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/

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

Turns out changing your phone's notification sound from something obnoxious (the "AUGH!" sound from Donkey Kong Country) to something comforting (the ding from Wheel of Fortune) makes all the difference in the world

New Secret Area post: It's Unreal.

Epic Games and Digital Extremes' foray into the first-person shooter genre was pretty mindblowing for 1998, and it's the only classic FPS I *hadn't* written about yet.

Shares and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2026/04/14/unreal-pc/

in this case, it was setting a few things up for publishing an article for later today so I stop forgetting to put them in after it goes live

Love when sometimes past me does certain things in advance so that present me doesn't have to worry about it as much when the time comes for it.

Thank you, past me

thinking about a genderless burger experience

Oh no, I think I have become one of those nerds who gets infatuated with production music

New on Patreon: It's Unreal.

The 1998 shooter classic by Epic Games and Digital Extremes, and one of the few old-school FPSes I haven't written about yet.

Available for all Patrons at $1 or more: https://patreon.com/youfoundasecretarea

Me constantly tinkering with my writing (even as I'm writing it) makes me think I find more enjoyment in editing stuff than writing stuff

I assume that's not a unique phenomenon, but it may explain why I tend to write so infrequently

finished serious sam HD: the first encounter with a few friends.

imo serious sam is best played co-operatively with friends using the coin-op co-op option because then it feels more like I'm playing a twin stick shooter in first person

Went out for a small walk and it was rather soothing

There's something about just walking around in those early mornings that just... feels good, y'know?

Realizing that I have a lot of games and consoles I do not use and have been sitting in a closet for years at this point

Contemplating selling them, just so they get used by someone and stop collecting dust

Heard this while listening to a podcast today and I just had to make art of it (in a crude MSPaint kind of way):