The Video Game Ref (partially found precursor channel to Chadtronic; 2013)

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Status: Partially Found

The Video Game Ref was a Let's Play channel on YouTube created by Chad Brunsvold. The series acts as a sort of predecessor to the much more well known and currently ongoing YouTube channel Chadtronic, another YouTube project of Brunsvold's. The Video Game Ref YouTube channel was created on February 25, 2013, but no videos would be uploaded until the pilot episode on March 27, 2013. An excerpt of the channel's description reads as follows:

So you want to buy some games, But they all just seem the same: Boring, dull, or really lame. Well, you need a guy to make a call.

These are lyrics taken directly from the Video Game Ref theme song.

Patreon Q/A

On September 28th of the same year, Chadtronic created a Special Patreon Q/A, where members of his Patreon asks Chad a question. Lane (the same guy who made his VGR video) asked him a question about his old channel.

"Saw a couple of you ask about this surprisingly. Video game ref was my YouTube channel before Chadtronic. It was nothing special really, it only had 2-3 videos on it, all of them basically being NES let’s play videos. The videos were absolutely terrible, nothing near the level of content I make today. You’re not missing out on anything trust me."

Availability

A couple of clips are available of videos from the channel; and the theme song that was composed by Michael Betz remains. Despite Chad's claims of only 2-3 videos being made, at least 13 videos were uploaded to the channel. Most of them are Let's Plays of NES games, as stated by Chad.

Videos

Title Upload Date Video ID Status and Remarks Thumbnails
Kid Kool - Video Game Ref - Pilot Video [1][2] Mar 27, 2013 -FIgIYKTGbA [3]

Lost (This video was updated on November 26, 2013 and January 30, 2014.[1][2]) Duration: 8:20

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Xexyz - Video Game Ref Aug 1, 2013 kskeGyVPLgk

Lost (This video was updated on August 16, 2013 and February 28, 2014.) Duration: 8:33

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Grassroots Gaming Expo 2013 - Video Game Ref Aug 4, 2013 rYPjgMecM7c

Lost (This video was updated on November 26, 2013.) Duration: 1:55

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Spy Hunter - Video Game Ref Aug 14, 2013 tvzw5mUxVH4

Lost (This video was updated on November 22, 2013 and January 18, 2014.) Duration: 9:22

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Punch Out - Video Game Ref Aug 14, 2013 pnmWCjWr42o

Lost (This video was updated on November 22, 2013.) Duration: 10:31

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Donkey Kong - Video Game Ref Aug 15, 2013 HMtb0XrPtU0

Lost (This video was updated on November 22, 2013.) Duration: 11:17

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Deadly Towers - Video Game Ref Aug 16, 2013 CcCi9GRK7I8

Lost (This video was updated about five hours after its publication.) Duration: 9:26

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Minecraft Hardcore! - Part 1 (The Hole?) Oct 2, 2013 e0j4-Lkf4yY

Partially Found (A muted clip of one of the Minecraft Hardcore videos of the first batch on the Chadtronic channel can be found in the outro of the Chadtronic video ZeldaVR: The Legend of Zelda BETA on the Oculus Rift. This series was uploaded at least three times throughout Chad's YouTube career, twice on the Chadtronic channel. The first batch of uploads was on Video Game Ref. The Video Game Ref upload of this video was updated on October 5, 2015.)

Duration: 11:16

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Minecraft Hardcore! - Part 2 (Mining with Zangof) Oct 5, 2013 lBbdfcFX_wk

Partially Found (A muted clip of one of the Minecraft Hardcore videos of the first batch on the Chadtronic channel can be found in the outro of the Chadtronic video ZeldaVR: The Legend of Zelda BETA on the Oculus Rift. The Video Game Ref upload of this video was updated on October 26, 2015.)

Duration: 11:06

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Minecraft Hardcore! - Part 3 (Lost) Oct 16, 2013 o-S4CbcZtUc

Partially Found (A muted clip of one of the Minecraft Hardcore videos of the first batch on the Chadtronic channel can be found in the outro of the Chadtronic video ZeldaVR: The Legend of Zelda BETA on the Oculus Rift. The Video Game Ref upload of this video was updated about six minutes after it was uploaded.)

Duration: 16:53

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Minecraft Hardcore! - Part 4 (Farmerboy) Oct 22, 2013 YEmaX_h67qs

Partially Found (A muted clip of one of the Minecraft Hardcore videos of the first batch on the Chadtronic channel can be found in the outro of the Chadtronic video ZeldaVR: The Legend of Zelda BETA on the Oculus Rift. Minecraft Hardcore! - Part 5 (Pedo-Cutter) and Minecraft Hardcore! - Part 6 (Death?) were only uploaded to the Chadtronic channel.)

Duration: 17:01

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CHAD IS SCARED OF SLENDER!! - Part 1 Oct 23, 2013 75wCwUI5fz4

Partially Found (A short clip of this video can be found in the video Slender: The Arrival - Part 1 - Chadtronic on the ChadtronicGames channel. In that video before the clip of this video plays, Chad claims that he made this video before he even had a YouTube channel. This, however, is untrue, and even if Chad means this video was recorded before he had made The Video Game Ref, it is more likely that Chad just means that this video was made before the Chadtronic channel's creation, ignoring The Video Game Ref's existence. And Chad also had a channel before The Video Game Ref called Darthbrunsvold, so even if this video was filmed before the creation of The Video Game Ref, Chad still had the Darthbrunsvold channel that he posted on. No evidence of a Slender: The Eight Pages (the game Chad played in this video) gameplay video on Darthbrunsvold has been found. There is also a chance that the clip shown is of CHAD IS SCARED OF SLENDER!! - Part 2, but this video is more likely to be the video shown. This video was updated on December 19, 2013 and March 21, 2014.)

Duration: 14:16

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CHAD IS SCARED OF SLENDER!! - Part 2 Oct 24, 2013 ItSicp4QMQU

Partially Found (Read the description above. This video was updated about six hours after it was uploaded.)

Duration: 8:38

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Gallery

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Vgr.png Alternate logo found on Chadbrunsvold.com Permalink

Videos

Theme Song by Micheal Betz

Unsolved Mysteries: The Video Game Ref

Unsolved Mysteries: The Video Game Ref Update

Unsolved Mysteries: (Update) Video Game Ref Channel Discovered!!!

See Also

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