Sam ‘Samtastic’ Locke

Sam Locke (born: ), better known online as Samtastic or the Samanati is an English YouTuber who does videos about Bop it, video game speedruns, Tool Assisted speedruns and music reconstructions and recreations.
==Personal Life & Career==
He was born with his parents and his identical twin brother Aaron. He is interested in electronic games, music, technology and IT. When Sam was 3-4 years old, he was diagnosed with autism which means that he would have different behaviours to most people. When he was 4 years old, he started an intense LOVASS program. 
In 2010, Mr Locke started his YouTube channel on which he made videos on the modern Bop It games and the original series. In 2011, for three years, he went to a special residential College in Somerset which had mainly people with autism. In 2014, Sam got the World Record on Bop It Beats on the Classic Mode with 263 points which got beaten in 2020 with 264 during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. In 2015, Sam got the World Record on Bop It Smash with 1070 and before that Sonicnoah hold the record with 1060, In 2016, he got the World Record of 844 on Bop It Tetris In 2019, August beat him on Bop It Tetris with 846 and gradually with 864 in December 2019 but then in May 2020, Sam got 866.
In 2016, Mr Locke released a single called "Sam's Song" whilst working for the Well Aware charity and Florence Pellacani shot and edited the music video. 
In February 2021, Mr Locke had his first vaccine for COVID-19. He had the Pfizer jab. He had 3 more jabs in 2022. 
On May 28th 2023, Mr Locke reached a new milestone of 6,000 subscribers. The day after, he made 2 videos, one talking about his new milestonehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjKNwy2e97o whilst chatting to one of his close friends, RJ and another with his close American friend TGR (also known as Blanky and Bopitartist) about 2 special anniverseries in 2023.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JY3s__RA5c
On 14th June 2023, a longtime YouTuber Dylan who likes Bop It's and American gameshows managed to beat Mr Locke's record of 866 on Bop It Tetris with a new high score of 874. The record was featured in the video before playing the the Press Your Luck Slots game where Dylan proved the record to Mr Locke.https://youtu.be/2_DgfuKzQrA?t=20 Mr Locke freaked out and Dylan explained to Mr Locke in a number of live streams that he needs to start at set 3 on the bonus round and start at pattern 10 which would give you an 80, and then a 78 after it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrEHPaQEWaI A similar thing happened with Bop It Smash, YouTuber Nolan Bankeroff beat Mr Locke's Smash record with 1076https://youtube.com/shorts/KzcL2LzHE7w?si=9Ti6VF-lx0jmeedJ Mr Locke manaeged to beat Nolan with 1080https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cyeRjHKYwI&t=3s&ab_channel=SamLocke and Nolan beat him again with 1087https://youtube.com/shorts/E-vXh_gUaD0?si=njnyuK5-zuxfI0IO 
== His Obessions ==
As Mr Locke has autism, he has many obessions . His most notable ones include the 1980's Dr Who theme by Peter Howell, the End of the World song by R.E.M. re-purchasing electronic games like the Brain Shift which his close friend online suggests that he should "save some for the world". 
He also like American gameshows which include Press Your Luck, The Joker's Wild and Let's Make a Deal. He started using reference from LMAD in his Bop It Tetris attempts. Getting a '74' on the Bop It Tetris bonus round results in a Zonk and getting a 72 or lower results in a 'Whammy'. In the Smash, getting 80 bonus points is a Zonk. Anything under 80 is a Whammy.
He also likes computers and tech and various voices and accents including the 'RP', 'Australian' and 'American' accents.
In 2020 when the COVID pandemic started, he got to meet the inventor of Bop It, Dan Klitsner to have a chat with him about re-creating the game NuJam Guitar and a possible follow up in VR which would be 'NJ Smooth Groovz'. The game which is yet to be developed will be overseen and played with by the inventor when the first build of the game in ready. 
On April 23rd 2023, Mr Locke and his friend RJ from Wales who's a Radio enthuiast captured the UK's first national test of the Emergency Alert system. Before the alert went off, RJ played one of Mr Locke's favourite Doctor Who themes through isolated stems, the Peter Howell version from 1980 and following the alert, the End of the World song by R.EM. followed with a finishing of Mr Locke playing Bop It Tetris and getting a high score of 862. 
In July 2023, Mr Locke got to interview the inventor of Oddworld and Abe - Lorne Lanning who agreed to him and his friend TGR to work on Twice Ze Flavor, a ground-up remake of Abe's Exoddus. In Janurary 2024, he mentioned on his channel that Josh Gabriel would like to meet up with him and TGR as Josh said to Mr Locke that TGR's voice sounds very much like Lorne Lanning's Abe. 
On December 15th 2023, it was known that one of Mr Locke's close friend TGR was tested positive with COVID which he is self-isolating in his basement.
On Christmas Day 2023, Mr Locke unboxed one of his best beloved Christmas presents of 2023, a Brain Shift that had the same pitch as his very first one that he played with 20 years ago during his time in primary school. Back then, he was given a Brain Warp that year for Christmas whilst one of his friends had a Brain Shift that was very low pitched. Since 2009 his low pitched Brain Shfit died, 14 years later it returned! Mr Locke hsa been able to get 16 shifts thanks to the speed of the resistor on the Brain Shfit. 
== Account Hacking ==
In Janurary 2023, his YouTube, Gmail and Twitch channels got hacked and terminated, including his Gmail and Instagram. But he got most of it back after appealing. Further to this, on Friday 4th August, his Discord got hacked as well as his Steam account. 
== His Views on the World ==
In 2017, he was more worried about America when he found out that Donald Trump became US President and people on YouTube especially the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned that the Doomsday Clock was at 2 and a half minutes to the apocalypse. In 2020, the Clock moved to 100 seconds., then again in 2023 at 90 seconds till. 
On April 23rd 2023, he and his fellow friend from Wales did a special live stream covering the first national test of the UK's emergency alert system. Partly due do his autism, before the alert came, Mr Locke during the stream went out with a Bop It game to keep himself occupied so the alert tones wouldn't scare him whilst on the air. As scared as he was, Mr Locke lowered the stream audio before the alert came, as well as playing some of his favourite musical peices and MIDIs. To him and RJ, the April 23rd 'EAS Show' would be the most memorable event ever aired as after the alert test concluded, Mr Locke played his favourite Bop It game, the Bop It Tetris and got a high score of 862 and got very high bonus points.https://www.youtube.com/live/eq9hwd6TxG8?feature=share&t=1391 - The timing before the alert. 
== His Time on Wikipedia and Other Internet Forums ==
In 2008, he joined Wikipedia and decided to wipe out an article about Windows XP. A few hours later, an admin removed it and he was blocked for a few hours. Whilst being on Wikipedia, he got caught abusing multiple accounts and he was blocked indefinitely. He was given several chances after emailing several admins. In 2011, his account got locked by a Steward. However, in 2019, he got access to his account again but got blocked in December by the unblocking king Yamla for uploading copyrighted content after agreeing to stop. In January 2020, his account got blocked by a checkuser and locked again by a Steward. He is currently banned on the Simple English Wikipedia and globally locked which means he can't login using his account on any Wikimedia projects.
== References ==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2010