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136 statements about HankGames in 84 videos, by upload date.

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2010

  • 2010-11-17 · HARRY POTTER SONG! — announcement: Hank says he will play the new Assassin's Creed while talking and post the videos at YouTube.com/HankGames, admitting he stole the idea from Toby Turner. — 00:03:33
  • 2010-11-17 · HARRY POTTER SONG! — ask: Hank invites anyone who wants to watch him play Assassin's Creed to come by HankGames, hoping it will be somewhat entertaining. — 00:03:33

2011

  • 2011-01-14 · Top 5 Actual Conspiracies — announcement: Hank: On his Let's Play channel HankGames, Hank will start playing Lego Harry Potter as soon as he hits 15,000 subscribers; those who want to see it should subscribe. — 00:03:39
  • 2011-02-07 · Cancer Sniffing Dog — recommendation: Hank says Katherine guest-starred with him in an episode of Hank Plays Lego Harry Potter, which he calls hilarious and adorable, and tells viewers to watch it. — 00:03:00
  • 2011-04-18 · 2D Glasses! Take the Headache out of 3D — announcement: Hank: Portal 2 comes out in about 12 hours; Hank will play it on HankGames, where he is rushing to finish Portal 1 first. — 00:02:40
  • 2011-04-22 · 500,000 Subscribers (Almost...and Thank You) — Hank's Portal 2 play-through is going well; he just uploaded the second episode, later than he wanted. — 00:03:33
  • 2011-05-05 · IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!! — John: Hank also created Your Pants more or less overnight, built Phototrometon and the HankGames channel, ran Truth or Fail, gave blood twice and beat Portal 2 two days ago. — 00:02:07
  • 2011-05-11 · 1990's Sim Games. SO GOOD! — Hank has been playing Portal 2 on his gaming channel, plus Lego Harry Potter and Assassin's Creed, which he is about to finish. — 00:00:14
  • 2011-08-08 (said on 2011-08-09, implied) · Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War. — announcement: Hank announces that he has started up his gaming channel, HankGames, again. — video description
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — announcement: John says he flew to Montana to be in a HankGames video, "Hank and John play FIFA 11"; they play very badly, and the second episode, out tomorrow, shows them missing 19 consecutive penalties. — 00:00:52
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — ask: John points viewers to the series at youtube.com/hankgames, with a link in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:19
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — announcement: John says he will make more HankGames videos with Hank: he is really bad at video games but passionate about them, as he was about skateboarding at ten. — 00:01:24
  • 2011-09-09 · 10 Years after September 11th, and Diablo III — announcement: Hank says a friend at Blizzard got him a Diablo III beta key, so he is starting to play Diablo III now on his gaming channel, and shows a snippet. — 00:01:42
  • 2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — announcement: John says that, in older-brother tradition, he has 'stolen' Hank's channel HankGames for a series playing FIFA while telling life stories, such as how he met and courted the Yeti. — 00:02:54
  • 2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — ask: John asks viewers to click his face to watch the FIFA story video and to subscribe if they like it. — 00:03:07
  • 2011-09-20 (said on 2011-09-19, implied) · Fifth Anniversary with The Katherine — Katherine Green: Katherine says she enjoys HankGames and rewatching the episodes; she never played video games alone, and growing up the fun was playing Battletoads on the NES with friends. — 00:01:33
  • 2011-10-26 · 7,000,000,000 People — recommendation: Hank's end-screen picks: a song by Dr. Noise (watch to the epic end), HankGames videos (Swindon Town, Super Mario Bros. Wii with Katherine) and last week's (week of 17 October 2011) Truth or Fail on October holidays. — 00:03:18
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John jokes that the video will alienate new viewers; understanding it takes 894 Vlogbrothers videos, the Swoodilypoopers, some Hank and Katherine play videos and joining Tumblr. (playful) — 00:02:15
  • 2011-11-14 · T-Shirt and Jeans - A Song — announcement: Hank teases who is coming to HankGames tomorrow ('Stabby Stab'). (playful) — 00:03:47
  • 2011-11-28 · Stuffed with STUFF! — Hank reports on HankGames: The Miracle of Swindon Town is up, Katherine plays Skyward Sword alone, they play Super Mario Bros. Wii together, and he plays Assassin's Creed Revelations. — 00:00:29
  • 2011-11-28 · Stuffed with STUFF! — Hank's Minecraft playing, not shown on HankGames, is going well; he worked all weekend to get his nether portal working. — 00:00:29
  • 2011-11-30 · Honey Badgers: The Crazy Truth — John: In John's FIFA game, the Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers return to the FA Cup final against Chelsea, and he vows to avenge last year's (2010) final loss. (playful) — 00:02:40

Also named in: IS THIS HEAVEN?, 2011 Presidential Anagrams!!

