I Described 47 Video Game Box Arts From Memory

I asked my friend Alex Jaffe to list 47 video game titles. Then I described their box arts from memory. This was a terrible idea. I loved it.

[@CACOaugus1o]

I love how Tim's job at Kotaku was like "Just do whatever"

[@Fullbatteri]

And now he’s making 6 hours reviews on his own channel. He just doesn’t care but cares too much. I love him.

[@takumicrary4396]

Tim is a g0d

[@abraxaseyes7]

They said dance monkey dance

[@AsherGrace7]

Thank You Tim and Alex for making my video pitch a reality. This was Fun!

[@matthewharbinson6496]

Just like how one day Devolver Digital will make Tim Rogers' pitch for Truck Heck a reality :)

[@TannerGSchultz]

Apparently I will watch literally anything Tim Rogers puts up. Also: how much box art do you have to look at in your life in order to be able to deduce, with remarkable accuracy, the box art for a game you have never seen and possibly didn't even know existed?

[@nickpiovesan4361]

If you also watch as much Tim Rogers as I do (and by the sound of it, you do) then you know full well the man eats, sleeps and breathes video games (not to mention works them in an absurd number of different roles across the industry) and has done so since being a small child. All my respect

[@maddux1188]

He also has hyperphesia

[@cheerfulspace]

My absolute favorite feature of this video is that Tim describes well over 47 box arts, coming full circle on it being the liar's number.

[@nikicanplayguitar2790]

Austin Jenkins I know right! Wonder if that was an accident? I believe Tim in his life has done many things in a perfect way by complete accident. Like one day in the future he buys a mech suit for lulz and becomes the president of this great United States of America. Accidentally yknow?

[@yaldar]

Why is 47 the liar's number? Never heard of this before. Googling it somehow shows the wikipedia article for 47 but there is not a single result that mentions the word 'liar'

[@eyetoyhalo]

@@yaldarin his kotaku metal wolf chaos XD video he talks a wee bit about it @ 6:30, that might be what they’re referring to it coming “full circle” I was just watching that video and remembered ur comment. seems like it comes from him instead of a wider context…. maybe

[@for8bitgamers]

Tim plays a cop game and now he's rocking the narc haircut!!!

[@Astrophizz]

Maybe this is what Toshihiro Nagoshi told him to do to his hair 🤔

[@galacticwarlock2271]

"I am not a gosh darn narc." - Tim Rogers 2019

[@colin-halter]

It's disturbing to me that although I just recently found out Tim Rogers existed, he's just been at large on the internet this whole time. Really keeps me up at night

[@notoriousquinnb]

The haircut and the video in general are top notch.

[@LaymensLament]

The haircut IS pretty good.

[@CheezVT]

Coming back to this after the Boku No Natsuyasumi review and hearing Tim in that video describe his memory condition as essentially "do you ever have that moment when you remember something embarrassing from years ago and you remember how bad you felt and you start feeling bad all over again? now imagine doing that 90-100 times per minute" is *extremely* fascinating to see how his memory works in real time

[@Amuro1X]

Same.

[@midknight1339]

"I think that NDA is over." Tim be taking *risks* in these videos...

[@hannahcullen196]

I now want an episode on the Timprovisation where Tim is given the names of various games and has to summarize the plots from memory

[@shinsharonelectrons]

Tim Rogers' videos are better than most video games. I live for this content.

[@dafire9634]

Thats why they Never let him out

[@DeltathRiylaan]

You might be playing the wrong games.

[@SirExal]

So knowledgeable about design that he ASCERTAINED the box art of High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance without having seen it before, and in fact thinking that High School Musical was a TV show.

[@kotaku]

SirExal whoa is it not a tv show?? lol january velasco spoke of it as though it were. i guess i’m pretty dumb oops

[@dafire9634]

@@kotaku It was a movie

[@bubbus5183]

@@dafire9634it is 3 movies and a new tv show so… Tim is retroactively correct? Also those 3 movies are paced and feel like entire seasons of children’s television cramp-packed into the corpse of a 130~ minute run time movie.

[@tumest]

Tim Rogers: Turning hyperthymesia into content!

[@stardusty]

Tim Roger's brain is clearly operating at a higher level than mine.

[@hannahcullen196]

With the hair cut, the jacket and the glasses Tim looks like he's ready to take up his fighter jet in the campaign against his enemies

[@miniandrewmini1]

He's ready for the danger zone

[@dafire9634]

*Archer wants to know your location*

[@akaRicoSanchez]

Very nice that the box arts are not shown immediately, giving us a chance to try and remember them ourselves without having to pause the video. I did dramatically worse than I thought I would and Tim did even better than I thought he would!

