Gaming Historian known as Norman Caruso has announced that he will no longer be making videos on his YouTube channel. The YouTube content creator has been active on the platform since 2009 and ended his 15-year history with one final video on his account.
Video game content creators have been active on YouTube for years, but it hasn't always been easy, with many receiving copyright strikes and requests to take down their videos. The Gaming Historian has been active on YouTube since the early days, producing his first videos on the site just five years after YouTube was first founded.
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Gaming historian says it's time to stop
The Gaming Historian has now officially announced that he is ready to end his YouTube channel after 15 years. In his first uploaded video since April 2024, he announced this with a brief video explaining his reasons. His last full video is oregon trail Creating educational games took years and exhausted him. At the time, The Gaming Historian planned to take a step back from the site and go back to making videos part-time, hoping that eventually the burnout would go away and he would get excited about making videos again. But that didn't end up happening.
As a result, Caruso thanked everyone who watched his channel and explained that while he has greatly enjoyed what he has been doing over the past few years, he is ready to close this chapter of his life rather than force more videos due to poor quality. He was going to make his next video about the 1982 court case between Universal and Nintendo. In this lawsuit, Universal claimed that Nintendo infringed on its copyright by creating the following works: donkey kong. He spent several weeks reviewing documents related to the incident in the National Archives in 2020 and planned to use that information to create his next video. But now he has scrapped the idea and made the documents available to the public through the Internet Archive.
Given the channel's long history, many fans and content creators alike were flooded with comments thanking Caruso and wishing him luck. He's covered countless games and elements of the video game industry over the years, including Nintendo, old consoles, Sega games, rare gaming accessories, and more. In total, Game Historian produced 144 videos before shutting down his channel, all of which can be viewed on YouTube. Although he will no longer be doing video work with The Gaming Historian, he is not completely gone from the internet or content creation, as he produces a podcast with his wife called “The Old Timey Podcast” that covers general history.
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15 years is a long time to do anything. This is especially true if you run a well-researched gaming channel on YouTube. The Gaming Historian isn't the first to retire from hard work, with content creators like The Game Theorists' MatPat and even legendary game developer Masahiro Sakurai eventually stepping away from the site. Although many are sad to see Caruso leave, his videos will remain a great resource for learning the history of the game.
