Izzynobre

Israel Nobre (born: 1984/1985), better known as Izzy Nobre, also known as Kid,https://www.techtudo.com.br/colaborador/izzy-nobre.html is a Brazilian YouTuber and internet personality based in Canada.
He makes gaming, technology and commentary videos. As well as his main Portuguese (formerly English and occasionally, later mostly, Portuguese) channel izzynobre, also known as Canal do Izzy (or Izzy's Channel),https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsyu6nv7o4 which is more commentary-oriented, he runs the similarly named English channel Izzy Nobre, which is more gaming and tech oriented, and under which the videos are uploaded as part of a series called The Izzy Nobre Show.https://www.youtube.com/c/TheIzzyNobreShow Most videos made are exclusive to the former, which is more of a commentary channel, often about Brazil, while some are exclusive to the latter or have versions for both.
He also hosts 99Vidas (or 99Lives), a podcast which has been running since 2010, becoming one of the most popular Portuguese-language podcasts. It received a retro style side-scrolling beat 'em up video game of the same name for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in late 2016, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2017 and the Nintendo Switch in 2018, to mixed reviews.
==History==
===Early life and gaming===
Israel was born in Fortaleza, the capital of the Brazilian state of Ceará. Growing up in the 1990s, his family did not have much money nor enough for a video game console, and video game imports to the country were made expensive due to heavy import taxes for all imported goods. For this reason, much of his time playing video games would be at a place known in Brazil as a locadora (rental store), where his love for video games started and much of his childhood revolved around.
Locaduras were more common in poorer countries, including Brazil, where these made video games a more social pastime, and games including the Bomberman series, Top Gear and Metal Warriors were popular, more so than in North America. While customers could rent, as with a rental store, due to large expenses, they would mostly play there, which cost $1 an hour, or. However, as it was relatively inexpensive to buy a PlayStation memory card, it was more common for them to bring and use their memory card. The game would then be inserted and could be played with one controller, or two for multiplayer games. He would visit often to see if someone was playing games such as International Superstar Soccer and Top Gear (a popular game in Brazil) and wanted someone to play with.
However, while on what was possibly a work trip, his dad would buy him and his younger brother a possibly "fourth hand" Super Nintendo Entertainment System from a man who bought a PlayStation for his kids, knowing it would not be used as much. After nine months, he would break the system while playing Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest with his brother due to a habit of walking between him and the television while it was his turn to play in order to make his character die so he could play again. After stepping on the controller cord, the console landed onto the floor, making a crunching noise and launching the cartridge om the air. As a result, he would continue to play games at the locadora. The brother, aged 8, not understanding what happened, assumed it was his fault rather than Israel's.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aRaw0QRefA
==Adulthood==
He moved to Canada in 2003 at around the age of 19.
==Career==
Israel's first channel, izzynobre, was started on March 8, 2006. His videos were mainly in English at this time, with the occasional Portuguese video, the first one being Teste da camera na janela (or Camera test in window).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrSIjQBo2hc His videos showed snippets of his life, often with his friends, or sometimes showed games, etc. being played. His uploads would gradually shift into being only in Portuguese a few years later.
On September 11, 2013, a new channel, TheIzzyNobreShow (now Izzy Nobre) would be created, which would exclusively feature English-language videos. This channel started as mainly being a more general commentary channel with the occasional outing in his hometown of Calgary before gradually transitioning to gaming and tech, with the occasional commentary video tying into these topics.
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Review YouTubers
Category:Brazilian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2006