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On 1/13/2022 at 11:37 AM, killerkobra said:

Summoning Salt - I never thought I would be interested in speed running but the way these videos are presented… Masterpieces!

https://www.youtube.com/c/SummoningSalt

 

I'm with you on Summoning Salt, dude.
Speed-running isn't on the forefront of my gaming-interests, either, but that guy chronicles it so theatrically that tuning-in to one of his videos feels like watching a movie sometimes. 

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On 1/28/2020 at 9:27 AM, RH said:

8-Bit Music Theory: This is a guy who knows his music theory and completely nerds out on game music. I understand maybe 10% of what he says but I usually learn something about game music and why certain OSTs or music mechanics strike me a certain way

 

So far out of all the channels suggested this is one I have been binging so far. Very interesting to me. I do play guitar so its so interesting to see what scales the composers use. Highly recommended for video game music lovers!!

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Well if we're getting into music this I'd call required listening, check out the various catch alls for various franchises.  They're on youtube, spotify, etc. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDVKYPXwdYUQfgA05CkyFSg

Here is a fairly newer account, guy is a machine, plays through games start to end, does it fast, efficient(not a speed runner thankfully) and shows anyone how to knock a game off and ways to do it both legit or cheap out a glitch to do it.  Currently tackled FF1 loaded 1/2 the movie so far and it's at 3hrs.  https://ucanbeatvideogames.com/

I think some are obvious like Jeremy Parish, The Gaming Historian, DYKG for factoids too, but how about this brit? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJVdNvvuvOnthuWVQjYff2w Larry Bundy Jr who covers some pretty entertaining stuff the gaming industry, designers, large companies, etc do from both the deceitful to the strange and excellent, more a global view not just the narrow scope of his side of the pond which is great.  He has popped up with Ashens too.

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Channels I watch.....

Shout out to an ol' ScrewAttack g1 who gets nowhere near enough views for the quality of his videos HistoricNerd https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoricNerd

Many are aware of this channel but still worth mention, GamingHistorian https://www.youtube.com/c/gaminghistorian

Satchell Drakes, his channel is dead but if you see him on other channels then you know it'll be good.  Old videos are still great!  And meet the man at SGC he's a great guy.  https://www.youtube.com/c/SatchellDrakes

BitHead1000, this man does things his way.  Love him or hate him, he is entertaining and goes on long rants about anything.  I start watching him a fucking DECADE ago.  I do watch every video any more as I'm more busy and his videos are seriously 45+ min long.  But if you want something different then here you go, nobody is like him.  https://www.youtube.com/user/BitHead1000

PSVR Frank, his show is dead but if you are looking for PSVR review/game play then it doesn't matter if the channel is dead as most games are old and he covered them.  https://www.youtube.com/c/PSVRfrank

Playas Guide, he always shares his videos in the VGS Discord Channel and I do enjoy his content.  Video production isn't as polished as other channels but I'm tuning in for the topic/discussion.  https://www.youtube.com/c/PlayasGuide

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Necro bump.

I know I've recommended Pandamonium Reviews Every U.S. Saturn Game in the past, but man, this guy has turned his reviews into amazing documentaries.

Saturday he dropped his +4 hour long "Review" of Virtua Cop.  I know 4 hours may sound intimidating (and I'm not even through with it) but he breaks the video down into linked section and the second portion (of four) is built around a Zoom meeting/interview with the AM2 team that ported the game from the arcade.

This is some truly fascinating, internal SEGA details and I don't think this information has been discussed, even in Japan.  I'm super impressed with this guy and I'm still super-shocked that even though he's done this for years, he's yet to break 10k subs.  Even if you don't have to time to watch a 4 hour video, it's worth breaking it up into chunks if you're interested in the fine details of SEGA's history and the Saturn.  I recommend the NBA Jam documentary/review too.  It's about a LOT more than just NBA Jam on the Saturn.

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I've been really digging videos from thorhighheels https://youtube.com/c/thorhighheels weird games, chill vibe, I am about it

oddheaders Easter egg videos are super great, https://youtube.com/c/oddheader

Rebeltaxi's strange colorful games series is neat too https://youtube.com/c/RebelTaxi

Oh yeah! Seattle retro guy has been doing a series of original Xbox collectables that is honestly the best resource on the web as far as I know to showcase some of these rare promotional items like advertising and shop attract things https://youtube.com/c/SeattleRetroGuy

 

 

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Lots of great suggestions in this thread.  I also highly recommend Jeremy Parish, Game Sack, Gaming Historian and PandaMonium.

