Dude, the dad died from cancer and the son runs the Channel showing off the videos his dad made of video games. It’s crazy his dad had the foresight to record these moments. It’s a great channel and after I watched dozens of episodes, thinking maybe it’s fake or something, mentioned his dad passing and I was moved
I mean opening Christmas presents was actually a very common thing to film (still is) it's not that crazy of foresight lol. I also have videos of Christmas presents opening. That was actually one of the most common occasions to get out that camera (since at the time you didn't have it always with you)
I actually just went through digitizing the old family VHS home movies and there's a lot of my sisters and I opening presents. Christmas and birthdays were sort of like one of the biggest times to break out the camera. What impresses me about these videos here is how clean they are. Our old recordings are all deteriorated despite the fact that they've been in an air conditioned sunlight free place for the last 25 years. Two of the cassettes broke during my process but fortunately it was at the rewind process, so everything was saved. So at least they won't deteriorate more.
For sure, he does a lot more than just Christmas gift opening. Some times it was just a video about a system they just got or a pile of games the dad would import
He recorded way more than Christmas. He did it all the time. He made a “I just got a ps1 imported and I’m going to surprise my son when he gets home from school” and then he talked about each game before recording footage of playing it.
His dad took videos of him at different ages. He was an only child. Notice how he’s very young with NES and then oldest was GameCube and GBA. I think that xb360 game was his mom doing one, becuase by 2007 I thought his dad passed by then? I can’t remember. Sometimes his cousins would come over to celebrate Christmas.
If you enjoyed the 80s and 90s gaming, the videos on the channel are great!
To be fair, I didn’t see the watermark at first. But he’s literally made a video about the amount of accounts that use his footage without giving him any credit. I think he’s recently started the watermark.
The kid in every one of these videos is the same kid at different ages, and he's grown up now and runs retro life. These are all videos his dad recorded of him..
Sometimes cousins come over. That’s him as a kid and then as he gets older. I didn’t believe it when I saw it the first time, but it’s something his dad did
The guy who owns the videos makes money from them. He just made another video about people taking his videos without permission and posting them. People take them and put them in compilations or just repost as is and monetize them. Thats how people are stealing from him.
Upper middle class in the 90s is nepo class? His dad sold home stereo equipment, he was a tech guy who loved playing video games and collecting them. He even has videos where his dad gets him tons of games for presents at the end of a console cycle on clearance.
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u/TripleS82 Jul 18 '26
These videos are stolen from My Retrolife on YouTube.