I thought I was over these Teen React videos, but this one is a little too sweet and personal to look away from. Contra is described in the video as one of the hardest video games of all time. Really? Well, with the way these teenagers play it, it certainly looks like it.

These kids can’t do anything right. They can’t shoot flying weapon capsules, they can’t cross the exploding bridge, and they can’t even get past Level 1! No Spread Cannon for these twerps… well, one gets it and loses it right away.

To be fair, they are playing in co-op, and that is a handicap right there if one person is a lot better than the other. Screen scrolling can create an invisible wall right into a pit if one player falls behind in the wrong spot. However, nobody in these teams look like they can claim to be the weaker of the two.

It was also their first time playing Contra, and this is what everyone looks like the first time they blast through Konami’s NES masterpiece. If given more chances and enough practice, they might be able to 1-credit the game just like us old timers. They do make a lot of progress in this short allotted time, getting deeper and deeper after each continue.

Deeper and deeper… into Level 1.