# Gaming Historian: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-11-11, Gaming Historian has 1,100,000 subscribers, 152,357,397 total views, and 145 videos. It ranks #66,215 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Gaming Historian](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Gaming Historian is “Thanks for Watching”, a long-form video published Apr 3, 2026.
- These are Gaming Historian’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jun 15, 2017 and Apr 3, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 931,338. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3” (8,950,094 views, Dec 18, 2019). Least viewed: “MY Top 5 TWERKS in VIDEO GAMES! - NORMOGATARI! (April Fools 2018)” (98,512 views, Apr 1, 2018).
- Median length: 15:38 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Gaming Historian’s consecutive uploads were a median of 42 days apart (shortest gap 14 days, longest 722 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 11, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Thanks for Watching](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/nV_Aww8_6wQ/) | 2026-04-03 | Long-form | 536,514 | 4:51 | 0.52x |
| [The Story of The Oregon Trail](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/8QbjlHeoLdc/) | 2024-04-11 | Long-form | 1,589,090 | 1:26:56 | 1.42x |
| [The Story of the First Video Game Cartridge](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/Nio3hYAx_Tc/) | 2023-06-09 | Long-form | 1,027,779 | 37:07 | 1x |
| [The Forgotten Portable NES](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/OdjFvMGZCa8/) | 2023-03-10 | Long-form | 1,026,187 | 9:55 | 1.04x |
| [Batter Up: Play Super Nintendo With a Baseball Bat](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/6jt3Fa1c_zg/) | 2023-01-27 | Long-form | 262,619 | 14:29 | 1.08x |
| [The Story of Super Mario Kart](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/NDHZKYETDyU/) | 2022-12-02 | Long-form | 3,707,933 | 50:54 | 3.44x |
| [Sharp SF1: A Super Famicom TV](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/G_6PO3N8fig/) | 2022-09-09 | Long-form | 656,631 | 11:03 | 2.71x |
| [When Nintendo Games Were on Atari](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/BjRuV52Jk78/) | 2022-07-29 | Long-form | 1,403,808 | 17:56 | 5.79x |
| [Microsoft's 3 Biggest Mistakes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/8CapGWzI5Mo/) | 2022-06-30 | Long-form | 845,680 | 30:01 | 3.49x |
| [The Story of Super Mario World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/s2bTQK6vbKI/) | 2022-05-06 | Long-form | 8,673,731 | 1:18:25 | 35.78x |
| [The Ultimate Guide to NES Light Guns](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/keyDD-Eqom0/) | 2021-12-10 | Long-form | 1,206,876 | 57:02 | 4.98x |
| [What Happened to Mega Man Universe?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/biwsmuT73qA/) | 2021-11-05 | Long-form | 480,238 | 16:39 | 1.98x |
| [How the Mario Characters Got Their Names](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/aTyxQfpOEbE/) | 2021-09-29 | Long-form | 954,521 | 23:10 | 3.94x |
| [Don't Touch: The Story of the U-Force](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/EVszKSeSE-0/) | 2021-09-01 | Long-form | 908,155 | 37:27 | 3.75x |
| [SEGA Mega Modem: Ahead of Its Time](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/pbWkjAFgR5Q/) | 2021-05-26 | Long-form | 848,030 | 27:54 | 3.5x |
| [LJN Roll & Rocker: A Terrible Controller](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/5fiPgcQNE3w/) | 2021-02-24 | Long-form | 381,594 | 12:25 | 1.57x |
| [There Was a Lock for the NES](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/-a02mozgBmY/) | 2021-01-06 | Long-form | 599,721 | 8:50 | 2.47x |
| [The Story of Mega Man on DOS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/gwt5yWJqCzU/) | 2020-10-31 | Long-form | 678,866 | 22:51 | 2.8x |
| [Sony's 3 Biggest Mistakes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/aMJXYgTOyhE/) | 2020-08-25 | Long-form | 1,003,478 | 18:19 | 4.14x |
| [The Story of Mario Paint](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/54bXwb5DfRI/) | 2020-07-28 | Long-form | 1,470,843 | 45:56 | 6.07x |
| [Crusader of Centy: SEGA's Zelda Clone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/kCgIZIasYnE/) | 2020-05-11 | Long-form | 1,032,970 | 11:31 | 4.26x |
