Why is Nintendo targeting this YouTuber?

Russ Crandall runs Retro Game Corps , a YouTube channel that shows hundreds of ways to play classic games using modern hardware and emulation.

He retired from a 22-year career as a US Navy translator to become a full-time YouTuber instead.

YouTube maintains a strict “ three strikes, you're out” rule, and he realized his family’s livelihood depended on preventing strike number three .

YouTube YouTubber Crandall says he's been a Nintendo fan for nearly 40 years .

The first strike landed on his video about the MIG Dumper and MIG Flash, a pair of devices that let you turn genuine Nintendo Switch cartridges into digital files and then carry around an entire library of those ROMs in a special microSD-equipped flash cartridge for your console.

Nintendo could pick any of those videos to designate his channel for deletion.

Even after a long day of making videos about games, he likes to relax by playing through a couple of classic Mario or Donkey Kong levels, purely to admire the artistry and design. “Since the second strike I haven’t been doing that much at all, because even just seeing the box art leaves a bit of a sour taste in my mouth,” he says. Nintendo didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment..