10 Video Game Moments So Difficult They Were Just Unfair

8. Mega Man - Yellow Devil

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The Yellow Devil serves as one of the last bosses in the original Mega Man. His method for you killing you (and your love for video games in general) is to disassemble his body and then reform on the other side of the screen. The only way to beat him is to memorise the order his 19 parts move towards you.

Even if you perfectly memorise his pattern, you are not out of the woods yet. You can only hurt him when his eye becomes visible. Since his eye appears on a random spot on his body, you have to take a guess where it's going to be.

You have to be vigilant since it only appears for a second. Also, when his eye appears, he shoots a laser directly at you so you have to aim blindly while dodging his projectile.

The only thing that stops the Yellow Devil from being higher on the list is you can kill him almost instantly by exploiting a glitch. If you shoot him with Elec Man's blast, you can pause and unpause so the blast counts as an extra hit.

If you do this rapidly, the Yellow Devil will perish within seconds.

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