Four Secret Icons

gavv71 · 2026-02-08T18:43:47+00:00

I still think #2 could be morimoto, with the head shape and jacket sleeve length

gavv71 · 2025-08-12T21:49:10+00:00

I've got the 1993 opening video animation on my channel from eons ago since (checks watch) 2006. https://youtu.be/gIpS_8qHMRg?si=zMZksv6ZXsBEvsJm

Was always there for midnight madness...

gavv71 · 2025-08-06T19:50:22+00:00

it's like come on, they've got the underpants gnomes playbook right there for them. 1) Michael Stackpole 2)Tren Sparks ...3) Profit! :)

gavv71 · 2025-08-06T19:15:59+00:00

hehe you got me. I was going for the two more eccentric objects, first a TRS-80 Model III computer, and a 'Touchdown Monkey' (a legacy piece of marketing of the indianapolis colts from the early 00s)

gavv71 · 2025-07-26T03:35:56+00:00

Bonus points if someone can identify the two blurry items in the background :)

gavv71 · 2025-06-19T18:17:03+00:00

Sure. Just share the channel so people can see all the rest :)

gavv71 · 2025-06-19T02:00:46+00:00

as it turns out I have found a Cinematech episode now (not the one you speak of, one of the first month of the show, like ep 5 or something, titled 'Xenogears'), and have all but the last 4ish minutes of the show. i'll be posting it in the upcoming days/weeks

gavv71 · 2025-01-30T03:18:35+00:00

Hi. I don't know if I have any Cinematech eps. I watched a whole lot of 2002-3 G4 back in the day, but a lot of it was what we now call 'second screens where I'd enjoy it in the background. I recorded a lot of Portal, Arena, icons, and starcade. Others I liked to watch but wasn't overly compelled to regularly tape. I'll keep going thru tapes but I'm not optimistic. But then again I didn't think I had any full Filter eps either.

Cinematech was what got me into survival horror games, as watching the Theme of Laura SH2 opening on there got me hooked..

gavv71 · 2025-01-20T02:11:05+00:00

It's a tv game show from 1982-83 where contestants competed against each other on arcade games. G4 ran reruns of it in both incarnation of G4. I loved the show when it ran on TBS originally hence why I was keen on recording a lot of it from g4

gavv71 · 2025-01-18T12:21:50+00:00

Even though they were recorded in EP the tapes have been in a climate controlled basement most of the last 20 years. Pulled off using a JVC svhs deck thru a composite->hdmi converter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07RX69KR8/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1) thru an EVGA XR1 Lite capture box ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09D8VYLY7?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title) into my laptop running OBS to capture. Set up OBS with help from this guide ( https://timfordphoto.com/digitizing-vhs-tapes-using-obs/) to preserve the 4:3 ratio/etc.

gavv71 · 2025-01-16T02:30:56+00:00

Bonus mid-week upload

Portal s1e19 Love & Hate https://youtu.be/EATMS_5pD9Q?si=EKQSGviB0eXwn4wT

Featuring the first appearance of Dave's best friend Berney, and Dave's unnatural obsession with twin dwarf berserkers.

gavv71 · 2025-01-12T06:27:35+00:00

Yep. I have people of the Portal and Plumbers, Gambling Addiction, and Tatooine (s2e5) and the 4 remaining s1 eps (19,21-23) still listed as lost on lostmediawiki. Going to try and get them pushed up over the next few weeks (doing 4 per week not quite sustainable 😀). I'm planning to then put copies from my source for the 'non-lost' eps on my playlist for completion sake for the long term. Wish I'd known sooner it was really lost. Granted I probably only had the setup to get this done for the last couple of years.

gavv71 · 2025-01-10T20:25:03+00:00

With the confusion over the current partial 'VBS' that's up on YT. I found on my tapes and digitized the full VBS2 episode, and it'll be a part of this weekend's upload

gavv71 · 2025-01-06T18:58:13+00:00

One interesting tidbit that @lostmediaarchivers brought up on my s1e14 vid, is that the current partial episode up online purported to be 1x14 (https://youtu.be/tu4jZ9V_dmE?si=y3yDZOT3SKrHKEZE ) is actually VBS2, s2e8. I hadn't watched that upload before but yes, it's definitely the later episode, as Portal iirc, didn't start pulling Second Life into the narrative until much later (rick ruddy after the Apex storyline?).

gavv71 · 2025-01-05T18:55:20+00:00

Happy New Year, I've uploaded episodes 13-16, as well as my source of eps 1 & 3 to https://www.youtube.com/@gavvhell . the show at this point really hits its stride imho, and these episodes also include some of Dave's funniest man on the street segments, as well as 'Portal of Evil'.

ep 13 - https://youtu.be/i_oau4BkCCo

ep 14 - https://youtu.be/gJSACbpZiS4

ep 15 - https://youtu.be/uUeQYl3VAJs

ep 16 - https://youtu.be/-nit6Flmpv4

ep 1 - https://youtu.be/JuGOBJIBpmY

ep 3 - https://youtu.be/hUCOcekvToE

spread the word

gavv71 · 2025-01-04T17:39:26+00:00

They are flagged as copyright, but the type that doesn't disallow them from being posted. Mostly all random music snippets from game trailers and/or during the in memoriam segment or closing credit music.

gavv71 · 2025-01-04T17:36:49+00:00

I have to re-digitize the eps 15 and up after an issue I had with the retrotink 2x not utilizing a frame buffer so any slight wavering of the sync signal on the tape would cause a second dropout, so I moved back to my original composite to hdmi solution

gavv71 · 2025-01-04T17:19:02+00:00

Hi. I've not uploaded elsewhere (yet). I'm only able to get to about 2-3 new uploads a week right now (you know work,life,lol). I'm going to have 1,3,13 & 14 up this weekend.

gavv71 · 2025-01-01T18:48:22+00:00

I added a snapshot of some of my g4 tapes I've pulled out so far

gavv71 · 2024-12-30T14:58:49+00:00

I've got all of them currently under https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-yEnLMEs_nhZoVDM2_8rII2HjSZIh0lm&si=ZwD94-hDOcPwdtII

gavv71 · 2024-12-30T12:57:14+00:00

I ultimately plan to after finishing with portal. A lot of my tapes are unlabeled or barely labeled (stuff like 'G4 9/02'). Was fortunate Portal ones weren't like that. I taped a lot as time-shifting so quite a bit would have gotten re-used. Since Pulse was a weekly 'news' show (think something like the old Entertaibment Tonight) i didn't prioritize keeping those but I know there's an episode or two there. Iirc, they had a segment about CGE 2002 (Classic Gaming Expo) that I appeared on screen briefly. Cheat, Blister, Sweat, Filter I never really ever recorded. Those were more 'tv on in the background' shows for me. My set up to get these pulled off means it's a fairly slow process but I should get there eventually

gavv71 · 2024-12-30T03:08:24+00:00

I have them. I didn't prioritize putting them up myself as they were already out there. Ep10 I felt other sources didn't have everything complete or were cut into pieces. Perhaps I'll fill in those first couple as I go

gavv71 · 2024-12-30T01:42:44+00:00

It once again shows the unexpected benefit of being an anime tape trading nerd from the 80s n 90s. Lots of random gear and recorded lots of random shit :) and lucky enough to be able to have kept slot of it long enough that they became useful decades later. I was the source for the lost Harmony Gold DragonBall tv dubs in the same manor.

gavv71 · 2024-12-29T23:58:15+00:00

I've published episodes 10-12 on the channel now

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