#RetroAhoy

[canageek]

Alright, I expect a lot of people will already know about these ones, but just in case:

Noah Gervais often does complete series retrospectives, going over ever game in a series including DLC and wired spinoffs and what they mean for the series. His latest one is a 2 hour overview of Quake from a narrative perspective (since most people talk about it from a multiplayer perspective)

He isn't mostly on YouTube (he started when having a blog with an RSS feed and a link to archive.org was totally normal.) But Chrontendo: he doesn't go into much detail on each game, but he is doing a damn fine job going into every NES and Famicom game in order of original release and showing that some things often claimed as inspiration aren't plausible even you take Japanese release order into account.

Atari Archive: A similar idea to Chrontendo but instead he does one game per episode and DEEP dives including reading developer interviews, print reviews, industry publications, sales figures, and related games on other systems.

Stop Skeletons From Fighting: Goes into weird bad games (Or as he calls it, "The good garbbo", especially ones that failed due to being far too ambitious like trying to do a first person shooter on the game boy. His latest video is a multi-hour one examining every game on the Zeebo.

(Edited to fix the links and add more:)

He doesn't post anymore, but Errant Signal is damn good. He is more on the game theory, literary/game mechanics side of things, but if you like the above links, he is very good. Also, he has been making videos forever, and has less then 200K subscribers, which really sucks.

If you want more DEEP dives on the first women in video games, or the influences of Metroid, can I offer you Critical Kate ?

RetroAhoy does cool stuff with lovely illustrations, going into the history of things from X-Com to music trackers, to various firearms and why those specific models show up in video games so often.

Dark Lore Dash does lore dives and lore lets plays of darker games: Mostly the Diablo series, but also some Star Wars games and Oblivion (What I watch him for). (I know, you are saying Oblivion isn't dark, but there is plenty of necrophilia and cannibalism in it. I mean, it isn't dark vs Diablo, but still)

Ok, need to get on a plane. Again, if you want more, let me know.

my favorite genre of youtube video by far

[ozlices]

re: ur post abt watcher not being the only "tv quality" content on youtube- i went and rewatched a whole bunch of tom scott videos because i was so upset when ryan said that LMFAO. i've been watching tom scott interview experts and nearly fall off wind turbines for literal years now. anyway another bonkers good quality youtuber is retroahoy! lots of video game and computer history videos, plus they do most of their own music for vids. thanks for putting that feeling into words with a bullet-point list to back it up :]

awe ty for the sweet words abt the post! glad i could put it into words for ppl :)

i think ive vaguely heard of tom scott in the past, but ive never heard of retroahoy!! ty for the recommendations :D

[jimunderscore]

top 5 reasons to kill

Hot Freaks (Joey Joey Michaels)

Owen Evans ( and everyone they worked with in R.O.A.R, AJJ, Asleep In The Sea )

Feed Me Jack

Jack Campbell (Cayote Keen Music)

Biting Elbows

Tony Molina

papercuts

Crystal Castles (before the fucking shit happened)

Lumen

My Chemical Romance (Gerard Way in general)

Eels

Simon Viklund

Bee Gees

Pendulum

coyote kisses

Justice

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Queen

Dan Reynolds

The Killers

Franz Ferdinand

Земляне(1978 Rock band)

Кино

scissor sisters

IAMX(rain to sea)

Forgive Durden

Скрябін

Kavinsky

Carpenter Brut

Air Traffic Controller

Alvvays

Viza

Stuck in the sound

Shayfer James

Stephanie Mabey

Cosmo Doris

Dimmu Burgir

Mecha Maiko

N I N A

Jordan F

DEADLIFE

Cosmoptera

hyperstory

Uma2rman

Moe Shop

Tame Impala

Spec Ops The Line OST(i can't be fucked to list all the artists who worked for the OST)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Porter Robinson

MGMT

Mother Mother

verzache

I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

HOME

Ozma ( I can't say Weezer so they will have to do)

FireLake(Stalker OST guys)

Oberhofer

the scary jokes

Crying(2013 Synth-pop band)

Carpenter Brut

Kavinsky

Scattle

Perturbator

Mike Oldfield

Daisuke Ishiwatari

Business of Dreams

Wye Oak(Rock Duo)

Jack Stauber

C418

Siamés

girl in red

Rob Cantor

Edu (Andrew Horowitz)

Tally Hall

Miracle Musical (Joe Hawley's Project)

Twenty One Pilots

Of Montreal (50% sucks)

Lemon Demon (50% sucks)

Vundabar (25% sucks)