[@kotaku]

Rico Sanchez in hindsight i shoulda said “pause the video NOW if you want to guess!” coulda recorded it once and repeatedly reused it . . . i always tell people to watch my vids on a game console with a controller in hand. maybe next time i’ll tell people to have a controller to strategically pause, for . . . some effect

[@dafire9634]

@@kotaku *steam controller INTENSIFIES*

[@rootfifthoctave5336]

Tim, you would be almost as surprised as me at the sheer amount of entertainment value that I personally have found in these Timprovisation videos.

[@EatonCorvinus]

Who is this guy with the good lookin' haircut and what did you do to Tim Rogers!?

[@ZaddyZavid]

Yeah tool me by suprise, Killer haircut. Very mission impossible 1 tom cruise. But tims always got gr8 hair and style.

[@Rpgreat]

"Crikey! Looks like FALLOUT 4'S boxart FELL OUT of my memory." Genius.

[@cyberbrunk]

When I saw my first Action Button video and Tim mentioned having an upsettingly good memory, I was like "haha yeah he probably does remember stuff more than usual" Now, after hearing him almost perfectly recount from memory the evolution and motifs of entire franchises' worth of box art back to back to back... my god, he wasn't joking.

[@wisteriaviolet5697]

If you didn't know, Tim actually has a super rare condition called hyperthymesia. It makes it so you remember like everything in your life. Only like 60 people in the world have it.

[@voltcorp]

@@wisteriaviolet5697 more specifically, hyperthymesia has a lot to do with your emotional connection to events, which is why Tim can very easily recall whole days of his childhood from memory, but he gets the box art wrong for very recent games which he just doesn't care for much.

[@CheezVT]

There's a bit in his Boku No Natsuyasumi video (which you should watch, it's the best video on KZbin period) where he describes his Hyperthymesia as "recalling a very embarrassing event that made you feel bad then and makes you feel bad now, but 90-100 times a minute" which makes his true memory powers so much more frightening.

[@voltcorp]

In one of Tim's Action Button videos he comments on how at Kotaku they had daily leaderboards of whose videos were getting the most views, and how he knew his stuff would never get near the results of, for example, just showing Keanu Reeves at E3. But I'm sure, as time goes on, Tim's videos will probably be some of the most evergreen content on Kotaku's catalog, while trendier stuff spikes and dies down.

[@user-yv6xw7ns3o]

Yes

[@mrchiefbs]

It was the cyberpunk video

[@marcstarvaggi]

"You know the retina flips the image in your eye so I'm understandably confused"

[@Birdandgame]

This level of content output from you is insane, and insanely satisfying.

[@dafire9634]

Kotaku Is milking Tim Rogers to stay afloat

[@anonony9081]

Holy shit even more impressive than his memory is his ability to guess that extra legends box which he's never seen. He basically got it

[@captainturbo87]

This is the first and only time I'll hear my home town referenced in a popular KZbin video. Thanks for shouting out San Leandro Walmart.

[@RickTait]

Tim needs to go on BBC Mastermind (a TV show created by a guy based on his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo) with his specialized subject: Video Games. HE OF COURSE WOULD WIN Tim is not just a National Treasure. he is a TERRAN TREASURE.

[@AuspexAO]

Tim, if Kotaku has you in a hostage situation please indicate this by touching your right ear in the next video. I'll get Kojima on the line in seconds and he will sneak past the guards and bring you his book report on The Box Man.

[@ar_xiv]

I knew it was the william gibson jacket! Ever since I heard about that thing I have coveted it and wondered what type of person would have the means and the sensibility to actually buy it. Now I know haha

[@samvandermeer7735]

Final answer. I’m a scumbug. Quality content as always, Rogers.

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

That's amazing! I've seen nearly all of these before, but couldn't describe any of them to save my life.

[@Quietwulf1978]

Man... I couldn’t describe the box art of my 10 favourite games of all time, let alone 47 random game boxes across multiple platforms and generations. Nicely done Tim :-D

[@bernardkincius]

Great video, Tim! Watching this felt like hanging out with the Insert Credit crew.

[@Aphal]

This is easily a full month of a weekly series in one video. However, I appreciate how much you commit to the bit.

[@basedronin]

i can’t believe kotaku had tim, they didn’t know what they had.

