# The Retro Future: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-10-27, The Retro Future has 653,000 subscribers, 107,205,996 total views, and 629 videos. It ranks #116,013 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The Retro Future](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/). 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 The Retro Future is “Retro Hunting In The BEST Hard-Off In Japan”, a long-form video published Oct 13, 2026.
- These are The Retro Future’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jul 22, 2023 and Oct 13, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 190,065. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “I Built the ULTIMATE New 3DS XL from Junk” (1,730,025 views, May 27, 2024). Least viewed: “The NEW Nintendo 64” (55,486 views, Nov 18, 2025).
- Median length: 20:16 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, The Retro Future’s consecutive uploads were a median of 14 days apart (shortest gap 2 days, longest 130 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Retro Hunting In The BEST Hard-Off In Japan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/Q0cCFC_bThA/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 214,869 | 52:34 | 1.4x |
| [I Hit The Jackpot While Retro Hunting In Japan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/9kfUpxkDU7Y/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 397,026 | 1:02:43 | 1.07x |
| [Retro Hunting Took Me Deep Into Rural Japan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/7Srgj2YsAwg/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 168,647 | 44:32 | - |
| [Did I Get Scammed Buying My Dream Game Boy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/xaif7PAhg6A/) | 2026-08-20 | Long-form | 149,536 | 16:23 | - |
| [Retro Hunting in the Japan Tourists Don't Visit](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/dbBaj0DutAw/) | 2026-08-13 | Long-form | 396,862 | 47:27 | 1.15x |
| [Retro Hunting In Japan's Remote Villages](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/_vCXv7t2Vrs/) | 2026-07-30 | Long-form | 787,819 | 58:55 | 2.81x |
| [Retro Hunting In Japan's Biggest Flea Market](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/lpSPd6rkW9Y/) | 2026-07-16 | Long-form | 807,049 | 49:35 | 3.76x |
| [Retro Hunting In Japan Has Changed Forever](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/FVi4jACDcug/) | 2026-07-01 | Long-form | 201,487 | 54:33 | 0.99x |
| [I Found The Most Destroyed 3DS XL Ever... So I Restored It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/thhMozg4h94/) | 2026-04-30 | Long-form | 339,154 | 1:07:39 | 1.73x |
| [Nintendo Wanted These Destroyed, But I Have Them](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/UI2u8GVbxYk/) | 2026-04-04 | Long-form | 346,939 | 24:57 | 2.09x |
| [I Built the Ultimate PlayStation from Junk](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/2W1YJdHpawE/) | 2026-03-28 | Long-form | 613,089 | 32:57 | 3.7x |
| [I Found a Homemade Nintendo Console in Japan… It’s Insane](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/hfHzSWy4hh0/) | 2026-01-29 | Long-form | 61,797 | 10:38 | - |
| [I Restored & Upgraded The Handheld No One Is Talking About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/gvkx8eqI3BE/) | 2026-01-24 | Long-form | 220,730 | 20:27 | 1.13x |
| [I Saved & Upgraded a Pokémon Blue Chewed by a Dog](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/CY5mhaYhs4U/) | 2025-12-17 | Long-form | 184,414 | 21:59 | 1.11x |
| [I Built The ULTIMATE iPod](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/dCb5gQ-Ac0k/) | 2025-12-08 | Long-form | 207,251 | 12:48 | 1.17x |
| [I Recreated a Forgotten Piece of Nintendo History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/Vo5SyViaTq4/) | 2025-11-22 | Long-form | 92,483 | 24:45 | 1.27x |
| [The NEW Nintendo 64](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/Jczf9BsFHVs/) | 2025-11-18 | Long-form | 55,486 | 16:44 | - |
| [This GameBoy Mod Will Blow Your Mind...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/UkLu1IzQOkU/) | 2025-10-09 | Long-form | 124,280 | 20:23 | 0.77x |
| [I Sold Most Of My GameBoys](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/RFNZanN11nw/) | 2025-08-07 | Long-form | 146,963 | 34:55 | 0.91x |
| [I Saved & Upgraded Nintendo's Forgotten Console](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/B2N15VqJ3EM/) | 2025-07-12 | Long-form | 680,203 | 25:17 | 3.43x |
