Secret Boards
The term "secret board" often refers to game boards where off-topic posting is allowed. You can tell which boards allow off-topic posting by clicking "Create New Topic" and checking to see whether or not you get a warning message telling you to stay on-topic.
The following systems have at least one board where off-topic posting is allowed: 3DO, Amiga, APF-*1000/IM, Apple II, Arcadia 2001, Astrocade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, BBS Door, CD-I, Channel F, Colecovision, Commodore 64, DVD Player, Famicom Disc System, Game.com, GameGear, GP32, Intellivision, Jaguar, Jaguar CD, Lynx, Macintosh, Microvision, MSX, Neo-Geo CD, NeoGeo, NeoGeo Pocket Color, Nintendo 64DD, Nuon, Odyssey, Odyssey^2, OS/2, Palm OS, PC-FX, Pinball, Playdia, Pocket PC, Redemption, Sega 32X, Sega CD, Sega Master System, SG-1000, Turbo CD, TurboGrafx-16, Unix/Linux, Vectrex, VIC-20, VirtualBoy, WonderSwan, and WonderSwan Color.
Special Boards
The "official" secret boards:
- Brilliant - first post by misterbum
- Nine - first post by iGenesis
- Level - first post by hdt1234567890111213 (hotdogturtle)
- Room - first post by Cosmic
- Blink - first post by monkeybrigate
- Board 250
- WOT
- Eggbeater
- Spork
- Spatula
- Semprini
- State
- IT'S SLIGHTLY UNDER 9000
- IT'S OVER 9000 - first post by Swordless Link
- IT'S OVER 9001
- Maniacs - first post by spudY2K
- Manos: The Hands of Fate - first post by Steve
- Qass - first post by QassTank
- Bananadine - first post by QassTank
- The Goggles, They Do Nothing - first post by Llama Masters
- Fried Egg
- Snakes on a Plane - first post by Crazyreyn
- Empire - first post by FireZeal
- Angela - first post by Eggie
- Jenny - first post by DuckX3
- Jumpman - first post by barbarianbob
- Rollin' - first post by Takato
- Game F.A.Q.'s
- VGFA - first post by barbarianbob
- Lame - first post by meninite
- The End of the World - first post by ChatbotSana
- The End of Time - first post by barbarianbob
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- Rnd() - first post by Black Tyger
- Pie
- LifeLock - first post by DGKMO
- Wow - first post by barbarianbob
- Toaster Oven - first post by The Phoenix of Sno
Special Social Boards
The de-linked Social Boards:
- Capcom vs SNK Social
- Digimon Games Social
- MegaMan Social
- Pokemon Games Social
- Palace of Wisdom
- Zelda Games Social
- Resident Evil Social
- Mario Games Social
- Yu-Gi-Oh *Social
- Sonic Games Social
- Three Kingdoms Social
- Metroid Social
- Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire - Social
- Xbox General - Social
- GameCube General - Social
- PlayStation2 General - Social
- GameBoy Advance General - Social
- Roleplaying and Fanfiction - Social
- Metal Gear Solid 3 - Social
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Social
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Social
- Wii General - Social
- Xbox 360 General - Social
- Pokemon Black/White - Social
Beta Boards
The boards that were created prior to the GameFAQs/GameSpot merge in April 2004: