A Gecko at the top of the charts in his hey day. He had everything, a trilogy of games, money and fame. Women wanted him in the worst way, and men wanted to be him in the best. If only he could have kept it clean. Cocaine entered and dominated his life for almost eight years. Gex recalls the first time he tried cocaine.

"I was so goddamned coked up here, they had to digitally remove my nose bleed and the bags under my eyes."

"Enter the Gecko had just hit shelves, and Crystal Dynamics was throwing the release party at the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco. Incredible party, everyone who was anyone was there. Crash after the big surgery was hosting, Hironobu Sakaguchi came with Tifa, Will Smith was there, even Hideo Kojima before releasing Metal Gear Solid later that year showed up. When things were really bumping Kain pulled me into a bathroom and started doing blow off the counter top. I was drunk and didn't comprehend what was going on, but I was hesitant. Kain was insistent, so I took the rolled up hundred from his hand and hit a line. Before the evening ended I would do four more lines in that bathroom, and two off Lara Croft's ass.

"To anyone doing cocaine I recommend doing it off Lara's Ass."

To tell you the truth I don't remember much about making Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko. Most of it was a blur. I had too much money to care about my problem, or myself and I shut out the people who tried."

Almost two years went by. More and more of Gex's future slipped up his nose. Not only was his drug use destructive but the depraved sex acts were becoming increasingly hard for Crystal Dynamics PR coordinators to handle. In the spring of 2000 he was administered to St. Luke's hospital in San Francisco with cuts and bruises, after having sprained several ligaments in the base of his penis, and a broken collar bone. It's also noteworthy he was covered in someone else's blood. Later in 2000 a meeting with Randy Komisar were the first hints Crystal D no longer wanted the contract. Gex tells us about the meeting.

Great chicken sandwiches, anthropormorphic lizards stabbing executives; LuLu's has it all.

"We were at LuLu's on Folsom street. Randy sat me down and started talking about the future, and how they were already developing things for the PlayStation2. He also started to mention that they don't have any plans for another Gex game, or even a spin off. I had already figured as much when several months prior Kain had come to me and said they were working on a Soul Reaver game for this new system, and I put two and two together. Still, you're never ready to look that kind of reality in the face with a full head of coke. When I heard it come out of Randy's mouth and hang there I couldn't control myself. When I came to my senses three bus boys were prying a butter knife out of my hand that I had stabbed Randy in the arm with some six times."

It was around this time Dana Gould began to stop returning Gex's phone calls, and long time girl friend Agent Xtra cut ties to the drug embattled Gecko after forcibly attempted to have sex with her in a Neiman Marcus changing room.

Gex then moved to Las Vegas and purchased an entire floor of the Luxor. During this time he harassed guests, was frequently found passed out on elevators and during a bout of uncontrollable vomiting on the gambling floor, ruined six potted plants, three attendants uniforms, and a roulette wheel. In 2003 he began to receive threatening letters from the bank about paying his credit card bills. Gex's resources were near dry. During one particularly brutal binge he drove his corvette into the fountain in front of the Bellagio and nearly drowned, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. The court mandated a rehab program, and soon after he declared bankruptcy. Gex struggled during rehab, resorting to any method necessary to feel the high. At his lowest point of rehabbing he escaped from the facility using a stolen set of keys. Police found him three days later, blowing Andy Dick in a public bathroom for an eight ball. Gex talks about the experience.

"And YOU thought he was annoying, I HATE Andy Dick."

"That was it, that was absolute lowest point in my life. There with Andy's Penis in my mouth I knew I had hit rock bottom. The realization hit me as the sheriff's department opened the door to the public bathroom. I closed my eyes and wished it all was just a bad dream, just an imaginary bad taste in my mouth. But it was a real taste in my mouth. I was tasting failure, and I wanted to taste success again. I had tasted success before, and that was not the taste of success."

Gex then focused on rehab and Jesus for two solid years. He is now living a clean private life. Gex recently took over as the new Geico Gecko, and has never been happier.

Gabe Logan was a relatively low profile character from the PlayStation series Syphon Filter. The game had three titles released onto PlayStation all of them starring Gabe Logan. Gabe is a highly trained operative who spent eight years as a Navy Seal and beyond that it is classified. His experiences in and around those games gave direct rise to his crippling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His wife Cassandra was with him as the effects began to crop up. She talks about some of the things that began to happen.

"I would notice that sudden loud noises would set him on edge. Doors, slamming, dropping anything, even turning on the lights without him knowing it would make Gabe almost jump. Every now and then I would catch him lying awake at night just staring into the ceiling and almost unresponsive."

Some call him the space cowboy, terrorists call him "oh shit."

As far as can be understood most of the trauma was introduced during the first game, where the fate of millions rested on his shoulders and he was responsible for the deaths of literally hundreds of people at his own hands by the most brutal means. In 2000, Cassandra convinced him to seek help after a mishap at their daughter's fourth birthday pool party. Startled by a popping balloon, Gabe broke the jaw of a clown with a tiki torch. He was diagnosed with PTSD after the second game was finished. Gabe spent months in therapy with his wife at his side. During that time SCEA approached the Logan family about completing a third game. No one was more concerned about Gabe than Cassandra, but other people close to him grew concerned. We spoke with Kim Mai Guest, a dear friend of Gabe's who voiced Lian Xing from Syphon Filter.

"Gabe had a lot on the line, big house, two kids to put through college, supporting his aging parents. But he was falling apart. The smallest things would cause arguments among coworkers. I saw him throw his Fichus through a window when he got angry. In meetings he wouldn't even pay attention, he would sit there and grind his teeth and sweat. I didn't want him to do any more damage, it just wasn't worth it."

