Gatorbox

Early Access: Game Man, the Lost Media that Never Was

The year is 2014. Gatorbox is part of the way through its third season on the air, a season rife with production delays and problems as I was in a prolonged process of moving from Hollywood Park, TX to Alamo Heights, TX and was essentially maintaining two apartments because I was itching to move out of the former but for credit score reasons didn't want to break lease. Most of my time was filled by the full-time IT job I'd landed after spending much of 2013 in a managerial role at this absolu...

Gatorbox in 2025 / Year in Review: 2024

It genuinely feels like I just wrote this post; 2024 went by in what feels like an instant. A lot of things happened these past 12 months, some good and some bad, and they all shaped the direction this channel took. The biggest change was me leaving the part-time job I had in order to work a full-time schedule for not just more hours per week but also a substantial bump in pay. It was a decision I didn't take lightly as I knew that the main reason why I've been able to devote so much time to ...

Early Access - "That's Not Lego!" (2023/2024 Reboot), 48 Episodes

EARLY ACCESS LINK: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Boa0okJ-f60XjzzzT_diJxE7JVr-alyb?usp=sharing

Back in 2014 I recorded four episodes as a test for a side project called "That's Not Lego" where the idea was I'd build some knockoff Lego sets and talk about the piece quality and stuff. The episodes performed well on the channel, but ultimately I did not purs...

Early Access: Dragonriders - Chronicles of Pern Playthrough

Full playthrough here: https://mega.nz/folder/kHUGnTpa#eUBckTjkkhgHMt-Cdn15Ug

NOTE; This link will not remain active forever! More on this at the end of the post.

A few years ago (probably like five by now fucking hell) we featured Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern for the Dreamcast on our Friday night show. It was a very... interesting ordeal. The story of the ga...

Early Access: The Best (& Worst) of BattleBots Update

This is kind of a weird post because technically this is something that belongs on the Patreon for BattleBots Update, the project I started in 2015 that followed the reboot of the BattleBots TV series. The Patreon associated with BBU was voluntarily closed down a few years ago when the slow erosion of diminishing returns killed off most of the grassroots support of the endeavor. BBU is something that has always been (mostly) completely separate from this place. But I have nowhere else to make...

Pokemon: Cock Version Uncut Playthrough VODs

Over Memorial Day weekend Tuna Boat Tony swung by for a visit and we played through the entirety of a romhack of Pokemon Red known as "Cock Version". It's a basic hack that replaces most of the NPC dialog with really explicit and offensive things. The creator wrote some truly outrageous things and there are several moments where Tony and I just had to stop playing and laugh for a while.

However some of the "explicit content" in this game treaded into race territory which ran afoul of wh...

A Massive GatorUNbox Haul!

(Note: This post was originally written on April 21, 2024 however I accidentally left it as a Draft because it was missing the pictures and I only remembered this never went live today.)

Yesterday I needed to make a trip out to Joann's Fabrics to buy new foam cushions for my couch because that thing is getting really old and worn out and I wind up sinking down so low in it that my knees get propped up real high and after a few hours of streaming in this awkward position...

Early Access: The Least Worst of "The Radio F Show" (20th Anniversary)

Before there was Gatorbox... there was RFSHQ. Well, there actually were a lot of things "before Gatorbox" but this is one of them. Back in 2004 fresh off of a split from a failed project of a similar nature Draco, who went by the moniker "RFS" at the time, set out to create an internet video series... pre-YouTube. The series, named "The Radio F Show", became supplemental material to the RFSHQ comedy website. 51 episodes were created over the course of two years. This special pre...

Early Access: André Bardin - "Live and in Person, Too!" (2012)

This album is headed to Spotify (and other platforms) as we speak however I know from experience that it takes a couple of weeks in order for Spotify to get around to approving things submitted to them. In the meantime I figured I could make good on my word to provide early access to this release to supporters of the channel, so here it is. (This is an unlisted video on the COLA Incorporated channel so, as usual, please don't share it!)

This is the official audio release of my show "Liv...

Gatorbox Comes Full Circle with "Alligator Television" Project

Since the turn of the millennium I've lived my life in front of a camera. Starting in the year 2000/2001 my friends and I put together a video series called "Code: BS". In a time before YouTube we shared our skits via KaZaA by intentionally naming them pornographic things and filling the metadata tags with X-rated things. We figured people were either looking for free music or porn and in order to get ourselves out there we'd have to bait and switch someone in one of those two ways. Ultimatel...