[@alby13]

You're such a smart man, and you have such a good memory. Glad to know of you

[@anonony9081]

This was impressive. Nailing that Diddy Kong had his leg up on the donkey Kong country Art is pretty impressive. I've seen that a million times and never noticed that his leg is up

[@nikicanplayguitar2790]

This video is the absolute delight. It’s 2am here and I’m smiling

[@jamespero3011]

Tim, I have NEVER left a comment on ANY KZbin VIDEO EVER. But your admission that you HATE saying your first name out loud has absolutely COMPELLED me to leave you this note.... I too hate saying my first name out loud. It just doesn't sound right when I say it. Thanks, James

[@johnpolishimpossible2say191]

"Timprisioned in your head." New haircut is great, complements your clothing and body language more. Decisive/sharp movements with a splash of wandering?

[@Deathknightofdeath]

I adore this man.

[@williambielski419]

Some people ask for the "just heck my stuff up" haircut. Tim got the "let people take me seriously again please" haircut. It's a good look. As good as your visual memory.

[@nvrndingsmmr]

His old hair ruled tho, now he looks like literally everyone else.

[@Book_Bird]

Saw Tim Rogers, dropped everything and came runnng

[@Gilgamesh2010]

Amazing job Tim! For your next video, I would like to see you match up songs from different games using short audio clues. Let's test your video game music knowledge bro!

[@Justsomeone99987]

Gilgamesh2010 I love doing this!

[@DeltathRiylaan]

You know.. there already is a Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 2.

[@nvrndingsmmr]

Holy crap that was extremely impressive!

[@Lordo_Atlantis]

At first I saw 58 min video and said this is dumb. I’m not gonna watch an hour of someone rambling about video game covers from some dim memory...yet here I am 24 minutes in

[@cheapbastard1990]

we all love you Tim. Don't ever stop being you.

[@marcpierson]

Just make a video describing every box art ever made and we would watch for days.

[@TheWrldIsSquare]

I'm only on #4 and this is already the greatest display of mental acuity I've ever seen.

[@jamescollinge5043]

that jacket costs 700-dollars.

[@dixego]

man the haircut is S L I C K as H E C K

[@nicholaszacharewicz693]

His description of the Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum box art sounds like something straight out of a Photoshop Friday 🤣🤣🤣

[@sqronce]

Wait... if he says motherhecker, and he talks about his game pitch for Truck Heck, does that mean that game is actually called Truck Fuck?

[@dandan5928]

Kotaku, make this man your CEO/Fearless Leader

[@j.g.3737]

A cartoon version of Tim Rogers should be on cereal boxes, a la Mr. T in the 80’s.

[@thekiss2083]

"Fitness Ultimatum" is the scariest title I've ever heard 😦

[@Apemopo]

i love that "ALL NEW SONIC!" blurb on the Sonic Heroes box. Like yeah. Not new no more tho.

[@skullivan]

I kept waiting for the Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance II box art to pop up while you were talking about wanting to make it. When it didn’t I had a minute where I thought I got Mandela Effected about that game already existing and had to search for it to make sure I hadn’t. I’d play the heck out of a Tim Rogers developed Dark Alliance III though. You should do a bonus clip where you describe Dark Alliance II’s box art.

[@kotaku]

skullivan totally was gonna put it in there a la funky kong-had a marker in my timeline and everything! though seeing as i was already doing the work of like eight people it ultimately slipped my mind lol

[@dafire9634]

@@kotaku so It does get Tiring,holding an entire website by yourself

[@RetepAdam]

That Alan Wake cover does indeed fornicate.

[@Dale.Gibson]

Great video as always. Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance 2 already exists, it was amazing. Finished on a cliffhanger over 15 years ago though and still no Dark Alliance 3 😥

[@garminbozia]

Well I had to do but I guess I have an entire spare hour now to watch Tim describe game box arts

[@Nigel222]

You should put Tim's name in the title of these videos so its easy to know what Kotaku videos to watch.

[@biconditionals]

There's a 'Videos by Tim Rogers' playlist

[@j.s.t.6515]

They simplified it greatly at the end 😂😂

[@JINORU_]

I love the bonus box art descriptions

[@GoodGuyGaurav]

hire him twice and triple his salary.

[@rctctfvvfcfchfgcg4423]

Lindsay Lohan will now sue for her likeness on Donkey Kong Country cover

[@ukelele_no_worky]

Speaking from one Tim to another; I too dislike saying my first name.

