Welcome to the Let's Play Archive, the largest collection of video game playthroughs on the internet. On this site, you can find a large collection of completed Let's Play threads presented in a clean and ad-free format, with new threads being added constantly. The Let's Play Archive was created in early 2007 as a way to preserve past Let's Play threads in full, without having to rely on outside image hosts, video hosts or forums. In little over a year, the number of games featured in the Archive has increased from five to over 175, thanks to the continued efforts of a large number of people.
The concept of the Let's Play thread was born on the forums of Something Awful, where they became popular in early 2006 and were given their own sub-forum in late 2007. A Let's Play thread, often abbreviated as "LP", is a forum thread where one person plays through a game, recording his progress by video, screenshots, or both, and then posts this progress in updates in his Let's Play thread. Most of the time, the screenshots and videos are accompanied by informative, insightful, in-character or just plain funny commentary by the author, making Let's Play threads a great way to get to know the ins and outs of a game in a fun way, without having to go through the hassle of actually playing the damn thing.
Feel free to browse through our huge archive of entertaining and enthralling Let's Play threads by over 100 different authors, covering video games of all genres, ages and consoles, and be sure to check back regulary for new content!
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F.A.Q.
Currently, all featured threads were originally posted on the Something Awful forums.
Do you think this Let's Play thread is good enough to make it into the Archive?
We don't accept or deny threads based on their quality (or lack thereof). Unless it's really, really bad.
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Can I help out with your site?
Absolutely! You can help by sending us complete, properly formatted Let's Play threads. If you've got a Something Awful forums account, please read the first post of the stickied General Discussion thread for more information on this subject. You can contact one of the Let's Play Archive administrators for more advice and for instructions on how to send these threads to us.
Why does it seem like there's an update missing in this Let's Play thread?
The archives of the Something Awful forums have a nasty habit of permanently deleting random posts, which can create holes in some of the older threads, and unfortunately, Let's Play threads are no exception.
I can't view the backup videos!
Try downloading the K-Lite codec pack.
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