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- @f02@t4@cTHE EUROCHARTS: FLASH-BACK
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- @t5@f00Written by Conquest and Surfer
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- @t5@f00When CRUSADERS released their very
- first issue of Official Eurocharts Top
- Ten,they probably didn't guess that it
- would become so popular among the
- Amiga scene.That happened in November
- 1989 and since this time,the
- Eurocharts have kept their spirit
- whereas the lay out and design
- constantly developed. The chart
- concept was devised,as the scene was
- growing up,and as many demos were
- showing up.CRUSADERS made the first
- one and whatever people think about
- it,it is probably the most important
- serial production released on amiga,
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- because of its prestige! They always
- reflected quite nearly the state of
- mind of the scene,that's to say that
- during 1990 the crack groups dominated
- them,and that one year later demo
- groups outclassed them.Actually it was
- also due to the friendship
- movement,which one started to cover
- the whole scene at the end of 1990.
- Coming back to this period,you could
- see in the charts the best,but also
- the worst rankings showing that there
- was hard competitions between groups
- and sometimes wars.BBS were also
- something new in the scene,as many of
- them were born during this time.They
- of course had their place in the
- @#
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- @t5@f00Eurocharts! At the middle of
- 1990,CRUSADERS probably understood how
- popular their charts became.So they
- made it more seriously improving code
- and design. It was maybe the
- beginning of a very professional
- work,and it also means the beginning
- of a full-time production. The worst
- charts dealing with the Amiga
- disappeared,and the product started to
- be a kind of mag treating about the
- scene during the last two months. At
- the end of 1990,many demos saw the
- daylight and the Eurocharts were
- coming even closer to the scene:the
- EURONEWS were born. CRUSADERS also
- got the good idea to include a scene
- slide show with famous dudes like
- themselves and with anybody who wanted
- to see his face in the EUROCHARTS.The
- Gallery probably made them more
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- @t5@f00famous! Something important happened
- too in the eighth issue,seeing that
- they splitted the demo charts,and made
- two different gradings with one part
- demos and trackloaded demos.The
- trackmo was more fashionable and was
- coming from everywhere.By the way,it
- never means quality,just amount of
- work! The design was a bit enhanced
- during 1991.As the EUROCHARTS were now
- a major production,CRUSADERS wanted to
- show their main talents.It was of
- course, pleasant to listen to new
- modules from Dr Awesome and Fleshbrain
- and to discover new gfx from Bustman
- and Intec,while reading them. Till
- the last 14th issue,there were no big
- changes except that Dr Awesome left
- CRUSADERS and stopped composing Amiga
- music.It is maybe a reason why the
- group started to be fed up with their
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- @t5@f00production. The EUROCHARTS were also
- famous because of the problems that
- they created. Too many people were
- jealous when discovering the
- results,and they obviously took them
- too seriously.Yet,CRUSADERS never
- forget to list the voters and moreover
- to underline the number of
- them.Anybody can understand that a 400
- voters average does not reflect that
- much the opinion of the scene. But as
- everywhere,jerks aren't missing.So
- they accused the group of cheating. I
- wonder why CRUSADERS will get interest
- in faking the charts as they haven't
- been rated since the third
- issue!Anyway,there was probably some
- cheating,but the authors couldn't help
- it.I also think that it wouldn't have
- changed a lot at the top of the
- charts,cause the first ones were there
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- @t5@f00to stay! I understand that such a
- production could take most of their
- spare-time,and that it became too
- boring to know the results before
- counting the charts,as El Cubo
- said.Many people tried to take them
- over or just try to copy them,but the
- official EUROCHARTS were still
- there.Maybe they took them too
- seriously, and they should have
- released less issues a
- year.Well,ending this serie will also
- stop the charts monopole.I've heard
- that many groups are working on new
- ones,so a race for fame has
- started,and when this article will be
- published,we might have been invaded
- by clones.The most interesting topic
- is to discover who's going to take
- them over with a special agreement
- from CRUSADERS. So we'll never have
- @#
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- @t5@f00to press anymore the left mousebutton
- to start staring at the official
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- EUROCHARTS,and now that a small part
- of our scene was burried, everybody is
- in a bad mood and feels like crying
- "Please hurry, when are you going to
- come back?
- @t3 Conquest and Surfer
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