@“chazumaru”#p76738
This feels specific to my interests since I seem to be the only person in the world who loved Castlevania 64.
Another great look at classic turn-of-the-'80s console launch material, this time for Intellivision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrf2QDIyv2I&t=1s
Really enjoy all the history work Kevin Bunch puts into these videos. Normally I would say he's got it easy, given the wide availability of interview subjects and archived material vs. what I can use for J-PC research, but it's still a lot of effort & smarts to put everything together this well. (I just need to learn Japanese already, so that's on me.)
@"chazumaru"#p76745 Yeah, it's a pretty disappointing look at PDS which seems way more invested in its (frankly cold) take on game preservation/legal access. Guy spends a lot of script time going for melodrama & flowery padding when he could have, for instance, deep-dived into a really cool part of the game and analyzed why it works so well. Then again, I should know better than to expect that much from a YouTuber who's made views off of predictable A E S T H E T I C baiting in previous videos, as if that's somehow enlightening at all now.
Great video nominally about an image used for computer engineering tests but is actually about the unequal treatment of women in those fields
https://youtu.be/yCdwm2vo09I
A cool 14 minutes with segmented displays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA
https://youtu.be/bkwzJ84LiyM
Please note that this review is not in fact infinite
youtube threw this my way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=885TwVEZ7-w
Interesting video about the only game of a solo indie developer from Hong Kong in 1998
https://youtu.be/g9RtnUbW8Xw
@“captain”#p83784 that was an incredible video.
When I played God of War 2018 and got to the wine amphora scene it made me go all the way out to the Danforth to pick up a bottle of Lemnian wine, and drinking it was maybe the highlight of my playthrough of the game. ( [size=15][u]***owned***[/u][/size] )
( [size=13]*I shared it with some friends* [/size] )
Town of Mount Royal is fucked up and contrasts surreally with all the less affluent and more diverse neighbourhoods around it, like Côte-des-Neiges. I once went to a SAQ (provincial liquor store chain) in TMR to very responsibly buy a bottle of Irish copper pot still whiskey with my financial aid money my first month in university and I scared one of the employees there—I guess because I was too excited that he'd found the whiskey I trekked out for and maybe also because I looked so out of place in their ostentatious suburban enclave as a poor student (and a then-closeted trans person who couldn't dress herself) that he froze like a deer in headlights?
[size=11]Also longboarding is cool as hell and I need to get out on mine more!![/size]
@“captain”#p83784 This is well laid out and thoughtful. I had the experience of having questions form in my head near the end of each section be answered in the thesis of the next segment. What an exceptional essay.
Pretty entertaining quarter-hour courtroom story involving Quincy Jones and the Michael Jackson Estate.
https://youtu.be/NMfppnJs3vM
Toonheads -The 12 Missing Hares
Toonheads- The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever
Toonheads was a show on cartoon network that explored the early American cartoons and did so from a historian perspective. They contextualized so many of the events and actors that most of us were not aware of but saw on those reruns. They're been slowly popping up on YouTube and recently someone was able to get their hands on two unreleased episodes which are fantastic.
mathewmatosis is my favorite game critic. most serious videogame criticism is about the presentation of a game, the story, characters, how it looks and sounds, the choices around that, the cultural implications of that, the discourse around that, and so on. mathewmatosis brings that same critical thoughtfulness to the mechanics of a game, which i find infinitely more worthwhile.
i'm almost certain he's been posted in this thread already, maybe even by me, but after a year or two without a video, he's back! and he's got a message: don't expect more. i love it. always have to respect contra-algorithm behavior from a youtuber.
https://youtu.be/pl9G4voWfDQ
anyone heard of this guy? I might give it a shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=779coR-XPTw
@“hellomrkearns”#p86464 i dunno, 6 hours is too long and the game looks like it's weird and has zero high-octane action.
It took me 3 days but I got through it all. That’s about all I’m willing to say here in this thread.
This individual video isn't an essay recommendation itself, however:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zwQDb-4w00
Kate Willaert does some fantastic video games history work, as recommended by Frank at the end of Insert Credit Ep. 202.
I would like to recommend having a look over Kate's channel, and if you like her work and can afford it then please consider [her Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/acriticalhit). $1/month from some people may make all the difference for her.
Have you ever had this weird experience of re-watching a youtube video that feels extremely contemporary in style, presentation and quality to then realize it was uploaded in 2009??? this just happened to me with this video by Jay Foreman I just randomly clicked on. It's just a NordVPN ad away from being a 2022 youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjuD288JlCs
I find it interesting how ahead of his time (in a frankly insanely rapidly evolving format) Jay Foreman was when it came to video essays on youtube.
Insightful guide through the history of Kaiju-themed video games
https://youtu.be/nbKhQnlXzV4
https://youtu.be/mTBn9B8JE0I