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Anyone know what happened to Retroreality?
« on: November 06, 2017, 07:26:53 PM »
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Hi all,

Retroreality was a website and an awesome resource on YouTube for vintage video-game related videos (ripped from laserdisc and vhs).  It was a treasure trove but recently the channel (and all the videos) disappeared and the website has been suspended.  Does anyone know what happened to it?  Thanks.
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Re: Anyone know what happened to Retroreality?
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2017, 02:52:28 AM »
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The owner decided to step away from video making, he still collects game and is a good friend of mine (I was a mod there). It got to be a bit much to do, so he called it quits. He used to be a major poster here and huge Castlevania collector back in the day, we still swap collecting stories now and again.

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Re: Anyone know what happened to Retroreality?
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2017, 09:42:16 AM »
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I'm curious as to whom he was here.
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Re: Anyone know what happened to Retroreality?
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2017, 06:50:31 PM »
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Thank you, Bloodreign.  That is a shame, but one can imagine the amount of attention such an archive would need. 
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Re: Anyone know what happened to Retroreality?
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2017, 01:02:14 AM »
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I'm curious as to whom he was here.

He was known as Arasoi, GoddamnedBathead, Protogem, a number of names over the years. Once upon a time a massive Castlevania collector, these days more like myself, a collector of many games.

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Re: Anyone know what happened to Retroreality?
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2017, 11:13:50 AM »
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Yep, sorry it is gone. Lack of personal time, shifts in personal interest and youtube's ridiculous copyright enforcement effectively killed retroreality. I let it go on a long time, but too many videos were getting shut down and flagged, even though I never monetized a single video. Yes, I did used to collect Castlevania, still love the series. My collection used to look like this, albeit a long time ago:

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/multi/collector-protogem.htm


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Re: Anyone know what happened to Retroreality?
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2017, 02:46:52 AM »
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Heh, I remember stumbling upon Mr. P's site and seeing that collection. Great stuff.
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