Everyone knows how much Ghost ‘n Goblins was a hope-raping despair fest, but when I was a kid of limited resources in Charlotte, NC, playing through the first 3 levels (because come on, no one got further than that) was as close as I could get to cohorting with Satan. Needless to say I played it all the time.

Here are two videos unrelated to anything other than my lack of recent posts (Summer is awful) showing a complete playthrough of the second time you had to beat it, after finding out the first “room” was an “illusion.”

GO AHEAD DAUNTLESSLY! MAKE RAPID PROGRESS!

The Meanest Thing Capcom Ever Did [via Kotaku]

Tags: ghost n' goblins, Go ahead dauntlessly! Make rapid progress!, satan, video games

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