Jonah Sehzel

Garoslaw

They Might Be Giants

Red Two Six

Dschinghis Khan

Four Visions

Sad Culture

Laurel Collective

The Unicorns

Milena Shuff 

Matt Simons

The Pajama Jams (The New York band with like two songs lmao)

Dylan Kanner

Hollow Coves

Sweetshirt

Milky Chance

Marina and The Diamonds(Welsh)

The Dø(Finnish Björk apparently)

Jim Croce

Blur

Our Atlantic Official(Ukrainian Band)

Ciaran Lavery

Lowpines

Бригадный Подряд

Брикулець/BRYKULETS

Heavensbasement

KD Knows My Name

soft cell

TheButtertones

StereoPalto(weird Ukrainian rock project)

Northern Lights Productions

TOKYO ROSE

Beasuce

Танцы Минус

Fever the Ghost/FTG

Johnny Mandel

Pig with the Face of a Boy 

The Wallflowers

Royal Blood

Slowdive

Граница(Russian/Ukrainian rock band, Знамя цвета ночи fucks!)

Kevin MacLeod(don't shit on me)

Tatsuro Yamashita

Mariya Takeuchi

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Boy Pablo(50% sucks)

Christopher Larkin(Hacknet Ost kinda fucks)

Beach House

Ahoy(RetroAhoy)

Geir Tjelta

Teleidofusion

Хелависа/Мельница

The Music Tapes (Julian Koster's project)

Rosemary Fairweather(Irish Radiohead)

Los Lemons

Balkans (Atlanta Rock Band)

Skinshape

Alex Izenberg

Monster Rally

Kero Kero Bonito

Mitski

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

The Smile

Radiohead(and whatever Thom Yorke does randomly)

Sea Power (Formerly British)

Cory Hanson

Architecture in Helsinki

As Tall As Lions

The Dear Hunter

Ween

Andrew Prahlow

Low(1993 band)

Dresden Dolls(just anything Amanda Palmer really) Metal Gear Revengeace OST pretty banging glass beach Flaming Lips

[muertoni]

The Video Game That Doesn’t Exist

[mendelpalace]

Ahoy, who made the excellent Polybius mini-doc from last year, has put out a 70-minute video on LucasArt’s The Secret of Monkey Island and its place in the history of adventure games.

[passingthroughstranger]

Ahoy returns with another top quality video game documentary. Today's topic; Polybius. What is it? Beats me. Let's watch and find out. Oh, it's an hour long video. Seriously. But like I said, top quality.

[synthetic-rust]

@toast-com thanks for the tag!

1. Favorite color(s): blue, green and orange (with notable mentions of pink and black)

2. Currently reading: the most recent book I’ve looked at was ‘British steam railways’ by David Ross (I tend to have multiple books on the go at once so it’s hard to say truly)

3. Last song you listened to: BoneGrinder - Velocity.Vampires (Drift phonk and phonk by extension are an admittedly guilty pleasure of mine)

4. Last thing you watched: a yt video ‘RetroAhoy: X-COM’ (I’m not really even into retro games much, but his videos are still a really enjoyable watch)

5. In school? Yeah

6. Thing you’re looking forward to: my birthday next month i suppose

7. Thing you’re working on right now: Homework and my AU stuff

8. Can you cook or bake? Don’t bake very often, but yes to both

9. Piece of media you’d recommend to anyone: ‘Over the Garden Wall’ and ‘Avatar: the last airbender’ (chose two cause why not lol, they’re both great in my eyes)

My brain empty with the tags rn, so instead just feel free to go ahead and fill these out yourself if you want, tag me if you’d like

[gotmalk]

RetroAhoy dedicado a Doom

RetroAhoy dedicado a Doom

Una portada fabulosa. Hay descubrimientos que se deben compartir. Y es que con esta rápida actualización, os quiero mostrar un interesante canal de la jungla social mayormente conocida como YouTube. Su nombre y enlace es Ahoy. Vale, puede que con casi un millón de suscriptores ya lo conozcas, además tiene cuestas asociadas en Twitter, Reddit y Patreon. Más me encontré por un casual con el vídeo…

[sweetums]

RetroAhoy: X-COM

[niconiconwo]

Seeing a new RetroAhoy is like getting Christmas early tbqh

[rafawriter]

RetroAhoy: X-COM

[ohbabyitslucasarts]

RetroAhoy's new video on Monkey Island and 90s adventure games is right up your alley. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out!

gang i’m halfway through this and it’s so good, i heartily encourage it

thanks for the tip!!

[levysoft]

(via RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island - YouTube)

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RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island