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Chris Chapman, creator of Retrohistories, tells the stories behind classic video games. With mini-documentaries on YouTube and a growing Patreon community, he delves into gaming history, exploring the rise and fall of beloved titles like Might and Magic.
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15 postsPlease pardon our dust
FreeLeaning on ‘under construction’ signage and yelling over the noise of power tools, this is an overdue update on the stat...
Links to the Past: The Making of Hellgate: London
FreeDespite what Gearbox may claim, Borderlands wasn’t the first looter-shooter. The better claim to the title comes from th...
Links to the Past: Ingram Computer Game Previews 1984
FreeOkay, here’s something I can pretty much guarantee you haven’t already seen… unless you’re one of the 54 people to have...
Links to the Past: Nobody Knows How Many Amigas Commodore Sold
FreeSometimes the simplest questions are the most difficult to answer. (Like ‘how many video games exist?’, which is tricky...
Links to the Past: The GTA4 Fast Traffic Playthrough
FreeThis has been a wildly tiring work week. And I have to confess that the closest I’ve come to game history is watching th...
Links to the Past: The Insane Engineering of the Gameboy
FreeHello comrades! Stumbled upon a fantastic video this week: Real Engineering’s deep dive on the hardware engineering of N...
Links to the Past: The Game Pocket Computer
FreeOne of the advantages of moving off the (now hopeless) Twitter to the relatively smaller and more intimate surroundings...
Finding a way forward through Patreon’s changes
FreeWhen I was approached to return to my old job at the end of 2019, I requested to do so only two days a week, to try to b...
Links to the Past: How to recreate the best Paris Olympics moments with retro video games
FreeIt’s been kind of a heavy week, so here’s something on the lighter side: Keith Stuart’s roundup of retro sports games yo...
Links to the Past: Game Informer Issues 1–260
FreeIt’s been a banner week for game history, hasn’t it? Between the closure of the Xbox 360/XBLA store a few days ago, the...
Links to the Past: The making of The Black Onyx
FreeThis game is my current history obsession. A bestselling RPG for Japanese home computers from 1984, and a stated influen...
Links to the Past: GameCube in RetroAchievements
FreeThis week, RetroAchievements — an awesome site/framework adding automatic achievements into emulated retro games — added...
Links to the Past: How to Play DOS Games in 2024
FreeHindered perhaps by the relative unfamiliarity of its games and the perception of emulation complexity, MS-DOS gets less...
Links to the Past: Accessible Sport and “Wheelchair Romance”
FreeFrom the latest ROMchip journal, here’s an article by Matt Knutson on Rob Marince, who in 1979 at the age of 18, was in...
Links to the Past: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console
FreeIt’s an axiom that failed experiments are far more interesting than successful cliches. By that measure, one of Nintendo...
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- Launch Date:
- 2018-06-06
- Last Updated:
- 3 days ago
- Total Posts:
- 543
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- Post Frequency:
- 6.4 posts/month
Membership Tiers
Thank you! By backing at the $1 level, you'll get to watch new episodes at least a couple of days early, you'll receive a Patreon-exclusive link post every week, and most importantly, you'll experience warm fuzzy feelings for helping to support independent creators.
In addition to the above, your name will appear in the credits of every episode you help fund, immortalising your contribution for the remainder of the human era of history.
As well as the rewards above, you'll get a behind-the-scenes post every other week. Some of these are progress updates (in text or audio), and some are deep dives into one facet of a project I'm working on. You'll also get exclusive postmortems breaking down each episode: how they were made, things I had to cut, and what I'm happy and unhappy with. The Vault Dweller archives, an ever-growing chronicle of the creative decision-making involved over the last few years of Retrohistories, are available too.
Contribute at this level, and I'll draw you† a 32x32 pixel art version of the avatar of your choice‡, which will appear alongside your name in the credits of every episode completed while you back at this tier! You'll also get links to downloadable versions of the highest quality video files available for every episode (past and present) before YouTube compressed the snot out of them. (Though the earliest episodes were exported at fairly low quality in the first place.) Plus all previous rewards, naturally. † no promises of artistic quality ‡ nothing inappropriate please!
There are no extra perks to this tier; it's functionally equivalent to the $10 tier in every way, but it's here if, through overwhelming generosity, you want to fund double what's needed to get all the perks. The only difference is that we will secretly both know how friggin' awesome you are.
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About Chris Chapman
Chris Chapman is a video game historian and storyteller, dedicated to uncovering the fascinating narratives behind classic games. Through his Retrohistories series, available for free on YouTube, he creates mini-documentaries that delve into the development, cultural impact, and legacy of iconic titles. Chris has amassed a dedicated community of over 37 members, 22 of whom support him on Patreon. His work stands out in the video game content landscape by combining historical research with engaging storytelling, offering a unique perspective on the evolution of gaming.