A few I really like but haven't seen mentioned:

NES Friend - short, easy to digest videos

Sega Lord X - focuses obviously on Sega, mostly Genesis and Saturn

ShoryuGame - focuses on fighters, particularly KoF and Neo fighters

Cannot Be Tamed - she doesn't focus exclusively on retro games and is easy on the eyes!

Basement Brothers - Neo Alec is documenting every Neo Geo game in order

spida1a - Chris Bucci reviewed every TG game for his TurboViews series.  Truly excellent stuff.

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Here's another one, though not game related but probably appreciated by this crowd.  Sam at LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER (who made the mult-Game Boy synth) has been working the past couple of months of setting up an old church pipe organ in his museum and hooking it up to midi players and keyboards.  My gosh, this guy is full of epic content.  If you like synth music and electronic experimentation, you're doing yourself an injustice not subbing to this guy. 

I also don't like the Patreon model of monthly subbing to channels but Sam's channel is the only one I've ever seriously considered throwing a few bucks at each month since he puts all of his finds and franken-inventions on display in a museum.  It's a dream to be able to fly over to England some day and see the place.

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

 

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2 hours ago, Jaden said:

MOST retro game channels suck ass.

There, it needed a little meaningful correction.  MOST of them do, a lot just spit out the same tired garbage they have for at least a decade now, a bunch of parasites trying to get some clickbait fueled coin and endorsements for more coin and it's sad.  Most just want money and seek attention, they don't really do anything meaningful but waste space on the internet.  But not all.

Jeremy Parish (NES/GB/etc Works), The Gaming Historian, Sharopolis, U Can Beat Video Games, Basement Brothers(for neo geo), GTV Japan, Sega Lord X, Larry Bundy Jr, are part of a short list of people who aren't bottom feeders.  A lot of work goes into those clips they do, shows given the distance on some really.  A LOT of historical research deep dives into archives, heaps of collecting of data I'd call at a published writer or college paper level of attention to not just regional but global detail.

To lump them in with wastes of space (names modded but obvious like BurnoutJeebus, Turdster, MadTinyMouthpiece and others are just awful and the majority who emulate them are too) who just want to do more gems, more finds, more hidden or awesome that, look at me I'm awesome while begging, more copy pasta of the same shit anyone can get with a 60sec speed read of the wikipedia is disgusting.

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Alright alright, so I was exaggerating a bit. I just hate the current state of retro gaming YouTube now. Who wants to watch a grotesque middle aged man whose wife left them a decade ago talk about games we've already heard about a million times? If you wanna talk about channels that are complete wastes, you might as well add RonnJiggs and The Invincible JohnGrabshiscock to that category. Channels that serve no purpose other than to make unoriginal content and to flaunt their collections. They're the people that make me not want to be a retro game YouTuber. Because I'm afraid that I would be lumped with those pieces of trash.

But I guess should bring in some more positivity. I second that Jeremy Parish is one of the few gems in the rough. Not only does he review the games, but the way he analyzes the context of each game and how they shaped them and the games around them is something I haven't seen any other YouTuber do. That's where I first learned about the Nintendo Advanced Video System and Nintendo's potential deal with Atari. The super early history of the Famicom/NES (1983-1987) is endlessly fascinating to me. So, I'm glad that there's a channel that covers all that stuff in depth. I also want to add that Ahoy is an amazing channel, doing full on documentaries for various video game topics. He can make something as simple as a health bar or a type of game box fascinating to learn about. And to this day, I still go through an AVGN binge at least once a year. He's the gold standard for all retro game content for a reason.

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Yeah I entirely agree, it's why I filter out loser after loser unless I start seeing some well written and calculated reviews on someone on why they're not crap at this rate.  I've got the few I think have actual value, and I even clicked sub on them to keep them filtering out the garbage, it works in a reverse way which is fine by me.

Yes that's exactly how he is with his WORKS videos and books, amazing.  The others I mentioned do a similar job too with as much of a deep dive with neoalec(neo geo, basement bros) or sega lord, and the gaming historian along with that sharpolis, they do something uniquely useful and special and deserve the time to be checked out, a few gold nuggets above a global septic tank of brown nuggets.

