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So, what’s Hidden Palace?

We love old video games. Especially the ones that were not meant to be seen or played. We play every prototype with excitement. So why the site?

We will buy games, prototypes, whatever, dump them and release them here. Free of charge, for your enjoyment.

Basically, whoever you are - a hardcore player, a prototypes collector, or just a ROM junkie who likes his 3.1415 terabyte folder filled with ROMs, I am your new friend. So, enjoy your stay and spread the word.

One game idea a day for 300 days. He fizzled out at around 50 but there’s still some AMAZING really cool ideas. I want to play most of them. I think it’s the pixel graphics sucking me in. Sim-MMO? Design your own MMO-Game? How cool is that. C’mon. What’s cool is that he’s giving the ideas to the world for free. Naturally he’d like credit but it’s a legal gift, y’know? Good stuff.

Originally, it was a challenge to myself to create a new game idea or gameplay mechanic once per day for 300 days. I failed this challenge and stopped updating around entry #050. However, it is still my intention to fill up this notebook of ideas to the full three hundred one day, though at a more leisurely pace.

Three Hundred :: About…

I was walking around the IGF games, looking and playing a few. I peek my head one of the monitors, and watch someone play Flipside for a bit. It’s a silly game, and it was making some loud noises. People were interviewing the creators of Iron Dukes, and asked us to turn it down. I botched my roll in intelligence and dexterity and pressed the contrast lower button on the monitor to try to turn down the volume, which brought up a menu dialog on the screen. When really I should have just turned the knob down on the speakers. I got all embarrassed and looked at the person playing and was like ‘oops, sorry..’ when my heart stopped. Who was playing the game?

GABE NEWELL.

He was giving the game a shot, because it’s a HL2 mod. I just froze and choked.

He stopped playing and turned to the creator of the game, shook the guys hand and said “Hi, I’m Gabe Newell.”

…the person had no idea who that was, and just replied with a bored “Hi.” Perhaps he didn’t know who he was, because he was Danish? Delicious.

“Everyone at Valve has been talking about it,” says Gabe. Still, crickets.

“Cool.” Wow. No idea. How funny is that…

So after Gabe walked away, I had to say something so I chased him down. Aaron walked up right at that moment. I stopped Gabe and introduced myself, and explained about EndgameRadio. I told him about the incident where Urban was in HL2. (THE PIX ARE DOWN, URB, MAKE IT WORK AHURR HURRRRRR :_:) and then also where we all deemed him the sexiest man alive. He was a good sport and said we should talk to Lombardi and get some interviews with Valve employees. I made sure to thank him for being radical and doing radical things. I didn’t want to take up too much of his time, so we let him go check out more games. For as big a deal as we’ve made him, and as much as I thought I’d be star struck upon ever actually getting to meet him, I was somewhat surprised I grew balls and talked to him.

It was kind of one of the most awesome things that happened to me ever. In all seriousness, it was really awesome to be able to tell him how rad I think he is, despite the teasing we gave him in the past.

Wow, does anyone know anything else about this? Is it for a movie or something?

Good evening. How are you? I hope you’ve had a good weekend. As promised, I’m ready to give you the low-down on yesterday’s glamorous gala opening of the ECHO PARK TIME TRAVEL MART.

When you’re done reading this, make me a sammich too pls.

One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed.

Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, “I don’t feel like it, I just want you to hold me.”

I said, “WHAT??!! What was that?!”

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear…

“You’re just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.”

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, “Can’t you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?”

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn’t decide which one to take, so I told her we’d just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, “Lets get a pair for each outfit.”

We went on to the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you… she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn’t even know how to play tennis.

I think I threw her for a loop when I said, “That’s fine, honey.” She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, “I think this is all dear, let’s go to the cashier.”

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, “No honey, I don’t feel like it.”

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled, “WHAT?”

I then said, “Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You’re just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.”

And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, “Why can’t you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?”

Apparently I’m not having sex tonight either….but at least that bitch knows I’m smarter than her.