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Drawing the Hardest Room in the Castle, Fixing Shadow Highlight Problems & Analysing PS1 Colour

This deep dive into PS1 art techniques is absolutely resonating with the retro dev community—already pulling in six times the channel's normal early views.

Key facts

  • 6.9x Pigsy's Retro Game Dev Tutorials's own 90-day median — this channel normally draws about 1.2K views at the same age.
  • 8.2K views so far, published 13 days ago.
  • Category: Gaming · Language: en · Quality: HD
  • "Breakout" is measured against this exact channel's trailing 90-day median at matching video age — not a generic niche average.

Updated 2026-08-08 15:10 UTC

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View trajectory

Views this upload has gathered since it published, last measured about 168h in — from our own tracking.

0h 7d after publish 8.2K views

Published Aug 8, 2026 · 13 days ago. How breakouts are measured →

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Category: Gaming · Language: en · Quality: HD

Topics: Action game · Video game culture

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