Sneak Peek: 2024 Season Live Show Credits

Every year I try to make a new credits sequence for the stream. Last year's sampled things from Wario Ware Inc (namely Dribble & Spitz's Theme). This year's theme is anime and I've borrowed some assets from Nippon Marathon, a game we streamed in 2023 (the stream is too recent so it's not yet on YouTube). Someone noted that the theme to the game's final stage sounded like an anime opening so I worked from there and made some closing credits based around that idea.

Gatorbox in 2024

I usually post these year in preview posts on December 31st but I was out of town at the time so sue me I'm a little bit late.

Gatorbox is entering it's thirteenth season on the air in 2024 which means it is continuing its record breaking run of the longest project I've ever been involved with. At 13 seasons Gatorbox has outlived things like my high school writing outlet more than THREE times over and at the time I was convinced that website was going to be my magnum opus. I attribute G...

Gatorbox Advent Calendar 2023 - The Whole Thing!

Hey everyone! It's been a while but we're finally doing another advent calendar this year! Starting tomorrow December 1st and running through the 25th there will be one new short video uploaded to the Gatorbox YouTube channel at noon (Central time). I've got 24 random things from my childhood and some Christmas wishes to give and I hope you'll join me on this journey! However, as a channel supporter you guys know I try to take care of you all so if you want a sneak peek at everything in the c...

Cassette Roulette - "Big Balls In Cowtown"

Ladies and gentlemen and dudes of all teenages, and uh also the gals too. Here is our first Cassette Roulette exclusive upload! As recently sampled on Gatorbox here is "Big Balls in Cowtown" as performed by Mel Tillis and The Statesiders. This album is from 1988 and contains 10 sad country songs that sound like they belong in Fallout: New Vegas.

This upload is currently restricted to channel supporters only so please don't share the link!

Thank you for your support of the channel!...

Behold, (Pending Funny Nickname)!

NEW New Reliable? Maybe. I spent this afternoon replacing the hard drive in this laptop and installing/configuring Ubuntu on it. Took me a couple of hours to get it all working but here's the fruits of my labor!

I got LastPass and all my other Firefox add-ons installed, set up Discord, and arranged my bookmarks the same as on the previous laptop so it doesn't confuse me with a new order. I can even run OBS on this if I want to, though that's out of the scope of what I intend to do with ...

Investing in the Future, Again!

Been a while since the last update here so I figured I'd let you guys know about where your money has recently gone!

A few weeks ago we tried to do another cassette roulette on GatorUNbox, unfortunately the walkman that I used to play the tapes with didn't quite make it. The tape recorder used in the first roulette has since been broken after I loaned it to someone (ugh). I looked into getting a replacement and with some searching on eBay I've found another Sony "cassette corder" tape p...

Rise from your grave, That's Not Lego!

Boy it's been a hot minute since we've done one of these has it not? The last iteration of That's Not Lego was filmed and released in 2014 when I was still living in San Antonio! But I never stopped amassing bootleg and knock-off Lego toys, they've just been filling my prop closet.

At the beginning of every year I get a sheet of paper and write out my big to-do list of projects and things I want to accomplish during the calendar year. "Do something with all the fake Lego" made the list....

The RFS AI Pack 2.0: Skip to "the good stuff"!

NOTE: THIS POST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR "THE RFS AI PACK 2.0"!!!

Last month I released a landmark AI pack for the freeware game Robot Arena 2, the "2.0" update to my 20 year old RFS AI Pack series. It was welcomed by the Robot Arena 2 community who were enthusiastic about my return to the scene with a surprise for the game's 20th anniversary. However like all of my works there are some secrets buried inside the AI Pack. Were you able to solve the puzzle and find the password to the ...

Saving the Past

The computer I use to edit and work on Gatorbox stuff is about 11 years old. I've swapped parts in and out of it over the years so as a whole the computer is probably more along the lines of being about 4 years old. But there's one component I haven't swapped out of it yet: the hard drive. It's been in there for 11 coming up on 12 years. It's a mechanical drive as well meaning someday it will fail and the contents of it will be lost forever. Whenever I wake up my computer from sleep mode I ca...

