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The Incredible Machine:  Even More Contraptions (c) Sierra

Date:  23 August 2001
Protection:  Nothing laying off 250 employees can't take care of

GAME NOTES:

MORE FUNTABULOUS GADGETASHERY!!
It's The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions where your first
assignment is to create a new GIGAMAREE and your next assignment is to
create a big THING-GUMMY and then a mouse driven treadmill powered
DOODLY-WOBBLE. In fact every thing in this game involves some
JIGGLY-WIDGET or another. So step into our lab, don the white coat,
and join us for lots of outrageous, inventive, experimental fun. It's
the definition of WEIRD SCIENCE.
FEATURES:

* OVER 250 brand new puzzles--c'mon...you've got nothing better to do.
* Single player puzzles for you independent types, and MORE THAN 60
head-to-head puzzles for the competitive personalities

* Create your own DEVIOUS PUZZLES, then torture others by trading them over
the Internet

* HOW TOUGH do you want 'em? Four levels of difficulty: easy for MOM and Dad,
and expert for the 8-year-old in the family.
We brought you The Incredible Machine TOO in 11/94, and the Return of
The Incredible Machine last year. Enjoy this, and watch out for more
from your friends at Razor 1911.
SCENE NOTES:

FLT once again proved its incredible lameness by doing a complete dupe of the
"ISONEWS" release of Madden 2002.  While there are rumors all around that we
at Razor 1911 somehow had our hands in this whole mess, we can assure you,
those rumors are patently false.  Just because we don't like ISONEWS doesn't
mean that we're going to waste a perfectly good release on those morons.
As for FLT, they claim to have proof that some major scene group was involved
in this whole debacle, although they're not men enough to put their money
where their mouths are and name names.  Already they have told us at Razor
that they know we weren't responsible - that doesn't leave too many other
possibilities so use your imagination.  However, their claims are completely
baseless.  While it is possible that the original was downloaded from a FLT
private dir, this is certainly not proveable, and the cracks from the ISONEWS
and FLT releases are not even remotely similar.  It is quite clear that the
crack is in no way shape or form stolen, seeing as the two cracks are entirely
different.  FLT however ignores this and is very good at pointing fingers ..
We'd also like to point out that if the original for the game was in fact
stolen from FLT's private dumps, it is only FLT's fault and not that of the
group who "stole" it.  Taking advantage of the competition's security or lack
thereof has been acceptable since time immemorial.  If Razor had the chance
to sneak a game off of a FLT shell we'd do it without hesitation - and make
no mistake, regardless of all the spin control that FLT likes to toss out,
they would do the same. Of course, we'd re-crack it, as that has always been
the way of things (after all we are CRACKING groups), but as we mentioned
above, whoever "stole" this game did indeed crack it himself.  Hell, in 1992
we had a supplier who would download games from THG's private conference on
The PITS, upload them to Razor boards and we'd crack and release them.  If
a group is stupid enough to have lax security policies, they don't really
deserve to win.
Which of course brings up another point.  FLT has presented not one shred of
proof (as usual) that this release is in fact stolen.  Filled with the usual
"FLT 0wnz0rZ, we R l33t" arrogance that seems to permeate every member of
that group, FLT has simply decided to tell us all that the game was stolen,
and everybody is just trusting them at their word.  While we don't claim that
the game was NOT stolen, we do not claim to know for sure one way or the
other - and isn't a claim backed up with NO FACTS not quite enough to force
the nuking and subsequent duping of a working game?  Not if you are a FLT
member where getting the vaunted 500th release (which of course Deviance
surpassed long ago without any fanfare, because they don't have a penchant
for blowing their own horn like the guys at FLT seem to) matters above all
else, even if it means making a complete ass of yourself in an nfo that
essentially announces that 500th release as a complete dupe and therefore
nuke-worthy.
You might be wondering why Razor is involving itself in this mess now.  It
is quite simple really.  FLT is not about to go and fess up to their misdeeds.
They never do - here is a group who in the last year or so has pulled more
sleaze out from under their sleeves than we've seen in ages, yet they always
seem to come out smelling like a rose.  We don't like it, and nobody else in
the scene should either.  Whenever the FLT douche bags get away with murder,
it pisses us off and we're not going to sit idly by and tolerate it.  Perhaps
a year ago when Razor was sucking it up all the time, FLT could have just
slapped us down again, but now that Razor is a force in the scene there's no
reason for us to sit and watch while injustices are perpetrated.  There is an
honor code in the scene and until FLT deigns to live up to it we will lambast
them at every turn.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Razor 1911 is a no spin zone"

GROUP NOTES:

Razor 1911 is on the lookout for top talent to help the team prosper.
If you want to be part of the legend and you can -
Supply new originals (ie you have access to them from working in a
software store, distributor, magazine, duplicator, etc.)
- Crack generic protections (ie SecuROM, Safedisc, Copylok etc.) with
tools of your own creation or by hand

If any of the above apply to you, contact your friendly local Razor member!

GROUP GREETS:

Razor slices out greets to our friends around the world including Deviance,
Myth, Static, Divine, Class, and Instinct.

"ISONEWS sucks harder than a $5 ho"

Razor 1911   /__\   Since 1985

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