2012

  • 2012-01-06 · Kill your TV — announcement: Hank says he and John offer at least six YouTube videos a week across vlogbrothers, SciShow and Crash Course (launching January 25), more than doubled with HankGames and Truth or Fail. — 00:03:06
  • 2012-02-10 · How Big is the Universe? — ask: Hank: On the end screen Hank says this video is what SciShow is all the time, with nicer production values, and suggests subscribing at youtube.com/SciShow. (hedged) — 00:03:10
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — John reminds Hank that the FIFA Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers won the 2011 FA Cup. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2012-05-01 · Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands — John says he is preparing for season four, in which his Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers will go for a third straight title (name unclear), and insists his trophy is real, not a made-up thing or a plate. (playful) — 00:02:19
  • 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John thanks Hank for increasing awesome through Vlogbrothers, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow, Crash Course, HankGames, VidCon, DFTBA Records and EcoGeek, and says he does too much. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • 2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) · Online Video about Online Video — recommendation: Hank calls 'John and Sarah play Wii Tennis' the most important launch at VidCon and tells viewers to watch it on HankGames. (playful) — 00:03:46
  • 2012-08-24 · Happy Birthday John Green! — Hank: Counting HankGames, SciShow, Crash Course, Hank's channel, Truth or Fail and forgotten second channels, Hank says they have made well over a thousand videos. — 00:00:29
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank recalls going on tour, beating a Super Mario Bros. game with Katherine, and the Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers winning the FA Cup. (playful) — 00:01:48
  • 2012-10-05 · 21st Century Sherlock: A Sherlock / Doors Song — announcement: Hank: Since the video is short, Hank adds a promo of the brothers' other YouTube channels, SciShow, Crash Course, Lizzie Bennet and HankGames, which he says are doing quite well. — 00:01:29
  • 2012-10-05 · 21st Century Sherlock: A Sherlock / Doors Song — ask: Hank asks viewers who are not subscribed to the brothers' other channels to check them out. — 00:01:29
  • 2012-10-05 · 21st Century Sherlock: A Sherlock / Doors Song — Hank: The montage plays clips from the channels: World War I and Mr. Green, chimeras, drunk pigs, a chicken shortage, Lizzie Bennet Diaries scenes, FIFA commentary, the cinnamon challenge. — 00:02:09
  • 2012-11-23 · Black Friday: An Accident of History — ask: Hank: Viewers can go to youtube.com/hankgames to see them playing the new Super Mario Brothers soon. — 00:02:36

Also named in: Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell

2013

  • 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John says his FIFA 11 Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers have three games left in their entire FIFA 11 history and are on the cusp of winning the Premier League; link in the description. (playful) — 00:00:16
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John: The last FIFA 11 Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers video goes up tomorrow, deciding whether they win the Premier League and complete the miracle of Swindon Town. — 00:02:07
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank lists his day: Twitter, filming SciShow, readying P4A perks, a Hank's channel video, folding mug boxes with Katherine at the warehouse, a DFTBA Records video, editing Hank Games Live, Tumblr, a Kiva loan. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John will step away not only from vlogbrothers but also from writing and travelling, and (jokingly) from his careers as amateur historian, trivia buff and semi-professional FIFA player. (playful) — 00:00:41
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — announcement: John: During the leave there will be a Crash Course US History video every Thursday, a mental floss video every Wednesday, and Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers FIFA games every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. — 00:00:55
  • 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — announcement: Hank says he and Steph built a computer specifically as a HankGames machine because he wants to play more PC games, and 'Hank and Katherine play Super Mario Bros. Wii' returns today. — 00:02:20
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John: Up with Henry at 2:30 a.m., John had his very first million dollar idea. — 00:00:33
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John explains that for about six years Hank has phoned him roughly once a week opening with 'I have a million dollar idea'. (hedged) — 00:01:02
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John: some of Hank's ideas were excellent (Project for Awesome, VidCon, DFTBA Records), some seemed terrible but turned out great (2D glasses), and most are actually terrible ('Hank Games times two'). (playful) — 00:01:02
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John notes that none of Hank's million dollar ideas has ever made him a million dollars; most are about charity. (playful) — 00:01:31
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John pitches his 'million dollar idea': a phone-baby app that cries, must be soothed (feeding, pacifier, shushing), can't be muted and wakes every few hours for 12 weeks, a parody of newborn care. (playful) — 00:01:31
  • 2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas — John admits his idea is not that good, even worse than Hank's. (playful) — 00:02:30
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — announcement: The description says the pitch-side ads are 16 feet long and 3 feet high, and tells ad designers to design accordingly. — video description
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — recommendation: John: To learn more about the club, John points to a short documentary on the collapse of Wimbledon F.C., its disastrous move to Milton Keynes and the formation of AFC Wimbledon. — video description
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John: For the last couple of years John has managed a fictional FIFA team, the Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers, but got obsessed with recreating the past like Gatsby and was fired. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — announcement: John announces his retirement from semi-professional FIFA playing: he will no longer partly support his family by playing video game soccer. (playful) — 00:00:18
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John calls AFC Wimbledon a truly extraordinary club, the most awesome football club in the world, and says he wants to help it stay in the Football League. — 00:02:42
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — announcement: John will play as AFC Wimbledon in FIFA 14 but keep his vow not to be a professional FIFA player: all ad revenue from the videos will sponsor the real club. — 00:02:44
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — announcement: John: The sponsorship will buy billboards in the stadium and ads in the match program, all designed by Nerdfighters. — 00:02:57
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John hopes the sponsorship helps keep the club in the Football League so he can play them in FIFA 15, 16 and beyond, and maybe one day send them to the Premier League. (hedged) — 00:03:02
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — ask: John asks Nerdfighters who want to help to subscribe to HankGames and watch the videos, via his face or the link in the description. — 00:03:22
  • 2013-11-08 · VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins — Hank tells John he thinks Nerdfighteria sponsoring a professional football team is an amazing idea that just feels pretty cool. (hedged) — 00:01:46

