1,000 VIEWS

We have done it!

We have reached 1,000 views! I wish we reached 1,000 subscribers but our audience doesn't really spread us around (even though they should!). So I say this, keep watching our videos, the day we get 100 subscribers, we'll make a special video for you guys. I hope to see you guys on our channel more, so bye!

The New Website!

A few new things...

Other than the BRAND NEW WEBSITE, we're gonna change a few things. Now because Blogger is being a idiot and won't let us put up our own videos for display here, because we have to find them through the search engine. The reason is Blogger thinks the Youtube: Vintage Gamers CA is not the Blogger Vintage Gamers CA. Even though there all linked together with Google +. Which sucks, so as a result we will likely not post about our videos unless its about us talking about there development (most likely of a series) or not at all. We may post about major videos such as a New Channel Trailer or if were at someplace like E3 or Blizzcon, but other than that. We are probably only gonna post about Channel issues and upcoming stuff that were developing and working on.

Now I will talk about the New Website, as you know the original website was http://www.the-laser-beam.com, but the URL was crap. The website design was based off of a Law and Attorney Free Template, so when I discovered wix.com (apparently Aaron did too on the same week). I made a website (which apparently Aaron had used the SAME TEMPLATE as I). Now the great thing about the Template is it gives me more maneuverability and makes things easier. So as a result the website looks extremely professional and fits the Vintage Gamers CA Style, now as you know "Vintage Gamers CA" is not a Dark and Hardcore channel (look at Rafae). Its more of a goofy and comical channel, so naturally the Website has to reflect that. Well I succeeded, the Website looks great. With its gray strip background, and its black sides (not too goofy but you work with what you have). Plus the Blog page actually fits the Channel.

Anyways, things are turning out good. Evan is working on a upcoming Mod showcase series, Viraj is working on his Crysis 3 series, I am working on my upcoming Skyrim series, and I have no idea what Jacob is doing but probably nothing being all his videos are done on my computer during the weekly meet up.

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

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Minecraft Survival Part 7, The Rebirth

The Rebirth

The Minecraft Survival Rebirth, sadly Evan couldn't be here to join us but we had to do what we had to do. Anyways Evan in be in the series in future videos and hopefully he will stay in them. Check out the video, the biome was a jungle and we worked with what he had and there was alot of killings,

mostly jacob :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-Bz99tPCk&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

   

PS: The reason there may be no Video Clip in the future is because the Blogger is being an idiot and wont confirm with Google that the Youtube Videos are owned by us

Team Fortress 2

Rafae plays TF2!

Rafae plays some Team Fortress 2 on the Channel, he had never played it before but want to play it anyways. He had no understanding of how the classes worked, what they did, and how to switch out weapons. He was still use to the Call of Duty way of playing, and didn't even know that in TF2 there was no Iron Sights except for the scopes that you can only access in the Sniper Class. When he played it, Johnny had to tell him what and how to play it while he was going. It was interesting, he was really enjoying it and even asked where to get it.

He also wants to know if people want to see a COD series, personally I believe he is gonna make one anyways. He wants the public approval and I respect that, anyways we hope in the future that Rafae will become a Cast Member but he has to earn his place on the Channel and at his rate he probably will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9eCjGd_u6g

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

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Delay on Voltz

The Voltz series has been set back one week until we can better coordinate with the users around the world. Trust me when I say it will come out, you all just have to wait another week. Speaking of Delays; the Little Inferno, Portal 2, and Zombie Apocalypse Videos will not be released for another week at the minimum due to the loss of video clips last week, also since Evan isn't here and he is the key member (and is the partner of Johnny in Zombie Apocalypse) in these series.

Thank you, have a Nice Day,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

The Walking Dead Part 7

IT CONTINUES?!

The Walking Dead Series is one of our oldest gaming series on our channel, only slightly younger than Minecraft Survival. This series makes ton of videos and were up to our seventh video to date. We hope to make some gaming series not annual so they it will just be a video each day but sadly that option is only truly possible on the Summer and Winter. Anyways check out this video, I know these video summary stuff is getting shorter than normal. Its just we don't have a lot to talk about unless it is stuff such as Major Announcements or offers that were wondering if we should take.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2i2XGJbIAM&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

Advertisement

The Ad Offer

On the channel, we don't get a lot of subscribers (13 to be exact). We need as many as we can get and we don't get a lot per month. We could use people to watch our videos and have them share our videos and channel, but with the fact our audience is mostly friends who don't share crap and a few cool people who also don't share our videos. So have come to this, we can make a Ad for the Channel and it will look fantastic and will be cool, but the problem is we get charged a small fee for every time someone clicks one of our ads. Problem is if a ton of people click them we will be screwed financially. So should we?

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

Voltz Series Update

A Few Changes...

The Voltz Series preparations are going down smoothly, on Friday we will begin filming but it will be slightly laggy. Anyways we are changing how the Series works in a few adjustments. The New Series Plan is this, there will be 4 teams of 3 people. Each team gets a starter base with starter resources that they can expand only by mining or stealing. The starter bases will be located on a unofficial spoke surrounding a center. There will be a neutral base in the center that is heavy Fortified with Super Defenses, anyone getting near it is surely going to die. The Neutral base though has a Infinite Battery in it that cannot be removed but can be hooked up to your base if you have the wires for it. Basically with this battery you can power your base and use it to nuke the others. There will also be weapons caches mainly near the Snow Biome (Neutral Base is located there), and the weapons caches can be as low as a few grenades to as high as a Thermobaric Missile. There will be more Info being relayed to you guys throughout the week.

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

Bastion

Bastion!

If you are an actual gamer then you have to of heard of Bastion and Half Life 2. For some reason in the Gaming Channel I am the only one to have heard of both, anyways I decided to let Viraj play it and see how he would react. Now normally he would be fun about this stuff but sadly he was tired and so was I so yeah....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR0Q1aoDOl0&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke)

Akinator

The Genie who stole my Wallet!

Did he steal my wallet, we may never know. Anyways Viraj discovered it and I knew what it was I just forgot the name. We tried it out and you will see how the Genie is good at what he does and how we are newbs at what we do. Its like a Geophysicist with a PhD and has 10 year at Cal Tech and then compare him to someone fresh out of High School who decided to get a job at the Local McDonalds WHICH Viraj hates McDonalds for some odd reason. Anyways we played it and I was correct when saying he gets smarter the more you fight him...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNimVg-hts&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

Half Life 2

Half Life 2

Now Viraj and I agreed that we will stop making more Series until we finish up some of the ones currently going on. We will have "Lets Play" videos on games that are not in a series, these videos may become series in the future. One of such games is Half-Life 2, now my brother thought it would be hilarious if Viraj played "Never go into RavenHolm" Chapter in Half Life 2. To be honest it was a mixture, Viraj was terrified of it at first and only realized it was not so bad after a little bit. Then stuff went out of his reach and he got beat up a lot....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khAQFuQag4c&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke)

A few annoucements....

Some random stuff...

As some of you know, our Channel produces tons of videos per week. Maybe if we had a more open schedule and better equipment we would make double the videos per week. Anyways I was wondering what our channel would be like in a year. Well assuming we power through all the issues and keep going, we could get very popular and very wealthy. I want to see the Channel get recognized, I want to see that it was all worth it. In a year, we could have more cast members, we could have a behind-the-scenes channel and even a few secondary channels for the Cast Members. We could have hundreds of videos on Youtube, dozens of playlists (both done and continuing). Things could end up well for us or not at all, anyways speaking of random stuff.

Anyways I was wondering if the channel should get a Podcast, maybe in the future if we desire to. We could also look into getting some new computer software and even a few new computers because we do a majority of our filming on my private computer which has 1 Terabit and I had already used 5/9ths of it before we started filming which does not help a lot. Anyways I was wondering if we should make a Ad for our channel which we put on YouTube. We can easily gain the money and create the Ad but will it be worth it. We could seriously use the increase in Viewers and Subscribers but we could also use the money to create better quality videos. So should we? Also should we get Fraps, I know most of the cast agrees yes to and I think so too, but Fraps as some of you know can have the quality changed, and usually ends up taking more resources and way more space. While the Encoder takes less resources and space compared to Fraps at the same quality settings. So should we get Fraps?

Thank you for reading,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

Slender Round 3!

Slender Round 3! HELL YAH

Now in the past in our older Slender game play, we usually were jumping and scary except a few funny times. Well in this episode I was purposely trying to scare Viraj and it worked very well until he rage quit at the end after encountering Slender man. Anyways check out his reactions and like I will say, this is not a series. The only reason there is even a playlist of Scary Games is because I needed some way of keeping track of it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw-9tsVW9zU

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

The Walking Dead Part 6

The Walking Dead Part 6!!!!

