Video games changed my life man



Video games changed my life man is a video made by SomethingElseYT, on December 16, 2018.

Description
Video games are one of my favorite things on this planet and this is how they impacted my life. Also im hungry.

Summary
Adam talks about video games and how they changed his life.

Can gaming build friendships?
Adam thinks of video games as "one of man's greatest inventions" despite other people and media criticizing them, and has helped him become a YouTube animator. The video game industry has also helped him build friendships. He was independent at first and wanted friends, but kids in his school think if him as "weird or loud", so all he could do was play video games on his own. He first played on older consoles like the Super Nintendo and the Nintendo 64, which helped him kept strong and overcome his negative feelings of loneliness. He would even imagine himself as a video game's main character, all of whom would stay strong and positive. Some of the games he played were Super Godzilla, Castlevania, Super Mario, Mega Man, StarFox, 1080 Snowboarding, Perfect Dark, and JetForce Gemini. Not only did those games make him stronger for himself, but also for others. Whenever a kid in recess was feeling down, he would help them out. He started to gain a group of friends and never felt lonely anymore.

From gaming to animation
The pinnacle of the video game system for Adam was the DSi, a greater impact than other games like God of War and Halo. There was a problem with the original DS where the top screen would fall off, leaving behind a "weird-looking Gameboy Advanced SP". The DSI was the newer model and still Adam's video game system. He had a great library of games that kept his head up high and his brain sharp. In Arizona in 2009, he did not have any new friends, but he found a new free app on the DSi called Flipnote Hatena (Studio), where he could do small animations complete with voice recording. He began to love it more as he kept using it. He loved making cartoons and voice acting. He could even upload them on a YouTube-like site. He practiced more, got better at animating, and grew a bigger audience. His username was $mango$. He had a couple hundred followers which was mind-blowing for him. Ever since he started using that app, he kept developing his art style and animation, and wondered how different his life would be if it was not for the DSI or that app. Sadly, the Flipnote Hatena app and site shut down after four years and he never got the chance to redirect his audience to YouTube, but he still managed to build a new audience with his YouTube videos.

End-card
Adam had James (TheOdd1sOut) to read this video's end-card because Adam had jaw surgery and his mouth was wired shut. "Adam" asked viewers to like, subscribe, and comment to share similar stories to entertain him. There are new items in the merch store such as the Common Sense Hoodie, the Potassium My Dude shirt, and a limited edition enamel pen. He has also shouted out The Retro Future, who helped fix the DSi from this video and made his own video about that.

Characters

 * Adam
 * Mom
 * His brother
 * Brother's friend
 * School friends
 * James (TheOdd1sOut) (end-card only)

Trivia

 * Adam referenced the story of Billy breaking his DS from Let Me Tell You About Billy.
 * Adam would later talk more about his recent jaw surgery in I had my jaw wired shut for 2 months.
 * The chair Adam was sitting on while animating is the "Sub to PewDiePie" chair from YouTube Rewind 2018.