Errors and Installations Suck
Spike walked into his room in the castle and turned on the light switch. He walked over to his computer and pressed power. He pulled the seat out, sat down, and pushed himself towards the computer table. In one claw, he held a shopping bag from the videogame store. He reached into his bag and pulled out a game that he a bought just now. It was called Pac-Man. Spike eye-balled the game's cover for a while, staring at the little yellow ball thing creature and the ghosts.
"This better have be worth the 20 bits I spend!" Spike muttered.
He slowly opened the game cover and carefully took out the game's disc. He pressed the eject button on the disc slot on his computer, and inserted the game disc. The he turned on his computer cam. He was going to record himself playing and upload it to PonTube. As Spike began to set everything up, a window screen popped out. "Whoa, what is this?" thought Spike. He leaned in closer to read what was on the pop up. It read: Pac-Man, copyright 1980 Namco. Please press "Install" to begin.
"Install!?" shouted Spike. "The pony at the game store didn't say anything about installing anything!"
Spiked clicked his teeth and shook his head. He let out a disappointed sigh and pressed install. A new pop out screen appeared. Terms and Agreement. "Wha-- What the hay is THIS garbage!" yelled Spike. "Terms and Agreement, please read!? I don't care! Where's my game!?" he yelled. Spike groaned as he stared at the screen and began to read.
"Attention user. We at Namco appreciate you choosing us for your everyday gaming experience. Buy accepting these terms you will, blah, blah, blah, yata, yata, yata, you not to make illegal copies of this game and distribute them to, why the heck would I make copies of this stupid crap!"
"Screw it!" shouted Spike. He scrolled to the bottom of the Terms and found two options, Agree and Decline. "Do you agree or disagree to these?" Spike read. "Agree" he said. Spike clicked the agreed button. The screen closed and a new screen appeared. It read, Now Installing Pac-Man. Spike slowly reclined on his chair and sighed in relief. "Finally!" he said. Spike happily waited for his game to download. Unfortunately, that was his next struggle.
Spike looked as the loading screen displayed is installation percentage. It was at 2%. Spike patiently waited reclining back on his seat. Spike looked at the clock in his room. It was 11:23 am. Spike stared back at his computer. Download percentage was still at 2%. "Hmm," thought Spike, "Maybe if I go and make myself a sandwich, and come back, my game will already be loaded!"
Spike marveled at how clever he was. He slowly got up from his chair and went to go make himself a sandwich. The time was now 11:55 am. Spike finished making his sandwich and headed back to his room. He slowly sat back down on his computer with a sandwich at hand. He took a bite of his sandwich and looked at the installation screen. "Okay," said Spike with his mouth full, "* chew, Let's see her." Spike leaned in closely to the monitor of the computer to read the download percentage.
Now Installing Pac-Man. Download: 3%.
Spike was shocked. "WHAT!!" he shouted, spitting out the piece of sandwich he had eaten. "I WAS OUT FOR 32 MINUTES AND IT ONLY WENT UP BY 1%!!!" Spike slapped his forehead. He grabbed the game's cover box and stared at it. He eyeballed the game's cover art and frowned. "Hmm, stupid ball of yellow crap!" he muttered. Spike stared at that Pac-Man cover art with angry eyes. He felt that the game was taunting him. The way he smiled at him with that stupid little wink.
"Your game better be worth this!" Spike threatened. He stared back at the Screen.
Now Installing Pac-Man. Download: 8%.
"Huh? Alright! It went up by 5" Spike cheered.
Now Installing Pac-Man. Download: 6%.
"What the--"
Spike angrily turned to the picture of Pac-Man on the game's cover art again. "You Little Mother [Bleep]!" he shouted.
Spike stared at the picture waiting for a response. But it didn't say a word (no shit).
"DON'T YOU BACK-SASS ME A HOLE!!" Spike shouted.
