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- Scandinavia's #1
- Quality cracks
- Speed and Quality
Founded by :
Garfield, Rocky, Sauron, Fist & Hero on 23 June 1989
Dissolved in :
1 December 1993
Group Types :
Demo Group, Cracker Group, Import Group
Base Country :
Norway
Trivia :
--> 1. EARLY DAYS
Illusion was built in June 1989 by Garfield/Jazzcat Cracking Team, Sauron & Hawkeye/Future and the cracking section of Abnormal. All initial members came from Norway.
In the early days the group had been mainly known for its quality cracks which were spread "the classical" way by mailtrading.
--> 2. THE GOLDEN AGE
When Bros died, their Norvegian section Gene, Firkin and Dwarf joined (September 1989, see Passing Shot). This is when Illusion got active in the US BBS scene, initially trading with Exodus. As first US BBSs Wild Warez and Warez Galore have been acquired.
NATO asked Illusion in November 1989 if they would be interested in a coop, but Illusion refused.
Because Illusion didn't have many fast originals at that time, Gene, Firkin and Kilroy decided to leave in Feburary 1990 to build up Unisex, a group which died only a few weeks later.
The English section around Firefox, Dean/Reble MC and Richie (all former Rough Trade Incorporated) joined a few days later. As the English section was strong in supplying fast originals, from then on speed and quality cracking have been brought together and Illusion grew to one of the leading European cracking groups. Gene & Firkin killed Unisex and rejoined Illusion in March 1990. In the US Illusion changed its trading partner from Exodus (mainly due to a personal war between Gene and Exodus) briefly to Optical and finally to A Touch of Class. This is when a long lasting collaboration between Illusion and Pudwerx started. The Forum, one of the most famous US boards ever, became Illusion & A Touch of Class headquarters. A Touch of Class was one of the leading US importing, cracking and NTSC fixing groups at that time. Illusion & ATC started a co-op in the summer of 1990. The co-op was terminated after a few releases only (e.g. Flimbo's Quest +6 [pal/ntsc]) due to the fact that Pudwerx left A Touch of Class to form a new US super group together with Stormbringer/XDS called Random. Illusion stayed loyal to Pudwerx and therefore was trading with Random from then on.
In Feb 1991 Garfield quit the c-64 scene and later in May 1991 Illusion died. Most of the members joined forces with the German sections of Crazy, Lotus & Paramount to build up Enigma.
--> 3. THE SUCCESSFUL COMEBACK
In February 1992 Illusion got rebuilt. Richie, Sauron, Hero and Fist (who had in the meantime moved to Talent) teamed up with Freestyle and the US dudes Pudwerx, Despiser and Prodigy to plan the comeback. A few days before the reunion, "Judgment Day" was announced on all BBSs and this catched the curiosity of a lot of sceners. On "Judgment Day" Illusion was rebuilt by many of the original members and the two legendary american old-school BBSs The Forum und Terminal Obsession were put back online. Pudwerx/ex-ATC reentered the scene to NTSC-fix the constant flow of first-releases. Again quality (Norvegian cracking section, US fixing) and speed (UK section, Richie!) came together. More members mainly from ex-The Dominators joined in later: Gene, Baze, Rebel, Derbyshire Ram, NME... Further Reble MC, a former ILS member returned to the scene.
In November 1992 the 2 Swedes Tronic and Sodapop joined in. Paradize the leading European BBS became Illusion HQ. Further Radar joined after his beloved mothership Arcade had grounded but left again after only a few weeks.
--> 4. THE END
In spring 1993 many bad news had hit the group. Forum and Terminal Obsession went down again. Pudwerx and the English section had slowed down their activities. Derbyshire Ram was the only active original supplier and cracker left in the UK.
A new US section was formed: Lucifer, Brett, Susie Uzi, Serpent & Grego. Lucifer left again after a short while to build up his own H/P and fixing group called Coderz. Brett was running the new US Headquarters called Purgatory. The choice to take "Purgatory" as new US HQ turned out to be a mistake, as enough diskspace was missing, the board was often down and was taken down for good only a couple of months later.
The group died on December 1, 1993, when troubles between the new US section and the remaining Europeans couldn't be solved in peace anymore. The Norwegian section stopped. Darklord, Richie, Derbyshire Ram, Freestyle and Pudwerx left to form Avantgarde together with a bunch of German sceeners like Deff, Jack Daniels, Magic Man, Weasel, HOK, Peter & Jack Alien.
