Neil's custom software turns museum leaflets into searchable PDFs and photographed game boxes into interactive 3D objects.
On YouTube, The Retro Collective has 200,000 subscribers and 29,902,566 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 27,356 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Awesome Donations to The Retro Collective - October 2026", with 48,475 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 4,614 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 144 of 163 in category "Technology reviews and gadgets".
YouTube: The numbers today
▲ 1,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 166,206 in the last 30 days
a new short video usually gets 9,345 views
YouTube: What happened lately
Power-supply gremlins and reassembly finish the Commodore project, with handheld FPGA development also on the viewing shelf.
The video drawing the most views now
Making Bespoke Tools for Our Computer Museum
- Video published
- November 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 30,970
- Video views, pace per day
- 225
- Views on its first day
- 21,571
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Technology reviews and gadgets | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 4,614 of 5,393 | 144 of 163 |
| By views gained this week | 5,017 of 5,274 | 151 of 163 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 4,788 of 5,043 | 151 of 163 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Technology reviews and gadgets
Views gained this week in the category Technology reviews and gadgets
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 199,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 200,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 29,738,796 views → November 11, 2026: 29,902,566 views · average: 5,647 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 39.3 in the category: 23.3
- comments per 1,000 views
- 4.8 in the category: 1.4
- short vs long
- 4 short (up to 3 minutes), 11 long
average views per short video: 10,027
average views per long video: 41,068
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Did We Really Witness the Potential of Sega's Tower of Powe… | August 31, 2023 | 41:39 | 879,051 |
We Found a Rare Nintendo M82 Kiosk System Covered in ***** … | December 12, 2023 | 25:05 | 528,940 |
Storing Data in Bubbles - The Weird 1960's Technology used … | February 24, 2025 | 18:41 | 444,026 |
This Vectrex does things I never thought possible | Tech Ni… | August 18, 2022 | 19:10 | 394,297 |
Meet the SGI Octane - A 3D Graphics Powerhouse from 1997 | May 16, 2019 | 26:10 | 357,525 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
#Atari ST playground wars never die 🤷 #retrogaming #techre… | July 16, 2026 | 0:27 | 18,313 |
It’s 1979 and you just got a BigTrak for Christmas. | November 4, 2023 | 0:43 | 16,404 |
Pop Goes The Goodmans Telly #retro | April 7, 2026 | 0:25 | 14,962 |
Removing the anti-glare coating from an Apple monitor #retro | March 6, 2026 | 1:53 | 13,849 |
Did we go too far this time? Repairing a 1989 Commodore PC … | April 29, 2024 | 1:00 | 13,406 |
Stories
Neil's custom software turns museum leaflets into searchable PDFs and photographed game boxes into interactive 3D objects.
Power-supply gremlins and reassembly finish the Commodore project, with handheld FPGA development also on the viewing shelf.