| [Awesome Possum: Tengen's Failed Mascot](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/3sQpWt4eZW8/) | 2020-04-08 | Long-form | 458,486 | 20:40 | 1.89x |
| [What Facts Did I Get Wrong?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/i6sJotFmUtM/) | 2020-02-13 | Long-form | 432,366 | 17:41 | 1.78x |
| [The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/MxT6IwUtLSU/) | 2019-12-18 | Long-form | 8,950,094 | 49:56 | 36.92x |
| [Pocket Sonar: Find Fish With a Game Boy!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/5mHSHmk_UU4/) | 2019-10-08 | Long-form | 458,789 | 6:25 | 1.89x |
| [When a 9-Year-Old Sued Nintendo](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/z1F0bh4aVhQ/) | 2019-09-04 | Long-form | 2,836,359 | 5:55 | 11.7x |
| [The Hot Stik: Motion Controls on the NES](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/I2wKRZ02Y2I/) | 2019-06-18 | Long-form | 384,102 | 5:55 | 1.58x |
| [The Story of Zelda: Link's Awakening](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/pfvk6CJ3v34/) | 2019-05-30 | Long-form | 1,718,020 | 14:37 | 7.09x |
| [The NES Hot Seat: A Chair Controller](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/fvws5tOHsEE/) | 2019-04-23 | Long-form | 839,249 | 6:54 | 3.46x |
| [Sonic's Secret Genesis Games](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/Q0_yBrAbuxI/) | 2019-03-28 | Long-form | 746,111 | 10:53 | 3.08x |
| [The Story of the Aladdin Deck Enhancer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/_eG-PSZU5MI/) | 2019-02-21 | Long-form | 1,784,708 | 19:46 | 7.36x |
| [The Story of the Super Mario Land Series](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/Jg1IIIJTrBI/) | 2019-01-23 | Long-form | 3,381,189 | 25:05 | 13.95x |
| [The Story of Punch-Out!!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/XAwM-lCI4YU/) | 2018-12-04 | Long-form | 2,235,279 | 48:22 | 9.22x |
| [When Nike Sued SEGA](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/1jMyqX-TSuk/) | 2018-09-25 | Long-form | 507,831 | 9:36 | 2.09x |
| [The Story of Spyro the Dragon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/faV6qLqBAPc/) | 2018-08-17 | Long-form | 2,054,944 | 30:24 | 8.48x |
| [Hudson & Nintendo's Obscure PC Games](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/OPqMzDTqbTs/) | 2018-06-29 | Long-form | 670,439 | 12:18 | 2.77x |
| [The Story of the SEGA 32X](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/sjilAAhp8NI/) | 2018-05-31 | Long-form | 3,286,836 | 19:41 | 13.56x |
| [Unlicensed Game Boy Players](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/HfZTK2XStME/) | 2018-04-27 | Long-form | 1,072,410 | 13:31 | 4.42x |
| [MY Top 5 TWERKS in VIDEO GAMES! - NORMOGATARI! (April Fools 2018)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/vW8evni8Lj4/) | 2018-04-01 | Long-form | 98,512 | 4:41 | - |
| [The Story of R.O.B. the Robot](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/w2FuHErzhVE/) | 2018-03-16 | Long-form | 2,757,284 | 24:00 | 11.37x |
| [The Story of Tetris](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/_fQtxKmgJC8/) | 2018-02-02 | Long-form | 4,887,756 | 59:31 | 20.16x |
| [SEGA Pods: A Motion-Detecting Toy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/whOi-aChPqE/) | 2017-12-15 | Long-form | 424,597 | 8:33 | 1.75x |
| [SEGA's 3 Biggest Mistakes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/RL9l2Z7sh2g/) | 2017-12-01 | Long-form | 2,244,437 | 13:54 | 9.26x |
| [Before Apple: Steve Jobs at Atari](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/p5IaCTJdVuM/) | 2017-09-08 | Long-form | 468,647 | 12:41 | 1.93x |
| [The Story of the Konami Code](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/MkSYX0N07CQ/) | 2017-08-18 | Long-form | 717,050 | 5:14 | 2.96x |
| [Game Boy Player: The Best Way to Play Game Boy on a TV](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/GfkeQYpGkAQ/) | 2017-08-04 | Long-form | 1,213,200 | 7:59 | 5x |
| [Game Factory: SEGA & Blockbuster's On-Demand Game Rentals](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/nrUWIHasHPQ/) | 2017-07-14 | Long-form | 498,836 | 8:43 | 2.06x |
| [The Legend of Polybius](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@gaminghistorian/videos/4gLypLPTljg/) | 2017-06-15 | Long-form | 746,152 | 8:36 | 3.08x |

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