- Hi, I'm Clint Basinger from LGR. And today I'm gonna be responding to my top 1000 YouTube comments. [soft music] The following comments came from the most viewed video on your channel. What video is it? I believe it is the Doom on a calculator video. And there we go, Doom on a calculator indeed. 5.6 million views. What brought up the Doom on your calculator video, was literally a time crunch. It was one of those situations where I had another video. Like 99% complete but that last 1%, it just wasn't coming out in time. And so I literally looked around my room and I'm like, "Hey, there's a calculator over there," that I'd picked up from Goodwill recently. And I'm like, I remember putting games on that thing back in high school, I wonder if I can still do that. Here is one of the first comments on that most viewed video. It runs better on a TI-84. It's actually kinda playable. The only world I could see myself recommending, a calculator Doom over any other kind of Doom, is if you're stuck in math class and you have absolutely nothing else to do, or like me, you are in study hall and just, you got a calculator and there weren't cell phones that did anything worth anything. I could, yeah, I played it then,[chuckles] but otherwise, no. Stick the Doom on things that Doom is made for, with keyboards and stuff. The following comments came from the second most viewed video on your channel. What video is it? Second most viewed. I genuinely don't know. I don't think it's the Sims video anymore. I think it's, I believe it's turbo buttons maybe. What is a turbo button? What does it do? Ah, the other one. So my second most viewed video is actually, why did old PCs have key locks and LGR retrospectives?

- [Illustrator] The presence of a key lock, is one of those things that instantly dates a personal computer to that time period.

- The reason that this video in particular came about, every single time that I showed a computer in a video, that had a key lock or a turbo button or something like that, there were a bunch of comments from folks saying, "What did that do?" Or "I've never had that." Or "I did have that. And I never used it back then." So it just sort of came about by reading the comments and seeing what people were asking that I honestly never thought to ask myself because I assumed people knew, but I guess not.

- [Illustrator] To answer the first question. Key locks usually did exactly what you'd expect. They locked the computer with a key.

- Here's one of the most liked comments on that video. For some extra fun, put the turbo buttons wires on the key lock instead. That way you can have it on low speed. Then when you want to wrap it up, you get to turn a key and make engine noises with your mouth. [bubbling] Yes, that's actually that wouldn't work, but you could. That would be awesome. I believe one of the strangest, tech modifications I've encountered was actually, an official thing that was sold in stores. It's a thermal take cigarette lighter.[laughs] Sort of a DC car adapter that you plug into a five and a quarter inch bay, and also pops out as a cup holder. And so those are both on one thing and it was actually sold for computers, in the early mid two thousands. This is the first video posted to your YouTube channel all the year. Clint hates himself.

- You know I don't like you.

- I guess that's the first video that's still on my YouTube channel. But the first video that was actually on my channel, [laughs] is embarrassing. It was some sort of ridiculous UFO like clip that was faked by somebody I knew. And so I'm like, "Let's just put this on YouTube and see if it fools anybody." And I don't even remember what the title was, but it was up there for like two or three years. And it ended up getting, a couple hundred thousand views I think. It was actually my most successful video for a long time, but yeah things changed. I've deleted all that kind of stuff. [chuckles] I don't actually hate myself. I've gotten a lot of comments about that over the years.

- I will kill you. You realize that.

- Like what in the world were you doing? But no, it actually sort of stemmed from, I just had a couple of Prop Airsoft Gun lying around and I felt like making a video that day. So I wanted to experiment with making clones of myself in video form. 'Cause I had done it in photos a lot, but I wanted to know if I could do in video. So that was just a test to do that. And I'm like, eh, why not use these prop guns? [laughs] And it was sort of using Worms logic from like the old computer game Worms where the shotgun is more powerful than the pistol just naturally. So yeah, that's all there was to that. This is the very first comment ever posted on that video. Now that was funny and really well done too. [laughs] I guess maybe the level for what is funny and really well done has changed a little bit since 2006 or seven or whenever that was. YouTube is a different place. This is the very first tech video, posted to your YouTube channel. LGR has a Sega CD Genesis Console Addon review.

- [Illustrator] I got my model 2 system of eBay for about $25. That seems to be the average price. Of course you will also need a model 1 or model 2 Genesis to go along with it. So look at about 40, $45 for a complete system with no games.

