Gaming in The Clinton Years

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***Gaming In The Clinton Years*** (GITCY for short) was the umbrella title used for NAVGTR's uploads of the game reviews from Flights of Fantasy. The package included the majority of the game reviews from Flights of Fantasy, The title was a gimmicky way to repackage old content and was an marketing thing, George Wood and Tom Allen saw the humor of the reviews and decided that posting the reviews on the internet would be a good way to bring attention to NAVGTR. The umbrella title's first appearance on the internet was in June 24, 2006, when 6 of the original Flights of Fantasy game reviews popped up on NAVGTR's channel, in which it was created in the same day the original 6 reviews were uploaded. a year later, the majority of the reviews would be posted, this also included some miscellaneous reviews from the show including Super Mario 64 vs Resident Evil. NAVGTR then reuploaded 268 of the 287 reviews, improving the quality of the videos from 240p to 360p, the final upload would be on May 1, 2008 to correct a infamous error on the Earthbound review where the video is muted after George says "Burger Shop", The theme song often showed a drawing of Bill Clinton with footage of the Battletoads review, which then fades to the show's logo as the Hall of Mirrors theme from Shadowgate plays, There was also GITCY marathon videos made, where it uses actual master footage of the reviews in question made into parts, in 2020, another series based off the reviews called "Gaming in The Trump Years" with George reprising his role was made, only 2 reviews were made so far.

## Overview

### retsupurae finds GITCY

in October 11, 2008, Youtuber retsupurae found a channel known as NAVGTR and reacted to the Mega Man 8 video, This is probably the first time tons of people known about GITCY, and even Flights of Fantasy in general, retsupurae began reacting to several more of the reviews until March 18, 2016. at the time, People called George Wood as "NAVGTR" until his actual name was found years later, also during that time is that people thought that GITCY was a rip off of AVGN despite Flights of Fantasy, the show where the reviews came from came out 11 years before AVGN.

### GITCY related series

There were 2 GITCY related series in 2012, the first series was known as "Retro Hatemail" was made, it usually began with a clip on one of the reviews until fading to an Old Man wearing a cheap crown by the name of "Charles The Brit" reads actual comments regrading the review in question, the second series "Re-Reviews" was meant to be a countdown of the Top 100 reviews from the Flights of Fantasy series and it was hosted by Tom Sizemore, Re-Reviews was considered to be a disappointment, as the shows in question happen to be no more than just the original reviews played in their entirely next to the number it appears in the countdown and Tom only appears at the very end of the videos for only 10-13 seconds saying stuff that has nothing to do with the series, a couple of one off videos also appeared in the channel such as Gaming in The Obama Years, a modern day George Wood styled review show much like how GITCY was going for.

### NAVGTR privates and "deletes" every GITCY review

in Christmas 2019, out of nowhere, NAVGTR privated every review from the show off their YouTube channel, making them totally inaccessible, many people were confused, upset and angry that over a decade's worth of internet history vanished out of existence, people began to speculate on what could be going on, 2 days later, NAVGTR uploaded the video "George Lives", the video did nothing to address the purging of their channel, instead it was a 57 second black and white clip of the movie Gladiator, the video received many negative dislikes and comments, with the video having 53 dislikes at the time, that same day, all of the videos and playlists were privated and unlisted from the channel, but some said that they were removed,

### NAVGTR abuses premieres for clips of the GITCY reviews.

after this, NAVGTR then boosts up premieres around a dozen of new videos, many people were mad by having their notifications bombed by all the premieres NAVGTR made, the videos that were premieres are short clips of the show, only lasting up to 15 seconds, every one of the titles is a quote from one of their reviews, it was later confirmed that NAVGTR was uploading videos from @NoContectGitCY with no credit given, people then call them out for stealing from @NoContectGitCY including the creator of @NoContectGitCY itself, NAVGTR then apologizes to the creator of @NoContectGitCY, this is all because of an ARG NAVGTR was making, which was a complete failure.

### George's Code and "Remastered" GITCY on the War of Awards channel.

also during Christmas 2019, an new video called "George Wood Christmas" (and also 2 videos of George saying weird things; later posted to NAVGTR's channel) appeared in the War of Awards channel, the description of the Christmas video said that remastered versions of the GITCY reviews would appear, nobody knew about the War of Awards channel at the time, only gaining around a hundred subscribers at the time, George also mentions a code, in which The War of Awards server managed to crack the code, it had 2 messages "War of Awards Cacus" and "George Cacus No More Whips", shortly after the code was cracked, an video was then posted by the War of Awards channel that just had a black background with archived audio of George, then came 2020, the 2 "Remastered" GITCY compilations were posted to the War of Awards channel, in which they were released versions of the GITCY marathon videos, in which they use the actual master tapes for the reviews, into 20 minutes to the first video, the picture and audio degrades and it stays like this way until the end of the video, many people wonder why did they post them into the War of Awards channel and not the NAVGTR channel, since it could have more views if they had posted them here.

### Caddicarus finds GITCY

shortly after, NAVGTR then put the videos back up on their channel, but on May 3, 2020, during the pandemic, YouTuber Caddicarus watched 287 - nearly 300 - (total: 555) of the GITCY reviews covering every review surviving from NAVGTR's channel, the video performed really well and currently has 2 million views and made more newcomers watch the GITCY reviews for the laughs.

### The Game Awards 2022

In 2022, After *Elden Ring* was announced as the Game of the Year winner, a kid walked up to the microphone and said "I want to thank everybody and say I think I want to nominate this award to my Reformed Orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton" in a thick Israeli accent, this also made even more newcomers to the GITCY series since the show's title seemly is "Gaming in The Clinton Years" and making the title more sense in modern times.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5tjOctjII
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/@navgtr/search?query=before%3A2007
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/@navgtr/about