We got another life. Let's go.
(Ethan squeals)
(Daniel) Go, go, get it.
- Oh, that's-- - (Ethan) I guess I can't destroy that.
- That's so dumb! - (Daniel) That's so lame.
- (Ethan) Wait, I can't destroy it? - (Daniel) That's so stupid.
- (Michael) Do we go again? - (Finebros) You get two more tries.
(Miracle) The graphics are terrible. No game should be this hard.
(Michael) It's starting to piss me off.
(Labib) I think going underwater's key.
You just have to stay under water.
(Shannon) That's cool that you can't shoot me.
(Megan) Well, that's good that I can't shoot you.
I'll cover you while you get that guy.
Aah! (laughing) I just got shot.
- (Sam) I think we should stick together. - (Morgan) Aah! Aah!
- (death chiptune) - What the--?
- (Sam) Did we both just die? - (Morgan) We both just died.
- (button mashing) - (Mikaela) Ooh! Ooh!
- (Geneva) Don't worry. I've got you. - (Mikaela) Just kill him. Just kill him.
(Geneva) Yes!
(Labib) I'm down below, okay?
(Madison) I'm ready-- ahh, no, no.
(Morgan) Oh, that thing. We want that thing.
(Sam) Oh, yeah, we want that power-up.
- (singsong) Yay! - (warbling)
(Morgan) Oh, no, no, no. I died.
(Shannon) It looks like the old Pokemon, kind of,
with the water moving that way.
Okay, I'm out.
Look it, I'm out.
See, get the falcon and keep going. Go on without me!
(Ethan) We have to go at the same time. Ready?
Go, go, go, go, go.
- Aah, no! - (Daniel groans) Come on.
Well, at least we know this time we can just run onto it.
(Labib) Just go underwater, yeah.
Now just don't get shot.
(Madison) Okay.
(laughing) I'll try.
- (Miracle) Why is this game so hard? - (Michael) Relax, we got it.
(Megan) I'm just gonna avoid them until they all die on their own.
Aah! (splutters) What?
(Shannon) Oh, you can swim! Keep going, keep going.
(Megan) No, no, no. People are shooting at me.
- Oh, I can't go fur-- okay, jump. - (death chiptune)
- (Madison) Oh. - (Labib) Jump. Jump-- no, no, no, no, no.
- I'm stuck here. - (Madison) Oh, I died.
You go. Go!
(Labib) I'm stuck in the corner. I'm good, I'm good.
- I'm living. - (Madison) Oh, I thought you're dead.
- (death chiptune) - He kneed me in the face!
That wasn't even a shot. He kneed me.
- (Madison) Look, you're still going! - (Labib) I'm going?
(Madison) Yeah, you still have one more.
- (Labib) I've got one more? - (Madison) Uh-uh.
(Labib) Too busy talking.
(Geneva) Run, run, run, run, run.
Get out of here. Get out of here.
(Mikaela) I'm sorry. You got this.
(Geneva) Wait, I c--
(Mikaela chuckles)
♪ (humming chiptune theme) ♪
Just watch out for the tirade.
Oh my god!
- (Daniel) Oh, did you just die? - (Ethan) Yeah.
- (Daniel) Oh. - (Ethan) Okay, but I'm up here.
(Morgan) Aah! Get that guy. Get that guy.
Did you die? Did you die?
- (Sam) I have one more life. - (Morgan) Aah! Aah!
- (death chiptune) - (Morgan) Oh, mother--
I died again 'cause I thought you were down here with me--
(Sam) I need some encouragement right now.
(Morgan) I'm encouraging you. Oh, you died.
I didn't encourage him fast enough. It's my fault.
(Miracle) I forgot how you jump. Oh, that's shooting.
(Michael) Yeah, forget that. I'm leaving you.
(Miracle) Actually, I'm leaving you, so--
- (death chiptune) - I died.
(Michael) Leaving who?
(Miracle) Okay. Wait, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, I am done. It's...
- (controller clatters) - (Michael) I give up.
- (Ethan trills tongue) - (Daniel) Just keep shooting him.
- That's our strategy. Just keep-- - (Ethan) NO!
- (laughing) - (Ethan) Dammit!
This is so dumb!
- (gunfire) - (Daniel) Wait, hang on.
- (Ethan) Oh, I'm alive! - (Daniel) Oh, [bleep].
- (death chiptune) - What?
- (death chiptune) - I was pressing A!
(Daniel) Did the floor just kill us?
(Finebros) This is your last continue.
(Mikaela) Oh my goodness. Okay, we've got this.
(Madison) Whee!
(gunfire)
Oh! Oh, damn! I'm--
- Pointing down? You get to spray-- - (Madison) You point down at them?
(Labib) Yeah, you can just spray people with that.
- (death chiptune) - (Sam) Oh my god!
- Like, why did that just happen? - (Morgan laughs)
(Shannon) Oh, I found out how to--
(gunfire)
(Shannon) Snea-- jump, jump!
(explosion)
(overlapping speech)
(Megan) Ha ha, I got the life.
- (Labib) Shoot. - (Madison) Okay, I'm swimming.
(Labib) Okay. I'm gonna probably go swim too.
- Watch out for that guy. - (Madison) Oh, shoot!
- (death chiptune) - Oh, no. Oh-- aah, [bleep].
(Sam) Wait, stop for a second.
- (Morgan) I'm scared I'm gonna get shot. - (Sam) We need to get the power-up.
(Morgan screams)
(Ethan grunts) Oh, that didn't kill you. It's a power-up box.
- (Daniel) Yeah. - (Ethan) But I thought it would kill me
and I got scared.