- My feelings on the Sega CD remain mixed. I enjoy the nostalgic look back at it. I just found when I first revisited it, that a lot of the things that I most wanted to play on the Sega Genesis weren't on the Sega CD. So what really was the point? Now I kinda appreciate it a lot more, especially since it's gotten more support over the years. There's a little addon cartridge that you can put in Sega Genesis now that plays Sega CDs of an SD card. So I've taken the opportunity to revisit the library and examine all the things that maybe I didn't get around to. And now I'm like, "Okay, I understand the point of it now." It is pretty fascinating to see, so many like RPGs and fighting games, scrollers and shooters with CD audio and 16 bit mixed together, it's pretty cool. So here is one of the most liked comments on that video. There's something calming about older YouTube reviews. They tend to lack the energy of stuff today. In a way I find kinda nice. These days you have to have a lot of energy and character to stand out while back then, you could just had to have interesting material. I get this comment more and more as time goes on. I didn't mean to make them calming or soothing or anything. In fact, I get a lot of comments about the VHS Camcorder that I was recording on back then, being a comforting. And that was not the intent. It was just something I got from a thrift store. It was the only camera I had. [chuckles] I'm glad it's retroactively calming or soothing. [chuckles] Happy accidents. Here's the first comment you made on that video. Oh dear! I would agree the system itself is not half bad, but why oh why all those FMV games? They, most of them are what make it suck. Oh, that's harsh. I would not agree with that anymore. FMV games are like my favorite thing now.[laughs] I guess I just grew out of that. I mean there were a lot of garbage ones but somehow the older I've gotten, the more I appreciate like B movies and things where people are creating things. Then they're really trying, but they just don't quite stick the landing. I think that's golden. So I think those FMV games are great, but it's quaint now. But at the time the tech behind it's fascinating. Especially the compression tech. You look into something like "7th Guest", what they were doing there to get all of these moving transitions between hallways and rooms of a house and making it look as good as it did, on a 46 is just mind boggling. They invented a whole new techniques for that stuff. The following comments came from your first Sims video. LGR, the Sims 3 quick review, top five reasons to buy.

- [Illustrator] Number four, customization and building stuff. [upbeat music] The architectural aspect of the game, has always been one of my favorite things about the SIM games before. But now it's just extreme.

- From what I recall the entire reason I started covering Sim's content, was just another one of those out of the blue moments, where a new Sims game had come out and I'd played all of them. I was a really big fan of them, but didn't really see anybody else doing them at all. In terms of covering the Sims on YouTube and making videos about Sims content. There was a sort of debate, I guess, among the community of, "Oh, is it really worth upgrading from the Sims 2, or is it even an upgrade at all?" Because a lot of folks weren't quite sold on some of the Sims 3's aspects. The open world was interesting, but was it worth the gameplay sacrifices. The tons of expansions to the Sims 2? Was it worth upgrading at all? That's why I titled it top five reasons to grab it. 'Cause I thought it was worth it. Here are some of the most liked comments on this Sims video. Sims 3 gameplay plus Sims 4 graphics equals absolute gold. I hear that a lot. [laughs] And I don't necessarily disagree. I think that there is a lot to love about both of these entries in the game series. And while some aren't quite sold on the Sims 4 graphics, you can pretty much objectively say that the lighting system is better. And so are the Sims themselves in terms of their looks. And combine the best of those worlds and a lot from the Sims 2, I would say it is absolute gold. I did not realize the effect that covering Sims things would have on my channel at all. In fact, I don't think that it even did very well at the beginning. It was when I started covering the expansions that really started to take off and shift the channel in another direction or at least add something to the channel that wasn't there before. And it's become a staple ever since. Are you still as big of a fan of the Sims, as you used to be? Absolutely. Am I a big a fan as, I used to be about [chuckles] the current Sims experience? Probably not. I still like the Sims a lot, but it's one of those things where the more I like it, the more flaws you start to see, and the more you point out. The directions going this way, and I kinda felt like it should have gone this way by now. So I only feel it's fair as a fan to point out the flaws, as I see them. I have never talked to anyone at Maxis or EA, in any real sense other than, at one point they kind of reached out to say, "Hey, do you wanna join our game changers program?" And I said, "Nope." [laughs] Because it involved, things that I wasn't quite comfortable with. The big thing was in the contract that sort of, messed with my brain was like, they have to have a sort of editorial control over what you say. And it's not that they're gonna make you, say one thing or the other. It's just the fact that they're overseeing everything and providing early access to things and inviting you to events and pushing one boundary or another that for me, it was a boundary and others sure, they have no problem with that. That's cool. But for me, I wanted to remain as objective as possible, in reviewing a big company, providing oversight into every Sims video that I do. That just wasn't for me. The following comments, came from the biggest unboxing video on your channel. What is it? That's gotta be the IBM PC AT. Brand new IBM PC AT + Model M unboxing and set up by LGR.

