Today is National Video Games Day in the US, and to mark the occasion, YouTube is taking a look at retro gaming on the platform, which includes everything from classic reviews to let’s plays.
A new post on the YouTube Culture and Trends blog takes a deep dive into how retro-gaming-related content has performed on the platform over the years, in a similar vein to the Mario-focused analysis the team presented earlier this year. For example, according to the post, there were 1000 times more video related to retro gaming in the first half of this year than for the same time period in 2007.
A brief video hosted by gaming influencer Jim Lazarus “Caddicarus” Caddick also shows off some of YouTube’s biggest retro gaming channels, including Gaming Historian, JRPGLife, and more. The blog post also offers a few statistics regarding retro gaming and YouTube, which include the following: