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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99Subscribe now Battlefield 6 Switch 2 stock Nintendo Direct Summer of Horror Recommended reading Racing Games Steam users obsessed with a pink horse girl sent so many kilograms of grass to the real horse she's based on that it broke the food donation website: "It's very crowded right now" Simulation Games Steam faces a stampede: horse girl game Umamusume: Pretty Derby is "actual cinema," and a massive hit on PC with 5,000 overwhelmingly positive reviews after a week Racing Games Horse girl gacha gamers are so obsessed with pink racer Haru Urara that the farm that owns the real-life horse she's based on, who never won a single race, had to respond Racing Games I walked an hour in the rain to play horse girl gacha game Umamusume: Pretty Derby at the actual Kentucky Derby "It's a big first": Debut horse MMORPG from former World of Warcraft devs' studio is a Twin Peaks murder mystery unlike anything you've ever seen The Elder Scrolls After 10 years, iconic streamer Skyrim Grandma is now Oblivion Remastered Grandma: "Sorry guys, you know I have to look at everything. I've never been here before" The Elder Scrolls Skyrim Grandma is "still learning" the ropes in Oblivion Remastered after 10 years of The Elder Scrolls 5 – and it's not easy: "This stupid thing won't die!" Racing Games Move over, Skyrim grandma, because Japan's "legendary horse grandpa" with "40 years of horse racing experience" got a whole new fandom thanks to Umamusume: "This game is at a high level" Dustin Bailey 30 July 2025 "I think people who aren't interested in horse racing might not understand it" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: The Oldman Show) Depending on how you count birthdays, video games as a medium are probably younger than your grandparents, and people like Shirly "Skyrim Grandma" Curry have proven just how much gamers love seeing folks from older generations enjoying their favorite hobby. The same appeal applies to Japanese YouTuber Matchan, a veteran of horse racing who's gaining global fame thanks to his videos on Umamusume: Pretty Derby. Matchan's YouTube channel is largely a pretty unassuming vlog with most videos sitting at a few hundred views. But there's one big exception: a video with 4.5 million views titled "[umamusume] Can an old man with 40 years of horse racing experience guess the horses' names?" Presented with a series of printed images of the Umamusume cast, Matchan tries to guess their real-life race horse counterparts. 【ウマ娘】競馬歴40年の爺は馬名を当てられるのか！？ - YouTube He doesn't get every one right, but makes enough successful connections – spurred on by some vague hints by the video's off-screen host – to make clear that the guessing game is winnable. His knowledge of real-life horse racing is impressive enough to me, somebody who once had to Google whether "Seabiscuit" was a real horse, and it's endearing seeing him lean into the anime world with such enthusiasm. You may like Steam users obsessed with a pink horse girl sent so many kilograms of grass to the real horse she's based on that it broke the food donation website: "It's very crowded right now" Steam faces a stampede: horse girl game Umamusume: Pretty Derby is "actual cinema," and a massive hit on PC with 5,000 overwhelmingly positive reviews after a week Horse girl gacha gamers are so obsessed with pink racer Haru Urara that the farm that owns the real-life horse she's based on, who never won a single race, had to respond "This game is at a high level," Matchan remarks after learning of its depictions of Gold Ship and Rice Shower, according to the video's subtitles. "I think people who aren't interested in horse racing might not understand it." That video was uploaded back in 2021, a few months after the Umamusume game launched in Japan. But the game's more recent global launch, as noted by Automaton West, has brought Matchan's guessing game to a worldwide audience. legendなウマ爺はlegendsのウマ娘を当てられるのか？ - YouTube "Hello, everybody, how do you do? My name is Matchan," he says in a new video in admirable English. Switching back to Japanese, he explains that "when I looked at the comments section, there were quite a lot of comments from foreigners, so I thought that it would be bad if I couldn't at least speak broken English to respond to them." Through the remainder of this new video, Matchan again matches race horses with horse girls, because the pace of new characters in a gacha game simply does not slow down. And hey, if you've got a winning gimmick, why give it up? 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Steam users obsessed with a pink horse girl sent so many kilograms of grass to the real horse she's based on that it broke the food donation website: "It's very crowded right now" Steam faces a stampede: horse girl game Umamusume: Pretty Derby is "actual cinema," and a massive hit on PC with 5,000 overwhelmingly positive reviews after a week Horse girl gacha gamers are so obsessed with pink racer Haru Urara that the farm that owns the real-life horse she's based on, who never won a single race, had to respond I walked an hour in the rain to play horse girl gacha game Umamusume: Pretty Derby at the actual Kentucky Derby "It's a big first": Debut horse MMORPG from former World of Warcraft devs' studio is a Twin Peaks murder mystery unlike anything you've ever seen After 10 years, iconic streamer Skyrim Grandma is now Oblivion Remastered Grandma: "Sorry guys, you know I have to look at everything. 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