The Gaming Historian

Myrddin

Any fans of Norms work here? For anyone who doesn't know, he does some really easy to watch, fact filled & comprehensive historical reviews and retrospectives on scene related stuff. The chap knows how to research properly, and has a style of video presentation that is something I really enjoy. No shouty shouty youtube stuff here

Doge

Time to add him to your sig.

Quality stuff alright.

Myrddin

Doge wrote: »

Time to add him to your sig.

Ah Norm has stiff competition - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=91513944

Quality stuff alright.

Certainly is

Myrddin

Very nice little piece on the Nomad

eddhorse

Subscribed, thanks.

Myrddin

New video - the Sharp Nintendo TV

Roar

I love Norm. Seems like a very nice guy and his content and delivery is top notch. Seems he's gone full time making Vids too so plenty more to come from him.

Myrddin

New video from Norm - Sega Visions Magazine

Myrddin

A hugely impressive piece this, packed with research & info. For anyone interested in the Atari V Nintendo law suits, this is a must watch

Roar

Really impressive video on Super Mario Bros 2/Doki Doki Panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EUYSN5aFcE

The amount of research and work he puts into his videos is insane. Really enjoyable video.

KeRbDoG

Roar wrote: »

The amount of research and work he puts into his videos is insane. Really enjoyable video.

Indeed, hard to not watch an entire episode when you start it playing

Right Turn Clyde

These look absolutely great. Time to change the bong water and turn on the smart TV. Man, I love being alive in 2015.

Mr.Saturn

I'm legit impressed someone actually managed to bring new information to the Mario 2/Doki Doki shtick.

Myrddin

Mega Man! (on Sega)

Tchoin

I really enjoy his work, found him very recently so I'm catching up with his videos. What I do find is that in some of his first videos, his pace was very slow, maybe too slow, but it does not look like that in the most recent ones.

Corholio

The Tengen-Atari video is outstanding to be honest, didn't know about 90% of what he said before.

Is it just me, or does he have a hypnotically fantastic voice for narrating videos?

Myrddin

He updated the intro music

Myrddin

Corholio wrote: »

Is it just me, or does he have a hypnotically fantastic voice for narrating videos?

Not just you, I could watch his vids all day long

Roar

Corholio wrote: »

The Tengen-Atari video is outstanding to be honest, didn't know about 90% of what he said before.

Is it just me, or does he have a hypnotically fantastic voice for narrating videos?

My wife says the same. And she hates watching these retro video game videos with me, but she likes Norm. She also loves Clint's voice on Lazy Game Reviews, she says it's unbelievably relaxing.

Retr0gamer

I only watched a few of his videos so far but he's the only gaming history guy that hasn't had me wanting to scream at the TV about how wrong he is about the stuff he covers. It's all thoroughly researched and free of any hyperbole or unsubstantiated opinions.

Myrddin

Nice little vid on a book Norm stumbled across while researching

Myrddin

Game & Watch Collectors Guide Review

Yffisch

Yeah, he does a lot of cool and very interesting stuff. He must have put a lot of work behind his videos.

Tchoin

I think that's mainly the reason why he has been a bit absent lately.

Myrddin

The Power Glove - fantastic piece of work here by Norm

Tchoin

Superb! This was an awesome episode, loved it.

BGOllie

Kylo Ren

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4cJh2YgrKE

Tchoin

Looks like a very interesting episode, will watch it tonight for sure.

Tchoin

I watched this last night, superb episode, great quality as always and good research.

I'd highly recommend watching this particular episode, nice tribute to a great man.

CodeNameEagle

Very nice series.

Tchoin

Have you guys been watching? What do you think of what's coming for 2016? I'm looking forward to the different styles Norm will add to the show (interviews and such).

Myrddin

Tchoin wrote: »

Have you guys been watching? What do you think of what's coming for 2016? I'm looking forward to the different styles Norm will add to the show (interviews and such).

Been adding his vids to my watch later list, gonna binge watch over the summer when college is finished (same for SSFF)

AVFC.Stephen

Bit late to the party on this one. Just found TGH on YouTube earlier. Reminds me of the guy that does the voice on the wonder years. Very interesting vids all the same

KevW24601

I really like his videos! Very well researched, academic and entertaining.

My favourite episode of his is the one on the "Creation of the ESRB".

He made it so interesting I even went and watched the entire '93 Senate Hearing. :O

Inviere

One of my favorite YT'ers, always puts out top class material. Kim Justice and Norm kinda are out on their own imo when it comes to this type of stuff.

DaveyDave

I wish these videos were longer. it's the kind of channel that I find and binge through their uploads. I know he probably doesn't want long and boring dragged out videos but I feel like the topics are interesting enough

KevW24601

DaveyDave wrote: »

I wish these videos were longer. it's the kind of channel that I find and binge through their uploads. I know he probably doesn't want long and boring dragged out videos but I feel like the topics are interesting enough

I definitely think he could pull off the longer videos if he wanted to. I'd be all for it as well.

BGOllie

It's more of a cost / time thing really. I don't think most people realise how much work is required in researching and editing videos like these.

Research, writing script and footage acquisition is about 3 to 5 hours per minute of videos.
For editing alone, count 1:30 to 3 hours of editing per minute of final video.

So all in all, for a 10 min video you end up with 45 to 80 hours of work. that's between 6 and 10 full days 8 hours of work ... i'm actually being super conservative here because you need to add sound and color correction and final mastering. It's a TON of work, even for a simple videos.

Since it's his full time job now, he needs to make minimum wage per video and on longer videos he simply wouldn't be able to reach that. I think he's also got a researcher and someone making the drawings for him that he needs to pay.

LGR had the same issues a while back, that's why he's outputting a lot of shorter or far less researched videos nowadays. Same with Retromancave or the Nostalgia Nerd who slowly are moving away from those "history of " type of content to more casual, unscripted stuff. It's an inevitable consequence of going full time into youtube and realising you have to suddenly account for your minimum wage / hour salary

Retr0gamer

I'd much rather the well researched videos than the utter garbage quick fix videos like Did You Know Gaming. Latest one about the Saturn is out with lots of incorrect facts such as Sega adding a second processor to try and compete with the Playstation which has been confirmed as complete nonsense.

BGOllie

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd much rather the well researched videos than the utter garbage quick fix videos like Did You Know Gaming. Latest one about the Saturn is out with lots of incorrect facts such as Sega adding a second processor to try and compete with the Playstation which has been confirmed as complete nonsense.

You get what you pay for & youtube is free content. You should never take a single video at face value anyway.
If you like specific creators, you should support their work actively.

Corholio

His 'Tetris' video is the best one he's ever done, and all of his are very good anyway. Some amount of research went in to that one.

BGOllie

it was amazing yeah. watched it a few times at this point.
But I talked to him about it a while back and he essentially lost money making this one although he'd admit it brought and still is bringing a lot of subscribers to his channel

Inviere

Corholio wrote: »

His 'Tetris' video is the best one he's ever done, and all of his are very good anyway. Some amount of research went in to that one.

I think I read before he's an actual historian, and loves research etc

Retr0gamer

Watched his Mario 2 one.

Everyone knows about Mario 2 and what went on.

Still managed to learn a thing or two about it and very impressed with how factually correct it was. The guy has talent.

KevW24601

Now with a video on the history of Spyro The Dragon.

Amazing stuff as always!

Inviere

^^ watched it there, brilliant as always. Having never played any of the Spyro games, I kinda 'get' the hype around it now after the video put it in context for me