The continuation of the slightly epic series continues as Viraj steals the newly given reins from JACOB to continue his advancement as the ruling brain of Lee! In this episode, we decided that its best we use the Minecraft Survival Format but we changed it a little bit for The Walking Dead. This time instead of it being 6-8 minutes, it will be 14-18 minutes long. Better this than a Half Hour, now some of you are wondering if we should start live-streaming videos. Well we might, we the cast puts in 10 bucks each for the Fraps recording software so we can replace the Encoder which as you know, screwed us over with 3 specific series. Anyways I hope you guys enjoy this video, Viraj and I were very tired while filming it and Jacob was not here because he was tired. Even though Viraj and I showed we are willing to do what is needed for the Channel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrF6EQ1YXAU&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad

The Video File Accident

Oh crap...

I was creating the videos on Thursday to be posted, well when I finished posting them I was deleting the left over Minecraft video files that were already posted. Well it took that wrong and deleted the New Portal Clips, the Little Inferno Clips, and the Zombie Apocalypse Clips. So there will be um... gaps between the recent episodes and future ones for those watching. I am looking into ways of recovering it but as far as I know when you delete video clips from Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Screen Capture they delete them completely. I checked Recycle Bin but the video files were not there so I will be looking around the internet for ways to recover files from Expression Encoder which may prevent any Gaps. The only reason I didn't discover this sooner was because when I finished posting on Thursday I didn't go back on the Encoder. I only discovered what happened because Viraj and I made some videos on Friday and I was editing them today....

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

The Upcoming Voltz Series!

VOLTZ

For those of you who don't know, Voltz is a modpack for Minecraft. It adds Missiles (and Nukes) into Minecraft along with Anti-matter missiles, Ender Missiles, etc. Anyways we want to make a series on it so what will happen is I will make a private server on my House's Server. Unlike most of our series that don't give you straight forward goals, we will make our goal simply. We will have Teams of 2 which will be the following: Jonathan and Jacob, Viraj and Evan, Andrew and Matthew (Don't ask who), and Glanco and Zeus (again, don't ask).

The goal of each team is blow up the others base with Nukes, Bombs, Infiltration etc. There is no plugins on the server so ANYTHING can happen, except maybe a protection plugin for a  neutral zone for which the server members will discuss treaties which are completely based on trust (Basically everyone has the power to violate the treaty if they want but that may cause the other teams to blow them up). Not only to mention the server will be whitelisted to keep you people out! Also I forgot to mention Rafae from the channel will also be on the server, but he will have no team so basically anyone can take him in if they want or they can test stuff on him (usually weapons :P).

Now every team gets a starter base that if it gets taken down they lose and become purely harmless ghosts that I set there gamemode to Adventure and lock them in a jail cell that becomes there spawn point. Now in order for a Starter Base to be technically destroyed, it has to have both the surface and underground base destroyed, so basically a giant crater with a few blocks from the base scattered amongst it. If the base is not completely destroyed then they get to stay in the world in Survival. I of course will be the Game Judge, when a base is taken down I go into creative and check out the rubble and throw the losers into the prison cells. Now if my base gets taken down I go into creative and just become a camera filming the other peoples bases and such (My teammate Jacob doesn't get that luxury).

Now the Voltz series is a possibility, for all we know it may never happen. Also the server for the Voltz Series will go up around the Weekend, but the first video of it will be shot on Friday. Mainly for preparation, fixing errors, and because Friday is our annual film day. The only reason videos got released today on Thursday is because we took advantage of something were not inclined to share. Also like I said before, the server will be whitelisted and were not gonna let anyone not already whitelisted in.

Anyways I hope the Upcoming series goes well so bye!

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

Little Inferno part 2!

The Series where Evan burns stuff...

Now we continue the pyromaniac series where Evan burns random stuff and jumps a lot from the shocking explosions. Now in this episode Evan continues to burn stuff and Rafae, Jacob and I watch in content fire as Evans eyes turn to fire and he tries to grab the nearest match...

I hope you guys enjoy this new episode, trust me when I say the reason I didn't talk as much and why I had such a deep voice is because I had a sore throat that got worse throughout the day so yeah. Rafae also didn't find much pleasure in sitting there watching Evan set stuff on fire, now of course you guys will enjoy it because its funnier to watch it with the sound and Evans narration rather than just him talking randomly as I try to fall asleep. Now if you wonder why there is a gap between Video 1 and 2 is because we tried filming earlier the same day as this video but the mic wasn't plugged in so it was worthless...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpAZ48PxoBg&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke)

Minecraft Survival Part 6!