(bridge explodes)
- (Daniel chuckles) - (Ethan) Go, go.
I'll take it from the ground.
- (Geneva) And that guy's above us. - (Mikaela) Yeah.
(Geneva) I don't think he's shooting. I got him.
(Mikaela) Aah, duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.
(Geneva laughs) Do they just go in the water and die?
(Morgan) I don't get the point of these bridges.
- (Sam) I know. - (Morgan) Oh! I just walked on it.
(Sam) The graphics are so bad. It looks like popcorn.
- (Morgan) Popcorn?! - (Sam) Did you just die?
(Morgan) Yeah, I just died.
(Sam) Look, it's gonna look like-- See? It's like popcorn.
- (Morgan) Oh, okay, okay. - (Sam) Kind of.
(Megan) I'm pretty sure I can kill the robot.
(Shannon) No, you can't. Don't try. Come on.
(gunfire)
(Megan) Nope, can't kill the robot.
- (Labib) Duck! - (Madison) All right, just keep going.
(whispering) Sorry I left you. Come back.
(gunfire)
Wah-- what is this?
- (warbling) - (Daniel) Oh, a shotgun. Sweet.
There you go. I see you. I see you in the bush.
Get out.
(Daniel) I forgot there was a turret there.
(groaning) I went into that bullet.
(Megan) How do you jump up there? How'd you do that?
(Shannon) A. You know, press jump.
(Geneva) Want me to take bottom?
- (Mikaela) Whatever. - (Geneva) Doesn't matter.
- (death chiptune) - Oh!
(Mikaela) Did the water just end or something?
I'm confused.
(Madison) Oh my gosh, look at how far we came!
Just keep going, just keep going.
- (death chiptune) - (Labib) Oh, we're what?!
I thought there was a sign. Where's the water at?
- (gunfire) - (Shannon) Avoid the machine thing.
(Megan) Pew! Pew! Pew!
(Shannon) Jump over it. Come on. Aw, come on!
- (Megan) Aww, I got killed. - (Shannon tsks)
(Megan) Come on, Shannon. Let's do this.
(Shannon) I ran into the guy.
(laughing)
(Megan) We sucked.
(Sam) If you want me to win, if you want me to win
- you need to be really-- - (death chiptune)
- How did you get more points than me? - (Morgan) I have no idea.
(Ethan) There's gonna be a thingie right just there.
Shoot it. Whoop.
- (Daniel) There we go. - (Ethan) There we go. That was close.
- (gunfire) - (Geneva) No!
- (death chiptune) - (Geneva grumbles)
- I hate that guy! - (gunfire)
(Geneva) Oh, you got him. Good.
- (death chiptune) - (Mikaela) What?! Why did I--
(Geneva) Get up there.
(Labib) Don't fall down though 'cause I think we died this time.
- (death chiptune) - (Labib) Oh, yeah.
(Madison) Oh, you die if you fall down there
because there's no water anymore.
(Ethan) I'm not trying to die!
- (exhales sharply) - (Daniel) Okay, I'm on this guy.
No! (grumbles) I jumped into him!
- (Geneva) Are these power-ups? - (Mikaela) I think so. Get 'em.
- (Geneva) What does the L mean? Let's see. - (Mikaela) I don't know.
- (Geneva) Let's try it. - (warbling)
Whoo hoo, laser!
(Madison) You're doing so good. Look it!
(Labib) I'm trying to make it. I'm trying to make it.
- (Madison) Oh, you've got it. - (Labib) I'ma do it for the team.
- (Madison) What happened? - (Labib) I'ma do it for the team!
- (Madison yells) - (Labib) Oh, no!
- (Labib) Don't call me-- - (Madison) We're getting better though.
- (Labib) Yeah, this was-- - (Madison) That was good.
(Labib) Yeah. We're learning.
(Ethan) Wait, I gotta jump back up here.
(trilling tongue) Okay, go, go.
Ooh, aah! No!
(Daniel grumbles in frustration)
(Ethan) Ducking is a thing.
(gunfire)
- (explosion) - (Geneva) There we go.
(Mikaela) There we go. That's how we do it.
(Geneva) Look, look, look, look.
- (Mikaela) Ooh! - (Geneva) Look how far we are.
- Or I am. - (Mikaela) Or you are!
- (Mikaela) What the hell? - (Geneva) Wait, did we win?
- Wait, what do I do? - (Mikaela) Just shoot, just shoot.
- Get down and shoot. - (death chiptune)
- Oh, okay. - (Geneva) Do we have another life?
- ♪ (game over chiptune) ♪ - Nope.
- (Daniel) Okay, we've got this-- - (Ethan) All right, last life.
(Ethan) Let's go. Let's get past Stage 1!
- (Daniel) Yeah, all right. - (Ethan) Screw that guy.
We just gotta try to survive.
- (Daniel) Oh, I think we're here. - (Ethan) NO!!!
No!!!
I was right there!
♪ (game over chiptune) ♪
(Finebros) So what did you think?
- (Megan) Hard. - (Shannon) This game is hard.
(Megan) Man, it's a hard game.
(both) That's ridiculous.
No, this is outrageous. Did you pay money for this?
- I hated it so much! - The game sucked.
That game was frustrating.
I think the pressure got to us.
- It was fun working as a team. - Yeah.
But it was still frustrating.
- It was addicting. - Yeah.
I kept wanting to play it.
Once we got that little timing thing down,
I wanted to keep playing and beat it.
I had a lot of fun, but in terms of actual how much we progressed
in the game, it was pretty terrible.
It was, like, horrible.
I think this was the worst I've ever done in any game ever.
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♪ (old-school video game music) ♪