Awesome Moments: Anytime David successfully restores a computer, keyboard, or any old tech is awesome; however, one particular project is noteworthy, when David restores a neglected VIC-20 that had apparentlybeen used in an industrial environment for most of its operating life. There's also his video on the Casio CT-380, where he took a keyboard that was almost completely ruined by battery acid leakage, and managed to restore it to a pretty good shape.
Friendly Fandoms: With Pantera, out of all fandoms, as David is related to the late Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul.
Harsher in Hindsight: On February 14, 2021, David released a short video on his channel's Facebook page, showing rare snowfall in the Fort Worth area; in the video, he facetiously states that there wouldn't be any retrobriting that day. However, just shortly after recording that video, David and his family had to evacuate their home due to losing power. When David returned to check on things, he discovered a water pipe had burst, flooding most of the house.
When developing Planet X2, David deliberately chose to limit the game's size to 64 kilobytes to allow it to fit onto the entirety of the C64's memory. In the documentary covering the game's development, he said the RAM limitation was behind practically every design decision. David wanted to avoid saving and loading during gameplay as much as possible; he had initially sought to put the game on a cartridge, not only for fast loading but also to make it where players, particularly those new to retrogaming on original hardware, would only need the computer itself, but the cartridge format proved to be too cost-prohibitive, especially at the price point he wanted to offer the game.
Planet X3 faced a similar challenge, too; only this time, the game was limited to 360 kilobytes, the size constraint of a double density 5¼ inch floppy disk. Because of the 360K limitation, two maps and the VGA executable had to be excluded from the 5¼ inch floppy version.
Unintentional Period Piece: In his one million subscriber special, David cites this as one reason why he doesn't have sponsored plugs in his videos, especially if the sponsor in question goes out of business or has a scandal that could potentially damage David's reputation. He also feels that having sponsored plugs detract from the quality of his videos; however, he does not begrudge YouTubers who choose to have sponsored plugs in their videos. David wants his retro computer documentaries to remain as relevant 10 years from now as they were when they were first released.
, a number of his colleagues got reports of the memetic sort of incident where the user thought their CD-ROM drive was a cup holder, resulting in coffee being spilled onto the keyboard, and one actually played him a recording of one such call to prove that they were an Urban Legend only in extent. During the presentation, David admits that he's glad he never received a call like that because he doesn't think he would have been able to nicely explain what the "cup holder" actually was.