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A recent channel I found is called retro Rewire. He goes around in hard offs etc in Japan and records whats there, which is totally random and I can see a lot prices etc just what I want. The biggest problem with the youtube channels are that a ton of them have been involved in some kind of scam. I know people like to believe the best but so many of the big channels have basements full of skeletons that they have tried to hide over the years. And I dont support that so I dont watch them. I also love LRG and 8bit guy 🙂

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I think most classic-gaming YouTube channels have merit, even the ones most people like to hate-on.

It's important to remember that everyone needs an entry point into the hobby, and a lot of YouTube channels that seem vapid or tired to you are fresh and exciting to someone who is just learning about classic gaming for the first time.

My introduction to the hobby was through channels like MetalJesusRocks and John Hancock. I love the easy entry-point they provide into the scene and the positivity they have about gaming in general.

-CasualCart

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On 8/15/2022 at 11:54 AM, RH said:

Necro bump.

I know I've recommended Pandamonium Reviews Every U.S. Saturn Game in the past, but man, this guy has turned his reviews into amazing 

I found that dude maybe a year ago. He definitely puts a good effort into his videos and if memory serves me correctly, his production is great as well.  I want to say, the first video I saw of his I thought to myself, “Holy shit, this is legit.”  With that said, I haven’t watched his newest video because it’s 4 hours.  😂 

 

I like Sega Lord X. As the name suggests, the channel is Sega-centric.  I’m guessing YT is his full time job, as he puts out videos quite often. The dude is in his late 40s and you can tell he has had a console and arcade passion his entire life.  He will pepper personal anecdotes through his reviews. I like hearing stories of an adult gamer in the 90s.  

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If you are just into general Retro gaming videos, not specifically collecting, then check out Stop Skeletons from Fighting and St1ka. They seem pretty passionate about the games they review, and they seem to pick out some pretty interesting ones. Oh, and Basement Brothers if you like old Japanese computer games.

I'd also give a soft recommendation to Mike TheGamerGuy. He is still improving in quality, but he has quite a few videos I really like, like his video on the FDS. He also covers some unlicensed/bootleg games, which are the sort of thing I like to collect. Not all of his videos are amazing, but some of them I find pretty captivating.

As for channels that specialize in collecting games, I can't think of any. That sounds like a pretty hard topic to make a quality YouTube channel around

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I'm pretty much done with NES "reviews" at this point.  Yeah, the game is thirty-five years old and has been played/reviewed ten thousand times; what could you possibly add to further the discussion?!?

Anyway, with that out of the way, I like videos that are still able to teach me things or shed new light on old topics.  I don't know if he's been mentioned yet, but https://www.youtube.com/c/DisplacedGamers/videos  has made some very informative videos recently about the inner workings of certain NES games.  For example, you know how there is that one spot in SMB near the end of 1-2 where the screen scrolling gets janky for just a split-second for some unknown reason?  Well he has a video explaining that and everything else you'd ever want to know about the minus world glitch.  Or the fact that I've played TMNT a million times and never new that pressing down on the underwater level actually does nothing!

There's a lot that can still be learned about old "retro" games and consoles, but at this point it takes a whole lot more than showing a bunch of five second clips of a game captured from an emulator and then commenting about how much the game rules or sucks to interest my weary old brain...

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1 hour ago, Dr. Morbis said:

I'm pretty much done with NES "reviews" at this point.  Yeah, the game is thirty-five years old and has been played/reviewed ten thousand times; what could you possibly add to further the discussion?!?

Anyway, with that out of the way, I like videos that are still able to teach me things or shed new light on old topics.  I don't know if he's been mentioned yet, but https://www.youtube.com/c/DisplacedGamers/videos  has made some very informative videos recently about the inner workings of certain NES games.  For example, you know how there is that one spot in SMB near the end of 1-2 where the screen scrolling gets janky for just a split-second for some unknown reason?  Well he has a video explaining that and everything else you'd ever want to know about the minus world glitch.  Or the fact that I've played TMNT a million times and never new that pressing down on the underwater level actually does nothing!

There's a lot that can still be learned about old "retro" games and consoles, but at this point it takes a whole lot more than showing a bunch of five second clips of a game captured from an emulator and then commenting about how much the game rules or sucks to interest my weary old brain...

Been following this guy.  Great stuff.  More for the geeky technical stuff, but I also like he gives you game genie codes to what he's doing if you wanna try things yourself.

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