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Justin Wagner

Beloved YouTuber The Gaming Historian moves on from making videos with a 'parting gift': A ton of ancient Nintendo court docs you can browse on the Internet Archive

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Norman Caruso, the Gaming Historian, smiles at the camera with a microphone in front of him.

Norman Caruso, better known online as The Gaming Historian, has spent the last decade and a half making Ken Burns-style documentary videos for his YouTube audience; he currently has over 1 million subscribers. He's covered everything from a TV with a Super Famicom built into it to the Sega Mega Modem. But now he's calling it quits.

A video went up on Caruso's channel today titled "Thanks for Watching," and he promises there's "nothing dramatic" behind his decision—he just got burnt out after making his most ambitious video yet covering The Oregon Trail, and in the two years since it released, he hasn't wanted to make more.

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