2014

  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — announcement: John announces that the Nerdfighter community is now officially a sponsor of AFC Wimbledon, a football club owned by its fans. — 00:01:34
  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — announcement: John says AFC Wimbledon play Torquay in League Two this Saturday (11 January 2014), and Nerdfighter messages will be on the side of the field and in the program. — 00:01:44
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — John reports that AFC Wimbledon has played its first game as a team sponsored by Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:25
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna, an internet kid who loves GIFs, Instagram and YouTube, finds something cool in the physical boards at the pitch designed by Nerdfighters living far away. — 00:00:30
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — John: Wimbledon lost the game, but, invoking the long arc of history bending toward justice, the speaker says they will be fine. (playful) — 00:00:46
  • 2014-02-07 · Kill All The Humans — announcement: Hank promises he is coming back to HankGames, which has long been 'johngames', with multiple videos a week including Pikmin 3 and Hank and Katherine playing Super Mario Brothers U. — 00:02:47
  • 2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — John: Nerdfighteria uses ad proceeds from a FIFA video series to sponsor AFC Wimbledon, a fan-owned club that fights homophobia and racism; it finished 20th, avoiding relegation from English football's fourth tier. — 00:01:18
  • 2014-06-17 · Old. — John says all the money from his FIFA videos now goes to AFC Wimbledon, a real football club. — 00:00:42
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John: Thanks to HankGames fans, Nerdfighteria has increased its AFC Wimbledon sponsorship: next season its design will be on the shorts of the actual AFC Wimbledon uniforms. — 00:02:59
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John tells Hank that playing as AFC Wimbledon in FIFA 15 he will see the design on their computer shorts: Nerdfighters made it to FIFA. (playful) — 00:03:17
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — Hank says he started HankGames a few years ago because he likes games, and welcomed John joining to play video games there. — 00:00:02
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — Hank praises John Plays FIFA: fictional players both named John Green raise a child while raising real money for the real team, so Nerdfighteria's logos are now on its uniforms. — 00:00:11
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — announcement: Hank launches Games with Hank as a whole new channel, different from HankGames, aiming to upload an episode every day of the week forever. — 00:00:33
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — announcement: Hank: Games with Hank starts with three days of Hank playing a horror game on the Oculus Rift. — 00:01:08
  • 2014-10-10 · I Kinda AM Batman — recommendation: Hank shows a clip from Games with Hank and invites viewers to come visit. — 00:03:35
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John says HankGames ad revenue sponsors the real AFC Wimbledon, a fourth-tier club formed by fans after their club was moved to Milton Keynes, and this year (2014) the sponsorship is on the team's shorts. — 00:01:58
  • 2014-11-21 (said on 2014-11-20, implied) · The Sleepiest Sleepyhead in Sleeptown — ask: John: P.S.: John tells Nerdfighters the AFC Wimbly Womblys have just played the most important games in their history, with links in the description. (playful) — 00:03:00

2015

2016

Also named in: What's Wrong with Monopoly?

