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"I play games, I record them, then I break 'em."
―Main channel motif

Bill Petersen, more commonly known as AlChestBreach, is a YouTuber best known for his gaming content, specializing in Fallout mods. He has been commentating and doing playthroughs of PC games for over ten years, though he started video-making prior to this, doing comedy skits with his friends.

History[]

When he was born, his parents and sister had to live in his grandparent's basement. He was first exposed to video games when he got his hands on a NES controller and played Mario all the time. When he was young, he had many adventures with his first best friend, Dave. One day when the two were playing Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Dave told Bill that he could add different things to the game himself, using mods. This would be Bill's first introduction to modding. He and Dave also played a game called ZZT a lot and spent one whole night programming their own games. He would later go on to play one of his games during Misc. Monday in 2013.

In high school, he met Matt, Nicholi, Sych, Reggie and other friends who would later make appearances on the Real Life Friends podcast. He got a video camera in his second year of high school and began to film random stuff and soon began editing his own videos. His first popular video was a video he made with his friends, a COPS-style parody. He uploaded it to a now defunct video site, to positive reception.

Bill studied 3D art and film editing in college. He joined YouTube with a channel called Billtcm on March 6, 2006, where he would upload videos he made in college. When he first heard of Fallout, he did not play it until a friend told him more about the game. Bill's main channel, AlChestBreach (which doubles as an alias for him, and he is most commonly known as "Al" on the Internet), was launched on November 26, 2010. The name of the channel comes from an older video of his, where "Al Chestbreach" was used as a fake name.

With the AlChestBreach channel, he is most known for his play-throughs of Fallout: New Vegas, which brought him most of his popularity. However, his content also covers other games, and even other genres of videos, such as the cooking series Test Kitchen. His interactions with the games he plays highlight his unique sense of humor, often featuring songs, different voices, and silly catchphrases.

Trivia[]

  • Bill lives in an apartment in New York City with Sych from Real Life Friends, and comedian/actor Andrew Barlow.
    • He previously lived in a different apartment from 2018-2019, for which his move-in process was detailed in the May 2018 video I Moved To NYC - Face Warning!. He gave a tour of this apartment in My NYC Apartment Tour!, published in May 2019, shortly before moving to his current, less expensive apartment.
  • Bill's birthday is on February 8.
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