The Continuation of the Oldest Series on the CHANNEL!

Now as you may have seen, there is a Minecraft series on the channel, and if you have noticed I kinda created a war with the other two because I was bored. Anyways I am posting the last video filmed on the series, we will film the next couple parts NEXT WEEK. Now we don't have a goal on the series right now so I'll just make one right off the bat. We must go into the End and beat the Ender Dragon, we must also beat the Wither! There is the goal, after that we will stop filming the Survival Series and it may just become a server for the Channel that we go to occasionally when reviewing mods. Anyways that is the news. BYE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flybk3ad2zo&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke)

Not again....

Portal 2 returns....

Apparently Evan wanted to make Portal 2 a series, he was supported by Viraj too. Jacob and I did not want to do that again but we gave in sadly. Now I have a sore throat, great....

Anyways Evan continues to suck at these puzzles as he says in his words "I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed". Anyways I am copying the Minecraft survival format of 6 to 8 minutes per video which most people don't enjoy if its a exciting video but trust me this grows old for you after 8 minutes so I basically give you a week to get back into enjoying it in a endless cycle. I know I sound like this video sucks but it doesn't, I just don't like it personally because I was yelling at Evan while he was filming it. Its pretty hilarious but as I said, its cut up into 6 to 8 minutes because it grows old, which is why when you watch the next part in a week you end up enjoying it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sthZhHUQR-g&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

MC Zombie Apocalypse Part 2

Zombie Apocalypse RETURNS!

The Channel makes a lot of Minecraft Videos, trust me must people on the channel don't want to make so many, but there are so many to choose from and other games are not free...

Anyways we made a series called Zombie Apocalypse which was a Minecraft Map made by Hypixel

and I saw how fun it looked on the Yogscast so I figured "eh what the hell". Anyways so now we are gonna do the Minecraft Survival Format of cutting up the clips into 6 to 8 minutes and then post each clip individually over the course of a month or two. If you noticed (not really), there is another person there other than Evan, Jacob and I. The person is Rafae, who as you may know from earlier posts is someone who works at Vintage Gamers CA. He is a COD Fan so naturally we get pissed off when he talks about it. I hope you enjoy the video, also I will be posting a little later about a upcoming series involving the Minecraft Modpack known as "Voltz"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARa7qiFSsyI&feature=youtu.be

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

Expanding our Employeement/Volunteering

New Bros in the Office

We also know a friend of ours called Rafae (Sorry if I misspelled it man I saw how to spell it) and he wants to join the channel even though Jacob is against having too many people on the Channel we compromised. Rafae will appear in some of our videos and will be mainly for behind the scenes assisting and MAY in the future become a Cast Member. He will be assisting us in Art Design, Equipment and maybe even a little management. Now its good we have him, he is a really cool guy and we get along well with him. He will make a first appearance on the Channel on Thursday, remember he is not an OFFICIAL member of the cast, he is just a guest who will appear from time to time like Aaron from Awesome Inc. The only difference is Rafae is apart of Vintage Gamers CA Corporations, he just isn't a Cast Member. He is a employee (Technically he is a volunteer until we start making a good amount of money to pay him).

Now if your wondering, "How come he gets to work at Vintage Gamers CA, I am more qualified then him" even though your probably not. The reason is this, he meets the qualifications to join and is making personal time that he could spend doing other things to help us out for FREE. Now were not ungrateful about him, believe we were glad to have him help out and we will pay him when it is possible to have a salary for the entire Cast. Now if your wondering what the qualifications are I have a page on the Website that lists them and what are open and etc. Also your wondering why Rafae gets a special position, well its because we trust and know him enough to guarantee no issues.

The Employeement/Volunteer Page

http://www.the-laser-beam.com/workerspage.htm

Thank you,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),

The Channel Intro

THE INTRO

The Channel has developed intros over time, the First Intro was No intro, it was merely just going straight into the video. The first actual intro was just some cruddy 70s opening with it saying Vintage Gamers CA in Yellow with a red background and Kalimba music. The Next Intro was the Logo with the music. The Next Intro was the logo but THIS time it was pixel and become less pixel over the course of a few seconds. 

The NEW Intro is something much better, this one is an animation that if we get people good at editing it, we can customize it to make it more fit to our style and maybe look more colorful and creative. Viraj has a cousin who might be able to send us over some Good Music that will fit our style and make things better.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxOVWn2wYcg&feature=youtu.be

Anyways Bye,

Jonathan Conrad (Dr.Duke),