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proudly presents
Twin Sector / Headup Games

RELEASE DATE : 17-09-2009           PROTECTION : Steam
GAME TYPE    : Shooter              DISKS      : 1 DVD

Release Notes:

Time for a little change.

Time for a return to roots of the scene.

Time for blending nostalgia with the present.

Skid Row proudly present our conception of integrating a crack
intro with a cracked exe.

This is how it works:

After you copy the cracked content over, like you normally do,
and launch the game like you normally do, then you will be
presented with a little menu screen.

This screen has 2 options:
1. Launch Game!
2. View Intro!

Option number 1: will launch game like a standard cracked exe.
Option number 2: will launch our crack intro and upon exiting,
the game start will start normally.

This is our solution, on how we wanted to integrate a cracktro
with the cracked game content. We could have made it without
the menu screen, by starting the cracktro directly and then on
exit, then game would start. That method will not work today.
Because of so many different PC configurations and Windows
versions, which could for more or less unknown reasons cause
problems running our cracktro. We didn't wanted our cracktro
to be a problem on launching the game EXE. The best solution
is to give sceners those 2 choices above. Our solution will
not alter the command line functions of the original game EXE,
if such commands are present in the original version.

This is how the future of our cracks will look like. This is
not meant to make the launch of future game titles more
annoying. - this is done to bring back some scene spirit into
the scene. A spirit which goes back to the origins of the
scene, where independent pioneer sceners started to embed
their nicknames into the games. They simply did this to show
others what they accomplished. It soon became more and more
advanced, as these independent people teamed up in groups, to
build and attach their own programmed introduction screens
inside the games. Thus, crack intros were born and since then
have been a major part of the scene. Sadly, in the last couple
of years this trend has fallen and cracktros became a niche
thing.

Our best wish is to revert this rather bitter tendency and
encourage other groups to bring back this great, great
tradition of the scene to it's formal glory.

Concluding, we want to show others, that a pre with just an
ordinary NFO file and group tag of the release directory
totally misses the true point of what scene can and what
scene should be. Our launch menu conception, intermixes the
best aspects of two worlds - a homage to tradition while
maintaining a complete compatibility & versatility of a
typical cracked EXE.

We want to stress out, that we took the liberty to include
one of the best Commodore 64 intros, which have been
converted to Win32 platforms and customized to fit our needs.
Of course, it have been kept as true as possible to the
original.

Special greetings to The Papillions Incorporated for the
inspiration!

Thank you for reading!

twice the fun  \/ double the trouble

On with the game release information:

The story of Twin Sector takes place in a post-apocalyptic
future where the remains of mankind have been put to
artificial sleep in cryogenic chambers deep under the
contaminated surface of earth   until the planet becomes
habitable again.

You as the player must take the role of Ashley Simms, the
protagonist of Twin Sector. Suddenly awakened by the station's
security A.I. system O.S.C.A.R., you face the imminent
extinction of all other still sleeping survivors due to an
unknown failure in the life support system. According to
O.S.C.A.R., you are the only person who was able to be woken
and therefore the only individual capable of saving mankind.
Within the next ten hours you will need to repair the broken
main generator of the subterranean bunker system in order to
reestablish the station's functionality. But there are yet
unknown forces trying to prevent you from succeeding at all
costs!

Twin Sector is a thrilling physics-based action-adventure
which allows players free interaction with their environment.
Using the advantages of the powerful HAVOK-Engine, innumerable
puzzles, challenges and enemies await the players in a hostile
and threatening futuristic environment. Featuring more than 15
missions alongside a thrilling story line unfolding over the
course of action.

More than 15 challenging missions

Thrilling and exciting storyline

Innovative gameplay

Physics-based action-adventure

Solve challenging puzzles in different ways

Install Notes:

1. Unpack release
2. Mount image or burn it
3. Install
4. Copy the content from the SKIDROW directory on the DVD to
your installation directory and overwrite
5. Play the game

Greetings:

Salutes to our old Amiga friends from:

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THE COMPANY - LEGEND - TRSI - ORACLE - ANTHROX - CLASSIC

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