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Had the exact same thought.

One of my favorite games was Star Wars Episode I Racing (I'd google the exact name and post an image if I weren't on mobile and technologically slow). It came out around the turn of the century and I played it for hours on my blue Power Mac G3. It was extremely simple in concept but very well executed and a lot of fun. I've even tried to get it to play on an emulator, but, well, see parenthetical note above.

This feels like a merger of two of my favorite things. I'm excited.

The only time I ever called tech support was for this game. I was playing it on a G4 tower at the time, so it should have run fine. It did as long as I was pressing buttons, but as soon as I simply held buttons it would slow to a crawl.

I am completely shocked that the tech support guy found the solution: this was in OS 9, and there was a checkbox in power management that said "allow processor cycling" or something to that effect. I was supposed to let the processor slow down when it was idle, but for whatever reason that activated during the game.

Problem solved, but super strange!

I played that game until my thumbs burned! So much fun and they really nailed the aestheic with it.

I got the N64 that was bundled with podracing game when I was a kid. I STILL play it about once a year, around the same time I drag my N64 out and play through Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask (which doesn't happen now since they're both available, and better, on the 3DS). So I'll have to make an effort to drag out the 64 just for podracing at some point.

It's still, in my opinion, one of the best racing games ever made.

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Speedracer's learned Portuguese. Of his own volition. As a native Portuguese-speaker, I can attest he is absolutely insane.

No Destiny mainstream streamer stays mainstream long enough without doing just that. Kerbal Space Program has some good ones that don't sound over-hyped all the time, but they do blabber all the damn time too.

The problem is that people almost always watch them for personality rather than game content. This makes sense, as otherwise what's the point of consistently watching? You'd have to be doing new and unique things. Slayerage is one like that, from what I can tell. Normally when he streams it's him trying to flawless two man Vault of Glass using only greens while blindfolded playing both characters or something.

People who watch Gothalion or Captain Dudebro or whatever are looking to be entertained while watching dull, monotonous footage of someone killing Urrox for the 3rd time in as many hours.

Ofc, I can't ask ProbablyLast for a list since I'm away and left my phone like a dunce.

Many of the Destiny streamers are a bit over the top at times, but there are also many that aren't "groan-worthy". TripleWRECK stands out as one of the better ones I would recommend - he is both one of the more skilled, but also one of the more mellow streamers. Watching him play Trials for hours on end on a Friday afternoon can be quite educational. He has fun with it but doesn't have too many "freak out" moments. LacedUpLauren is another one that usually strikes the right balance of being entertaining without getting annoying. I can't really stand to watch Professor Broman anymore, but I still like Gothalion. Goth will sometimes be a little too "energetic", but he very rarely makes me cringe and roll my eyes like Broman and many of the other streamers that were featured in that video.

1. I know them personally.

Yup.

2. They're narcogen and Blackstar. (Kinda the same as #1 although I watched them before I "knew" them.)

Yup.

3. They demonstrating how to do something I want to do or wish I could do (e.g. speedruns).

You should sign up for Morpheus's speedrun events.

4. I'm looking to buy the game they're playing.

I read reviews for that. Do you find streams more useful?

5. They're playing The Last of Us, and then I skim through their archive to see the different ways people drop their jaws at certain moments. :)

You know who I watched play TLOU? A youtube guy called FrankieOnPCIn1080P. His voice is very deep and gravelly, and he barely talks, except to say things I'm thinking! It is as close to playing it myself as I ever experienced. It really added to the game for me.