LGR’s Clint Basinger plumbs the depths of retro computing—and his YouTube comments

Produced by Vara Reese, edited by Ron Douglas. Click here for transcript.

Retro-tech YouTube is an awesome place to lose months and months of time-it's a place where awesome creators like The 8-Bit Guy and Techmoan ply their wares, tempting viewers with in-depth discussions of decades-old technology. My personal favorite retro-tech channel to fall into, though, is LGR, or "Lazy Game Reviews," hosted by the smooth-voiced Clint Basinger.

LGR has been reliably churning out videos (often set to smooth jazz) for more than a decade, running the gamut from game reviews to industry retrospectives to... whatever this is, but the videos I love the most are the unboxing videos. They're not your typical unboxing videos-I mean, where else can you watch someone unwrap and set up a new old-stock IBM PC AT, model 5170? And then upgrade the crap out of it?

We've done a couple of successful videos with YouTubers Markiplier and Linus Tech Tips, and so we thought it was time to give Clint at LGR the same treatment-we trawled through the comments on his past videos looking for gems, and then we asked him for his recollections about the comments and the videos to which they're attached.

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