Nectarine

yeah nostalgic and legendary. A full part of my childhood ! and 70s guys sure

Great Serp: now we wanna know what was the protection like !

hehe, nice story Serp!

Funny story by Onyx/Blizzard^RSI^VF etc. of Amiga version of Arkanoid:
"Something I will probably always remember is the phone-call I got from a someone called "Mr. Lippert", if I remember correctly. He called me up one late afternoon to tell me that he was pissed about my crack of "Arkanoid" (Amiga version from Diskovery Software) because just a few days before my former group Blizzard released it, he had given copies of the game to all the "important" scene-folks on the CeBit, a big computer and communication fare held anually here in Hannover. Everybody had to promise that they wouldn't crack the game, although I knew that Star Frontiers had already released the NTSC version. The copies he gave out were the PAL version however, and since I didn't go to the CeBit that day, I had not recieved "my" copy. Another friend of mine, Karsten Obarski - author of The Soundtracker - had gotten a copy though, and I borrowed it from him and cracked it. As far as I remember I didn't even put my handle into the Crack because Karsten had told me about the "agreement" under which Mr. Lippert had given out the copies, and I thought it would be too risky to include my handle. Some stupid traitor must have told Mr. Lippert who the "asshole" was that had cracked his game, and given him my phone number. "