Allow me to take you on a journey, back to the ’90s, where a budding comedian and his sitcom would unknowingly shape the future of the videogame industry forever.Tim Testa – An Abridged History of Comedy Before becoming the world’s first Let’s Player, my father was a fixture of the Colorado and Rocky Mountain comedy scene and even to this day remains somewhat of a local celebrity, as TSA officers, DMV workers (and/or many with jobs that require me to show my ID) have inquired whether I am related to him, thanks to my middle name.Related: Defending The Callisto Protocol: Why 2022’s Most Controversial Game Isn’t as Bad as You Think Thanks to his comedy prowess, in 1993, my Dad was approached by the Jones Computer Network (JCN) to host his own sitcom/computer show or “sitcomp” called Home Computing, which would set the stage for the world’s first “Let’s Play.” Home Computing – A Sitcom Ahead of its Time In an era where personal computers were uncommon, and the internet was still an unknown entity to most Americans, Home Computing helped to educate viewers with its computer tutorials while injecting some much-needed humor into the often dry subject of hardware and software.A Let’s Play differs from a video game walkthrough or strategy guide by focusing on an individual’s subjective experience with the game, often with humorous, irreverent, or critical commentary from the gamer, rather than being an objective source of information on how to progress through the game.” While a YouTuber by the name of “Slowbeef” is often denoted as the world’s first “Let’s Player” with their first videos being released sometime between 2005 and 2007, the Home Computing television “Let’s Plays” predate their YouTube descendants by over a decade.On a fateful Friday in September 1993, the pilot episode of Home Computing unwittingly made history with eight simple words: “Let’s go ahead and play a quick game.” The game in question was Playmaker Football by Broderbund, with Dad cracking jokes to the camera and navigating the unstable hardware of the 1990s to showcase the football sim to his viewers."