Spike punched the game's cover and wrestled it down to the floor. Yes, Spike is fighting a fictional character who is an artwork on a game's cover box. Honestly, I'd didn't think he'd go this crazy over an arcade game. Spike grappled and rolled around on the floor as he tried to beat up Pac-Man, oblivious to the fact that he’s fighting with a picture of a fictional character. As Spike fist fought with it, a bleep sound came from his computer.
Now Installing Pac-Man. Download: 97%.
Spike was surprised. He was only fighting for 14 seconds and the Download percentage was already at 97. "ALRIGHT!" he cheered. "Finally. It's almost done!" Spiked watched as the final countdown proceeded. Spike was happy. It was almost over. 98%. Once his game fiishes installing, he can play Pac-Man and see what all the fuss was about. Pac-Man became a really game in Equestria for some reason. And Spike was about to find out why. 99%. "Yes!" YESE!! YEEEESS!!!!" cheered Spike. This was it. "Oh boy!" Spike exclaimed, "Come on, come on!!"
...99%...
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...100%
Spike stared at the screen. Downloading percentage was at 100%. Spike slowly admired the screen for a while. His smiled got bigger and bigger until finally, the final pop up screen appeared. Download Complete. Please press to Continue.
"YEEEEEEEEEESSS!!!" Spike cheered.
He pressed continue and waited. He happily reclined back on his chair and smiled. "Finally, now I can see what it is about this game that everyone likes" Spike thought to himself. "Scootaloo really seemed to enjoy it. And it was all Sweetie Belle was able to talk about" he continued. "I hope it's worth it.
Finally Spike was awoken by a magical sound . "Huh?" Spiked muttered, "What is--" Spike looked at the screen and saw the game's menu. There it was. A yellow bar with 4 big bold white letter. P-L-A-Y. Play. Spike nearly cried.
"YES! FINALLY!"
Spike did. He was ready to start playing and recording. He inserted the capture card into the slot port on the side of his computer monitor and pressed record on his camera. He was recording live. He happily began his video by introduce himself to the internet.
"Hello ponies of PonTube, my name is Spike, and Today, I'm going to be playing Pac-Man." He continued, "There's been a lot of buzz about this game, so I thought I'd check it out for myself and see what all the fuzz is about so. Let's Begin. I've just installed my game, and I'm already at the menu. So all I have to do is it Play."
Spiked scrolled his mouse over to the play option and clicked. The game began. Once again, Spike heard the magical sound (I already played it so, no need to play it again). "Oh, alright" said spike, "opening with the same intro song as the menu's. Not bad"
As Spike was about to play the game, something awful happened. The worst thing that any gamer could ever experience. As Spike was about to begin the level, everything froze. Spike stared at the screen and was puzzled when nothing was happing. He was pressing the arrows keys but nothing happened. "Hmm" he thought, "Maybe if I--"
Before Spike could finish his sentence, another pop up screen appeared. It read: Sorry, there has been an error running the game. Please reopen window or shut down computer and try again later. Spike was shocked. After everything he went through to try and download this stupid game it fails on him. Spike was so stunned, he couldn't even speak. He slowly turned to the game cover on the floor behind him.
Spike boiled in fury as he saw Pac-Man's face. Spike was losing it again. "You...YOU..." he stuttered, trying desperately to finish his sentence. "YOU...L-L-Little...Little...P-P-P-Piece...Y-Y-You...Y-You L-Little..." Spike clenched his claws into fists and grinded his teeth. This was going to get ugly.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!"
Spike charged at the game cover and proceeded to beating it up again. He clawed at it. Bit it. Kicked it and threw it at a wall, and spat on it. Spike yelled tons of naughty words at the game cover as he punched it, not realizing his camera was still recording...and feeding LIVE FOOTAGE to the internet. To make a long story short. Spike went viral.
Author's Note
I was board so I wanted to write a story about Spike playing a game and getting pissed off. So here it is. If you liked it, leave a comment. If you didn't like it, to bad so sad.
