Square Pegs is the retro gaming YouTube channel that feels like it was lovingly assembled from an ‘80s toy aisle, a VHS tape left too close to a magnet, and the exact moment someone blew into an NES cartridge and made magic happen. Hosted by a guy who looks like he’s just one caffeine crash away from organizing a complete Game Boy Color library, Square Pegs is a glorious celebration of all things pixelated, plastic, and questionably licensed. It’s the kind of channel where “hidden gem” doesn’t mean obscure—it means a game that probably sold three copies, came in a cardboard sleeve, and features a boss fight against a mutant waffle iron.

Each episode is like being invited to a sleepover where the pizza’s cold, the soda’s flat, but nobody cares because you just found out Faxanadu kind of slaps. Jay Malone’s encyclopedic knowledge of retro titles is matched only by his ability to roast bad box art like it personally offended him. There’s deep dives, listicles, hauls, and enough CRT nostalgia to give a magnet a nervous breakdown. Watching Square Pegs feels like digging through your old game drawer and realizing, “Oh right, I did own Yo! Noid… but why?”