Mutch Games

Thomas Burton Mutch (born: ) better known online as Mutch Games, is an American Gaming YouTuber who is known for making longplays multiple eras of consoles as well as creating insane Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit courses. His top goal is to bring people childhood nostalgia from the games he plays. He accepts requests for Longplays, MK Live Course, Subscriber Challenges Grinds my Games, or Lameplays, but since he works full time and does YouTube as a hobby it can take him awhile to get around to the requests. He also occasionally does gift card giveaways when he does a livestream as well as gives away consoles every time he completes 50 longplays on a single console. His favorite video games are Kingdom Hearts, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, Pokémon Snap, Halo 3, Earthbound, Mario + Rabbids, and Banjo Kazooie. 
==Professional Career ==
Mutch graduated from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona in 2016 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. While at Cal Poly he was heavily involved in their Rose Parade Program, and is still an active alumni member on their board as their historian. Right after college he started as a technician at an Entertainment Engineering company and within a few months, he moved over to the design department. He has sense designed animated props for theme park rides like Tokyo Disneyland's It's A Small World, booths for entertainment events such as Nintendo's E3, concert set pieces for the Weeknd and Dua Lipa, etc. Some other notable jobs he has mentioned working on are the Star Wars: Episode 9 World Premiere, Kirby And The Forgotten Land: Universal Studios Holly City Walk pop up event, League of Legends Photo Op for Microsoft's Flagship New York Store, Yoshi's Crafted World 2019 Pax East Photo Op, Dumbo Marquee at Disneyland, Lightning Mcqueens Racing Academy at Disney's Hollwood Studios.
== Subscriber Milestones ==
* 1000 - 04/08/17
* 10,000 - 06/23/18
* 50,000 - 10/30/21
* 100,000 - 03/25/24
==Longplays==
Mutch originally started out doing let's plays, Pokémon Shiny Giveaways, and reviews when he started his channel on March 24th, 2017. He did his first longplay, Jaws (NES) on Aug 29th, 2014. He started to gain traction after playing Earthbound (SNES) on Jan 18th, 2015. Although he shifted his focus away from reviews in 2015 after his growth primarily came from longplays, he still makes some to this day. During most of late 2015 and early 2016, he mostly spent it beating games from his own childhood. In August of 2016 he decided to put a heavier focus on late 90's/2000's kids tv show/movie games for his longplays while often achieving 100% completion on the games. Shortly afterwards he did Epic Mickey (Wii) and the following year he 100% Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) and Finding Nemo (PS2). In his Super Mario Odyssey longplay, he did a first in the game by discovering you could stack moons by using the Warp Paintings. To this day it remains his most popular longplay at over 5 million views. In 2018 he did his first Rabbid game and due to its popularity, Mutch made it a goal to beat every Rabbid console game and has sense used Rabbids in his Grinds My Games series and Mario Kart Live course: Rabbids' Turkey Track. In 2019, he tried to do concurrent playthroughs (with commentary) and longplays (no commentary) for all the games he beat. This greatly divided his audience and by 2020 he stopped them outright and has sense made the majority of the playthroughs private. During 2020-2021's Covid lockdown there was an increase in Mutch's longplay outputs since his professional industry was locked down, so he did YouTube full time during that year and created a new goal for himself to complete more Xbox 360 Kinect Games then anyone on YouTube.
Over the years Mutch expanded to other consoles with his longplays and wanted to celebrate milestones as well as thank his subscribers; so he decided to do a giveway every time he completed 50 games on a console. He makes it easy for his subscribers to keep track of the total longplays on a console by the bracketed number his longplay titles. All longplays are categorized in playlists by console and well as some being added to sub-playlists by topic. The first console he gave away was a GameCube which by chance coincided with his 10k Subscriber benchmark. His goal is to give away one console a year.