2017

2018

2019

  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: The urge to find and share hope is why John writes books, makes videos, gardens and sponsors AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English team wearing DFTBA on their shorts. — 00:01:55
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — announcement: John tells Hank he is the training kit sponsor of AFC Wimbledon, 'America's favorite third-tier English football team'. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-08-20 · Hank and John's Smooth Airport Reunion — Hank: A texted 'million dollar idea' is offered free to the world: a novel made of a single 52,000-word YouTube comment. (playful) — 00:02:04
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Next favorite day: May 30, 2016, when AFC Wimbledon, with DFTBA on their shorts, played a play-off final at Wembley for promotion to the third tier. — 00:01:07

2020

  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John suggests that might be why he is so enthralled with AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English football team 'we' sponsor. (hedged) — 00:01:27

2021

  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says Hank has an idea every 20 seconds and has called some 7,000 times saying he has a million-dollar idea; a million dollars per idea would give John about $7 billion, nearly 3% of Jeff Bezos’ wealth. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says that with ideas in general, Hank's job is to be extremely enthusiastic and his own is to be extremely dubious. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says Hank has had many wonderful ideas, from VidCon to SciShow to Subbable, and helped make amazing things. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says Hank has also had terrible ideas, such as Surprisingly Edible, a store selling only things that don't look edible, and Pelifans, an Only Fans for pelicans. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says a Hank idea that survives his anxious, dubious filter is a great one, and he has approved almost all of Hank's best ideas, almost without exception. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says he was right that 2D glasses didn't make a million dollars but wrong otherwise: they were very successful and changed both brothers' lives, because Hank realized his ideas could become things. — 00:01:46
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says the Awesome Socks Club raised over $700,000 for charity in its first year. — 00:02:45
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John hopes this is the year Hank proves him fully wrong and the club becomes a literal million-dollar idea, because it does a lot of good. (hedged) — 00:03:21
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John says Hank has so many ideas that a website tracks days since he started a thing, and in a recent video John said Hank has an idea every 20 minutes and John's job is to say when they are bad. — 00:01:27

2022

  • 2022-10-14 · The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters — Hank: Going deeper into the lore, Hank lists prompts French the Llama, Puppy-sized Elephant, Million Dollar Idea (Surprisingly Edible, the Awesome Club Club), and Pumpkins and Penguins. — 00:01:44

2023

2024

  • 2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — announcement: John: A new logo on the back of AFC Wimbledon shorts, between left thigh and buttock, was made by Nerdfighter Jen Koch and is based on space mission patches; John loves it. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John says this is the 11th year of sponsoring AFC Wimbledon and he falls deeper in love with the club each year. — 00:01:27

2025

  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John says he is in a deep, loving relationship with fourth-tier AFC Wimbledon and, for the last 12 years, has held the back-of-shorts sponsorship on the club's kit. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John explains the streams' idea: he and Stan put all Super Chat and membership money toward AFC Wimbledon's playing fund. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — announcement: John announces that the stream money, which at first seemed ludicrous for a whole player, plus matching funds from Sarah and him, has paid for an entire AFC Wimbledon player for the rest of the season. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says that every seven to ten days for the last 20 years Hank has called him with an idea, inevitably a million-dollar idea. (playful) — 00:00:34
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — Hank concludes that making white-noise videos is a good business to be in, and wonders what it would be like to be in it for Partners In Health. — 00:00:23
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — announcement: Hank: If it works, Hank may look for other good sounds in the world and become a sound hunter for charity. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:42
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says new central attacking midfielder Marcus Browne, signed with money from John's FIFA stream, makes the team look dangerous. — 00:03:23
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John thanks everyone in his FIFA livestreams on John's Channel: without them AFC Wimbledon could not have signed Marcus Browne. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John recalls Hank calling to say he had made the app with a developer named Bria; John thought the pitch brilliant and loved the idea of buyable beans like a Hank Bean. — 00:02:11
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John jokes that most of Hank's million dollar ideas are in fact single digit dollar ideas. (playful) — 00:03:53

2026

  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says he has never finished first playing pacifist Fortnite, but it is going to happen for him: today is the day. (playful) — 00:44:39
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says that playing Fortnite as a pacifist with Stan, hiding inside ferns and bushes, they once finished second and once 98th out of a hundred. (playful) — 02:18:37
  • 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says his livestreams on John's Channel have raised money for AFC Wimbledon's playing fund for a couple of years, helping pay for three players, including current top scorer Marcus Browne. — 00:02:55