bev! @TonicBH@computerfairi.es

New on the Secret Area: "Halo with chips" has been found.

A dumb back of the box quote from Maxim magazine promoting a poker video game had become a small meme. I wanted to find out where it came from.

Likes, shares and comments are really appreciated. https://asecretarea.com/2025/02/21/halo-with-chips-found/

Hey, remember when I was talking about wanting a cat fursona?

Well, thanks to a picrew, and a friend who was willing to help, it's now a reality.

Say hi to Tonya! She's soft, cuddly, and friendly!

(art by Megahand6 on birdsite)

ps visit my website it has cool dumb video game things

I made a new post yesterday to cover devolver digital's silly advergame

http://asecretarea.com

I've been a PC gal for a long time but I've been trying to branch back into console stuff, partially to check out stuff I missed that isn't on PC (or the "better" version is on console)

but I ain't got US$500 to burn, man

congrats to all those who hammered store websites and got a switch 2 preorder

...can I have your old Switch? ​

Been playing a bit of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.

Turns out Serious Sam's style of gameplay fits perfectly as a top-down shooter, who knew!!

I think this is why I'm not a big fan of modern game show themes, they lack that sense of intensity, that sense of punch, that pop

Closest theme I heard in the past few years that nailed the old-school vibe was, of all the game shows out there, 25 Words Or Less.

It Is Time for bev to again share some game show music she's been listening to

game show themes didn't have to get this funky but I'm glad it did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CnTYFoF8E

hot dog on a pizza

Thanks to finding a box of old PS1 and Dreamcast games, I've added more games to the ol "CD games with Red Book Audio" list.

I also found out Dreamcast discs have a generic "This is a Dreamcast disc, don't put it in a CD" message, but the message differs from game to game!

I'd like to not only document *if* a CD game has Redbook Audio, but what tracks are on there.

The game soundtrack, audio files for cutscenes, or even that remix that's on Castlevania Symphony of the Night

It's that kind of ephemera I like

A rabbit hole I've since gone down:

How come nobody's properly documented what PS1, Saturn et al games have Redbook audio?

There's lists dating back as far as 2003, but they're incomplete and/or inaccurate.

Looks like I might have a project idea...

listening to the soundtrack of the Tomb Raider film from 2001 and we're missing out on the days where they'd get a bunch of industrial/electronic artists to contribute some banger tracks

Like, if your soundtrack doesn't have Moby, BT, The Chemical Brothers and Groove Armada, what are you *doing*

something I'm thinking about as I slowly rebuild my music collection to maybe add game music:

do I do what I did last time and sort them into specific playlists

or just throw everything into one big playlist and damn the consequences

New on the Secret Area: It's Quake II RTX.

The 1997 shooter gets a ray-traced makeover. But is it worth playing this over the original, or even the remastered version?

Likes, shares, and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2025/04/10/quake-ii-rtx-pc/