Neckspike's Stuff

I have been so busy with a bunch of stuff I'm working on, but I wanted to share two of the channels I've been watching a lot of lately. I love video games and I love the history of things and how they were made and the decisions that lead to the final products, which maybe you could tell from my Nick Knacks recommendation. I'm doing these together because I think they're kinda similar but ultimately complementary projects.

First, Random Stranger's biggest project was Famidaily, documenting the entire Famicom library one game at a time. There's also documentation projects for Epoch's Cassette Vision and Super Cassette Vision, the Famicom Disk System, the currently running PC Engine Power series, and quite a few bonus videos on various topics. I've found them all a really engrossing look at the early console market in Japan, and their collection of japanese games and systems is really neat.

Second, Jeremy Parish's Video Works is more focused on the North American market and the NES with the long running NES Works, but also dips into the Famicom and it's predecessors with NES Works Gaiden, Sega consoles with Segaiden, the entire Virtual Boy library, and many others.

They're two of my favorite channels in this area, with long playlists of short videos to enjoy.

The homegrown video game game show has had it's 10th anniversary this year, which feels insane time is fake. It is fun, it is silly, spend an hour watching some peeps fail at video games, draw badly, and have a good time.

There's 644 episodes in the playlist at the time I post this. That's a lot of entertainment!

A project I'm always excited for, Pop Arena's Nick Knacks is an incredibly engrossing deep dive into the history of Nickelodeon going show by show chronologically. It starts with the early local cable network Qube and I've learned so much fascinating stuff.

The playlist for the full series is here.

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