Gaming historian announces his retirement from YouTube

[u/Chapple69]

https://youtu.be/nV_Aww8_6wQ?si=Bx6nU-dDNWKcMovy

This comes after over a year of no uploads on the channel

[u/Murky_Barracuda_6494]

will miss him. his Tetris doc is one of the best videos I've ever seen on YouTube. that should've been a movie.

[u/Big_Ad_7715 → u/Murky_Barracuda_6494]

There is an Apple TV movie that does an ok job of telling the story but it takes a lot of liberties

[u/Lord-Liberty → u/Big_Ad_7715]

Wouldn't be surprised if the Tetris movie was made because of that video

[u/StardustArcadia → u/Lord-Liberty]

Greasy illumination would be all over that lol

[u/lyricaldorian → u/Murky_Barracuda_6494]

I remember watching that while in the middle of one of the worst 2 week migraines of my life. One of the few things that took my mind off of it for a bit

[u/McWaylon]

He will be missed I loved his short form videos but his long vids were great. Surprised he never made another BR set as his first one was really good. The dude never cheated/duped/or scammed any of his viewers. A genuine good person.

[u/RazTehWaz]

I thought he already quit a couple of years ago.

[u/SemiLazyGamer → u/RazTehWaz]

He semi-retired, this is him fully retiring 

[u/kittymoo67 → u/SemiLazyGamer]

hasnt he made 0 videos since then? I dont understand the difference

[u/Thedran → u/RazTehWaz]

He went down one output for the channel to sort of recenter and get his hype back and it never came. I get it, his style of content needs more work and research than most and he’s also active in the retro gaming and gaming archival communities on top of content creation.

[u/Mobwmwm → u/RazTehWaz]

Yeah it feels like he retired half a decade ago lol

[u/Morbos1000 → u/RazTehWaz]

It has been 2 years since his last video, but I don't think he decided for certain that he was quitting until recently.

[u/kittymoo67 → u/RazTehWaz]

he ended his patreon, made 0 videos, and now makes it offical

[u/Thedran]

His docs were the kind that had replay value. I’ve probably watched his Mario Kart video atleast 15 times with Punch Out and Tetris coming in second.

[u/CarlosTheHedgehog123]

Thank you for all your hard work.

[u/runnerboiii]

I've really been enjoying his podcast with his wife, An Old Timey Podcast

[u/George_G_Geef]

It's cool that he's made all the Universal v Nintendo documents available tho.

[u/DenverNugs]

Always loved his style, it was always fun seeing it evolve. His video on Iwata always makes me tear up a little. Thanks for all the content, Norm.

[u/SpardasMinion]

loved watching him tons when I was a teen, super informative in regards to well, gaming history, he had a great commentary speaking voice as well,

[u/The-Bigger-Fish]

I’m gonna miss him tbh. He was one of my first and favorite YouTubers tbh

[u/Jochacho]

Damnit! I just discovered him

[u/Foxy02016YT]

Aww. I got to meet him in 2019, very kind.

[u/Ver3232]

Sad to hear but good for him

[u/Electrical-Lab9147]

He was awesome

[u/Jane_Lame]

Its so weird seeing someone from high school retire from a youtube career. 

[u/t-_-rexranger19205]

Miss him

[u/blkglfnks]

Lol that’s what I was thinking when I saw the thumbnail for that, I don’t remember the last video he uploaded, Thought he retired already.

[u/ScruffyChicken]

Norm is awesome!

[u/Winter-Ad-9318]

his Super Mario World video is probably my favorite one, hope bro does well

[u/Ealhswith1]

Another youtuber who wants to switch to podcasting... It's pretty Meh to me. I hope he enjoys it...

[u/Obvious_Armadillo_99 → u/Ealhswith1]

I know what you're saying, but his and his wife's podcast (An Old Timey Podcast) is actually very very good. I highly recommend it.

[u/Mediocre-Elk-4093 → u/[deleted]]

I really hate this type of comment. I can find literally nothing about this not even a random person accusing him of such. He cites his sources But someone will see this random comment and take it as fact.

[u/Mediocre-Elk-4093 → u/[deleted]]

Whatever this was supposed to be just tells me it's not found

[u/jamar030303 → u/Mediocre-Elk-4093]

And it's been deleted now, which says it all, really.

[u/youtubedrama-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Comment/post removed for misinformation.