A Brief History

A Brief History
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Hosted by	Rick Desilets John Selig C/J Haley Ben Mooney
Original run	January 19, 2015 - present
No. of episodes	13
Episode length	1-41 minutes
Playlist	link
Total length	3:33:27

A Brief History is a video essay series created by The D-Pad in 2015. While early episodes were designed to serve as short intros to the channel's Franchise Plays, highlighting the formative years of the companies behind the franchises, the series soon became a platform for longer videos delving into specific aspects of certain games or media. As of April 5, 2020, 13 episodes of the series have been released.

Episodes

ABH#	Title	Length	Host(s)	Related series	Release date
1	"A Brief History of CAPCOM"	1:59	Rick, John	The Mega Let's Play	January 19, 2015 (2015-01-19)
2	"A Brief History of HAL Laboratory"	4:42	Rick, John	The Dreamy Let's Play	March 24, 2016 (2016-03-24)
3	"A Brief History of SEGA"	5:28	John	The Super Sonic Let's Play	June 20, 2016 (2016-06-20)
4	"A Brief History of Comcept"	3:16	Rick	The Mega Let's Play	June 22, 2016 (2016-06-22)
5	"A Debrief History of Comcept"	13:37	Rick	The Mega Let's Play	July 31, 2016 (2016-07-31)
6	"A Brief History of Michael Jackson's Sonic the Hedgehog 3"	22:54	Rick, John	The Super Sonic Let's Play	October 20, 2016 (2016-10-20)
7	"A Brief History of Sonic Mania"	10:47	Rick, John	The Super Sonic Let's Play	August 16, 2017 (2017-08-16)
8	"A Brief History of the Infinity Stones"	27:15	Rick		April 28, 2018 (2018-04-28)
9	"Downward Spiral: A Brief History of SEGA's Console War"	26:37	Rick, John	The Super Sonic Let's Play	June 25, 2018 (2018-06-25)
10	"A Brief History of The Legend of Zelda"	9:40	Rick	The Legendary Let's Play	August 23, 2018 (2018-08-23)
11	"A Brief History of Hyrule"	41:22	Rick, John, C/J, Ben	The Legendary Let's Play	September 8, 2018 (2018-09-08)
12	"DASHes to Ashes, Trust to Dust: A Brief History of Mega Man's Fall from Grace"	27:16	Rick	The Mega Let's Play	October 4, 2018 (2018-10-04)
13	"A Brief History of Tiger Electronics"	18:34	Rick	The Mega Let's Play	April 5, 2020 (2020-04-05)

Trivia

• "A Brief History of the Infinity Stones" is the only A Brief History episode thus far to not be part of any of the channel's Franchise Plays.
• The Mega Let's Play contains the most episodes of A Brief History out of the Franchise Plays, with five. The Heartless Let's Play and Let's Play Dead are the only Franchise Plays to contain no episodes.
• 2019 is the only year since the debut of A Brief History in which no new episodes were released.