Gatorbox in 2023

11 years ago, when I was firmly in the middle of another time in my life, I was invited to participate in a streaming project billed to me as "Vinesauce for furries". I'd never livestreamed before but I've done stand-up comedy and I've been writing about video games since 1995 so I figured I'd have something interesting to say. I took the offer to hop on board with no monetary compensation -- yet -- and hosted my own block every Friday night at 9PM. Today, little has changed. I'm still hostin...

Presenting a Game Mod 20 Years in the Making!

Lately on stream I've been talking about getting back into programming and modding/creating games. One such mod I've been working on is this massive overhaul for Robot Arena 2, version 2.0 of my groundbreaking AI pack that released its 1.5 version in early 2004. A version 1.7 was intended, and worked on multiple times over the years, but it never came out. I've taken the work and backups I could find from that 1.7 update and rolled it into a brand new mod that is the official 2.0 release of t...

The Sharperer Image in 2023

Although there is already a vast amount of back catalog content ready to go on the relaunched Sharperer Image project I've been spending some time working on new products in the same style as the originals that are still going up. A valley of 10 years lies between these two eras of the project so I am flexing my muscles a bit to see if I can get back into the same "tone" as the originals.

I was able to locate the original project files from 2011/2012 and scale them up 2x so they will ha...

Rise from your grave, Sharperer Image!

10 years ago I owned the domain www.sharpererimage.com. It was a comedy blog that showcased snarky and sardonic products that I pulled from a Skymall catalog and wrote new descriptions for. The blog was hosted on Tumblr and a few of the posts really "did some numbers" as they say. 2011/2012 was as very tumultuous year for me however and in between graduating from university, moving to San Antonio, and getting a new job this project was sort of just forgotten and I allowed the domain to expire...

Submissions open for end of season Q&A!

In lieu of GatorUNbox on our December 10th, 2021 stream we will instead feature a Q&A with yours truly to celebrate 10 seasons of Gatorbox.

Further instructions are in the link, but if there's anything that's been on your mind about either me or the show, now's your time to ask and make a special out of it. Few subjects are off the table, and the Q&A is pseudo-anonymous (you do not need to provide your name if you do not want to). Certain topics and pain points are naturally off...

G-Fuel Sampler Pack Review (Early Access)

Don't say I never deliver on promises, it's finally time to crack open those G-Fuels from Extra Life 2019. There are seven flavors on offer, disregard me saying "eight" because I can't count.

Enjoy! And thank you for supporting this channel. I know I don't always deliver a lot of content that's exclusive but I promise I'm working as hard as I can. Gatorbox has kind of become my primary source of income now so I have more of an incentive to work even harder than I have been.

Hauly-Moley: May 2021 (Early Access)

I still want to do these videos, I just haven't been able to organize things and film one. Also, it doesn't help that picking hasn't been very good as of late. There's a lot of esoteric junk in this video but not much in the games category sadly, but still worth a look if only for the curiosities.

"I Took Nintendo’s “Bravely Default” Personality Quiz"

"For a staggering 0 MyNintendo points you can download a PDF of a  10-point questionnaire and see what character class in the game best  suits you."

I took said questionnaire and I present to you my thoughts and findings. I invested a significant portion (0) of my MyNintendo points to bring this content to you, so don't make this effort be in vain.

I don't know why Patreon and Discord both disregard the specific image I've set as the "Featured Image" for this article. I ...

Every Super Mario 35th Anniversary Mission, Ranked

Okay, well Patreon seems content to use the Cold Stone Creamery image for the link preview here. I don't know why, it's not the article's "Featured Image" nor is it even the first image IN the article... but whatever. Patreon gonna Patreon, I guess.

With Super Mario's 35th anniversary coming to a close at the end of last month I thought it would be fitting to take a look at all 26 Nintendo Missions for the anniversary and rank them in order from worst to best. These were the missions th...

Death eventually comes for us all.

Your Death SUCKS

Remembering the calamity of Super Mario Maker 1.

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Hauly-Moley: January 2021 (Early Access)

Hello everyone in Fan Land! This video took a while to film because of the holidays and focusing on Extra Life, but the new Hauly-Moley is ready! There isn't one for December, this is the third video. Stuff I found in/around December is included in this video. Yes this is confusing. My apologies. I don't think things through that well. 😛

Of note in this haul is the Xbox 360 Kinect, meaning there is now a whole subset of games that have opened up to us... once I can get this thing tes...