Atari 2600 game Princess Rescue pulled from Atariage store

[Bojay1997]

So you're basically telling me to trust random people's anecdotes over my own 7-year YouTube history, as well as the history of the channels I am directly or indirectly affiliated with?
Why should I, especially with this supposed direct contrast? How am I supposed to believe these people are being honest when my channel and it's current status and history directly contradicts everything said?
How about instead, you tell me why my channel would be exempt from this supposed Mass-Nintendo-Persecution?

I trust the anecdotes because I actually saw a number of the videos get pulled and I also read the stories people posted about it happening at the time. Those people had no incentive to lie about it as it was of no benefit to them to do so. I suspect your channel was exempt because it's probably not very popular or it slipped through their filtering techniques. I can't speak for Nintendo, but most large entertainment companies have a minimal staff of people in legal looking for infringement and frankly, most of the time they only take action when the infringement reaches a certain level or is easy to shut down. Again, just because you didn't personally experience something doesn't mean it didn't happen or that it's not true.

[Kiddo]

I trust the anecdotes because I actually saw a number of the videos get pulled and I also read the stories people posted about it happening at the time. Those people had no incentive to lie about it as it was of no benefit to them to do so.

To clarify, if Nintendo actually took down a video themselves, YouTube will publicly display the takedown being done by Nintendo. You're certain you've seen that? I've just recently had a discussion with another YouTuber who had some confusion over his channel being banned wondering if he had a copyright issue, whom I explained this to. (It turned out a scammer account did false flag TOS violations on his account, BTW. YouTube's got plenty of problems keeping videos up without copyright holders.)

As for "no benefit"? YouTube is an obvious breeding ground for viral marketing on the console wars, and there's plenty of evidence that certain YouTube content managers are moneyhatted by key companies to exclusively focus on certain titles or to belittle their rivals. Why do you think many of the largest videogame-related YouTube "stars" were evasive of dealing with the subject of XBox One's initial announcements, ones that were so damaging to the brand publicly that Microsoft had to reverse course on them? Some were even -defending- the terrible DRM measures against the views of their own fanbases.
And even outside material gain, many YouTubers will simply do anything to get attention, including, of course, trashtalking a popular brand.
There's many possible alternate scenarios - the most likely one being that the more entitled YouTubers simply deleted their videos themselves when Nintendo applied their own monetization on them and blamed it on Nintendo for following YouTube's own copyright claim policies, with a "If I can't profit off it, no one should!" or a "Everything on my YouTube channel must be monetized, or it's no good!" mindset. I can't say I know the exact circumstances of each YouTube uploader, but then again, I'd suppose neither can you.


... it's probably not very popular...

On the possibility of that:

26,906 subscribers 8,337,692 views

I don't know if you consider that "Popular" or not, but it's certainly more views and subs than there were copies of Princess Rescue 2600 cartridges ever produced.