(history compiled by Freestyle, last update 16.3.2012)
All Members :
| Atmos (ex) | (1993 -> 9-1993) | .... | Original Supplier, Co-Sysop |
| BaZe (ex) | (4-1992 -> 10-1993) | .... | Mega Swapper |
| Brett (ex) | (5-1993 -> 10-1993) | .... | Sysop |
| Buzz (ex) | | .... | Coder |
| Cerberus (ex) | (4-1992 -> 12-1992) | .... | Hacker, Phreaker |
| Comic (ex) | (3-1990 -> ) | .... | Graphician, Swapper |
| Cutter (ex) | | .... | Original Supplier |
| Cyberpunk (ex) | (8-1990 -> 3-1991) | .... | Swapper, Modem Trader, Importer |
| Darklord (ex) | (2-1993 -> 10-1993) | .... | Cracker |
| Dean (ex) | (15/2-1990 -> 9-1990) | .... | Swapper, Cracker |
| Deff (ex) | (11/1-1991 -> 4-1991) | .... | Modem Trader, Swapper |
| Derbyshire Ram (ex) | (9-1992 -> 12-1993) | .... | Swapper, Cracker, Original Supplier, Mega Swapper |
| Despiser (ex) | (2-1992 -> 12-1992) | .... | Hacker, Phreaker |
| DMC (ex) | (9-1992 -> 10-1993) | .... | Cracker, Original Supplier |
| Dwarf (ex) | (9-1989 -> ) | .... | Coder, Graphician, Swapper, Cracker |
| Firefox (ex) | (2-1990 -> ) | .... | Swapper, Cracker, Original Supplier |
| Firkin (ex) | (9-1989 -> 3-1990) | .... | Swapper, Cracker |
| Fist (ex) | (2-1992 -> 10-1993) | .... | Coder, Cracker |
| Fist (ex) | (6-1989 -> 5-1991) | .... | Coder, Cracker |
| Frank (ex) | (2-1991 -> 4-1991) | .... | Coder, Graphician |
| Freestyle (ex) | (2-1992 -> 26/9-1993) | .... | Coder, Swapper, Modem Trader |
| Garfield (ex) | (6-1989 -> 2-1991) | .... | Coder, Swapper, Cracker |
| Gene (ex) | (4-1992 -> 5-1993) | .... | Swapper, Modem Trader, Public Relations Manager |
| Gene (ex) | (9-1989 -> 3-1990) | .... | Swapper, Modem Trader, Public Relations Manager |
| Grego (ex) | ( -> 12-1993) | .... | Sysop |
| Hawkeye (ex) | | .... | Original Supplier |
| Hero (ex) | (2-1992 -> 5-1993) | .... | Swapper, Public Relations Manager, Organizer, Modem Trader |
| Hero (ex) | (6-1989 -> 5-1991) | .... | Swapper, Public Relations Manager, Organizer, Modem Trader |
| Kilroy (ex) | (10-1989 -> 3-1990) | .... | Sysop |
| Lucifer (ex) | (1993 -> 1993) | .... | Hacker, Phreaker |
| MRG (ex) | (6-1989 -> ) | .... | Coder, Cracker |
| NME (ex) | (8-1992 -> 12-1993) | .... | Cracker |
| PK (ex) | (6-1989 -> 12-1990) | .... | Graphician |
| Prodigy (ex) | (3-1992 -> 10-1993) | .... | Sysop |
| Professor Entropy (ex) | (1991 -> 1991) | .... | Sysop |
| Pudwerx (ex) | (2-1992 -> 10-1993) | .... | Cracker, Sysop, NTSC-Fixer |
| Pyle (ex) | (1-1991 -> 4-1991) | .... | Modem Trader, Importer |
| Radar (ex) | (11-1992 -> 1992) | .... | Modem Trader |
| Rastan (ex) | | .... | Mega Swapper |
| Rebel (ex) | (7-1992 -> 10-1993) | .... | Cracker |
| Reble MC (ex) | (10-1992 -> 9-1993) | .... | Swapper, Cracker |
| Reble MC (ex) | (10-1990 -> 4-1991) | .... | Swapper, Cracker |
| Richie (ex) | (2-1992 -> 10-1993) | .... | Swapper, Cracker, Original Supplier, Modem Trader |
| Richie (ex) | (15/2-1990 -> 5-1991) | .... | Swapper, Cracker, Original Supplier, Modem Trader |
| Rocky (ex) | (6-1989 -> 10-1990) | .... | Coder, Cracker |
| Sauron (ex) | (2-1992 -> 12-1993) | .... | Cracker |
| Sauron (ex) | (6-1989 -> 5-1991) | .... | Cracker |
| Scarface (ex) | (1993 -> 1993) | .... | Hacker, Phreaker |
| Sebio (ex) | (2-1991 -> 5-1991) | .... | Coder |
| Sodapop (ex) | (11-1992 -> 12-1993) | .... | Swapper, Sysop, Phreaker |
| Susieuzi (ex) | ( -> 11-1993) | .... | Modem Trader, Sysop |
| Tankard (ex) | (8-1989 -> 9-1989) | .... | Swapper |
| TLW (ex) | (20/10-1989 -> 12-1989) | .... | (unknown function) |
| Tronic (ex) | (11-1992 -> 12-1993) | .... | Coder, Swapper, Cracker, Co-Sysop, Modem Trader |
| Zix (ex) | (6-1990 -> 5-1991) | .... | Coder, Graphician, Swapper |
| Zorlac (ex) | (1992 -> 10-1993) | .... | Modem Trader, Phreaker |
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Releases : (419)
User Comment
Submitted by Captain Kidd on 23 July 2004
| Great people, especially Gene made the group to something special (in a good way). Great work from the crackers and the complete team. |
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