Just to play devil's advocate: Mario is without a doubt the oldest recognizable character that still has some modern appearances. You can't really take pong and some shitty mobile game as a comparison.
It gets very blurry in the early days of video games. Ahoy made a great video about just that, actually: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc&pp=ygUYYWhveSBlYXJsaWVzdCB2aWRlbyBnYW1l
Basically, there's earlier games than pacman, but what actually constitutes a video game starts to become a much less trivial question.
He's probably aware that he's doing something. And whatever that is means he's getting views and that's all that matters.
Kids man... I remember back in the day being asked to review a gaming site a young'un was trying to get off the ground and I had to correct them that Mario was NOT created by Atari and man, they were ADAMANT.
Their evidence?
Its even funnier because Nintendo's brand name is printed three times on that cartridge.
I guarantee you that N64 controller is the wireless reissue for the Nintendo Switch and not a real genuine N64 controller that plugs into an N64.
I imagine the hate-clicks from GenXers and retro-game enthusiasts do wonders for Laughing Boy’s engagement
I don't give these guys any clicks.
I played these games when I was a kid (80's):
The games were still being played more than 10 years later and they had copycat versions floating around.
