Amiga Works < Terra Cresta
Joystick Port 2:
Cursor-keys to move, Shift to fire
Cursor-keys to move, Shift to fire
| Name: | Terra Cresta |
| Publisher: | Nichibutsu/Ocean, 1992 (unpublished) |
| Type: | Crack |
| Intro-date: | 2023-07-01 |
| Intro: | Depeche |
| Viper: | Saturnus the Invincible |
| Sound: | Lord |
| Scroll: | THE MEGA-MIGHTY SWISS CRACKING ASSOCIATION AND SPREADPOINT PRESENT TERRA CRESTA * * * RELEASED AT POSADAS AMIGA PARTY 2023 * * * ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE BUSTLING, NEON CITY OF AKIHABARA, TOKYO, THE SO-CALLED "ELECTRIC TOWN", LIVED A YOUNG MAN NAMED KENJI WHO WAS CAPTIVATED BY THE WORLD OF VINTAGE TECHNOLOGY, RETRO VIDEO GAMES, AND ARCANE COMPUTER SYSTEMS. HE SPENT HIS DAYS ROAMING THE LABYRINTHINE ALLEYWAYS AND NARROW STREETS, DIGGING THROUGH THE TREASURE TROVES OF ANTIQUE ELECTRONICS SHOPS FOR THE HIDDEN GEMS OF YESTERYEAR. ONE SWELTERING SUMMER DAY, KENJI ENTERED A DUSTY, UNASSUMING SHOP SPECIALIZING IN AMIGA COMPUTER PARTS AND MEMORABILIA. GUIDED BY HIS INTUITION, HE FOUND HIMSELF DRAWN TO A DIMLY LIT CORNER AT THE BACK, WHERE HE DISCOVERED A LARGE, TATTERED CARDBOARD BOX BURIED UNDER LAYERS OF FORGOTTEN COMPUTER PERIPHERALS. TO KENJI'S EXCITEMENT, THIS CARDBOARD RELIC WAS FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH OLD AMIGA DISKETTES, EACH SUFFUSED WITH THE POTENTIAL TO HARBOR THE FORGOTTEN CODE OF ANCIENT, PIXEL-BASED WORLDS. DRIVEN BY A MIX OF CURIOSITY AND A COLLECTOR'S PASSION, KENJI PURCHASED THE ENTIRE CACHE OF DISKS WITHOUT HESITATION, AND EAGERLY TOOK THEM BACK TO HIS OWN COLLECTION-FILLED APARTMENT. FOR YEARS, KENJI DIVED DEEP INTO THE REALMS OF EVERY DISKETTE HE FOUND IN THAT ENIGMATIC BOX. HE CATALOGUED, EXPLORED, AND ENDEAVORED TO PRESERVE EACH UNIQUE PIECE OF RETRO SOFTWARE AND GAMING HISTORY. BIT BY BIT, HE PIECED TOGETHER THE VIVID, PIXELATED STORIES CONTAINED WITHIN THE DISKS, BUT THERE WAS ALWAYS ONE PARTICULARLY STRANGE DISKETTE THAT REMAINED UNREADABLE BY HIS AMIGA 1200. ITS SUBTLE DIFFERENCES FROM THE OTHERS PIQUED HIS CURIOSITY AND KEPT IT AT THE BACK OF HIS MIND AS HE CONTINUED TO UNEARTH THE CONTENTS OF THE OTHER DISKS. DESPERATE TO UNLOCK THE SECRETS HIDDEN WITHIN THE UNREADABLE DISKETTE, KENJI SOUGHT OUT THE ADVICE OF AMIGA ENTHUSIASTS AND COLLECTORS ACROSS THE INTERNET. THEY SHARED WITH HIM CRYPTIC TALES OF LONG-LOST PROTOTYPES, RARE DEMOS, AND EVEN UNRELEASED GAMES THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY. FUELED BY THIS NEWFOUND KNOWLEDGE, HE REDOUBLED HIS EFFORTS. HE TRIED VARIOUS METHODS TO ACCESS THE MYSTERIOUS DISK - USING DIFFERENT DRIVES, SOFTWARE, AND EVEN ATTEMPTING DATA RECOVERY. HIS PERSISTENCE PAID OFF WHEN HE FINALLY MANAGED TO GET A GLIMMER OF SOMETHING ON HIS SCREEN, A BOOTING SCREEN WITH AN ICONIC LOGO THAT TOOK HIS BREATH AWAY: A BOLD, NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE AMIGA VERSION OF THE BELOVED CLASSIC GAME, TERRA CRESTA. NOW PREPARE YOUR AMIGA 1200 TO START THE FIGHT AGAINST マンドラー SOON. IT WON'T BE LONG NOW. |
| Disk: | disks/ttcc |
| Pouët: | https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=94566 |
| Demozoo: | https://demozoo.org/productions/325649/ |
