Pixelation Gaming



Pixelation Gaming is a vintage video game walkthrough webshow created by Josh Bradley, Peter Holmes and Norm Henson. Pixelation Gaming got its own channel on 12 January 2013, but it was closed in April 2013. The first episode, which premiered on Holmes' account was Burger Time gaming. Henson later released gaming of Super Mario Bros. The "Arcade Brothers" were in progress of 4 episodes for the short time it was on air. Pac-Man was going to be after Dig Dug, but Henson failed to release it, causing the show to end. On 2 April, it was announced that a revival edition of Pixelation Gaming would be released on Henson's channel. The first episode of the revived series will be released in mid-2015

History
On 13 July 2012, Holmes' friend, Josh Bradley (back then still The Arcade Addict) spoke the first words about his channel, an idea at the time. "I recently closed down the Bradley's Bricks channel after a few days. At the moment, I am drafting a new channel. I have not come up with a name yet, but it will have to do with arcades, despite the fact that I'll be at DisneyQuest in a few days." Then he spoke of Pixelation Gaming, also just an idea. "I want to have a viral webshow where Norm and I play arcade games from Galaxian to Street Fighter. Right now, I'm ordinary Joshua Bradley. I want a stage name. I think it should be something cool like Dr. Druaga or something like that." On 15 July 2012, the channel finally opened, just a day after Christopher Holmes' 6th birthday. On his website at about Christmastime, Bradley stated that a show where you play classic games is being worked on with Holmes. On 1 January 2013, he announced that the show had its official name: Pixelation Gaming. The pilot was uploaded shortly after New Years on The Arcade Addict channel and was later deleted and re-posted on the Pixelation Gaming channel.

List of gamisodes (original)
Burger Time

Q*bert

Hacked Super Mario Bros.

Dig Dug

Fix-it Felix Jr.

List of future gamisodes (revival)
Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man

Street Fighter

Donkey Kong

TRON

Space Invaders

Galaga

Galaxian

Future and revival
In February 2013, Bradley said on voice tape: "Pixelation Gaming has quite a few views on its channel. I figure that if me and Purpleparatroopa change the name, it probably would be recognized by more people." Then he spoke about others. "After I do all of the vintage games, I may transfer to console gaming and maybe a bit of Minecraft. Norm has technical issues with his laptop, possibly due to the download of Ezvid, which has a virus sneaking around in it." As soon as it was fixed, Purpleparatroopa filmed a Pac-Man episode, but failed to release it. The original tape's location is currently unknown. On 2 February 2013, Holmes announced that Pixelation Gaming would have a 1-2 week delay due to the failed release of Brick to Brick, but the delay turned into cancellation. Bradley retired three months later, and then wrote in a farewell address, "Pixelation Gaming had a good life, but I don't want it to come back for a really long time." However, after much decision, Bradley told his successor, Peter Holmes that it was time for the idea to return to the world. As a result, on 30 November 2013 when Holmes stated that Pixelation Gaming would make a comeback in 2014. The comeback was held off until April 2015, when Holmes announced on his personal Twitter account that it would have a new life in a new home on Henson's channel. On 2 April 2015, Holmesfilm released a trailer for it, and announced that production would begin a week later.