[@spandytube]

The haircut boosts his memory

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

Handsome boy Tim and his sharp haircut! Nice. I dont think i've ever seen this much of his forehead before. I noticed a scar! BATTLE HARDENED AMERICAN BIG BOY

[@Sabersquirl]

Excellent video, as always, Tim! Loved the music selection, as well.

[@samuelrees-thomas1723]

This video is amazing. I simultaneously can't believe I'm watching the whole thing and totally can believe I'm watching the whole thing!

[@nvrndingsmmr]

Also, since everyone else is commenting so much on the haircut, I preferred the old look, it was distinct and memorable, but this more common, less memorable style is alright too. Lol.

[@callum6224]

The other haircut confused me, like an anime haircut, it seemed impossible. Like his head was shaped taking his hair into account, but now I can see that it’s just a normal head, tim isn’t an anime character.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

Callum Hendry Dude looked like he was cosplaying as himself.

[@nvrndingsmmr]

It looked freaking awesome tbh. I loved it.

[@coredumperror]

Jesus Flapjacking Christ, how do you have such a good memory?

[@EgonSupreme]

I too feel odd saying my own name, Tim Rogers. I thought I was the only one.

[@atomicbrain9401]

1:02 - you stepped in front of the camera with no Preparation H? wow brave

[@MaxClyde]

It was a great idea to not show the box art to us viewers until a bit of time had passed, both to give us a chance to remember, and to try to imagine what he's talking about. I think the timing was perfect for all of them

[@TheInredibleMrH]

There's this game called Timelines in which you draw cards with all sorts of different events, movies, albums, etc. and then have to put them in the correct historical order. Start with two cards, draw a third, and then need to determine where it goes in relation to the other two. This continues until you've run out of cards. Not a great game in that after you've played it once, you sort of just remember how to win, BUT!! I think the concept could make for a fun video. Get fed a list of games and try to order them in order of release.

[@ILikePopCans]

I bet the statistics for this video are fascinating. anyways good video Tim, better then your sunglasses one, having just a little more structure makes it more interesting.

[@LiquidSteve89]

duuuude lol everytime the MNF theme comes up i lose it lmaoooo xDDDD

[@JPHarringtonJr]

It's raining Tim Rogers right now and I am all about it

[@dafire9634]

If Tim Rogers and David Gilbert do a video together,the world would explode

[@eightman0]

Hey Tim, great hair cut. When are you going to get a new mil spec jacket? I love the current scrunchy bunchy of this one, but I think the fans are anxiously awaiting an alternate costume DLC.

[@Jmgoregrind]

I absolutely love the fact that even the ones he didn’t know, like high school musical and buzz, he still got right LOL

[@desuMaKun]

Yees! More timprove!!! Already miss your old hair... but your new look sure looks good yo!!

[@fusionspace175]

There was a Wave Race on Gameboy before 64? My life has been a lie.

[@Accan2]

i think tim did an excellent job describing the just dance 4 box art considering it is only composed of twenty-six pixels

[@Chriscras2]

The mystery of the cereal box revealed?

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

Dand Tim. You got a good memory. I can't remember most box art if I tried. Except maybe Duke 3D. Even Borderlands 2 (one of my fav games) box art I can't recall. Did it even have any?!? I am assuming something with a bandit face given thats normally what we see in promos.

[@alexanderallison7131]

Incredible effort, Tim. You have a very depressing gift.

[@peanut3009]

Your hair looks really good man, I mean it. It matches your look.

[@williamdouglas7025]

Enjoyed this video a lot! Definitely found it more fun than the sunglasses one. I mean, any Tim cnotent is good Tim content, but some Tim content is better than others.

[@StarLad9]

Love the new haircut

[@Zaswarley]

lmao at the twisted metal description

[@kotaku]

Zaswarley i was going to literally donate $100 to a charity if i was wrong. unluckily for the charity i was correct. which is good for me because now i can give that $100 to the IRS

[@Nesh_87]

beethoven ninth symphony in the background, very nice choice

[@DeltathRiylaan]

47 is the Star Trek number, too. I was in ward 47, just like in the play.

[@morank3]

Cannot believe all those games outsold Tomb Raider. Great video!

[@capngeeoff]

it must've been referring to the reboot

[@dkmodeplays]

Love this video (also nice haircut Tim)

[@jackrusso4700]

This beautiful man was so enraged for like 10 seconds

[@jaktheripperer]

Tim, I've got some really good news for you, friendo. Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 2 already exists

[@Reducer191]

did i hear a lounge version of ode to joy?

[@5445jedi]

Tim Rogers acts so much like Austin Powers that I’m waiting for him to yell “Yeah, baby, yeah!”