===Console Giveaways===
*GameCube - July 10th, 2018
*Switch - Nov 25, 2019
*PS4 - Oct 25th, 2020
*Xbox 360 and Kinect - Nov 7th, 2021
*Wii - Sept. 11th, 2022
*Xbox 360 and Kinect - Sept. 20th, 2023
*Switch - Jan 21st, 2024
==Mario Kart Live Courses==
Mutch has made nine courses for Mario Kart Live and has created several firsts for the game. Three of the courses have been real life versions existing Mario Kart tracks, six have been originals with several of them imagining what video game franchises would look like as a Mario Kart course. He was the first to do animatronics for the courses as well as the first to create a functioning hang glider for the rc kart. He has said he uses his skills from his professional career to try to make the craziest courses people have seen while challenging himself to only use resources the average person would have available to them. 
===Mario Kart Live Cups:===
====YouTube Cup====
*Mutch Games Raceway - Nov 5th, 2020, Original
*SNES Rainbow Road - Dec 2nd, 2020, Course Recreation
*Baby Park - Jan 2nd, 2021, Course Recreation
*Banjo's Rare'n' Racecourse - June 10th, 2022, Original based on the N64 games Banjo Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing
====Holiday Cup====
*Chill Chill Village - Dec 22nd, 2020, Original (Christmas Themed)
*Egg Hunt Meadow - Mar 28th, 2021, Original (Easter Themed)
*Haunted Highway - Oct 8th, 2021, Original (Halloween Themed)
*Rabbids' Turkey Track - Nov 25th, 2021, Original (Thanksgiving Themed)
====Cross-Over Cup====
*Toad's Turnpike - Jun 5th, 2021, Course Recreation
*Animal Crossing - TBD - Original
*Unannounced
*Unannounced
====Courses With Behind-the-Scenes Vids====
*SNES Rainbow Road
*Baby Park
*Banjo's Rare'n' Racecourse
===Teased Future Courses===
*Grumble Volcano
*Waluigi Pinball
*Ribbon Road
==Grinds My Games==
Grinds my Games is a satirical video game rant series Mutch does with his best friend Brent with occasional appearances from other friends. It typically involves a rant in a similar manner to the television show Family Guy's "Grinds My Gears" format followed by a special ending. So far there have been 18 rants. Although frequent in the beginning of his channel's history, they have become a less frequent series as he switched focus to his longplays and Mario Kart Live Courses. Mutch has stated that he doesn't care if nobody watches them, he'll continue to make at least one a year since him and his friends enjoy making them.
===Grinds My Games Rants:===
*Angry Birds - Oct 17th, 2021
*Stop the Steal...At The Game Awards - Dec 11th, 2020
*Rabbids Caused Corona Virus - Jul 19th, 2020
*Leakers - June 9th, 2019
*Playstation Classic's Game Library - Nov 11th, 2018
*Lego Games Are the Same - April 27th, 2018
*Skyrim Ports - April 25th, 2018
*Balloon Fight vs. Joust - Mar 8th, 2018
*Why Isn't Little Mac in Arms? - Dec 23rd, 2017
*Pokémon Snap 2 - Oct 12th, 2017
*Why Haven't We Gotten Mother 3? - Jun 6th, 2017
*What happened to King K. Rool? - May 13th, 2017
*Pikmin Lives Matter - Sep 25th, 2016
*Pac-Man - Aug 31st, 2016
*Blue Turtle Shells - Aug 17th, 2016
*SJW Video Game Complaints - Aug 1st, 2016
*Pokémon Go Haters - Aug 1st, 2016
*Star Fox Guard, Illegal Robots (Trump Parody)
===Grinds my Games Guests:===
*Brent I. - HyruleKoopa - Mutch's Best Friend
*Nick W. - Mutch's Best Friend
*Mitchell W. - Mutch's Friend
*Haven F. - Mutch's Friend
==Trivia==
*He was the first to discover the moon stacking trick using portraits in Super Mario Odyssey
*He is a Mechanical Engineer in the Entertainment Industry
*He has driven a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade
*He was an Eagle Scout
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