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'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/

been cleaning out some old books so we can get rid of them, and among all the gardening, home improvement and recipe books, I found a bunch of issues of WIRED magazine from 2008-09, one of which had an article I'm curious to read:

"why the music industry *hates* Guitar Hero"

the bobs... they ache

New Patreon post: It's Quake II RTX.

Quake II, a solid FPS from 1997, decides to get an HDified version in 2019. But is it worth going RTX ON?

Available now at $1 or more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/quake-ii-rtx-old-126138282

look, the only doomposting I wanna see is people posting about the 1993 computer game classic Doom by id Software

henlo i am canine

bork bork

Michael Larson's reign on Press Your Luck is the "DID YOU KNOW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 WAS ORIGINALLY A JAPANESE GAME CALLED DOKI DOKI PANIC" of game shows

send toot

One of those times where I'm listening to some more good game show music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzlDXFqrEIY

3:30am ice cream cravings are the worst