“I Will Always Cherish That Chapter Of My Life” – A Million Subs Later, One Of Retro Gaming’s Most Famous YouTubers Calls It Quits

One of retro gaming’s most well-known YouTubers is asking it a day after 18 years.

Gaming Historian – actual title Norman Caruso – has racked up greater than one million subscribers because of his in-depth movies on basic video video games, however he is determined that it is lastly time to maneuver on.

As noticed by PC Gamer, Caruso has launched a final farewell video, by which he explains the explanations for his determination:

“I assumed that after a few months, I’d get the itch again and make a new video. To my surprise, that itch to make a new video never really came back. I definitely tried to make something else. I even announced it on social media. But my heart just wasn’t in it, and I knew that if I ever finished that video the quality would suffer. That’s when it finally clicked: I was ready to move on from The Gaming Historian.”

His parting reward is a shedload of paperwork from probably the most essential authorized instances within the historical past of the online game business – Nintendo’s 1982 tussle with Universal Studios over the title Donkey Kong, which Universal tried to argue was a trademark infringement of King Kong. Caruso has kindly uploaded these paperwork to the Internet Archive, and has additionally despatched them to the Video Game History Foundation.

Caruso’s new focus is An Old Timey Podcast, a historical past podcast collection he hosts along with his spouse, Kristin.

“Making the Gaming Historian was truly a life-changing experience,” he says in his remaining video. “I will always cherish that chapter of my life.”