| [My GameBoy Kiosk is already broken…](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/MNfveIxnOIw/) | 2025-04-28 | Long-form | 221,912 | 20:58 | 1.12x |
| [I Restored an Abandoned GameBoy Kiosk](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/1Y2ao4gwWqg/) | 2025-04-15 | Long-form | 756,972 | 31:15 | 4.09x |
| [Incredibly Rare Piece of Nintendo History FOUND](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/Sd1tepuR0Og/) | 2025-02-14 | Long-form | 69,312 | 11:23 | 1.12x |
| [Nintendo wanted this Destroyed, But I Saved It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/L_5RYg65tPQ/) | 2024-12-20 | Long-form | 1,215,477 | 21:53 | 7.55x |
| [The ModRetro Chromatic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/RrW2-TVjkmc/) | 2024-12-08 | Long-form | 77,397 | 38:08 | - |
| [I Built the ULTIMATE GameBoy from JUNK](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/sZatf2sudBI/) | 2024-12-02 | Long-form | 174,125 | 47:23 | 1.08x |
| [I Found ILLEGAL GameBoy Cartridges](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/I_mNSivOBDY/) | 2024-11-01 | Long-form | 148,103 | 20:16 | 0.86x |
| [Installing Prototype Software On My Nintendo DS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/O6TD7QwaGG8/) | 2024-10-25 | Long-form | 131,468 | 10:41 | 0.73x |
| [The IMPOSSIBLE Nintendo 3DS XL Repair](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/W68ohiSNVI0/) | 2024-10-04 | Long-form | 274,802 | 22:37 | 1.49x |
| [I Built the ULTIMATE New 3DS XL from Junk](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/YMAa6obDNZs/) | 2024-05-27 | Long-form | 1,730,025 | 10:39 | 10.75x |
| [How a Stolen Idea Saved Nintendo](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/gI2_WcJAD1A/) | 2024-02-03 | Long-form | 195,715 | 20:16 | 1.39x |
| [I hit the GameBoy Jackpot!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/9GpGwlj1kVM/) | 2023-12-31 | Long-form | 97,718 | 8:33 | - |
| [Only 1000 of these GameBoys were made](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/2wVzWvsMiNs/) | 2023-12-24 | Long-form | 58,353 | 9:07 | - |
| [This Video Game Store Scammed Me.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/-Gjpq_TDH18/) | 2023-12-21 | Long-form | 266,170 | 11:11 | 1.89x |
| [Retro Video Game Hunting in AMERICA](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/fgDfHLQ6iog/) | 2023-11-18 | Long-form | 125,560 | 9:35 | 0.89x |
| [The PERFECT GameBoy Advance SP Upgrade](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/-bRuX8R934Q/) | 2023-11-05 | Long-form | 196,652 | 7:11 | 1.21x |
| [Giving the PSP an HDMI Upgrade!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/kQ8gr14wptY/) | 2023-10-27 | Long-form | 164,850 | 8:29 | 1.02x |
| [i can’t believe this was on a GameBoy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/ZlurcSN9lIA/) | 2023-10-17 | Long-form | 156,409 | 8:01 | 0.95x |
| [The Forgotten GameBoy Competitor...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/PoADH_Vz_I4/) | 2023-10-03 | Long-form | 121,703 | 10:09 | 0.82x |
| [someone needs to stop me](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/gh8jwxsBvxU/) | 2023-09-27 | Long-form | 69,739 | 11:07 | - |
| [The RAREST GameBoy game you've NEVER heard of](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/AJZPCijM3nQ/) | 2023-09-22 | Long-form | 83,220 | 8:16 | - |
| [i got scammed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/Ob7yfk86k3c/) | 2023-09-09 | Long-form | 174,455 | 8:02 | 0.82x |
| [I got the glow in the dark Analogue Pocket](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/4xkjtz1zv4I/) | 2023-09-07 | Long-form | 82,867 | 8:43 | - |
| [everything i bought in Japan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/f787-ax-Qlo/) | 2023-08-23 | Long-form | 252,784 | 21:53 | 0.92x |
| [it's over](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/M6mEcMEI9fE/) | 2023-08-20 | Long-form | 290,426 | 15:26 | - |
| [Junk $10 Nintendo DS Lite Restoration](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/WtAdJHSlNWc/) | 2023-08-13 | Long-form | 831,339 | 18:15 | 5.97x |
| [I Built the ULTIMATE Pokemon Game](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/Z4q5dJQ3n84/) | 2023-07-29 | Long-form | 750,344 | 6:05 | 5.41x |
| [The Nintendo Store in Japan is UNREAL](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theretrofuture/videos/e0A5IkqJyFU/) | 2023-07-22 | Long-form | 91,397 | 10:51 | - |

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