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Basinger at the 2021 Vintage Computer Festival Midwest
Personal information
Born
Clint Basinger

(1986-12-20) December 20, 1986 (age 37)
Website www.lazygamereviews.com
YouTube information
Also known asLazy Game Reviews
Channel
Years active2006–present
GenreReview
Subscribers1.71 million [1]
Total views556 million [1]
Network Maker Studios, Retroware (formerly)
Associated acts Techmoan, Modern Vintage Gamer, Brutalmoose, The 8-Bit Guy, Technology Connections
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2014
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2018
Last updated: August 7, 2023

Clint Basinger (born December 20, 1986), [2] better known as LGR (originally an initialism of Lazy Game Reviews), is an American YouTuber who focuses on video game reviews, retrocomputing, and unboxing videos. His YouTube channel of the same name has been compared to Techmoan and The 8-Bit Guy. [3] [4] [5] Basinger is known for building, restoring and reviewing many vintage computers and reviewing mainly PC games. [6] The channel is funded through YouTube advertising, and through Patreon. [7]

Contents

Basinger has stated that inspiration for starting LGR was at least partly inspired by the PBS television show Computer Chronicles. [8]

Output

His video series include LGR Thrifts, Tech Tales, and Oddware. [9] In LGR Thrifts, Basinger visits thrift stores around his area (mainly Goodwill stores), where he purchases used games, computers or any other product that has his interest.

In July 2016, on the 7th year anniversary of the channel, Basinger built an I486 based computer he named the "Woodgrain 486", mainly to run early to mid 90s DOS games on it for review purposes. The computer had many modifications over the years. [10]

In July 2018, Basinger rebuilt his Windows 98 computer with different parts, which he named it the "Lazy Green Giant" since he repainted its case to green. [11] However in January 2020, he decided to replace the original case with a Lian Li case, among other upgrades and modifications, he named it the "Megaluminum Monster". [12] [13]

For many years, one of the most popular and prominent series on LGR was reviews of games and downloadable content (DLC) from The Sims franchise, beginning with a "Quick Review" of The Sims 3 in 2009. In total, the LGR channel features over a hundred videos on the franchise, mostly involving reviews, but also "LGR Plays" let's-play videos. In 2021, reviews of new DLC for The Sims 4 was halted on the channel, [14] however in August 2022, a review of new DLC for The Sims 4 was released. [15]

Basinger had also made LGR Foods, a channel dedicated to him making various types of sandwiches, hamburgers and noodles. [16]

LGR's content creation was postponed in September 2024 after Basinger's North Carolina home was "incredibly damaged" as a result of Hurricane Helene. [17] A further update posted in October 2024 indicated that while Hurricane Helene had damaged some of the vintage and retro computing collection used for the channel's content, the majority of it had been recovered and stored in good condition. [18]

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  2. ↑ Basinger, Clint [@lazygamereviews] (December 20, 2021). "I am now 35" (Tweet). Retrieved June 3, 2022– via Twitter.
  3. ↑ Hutchinson, Lee (September 22, 2020). "LGR's Clint Basinger plumbs the depths of retro computing—and his YouTube comments". Ars Technica . Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  4. ↑ Key, Kim (January 8, 2021). "The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved April 18, 2021.
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  6. ↑ Cole, Samantha (July 14, 2017). "This Ridiculous Laptop Cost $20,000 in the 90s". Vice . Retrieved April 18, 2021.
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  8. ↑ LGR (December 12, 2024). The 1985 Computer Chronicles Christmas Buyer's Guide 🎄 . Retrieved December 12, 2024– via YouTube. 3m 25s
  9. ↑ McCann, Graham (June 10, 2016). "Exclusive Interview with Clint Basinger of LGR". FilmGamesEtc. Archived from the original on July 23, 2016. Retrieved June 23, 2021.
  10. ↑ The Complete LGR Woodgrain 486 Saga , retrieved August 29, 2023
  11. ↑ Rebuilding my Windows 98 Pentium III+Voodoo3 PC! , retrieved August 29, 2023
  12. ↑ Building a Better Windows 98 PC! The Megaluminum Monster , retrieved August 29, 2023
  13. ↑ LGR Megaluminum Monster Windows 98 PC Update , retrieved August 29, 2023
  14. ↑ LGR (July 31, 2021). The Sims 4 Cottage Living Review. YouTube . Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  15. ↑ LGR (August 6, 2022). The Sims 4 High School Years Review. YouTube . Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  16. ↑ "LGR Foods - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  17. ↑ "LGR Twitter post". X.com. September 27, 2024.
  18. ↑ LGR (October 17, 2024). What happened to the LGR collection. YouTube . Retrieved October 17, 2024.
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