Gaming Historian

Subscribers 1.1M

Videos 145

Views 149.9M

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Gaming Historian covers the history of video games, with a focus on documentary-style deep-dives into topics like The Story of The Oregon Trail, The Story of the First Video Game Cartridge, and The Story of Super Mario World. The channel uses thorough research, writing, editing, and production to explore retro gaming history, hardware evolution, and classic consoles, supported by keywords such as gaming historian, video games, history, nintendo, sega, and retro. Upload frequency is approximately 0.1 videos per week, with an average of about 1.7M views per video.

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The top competitors by match strength are NeverKnowsBest (85% match) and TED-Ed (67% match). NeverKnowsBest shares overlapping queries like video game history, history of video games, and early video game history, aligning closely with Gaming Historian’s core topics; TED-Ed also overlaps on video game history themes. Other notable competitors are TheGamer (62% match) and Ahoy (61% match), which connect through queries around early video game history and console evolution. Gaming Historian has 1.1M subscribers, while NeverKnowsBest has 367K and TED-Ed has 22.4M, indicating significant differences in audience size among the competitors. All identified channels compete for similar searches related to the history and development of video games.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Gaming Historian?

Gaming Historian's biggest competitors on YouTube are NeverKnowsBest (85% match, 367K subscribers), Retrogamer Gen X (68% match, 8.1K subscribers), and TED-Ed (67% match, 22.4M subscribers). They share a focus on storytelling about games and gaming history, with topics ranging from game development, consoles, and influential moments in gaming.

What type of content does Gaming Historian make?

Gaming Historian creates documentary-style, history-focused videos about video games and consoles, as reflected in titles like The Story of The Oregon Trail, The Story of the First Video Game Cartridge, and The Forgotten Portable NES. The channel uploads at about 0.1 videos per week, with an average of 1.7M views per video.

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