Lazy Game Reviews / LGR

About

LGR, short for Lazy Game Reviews, is the online handle of Clint Basinger, an American YouTuber known for his videos about video games, most notably The Sims, old computers and software. Since 2006, LGR has grown a considerable following online, and as of June 2021 has over 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube.

History

LGR was born on December 30th, 1986, and created his YouTube channel^[1] on March 9th, 2006. His earliest video was uploaded a full year later on August 25th, 2007. The video is a short skit of two LGRs, with one threatening the other, but ending up outgunned, and it received 74,000 views in 14 years (shown below).

His first retro gaming video was posted on April 15th, 2008, and contains a review of the Sega CD (shown below, left). LGR's sixth video was his earliest big hit, posted on June 2nd, 2009, it was titled "LGR – The Sims 3 Quick Review – Top 5 Reasons To Buy" (shown below, right). This video would go on to receive over 750,000 views and was the first of many LGR videos featuring The Sims series^[8].

In the years that followed, LGR covered a variety of topics revolving around retro computers and video games. He has three regular series on his channel, the first being Oddware, where he covers old technology he finds bizarre or amusing (shown below, left). With LGR Thrifts, he ventures into his local thrift stores in search of interesting finds (shown below, center). In Tech Tales, he covers stories in the history of technology (shown below, right)

LGR's most popular video is one where he installs a scaled own version of Doom on a Ti-84 calculator, which has accumulated over 6.1 million views (shown below)

Reputation

LGR's videos are known for their high production value, the depth in which he talks about the video's subject, and his cheerful demeanor throughout. He maintains two additional channels: LGR Foods,^[3] where he makes sandwiches and instant ramen, and LGR Blerbs,^[4] where he posts less polished videos than what is on his main channel. LGR also has a personal website^[5] called the "Official Awesomepage" which mostly contains social media links.

Fandom

LGR has a notable presence online, having over 1.53 million subscribers on his YouTube channel^[1] and 114,000 followers on Twitter^[6], both as of September 2021. There is a page^[7] on TV Tropes dedicated to him, as well as Wikipedia.^[9]

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