But SCEA had other ideas, and sweetened the pot to ensure his family's independence for generations. The decision to do one final game was difficult on the Logan family and met with a stiff resolve. The game took its toll and nearly killed Gabe. During the shooting of the game he only slept a couple hours at a time, and ate very little. He took a week off to visit with his family and found he barely knew them. While changing his son Chase's diaper he had a flashback and Cassandra found him simply holding the child Chase in the air and yelling. After they wrapped up production and things quieted down all the pills and therapy couldn't help Gabe, and it kept taking its toll on the family.

Some personal demons are actually demons...holy crap, is he on the neighbors balcony?

"That look in his eyes, he just wasn't there anymore. He tried to play with the children but was afraid of hurting them and mostly spent the time in his den all alone. I would find him in the dark, crying sometimes. We would lie in bed and even though he was right there at arms length, Gabe was thousands of miles away."

When talk of the PS2 arrived Gabe was the farthest thing from SCEA's mind. They paid little attention and recast Gabe's role without missing a beat while keeping Lian Xing on board for the Omega Strain release on the PS2. One night after much consideration, Gabe kissed his kids goodbye in their sleep and left his loving wife a note.

When the final check arrived, Cassandra knew, it had cost her everything.

Back in 1994, before the Playstation was even released, Naughty Dog was hard at work laying the groundwork for the very first crash game. Most of the odds and ends were being worked out, but here was one hole: They had no star. After exhaustive auditions and screenings Jason Rubin found a unique face in the Crowd, Crash, Crash Bandicoot. Crash was signed on to be the face of this new franchise. In 1996 Crash made a debut at E3, and made everyone's Must Play" lists. Things were looking up for Naughty Dog, but this was the beginning of a lie that would almost tear Crash apart.

You know crash's patented spin move? Its a girlscout anti-rape manuver.

Crash Bandicoot was not what he seemed. Crash, was born CreeAsha-Maybelle Bandicoot. Most of her life she did not fit in with the social groups of women, and had very strained relationships with female friends. Cast as a Tom-Boy, CreeAsha learned to hide her feelings and to exist in her own world. Living in a small town, it became easier to ignore the comments rude and charges from others about how she dressed. That was her world until college. Once at Evergreen CreeAsha got a chance to recast herself on a clean slate. She began to dress and act as a young man. Her day to day interactions became more normalized and her behavior went unnoticed. Towards the end of her time there she began to date women, and enjoyed the mystique of the gender roles. Many flings did not get very far, but one in particular held out in her mind.

"I had been going out with this one girl who was in my Physics class, she lived in 'downtown' Olympia. One night after leaving the Capitol theatre we started to make out in my car; one thing lead to another and she discovered my secret. It took her a few moments to realize why she couldn't find my penis with her drunken groupings. After that she simply left the car."

Even in Evergreen's inclusive environment CreeAsha felt apart. So after she graduated, CreeAsha headed to LA to see what fate had in store for her, and was discovered. "Crash" quickly became a Playstation icon, and her strained effort to conceal the truth became wrapped up in the mountain of work. Voice augmentation, hormone replacement therapy, it started to seem manageable. CreeAsha began to wear Crash less like a mask and more like a facet of herself. Once again CreeAsha began to see herself fancying women, but rejecting a lesbian lifestyle. This time the apple of her affections was Tawna, Crash's on screen girlfriend. They became fast friends, and started to see each other outside of work. And just when CreeAsha thought she could trust someone with her secret her world was rocked in 1998. Tawna was repulsed when she found out, and told Naughty Dog front man Andy Gavin. Once again, her secret began to unravel all that she had worked for. Here were Andy's first reactions.

See you couldn't tell. You would have gone home with Kuja here and gotten a colon full of suprise.

"I was mad. That freak lied to us, for all that time. I remember hearing it and kicking a hole in my wall. I was just furious all day long. A societal reject sitting right under our noses, taking money from us, lying to us, I didn't know where to turn. Before I got myself calmed down I punched Bob Rafei in the back of the head. But, I figured discretion was the best avenue. We were sitting on a popular franchise, and you can't just let that go. So that night I burned a cross on CreeAsha's lawn, and sent her threatening letters that she should keep her mouth shut about what she really was."

Tawna expressed she no longer wanted to be a part of the project, and was written out expediently. This pushed CreeAsha's inward for two years, deathly afraid of letting anyone in. Her work became her cage. CreeAsha was utterly alone until the 2000 E3. There she was approached by one of the stars of Final Fantasy 9 who was doing spokes work for squaresoft at the Expo. Kuja, with those delicate cheekbones and exposed skin, was almost beyond gender. They spent the entire week together. They spent endless months together, which bled into years. Kuja made CreeAsha feel so at ease, so welcome. Kuja even admitted his secret that he was not actually a woman, and CreeAsha shared hers. The two were inseparable outside of work. During sex they shared the fantasy that their roles and genders were reversed, CreeAsha imagined that it was her member penetrating Kuja. But there was something missing. Kuja wanted more. Kuja enjoyed the feeling but he wanted to free himself and become a woman. CreeAsha was nervous, and was afraid to reach out for help in the matter. While regular transgender surgery was almost out of the question, CreeAsha knew one person she could turn to.

This picture represents their struggle.... possibly NSF.

In late 2000 she spoke with a trusted friend that had worked with her for years on the crash games, we spoke with Dr. Neo Cortex who played Crash's nemesis in the games.

"Part of my training as a mad scientist was experimental attachment, and limb augmentation surgeries. It was a little out there even for me, and the risks were immense, but it wasn't impossible. Besides, think of the bragging rights I'd have. A cross species, Gender reassignment surgery, incredible."

And in 2001 their dreams were realized. The surgery went ahead as planned without any complications, and Crash was ready for the release of Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex. From then on they lived their lives together as man and wife.

Truly now he is Crash Transgendicoot.