For anyone who had a great relationship with their father or wishes they had a great relationship with their father, the YouTube series My Retro Life is for you. Oh, and if you’re into 20-plus-year-old video games, bonus.

My Retro Life is an ode to two of Tyler Esposito’s great loves: old Nintendo and Sega (and some Sony and Microsoft) games and his late father, Mark Esposito. Viewers tend come for stories of the former but stay for stories of the latter.

The web series’ topics are not as disparate as they may appear. Father-and-son Esposito shared a love of video games and of each other. Mark Esposito passed away in 2007, but he left his only child with a gift worth more than their expansive games-and-consoles collection: 300-plus hours of home videos, “a treasure trove of B-roll,” the junior Esposito says, much of which focused on their joint hobby infatuation.

My Retro Life has 172,000 subscribers and more than 22 million views. Its production quality is arguably better than it has any right to be, especially when you consider the age of much of its footage. Fortunately, these aren’t your daddy’s home videos, these are Tyler Esposito’s dad’s home videos.

Fans of My Retro Life know two things for sure about Mark Esposito: 1) He was a great dad, and 2) He never put down his camcorder. But what they might not know is that before he settled into a career in marketing/advertising and retail, as often discussed and sometimes depicted on the series, Mark was a filmmaker in ‘80s Los Angeles. His credits include writing and directing 35mm shorts Treasure of the Haunted House (1983) and Melvin Goes Disco (1981).

So when Tyler Esposito edited dad’s home videos for a Christmas 1989 episode, he is working with a professional’s footage. And it shows.

“A lot of people have said, ‘Oh my gosh, these camera angles!,” Esposito told The Hollywood Reporter. “He definitely wasn’t your typical uncle or something just holding a video camera and being static with it, and shaky cam. If you look at some of these episodes, in the video footage I’ve put out, he’s like rack-focusing on certain things doing these different in-camera film techniques.”

Esposito credits his dad as being the “director” and “DP” of My Retro Life, despite passing away 13 years before it even launched. Actually, Mark did half the My Retro Life editing back then in-camera, Esposito said.

“He used our home movies as a way to channel some of that love of film that he still had all throughout my childhood,” Esposito said.

In 2008, shortly after dad died, Tyler Esposito got his associates degree in film and followed in dad’s footsteps into independent video production. He bounced around doing weddings and church work, voiceover for ADV Films anime productions and even a music video for ‘90s band Fastball — this was way after their hit, “The Way.” Hey, Houston is no L.A.

Success came when Esposito really honed in on what made him, well, him: video games and his dad. Today, Esposito does My Retro Life full-time. Though he did not want to divulge how much he makes, it is enough for his family of four to live on one income. Esposito did share that about 95 percent of his income comes from YouTube videos, with 70 percent of that from ads. He monetizes Facebook to a much-lesser degree, and estimates that sponsors and patrons (from Patreon and YouTube channel memberships) bring in about 30 percent of his income.

But it is the YouTube comments section, not AdSense, that Esposito says is the most rewarding part of the deal. Esposito says he gets one comment more than any other: “Your dad makes me want to be a better dad.”

“He was just a really unique, awesome individual,” Esposito said. “The fact that I could continue sharing him, and it have that same effect (on others) — almost like he’s still alive and still here, making an impact on this world — like, that’s awesome. That’s awesome.”