Propaganda 14 ch09
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THE OFFICIAL RELEASE CHARTS RELEASE CHARTS PROPAGANDA #14 PERFORMED BY MARC/ALPHA FLIGHT ________________________________________ INTRODUCING THE RULES FOR THE CHARTS. Fullprice Games 7.O - 8.O Budget Games 5.O - 6.O Low Budget Games 3.O - 4.O Public Domain 1.O - 2.O Previews O.1 - 1.O Bonus points can be reached by 1OO% working PAL/NTSC version. If another group is involved in the fix, the points will be shared between both parties. Fixed Version 1.O - 1.5 ________________________________________ Points are going to be reduced for no levelpacking, trainers, translation and for bugged level versions! NO Levelpacking -O.5 - 1.O NO Trainers -O.5 - 1.O NO Translation -1.5 - 2.O Bugged Version - 2.O SEUCK will get no points. At present, rereleases will punished with - 7.O points. ________________________________________ The following boards have been taken under consideration while creating the charts: HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA, DOWN BY LAW, FORPLAY, THE FORUM, THE DUNGEON, and THE EVIL ISLAND. To avoid misunderstandings the following boards will be observed as well: EDGE OF MIDNIGHT, THE DEAD ZONE, TUNNEL OF WARES, MENACE TO SOCIETY and CHAOTIC FACTOR. ________________________________________ ACCEPT ACCEPT ________________________________________ They released the Public Domain Game .. ENERGY MAKER (O.O Points) but they >< forgot to translate the whole text and the game crashes after a short while! ALPHA FLIGHT ALPHA FLIGHT ________________________________________ The flight started very slow with an average Preview called DOZO'S QUEST (O.5 Points). Later on they released the fixed 1OO% version of MYSTERY (4.O p) from CP Verlag followed by ROBOX (4.5 Points) from Markt und Technik. Last but not least they brought out the pre- view of THINK TWICE (O.6 p) AVANTGARDE AVANTGARDE ________________________________________ First they brought out a cooperation with LASER, the fixed version of FAST FUTURE (3.7 p) followed by the preview of REACTOR 2 (O.8 p) and BABYBLUES (4.5 Points) from CP Verlag. After this a cooperation crack with EXCESS, the fixed version of SMASHER 2 (3.1 Points) from Commodore Format. No points will be give for the tools COLOUR PACK and ABUZER 3.5 CHROMANCE CHROMANCE ________________________________________ They sarted with TRICK (5.5 Points) from Rom Software which went bankrupt 1.5 years ago. Fixed by the new American fixing group, ARISTOCRACY. Later on a few previews appeared, TETRISACK (O.4 Points), BATTLE (O.5 p), AM0BA (O.4 p) and BALLA BALLA (O.4 p). Later ANTROCK (4.O Points) was put out along with ARISTOCRACY again. The PAL-version of NO LIMIT was put out as well (3.5 p). EXCESS EXCESS ________________________________________ They released in cooperation with AVANTGARDE, SMASHER 2 (3.1 Points) FAMINE FAMINE ________________________________________ A new American Cracker group is born, .. but unfortunately they started with a >< release called FENEMENT (-7.O Points) relased by SHAZAM a short while ago. F CG F4CG ________________________________________ A fleet of wares invaded the boards from the old group. In the beginning they up- loaded the following previews SPOOK (O.4 Points), MINEFIELD (O.4 Points), JUMP (O.7 Points) and SLATERMIND (O.5 Points) DRIP (4.9 Points) from Tim Soft was put out along with EMPIRE. An American game found its way out, called PREHISTORIC MAN (6.O Points), followed by an Amer- ican low budget game under the name SHERWOOD OPEN (3.1 p). BLURBIA (O.4 p), another preview, followed by FIFTEEN (4.1 Points) and MINEFIELD (4.O Points) both fixed by EMPIRE. GENESIS PROJECT GENESIS PROJECT ________________________________________ After years of absense, releasewise on the boards, they return with KILLER (3.2 Points), because EMPIRE failed with the fix and a second version was necessary. Their second strike was DOOMED WORLD (O.6 Points), a preview. HARDCORE HARDCORE ________________________________________ The new group released the game SPOOK (3.9 Points) fixed by GLORY. LEGEND LEGEND ________________________________________ JAZZCAT blamed the old legend with a proper recrack of the not released ALPHA FLIGHT version of MYSTERY. Furthermore the NTSC fix from TSM didn't work correclty. LASER LASER ________________________________________ FASTFUTURE (3.7 Points) with AVANTGARDE. SUCCESS TRC SUCCESS + TRC ________________________________________ The month started with a fixed version of QUEENS (4.5 Points) from CP Verlag followed by STARBUST (O.4 Points) Pre- view and the unplayable Preview of BORN IN SPACE (O.3 Points) by Talented Bank. Later on they have earned some laughs by releasing HEAVENBOUND, a preview identical to the one put out by CHROMANCE in early 1993. SHAZAM SHAZAM ________________________________________ They released the not trained PAL version of HAMMER BROS (2.O Points) TRANCE TRANCE ________________________________________ After ALPHA FLIGHT released the unplay- able version some months ago, they re- leased the playable version of IMPERIOD (O.6 Points) from Talented Bank. ________________________________________ On the following pages you find the charts for issue 14. We cannot help wondering where groups like TALENT, LEGEND, TRSI and DYTEC have faded, but we realize the utter truth.. **........ - PROPAGANDA 14! \/\/--/\>< BETTER THAN YOGURT. THE OFFICIAL RELEASE CHARTS RELEASE CHARTS PROPAGANDA #14 RANK GROUP POINTS ________________________________________ O1. F4CG 29.1 O2. Chromance 14.7 O3. Avantgarde 12.1 O4. Alpha Flight 9.6 O5. Success+TRC 5.2 O6. Hardcore 3.9 O7. Genesis*Project 3.8 O8. Laser 3.7 O9. Excess 3.1 1O. Shazam 2.0 ________________________________________ ** THE OFFICIAL RELEASE CHARTS ** \/ \/ RANK GROUP RELEASES ________________________________________ O1. Empire (5) O2. Avantgarde (3) O3. Alphaflight (2) Aristocracy (2) O4. Glory (1) Success+TRC (1) ________________________________________ That's all for this issue. For any questions, catch me on all the major boards. Yours, Marc of ALPHA FLIGHT 1970.