Retro Game Mechanics Explained

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Average long-form length

29:37

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Latest uploads

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Title	Published	Length	Views
Why Do Arcade Games Boot Up Like This?	Jan 26, 2026	40:45	469K
How Super Mario Bros. 2 Builds Levels	May 8, 2025	1:39:13	427.9K
Clearing World 1 of Mario 2 Without Defeating A Single Boss	Jan 17, 2025	24:36	140K
Why were Inky and Sue's AI not updated for Ms. Pac-Man?	Nov 4, 2024	15:10	127.5K
Random Elements of Ms. Pac-Man	Aug 10, 2024	20:59	164.7K
Why Stomping Wigglers Glitches Super Mario World	May 1, 2024	20:48	781K
Bugs & Glitches of High-Level NES Tetris	Mar 6, 2024	53:21	471.6K
Reverse Engineering Game Code from the Neutral Zone	Dec 19, 2023	40:59	1.1M
SMB3 Roulette & Card Matching Games Explained	Oct 7, 2023	20:02	519.6K
Launching Memberships	Sep 1, 2023	14:15	12.8K
The Arcade Game that Crashes Itself for Anti-Piracy Reasons	Jul 28, 2023	29:57	507.3K
How Frightened Ghosts Decide Where to Go	May 29, 2023	29:47	356.3K
Using Lakitu's Cloud to Defeat Bowser Quickly	Mar 17, 2023	1:12:55	523.1K
The SPC700 DSP Pipeline Explained - SPC700 Series pt. 4	Feb 7, 2023	17:05	31.4K
More Super Mario Bros. Mechanics Explained	Jan 2, 2023	25:26	226.2K
Super Mario Bros. Glitch Levels Explained	Nov 26, 2022	29:52	417.9K
Exploring Glitch Level Pointers In Super Mario Bros.	Oct 13, 2022	15:19	251.4K
Access Glitch Worlds in Super Mario Bros. via NES Tennis	Sep 10, 2022	13:06	915.9K
BRR Samples Explained - SPC700 Series pt. 3	Aug 15, 2022	28:54	49.2K
Finally Obtaining the Triforce in Ocarina of Time: Triforce Percent Explained	Jul 2, 2022	34:25	289K
More Level End Glitches in Super Mario World	May 13, 2022	28:15	390.9K
SPC700 Instruction Set - SPC700 Series pt. 2	Apr 14, 2022	23:17	40.2K
Sega Genesis Raster Effects Explained - Audiovisual Effects Pt. 05	Mar 4, 2022	14:28	73.1K
SNES Audio System Overview - SPC700 Series pt. 1	Jan 30, 2022	13:13	78.8K
Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television	Jun 17, 2021	38:26	396.4K
Hardware Registers - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features Pt. 11	Mar 8, 2021	24:09	58.4K
Atari's Quadrascan Explained	Jan 27, 2021	20:57	238.1K
5 Colors in One Sprite Explained - Audiovisual Effects Pt. 04	Nov 2, 2020	8:48	304.9K
Data Redundancy Errors Explained	Oct 6, 2020	22:42	338.5K
NES Background Parallax Explained - Audiovisual Effects Pt. 03	Aug 1, 2020	8:45	164.7K
Channel TrailerShort	Jul 31, 2020	1:43	43.6K
Pokémon Sprite Decompression Done By Hand	Jul 10, 2020	4:33:26	72.4K
Pokémon Sprite Decompression Explained	Jun 30, 2020	34:04	359.7K
Fixing Glitch Pokémon Sprites	Jun 3, 2020	14:17	410.8K
MissingNo.'s Glitchy Appearance Explained	Apr 27, 2020	21:20	1.4M
Internal ROM Header - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features Pt. 09c	Mar 24, 2020	6:55	55.9K
SPC700 & ARAM - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features Pt. 10	Mar 2, 2020	15:06	79.6K
Q&A Session #2	Feb 3, 2020	25:21	59.2K
Q&A Session #1	Nov 19, 2019	22:43	46.1K
Castlevania IV 4-3 Tunnel Background - Audiovisual Effects Pt. 02	Oct 21, 2019	7:22	84.8K
Mirroring & Open Bus - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features Pt. 09b	Oct 2, 2019	10:17	61K
100,000 Subscriber MilestoneShort	Sep 8, 2019	2:35	14.3K
Memory Mapping - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features Pt. 09	Sep 3, 2019	21:57	111.2K
EarthBound Battle Backgrounds - Audiovisual Effects Pt. 01	Aug 9, 2019	8:54	297.1K
Pac-Man Ghost AI Explained	Jul 13, 2019	19:34	1.6M
Pikachu's Cry in Pokémon Yellow Explained	Jun 10, 2019	21:14	671.8K
Color Math - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features Pt. 03b	May 13, 2019	12:57	114K
Super Mario Bros. 3 - Extended 1up Sound	Apr 7, 2019	15:13	1M
Controllers - Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features Pt. 08	Mar 15, 2019	23:58	167K
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