A Brief History

A Brief History is a video essay series created by The D-Pad in 2015. Originally designed as a means to highlight the formative years of various game development companies at the start of their respective Franchise Plays (such as Capcom, HAL Laboratory, and SEGA), it would eventually branch out into covering less massive companies, as well as delving into more involved topics such as the background of specific video games or media. As of June 25, 2018, 9 episodes have been released.

Episodes

#	Title	Release date	Topic	Series	Hosts	Length
1	A Brief History of Capcom	January 9, 2015	Capcom, Mega Man	The Mega Let's Play	Rick, John	00:01:58
2	A Brief History of HAL Laboratory	March 24, 2016	HAL Laboratory, Kirby's Dream Land	The Dreamy Let's Play	Rick, John	00:04:41
3	A Brief History of SEGA	June 20, 2016	SEGA, Sonic the Hedgehog	The Super Sonic Let's Play	John	00:05:27
4	A Brief History of Comcept	June 22, 2016	Comcept, Mighty No. 9	The Mega Let's Play	Rick	00:03:15
5	A Debrief History of Comcept	July 31, 2016	Comcept, Mighty No. 9, Red Ash: The Indelible Legend	The Mega Let's Play	Rick	00:13:36
6	A Brief History of Michael Jackson's Sonic the Hedgehog 3	October 20, 2016	Michael Jackson, Sonic the Hedgehog 3	The Super Sonic Let's Play	Rick, John	00:22:53
7	A Brief History of Sonic Mania	August 16, 2017	Christian Whitehead, Simon Thomley, Sonic Mania	The Super Sonic Let's Play	Rick, John	00:10:46
8	A Brief History of the Infinity Stones	April 28, 2018	Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Infinity War		Rick	00:27:14
9	Downward Spiral: A Brief History of SEGA's Console War	June 25, 2018	SEGA, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast, Segata Sanshiro	The Super Sonic Let's Play	Rick, John	00:26:36