A Brief History

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A Brief History
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Original run January 19, 2015 -
present
No. of episodes 13
Episode length 1-41 minutes
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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#TitleLengthHost(s)Related seriesRelease date
1"A Brief History of CAPCOM"1:59Rick, JohnThe Mega Let's PlayJanuary 19, 2015 (2015-01-19)
2"A Brief History of HAL Laboratory"4:42Rick, JohnThe Dreamy Let's PlayMarch 24, 2016 (2016-03-24)
3"A Brief History of SEGA"5:28JohnThe Super Sonic Let's PlayJune 20, 2016 (2016-06-20)
4"A Brief History of Comcept"3:16RickThe Mega Let's PlayJune 22, 2016 (2016-06-22)
5"A Debrief History of Comcept"13:37RickThe Mega Let's PlayJuly 31, 2016 (2016-07-31)
6"A Brief History of Michael Jackson's Sonic the Hedgehog 3"22:54Rick, JohnThe Super Sonic Let's PlayOctober 20, 2016 (2016-10-20)
7"A Brief History of Sonic Mania"10:47Rick, JohnThe Super Sonic Let's PlayAugust 16, 2017 (2017-08-16)
8"A Brief History of the Infinity Stones"27:15Rick April 28, 2018 (2018-04-28)
9"Downward Spiral: A Brief History of SEGA's Console War"26:37Rick, JohnThe Super Sonic Let's PlayJune 25, 2018 (2018-06-25)
10"A Brief History of The Legend of Zelda"9:40RickThe Legendary Let's PlayAugust 23, 2018 (2018-08-23)
11"A Brief History of Hyrule"41:22Rick, John, C/J, BenThe Legendary Let's PlaySeptember 8, 2018 (2018-09-08)
12"DASHes to Ashes, Trust to Dust: A Brief History of Mega Man's Fall from Grace"27:16RickThe Mega Let's PlayOctober 4, 2018 (2018-10-04)
13"A Brief History of Tiger Electronics"18:34RickThe Mega Let's PlayApril 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.