Here’s some lighter news to help all you players out there settle back into the work week grind.

Our fellow stalwart champions of old-school gaming over at Nerdballoon have recently started a little something called “Project D”, in which older, more experienced gamers sit down with their youngling counterparts to try and beat some appreciation of classic digital entertainment into their media-corrupted minds.  This of course can only lead to tragedy.

Episode 1 – has just been uploaded, in which we get to hear a slightly less than open-minded 11-year-old attempt to survive a session of Contra.  Surprisingly, the graphics “suck”, and the game is not as approachable as “Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War”.  Oh, and I almost forgot, the music is “boring”.

Bottom line, this is an intriuging concept, and I long to see how today’s gamers deal with things like merciless halfway points, one-hit kills, and all other variety of challenges from the 8-bit era.  Please find the link  and video after the break.

Project D: Episode 1 [via Nerdballon]