- [Illustrator] That was simple enough. Oh, how cool is this? This is the first time that it has seen the light of day, in almost 30 years.

- Next to the Doom calculator video, is still one of the most surprising ones I've seen in my channel in terms of responses. Because it was something that I, discovered on ebay one late night. There was a warehouse in New York State that had hundreds of IBM machines still brand new in box and they were selling them for a darn good price and they were going fast. So I just bought one on a whim that late night. Then didn't really remember. And then all of a sudden it showed up on the porch. I'm like, "Ah, well, I guess I'm making a video now." That was that, didn't really think much of it at all. But I suppose something is appealing enough about seeing a brand new computer from the late eighties being unboxed and set up. And there's also the Model M component that has a whole, the keyboard enthusiast community. You're seeing a brand new Model M that was kind of a religious experience for me. I knew that would catch on, but not to this degree. Here is one of the most liked comments on the new IBM PC AT Model M video. What's your nerd level. I smell keyboards.

- This right here smells like an office store. This still smells like a new car. I've gotta let you know what everything smells like. It's important.

- Yeah, it's true. I had to smell it, smell everything. If I unbox something that's new old stock, you gotta smell it, man. You're smelling late eighties air and degrading components and potentially toxic things. And the Model M was crazy that it smelled like a new car. It kinda still does. It's just over there. I still use it and smell it every so often just to make sure. [chuckles] Is there any retro tech you'd loved to unbox that you haven't been able to find? Yeah, there's a lot. But it's even harder to narrow that down. I guess if I had to pick one, it would be the Packard Bell Legend 46 that I had as a kid, my first computer. And I haven't yet been able to find the exact model, in probably 15 years of looking. I've had saved searches and everything on eBay for ever. And it's never shown up, not the exact one. If I could find that in the box and unbox that, and sort of relive that first memory of seeing a computer in my house for the first time. I'd probably cry. Speed round. Answer the following comments as quickly as possible because otherwise we'll be here all day. So what if I want some modern games on a monochrome monitor? Is there any way I can play Fallout: New Vegas, on an amber monitor? Yes, there is. In fact I've done that on my channel I believe. I know I've done it on monochrome TVs. That is a little different than a monochrome monitor. So it really depends on the monitor itself. But if you have a monitor with composite input, that makes it extremely easy. There are some amber monitors that have that so, New Vegas, totally possible. I wonder why it took so long for touchscreens to become widely adopted. If you've ever used touch screen from the eighties or nineties, you'd probably figured that out. Multitouch, wasn't a thing, typically. But even then a lot of those touch screens, especially on earlier tablets required a powered, almost like a Wacom tablet pen to get anything on there. And otherwise you could do some things, but others you couldn't in terms of, being able to move a mouse or actually click on a device. Also just because the interfaces weren't there. A lot of those earlier computers and tablets and things, were essentially desktops shrunken down with a touch screen that you had to use a battery powered pen. So not fun. Does it run Crysis? That can be a literally any video I've ever made. And the answer is almost always no, except for the Crysis video. Yeah Crysis, if it's running, it runs Crysis. [chuckles] I don't know. It was a fun thing, I guess. Just to sort of. Somebody needs to develop Crysis for MS-DOS. Just so I can say it runs Crysis. To conclude, we found these comments on your most recent Q&A video. What backup plans do you have if YouTube suddenly hits the crapper? It depends if the entire, video creating ecosystem also goes down the crapper because that would be trouble. So I'm not really sure what I would do. I would probably start selling a lot of this stuff that I have. Otherwise. I'd probably go into, doing what I've always wanted to do in terms of creating like a tech museum of sorts. I've got some folks that I know that have done the museum thing themselves, and I'd love to either join on with them or start my own. That would be fun. But otherwise, I'd probably just try to find some other, video creation service. 'Cause I kind of liked doing this. Well, I suppose that is it for the questions and comments that we went through here. If you got this far, thank you very much for watching. [upbeat music]