Hitmen
Hitmen (HIT)
Hitmen started mainly as German cracking group on the C64, founded as a one man group by Jihad/Action (crack) in may of 1990, which it stayed until the entire German section of Vision joined around december the same year. It later turned into a Demo- and reverseengineering Group which is active on many different Platforms.
Members
Hitmen has disbanded twice, the first time it dissolved in 1991 and got rebuild in 1992, just to dissolve again in the beginning of 1993 and get rebuild once more in 1995. Unlike in other similar cases in the Scene, all "reincarnations" were "official" and initiated by the original members, namely Jihad and Curlin.
1995-today
- GER
- Curlin (code crack gfx, 09/95-01/96)
- Groepaz ([real name removed by personal request], code, 09/95-01/96)
- Jihad (crack, 09/95-01/96)
- Shok'Ray (ex Onslaught, also in Megastyle Productions [details], 09/95).
- Peacemaker (fix, 09/95-01/96)
- Racoon(01/96)
- Raze (09/95-01/96)
- Sabotage (01/96)
- Tyron (09/95-01/96)
- Vortex (09/95-01/96)
- POL
- Moonchild (code)
- BOS
- Erol (Erol Tahirovic, code)
- SWE
- Tranziie (09/95-01/96)
- ???
- Jayce (01/96)
- Jinx (09/95-01/96)
- Lawnmoverman (09/95-01/96)
- Marcus (01/96)
- Moby (01/96)
1992-1993
- GER
- Death (Marc Lange, swap, 02-03/92).
1990-1991
- GER
- Bass (ex Internal Affairs, new 12/90)
- Hires (ex Internal Affairs, new 12/90)
- Jihad (crack, 91)
- Lynx (Jörg Kosicki, swap, 03/92)
- Mad B (ex Internal Affairs, new 12/90)
- Mad Butcher (Ralf, swap, 01/91)
- Tom (01/91)
- N-L
- Curse (swap, early91)
- Ixon (swap, early91)
- SWE
- Mason (new early91)
- Stanze (new early91)
- ???
- Cevin (crack, 91)
- Derse (ex Ruthless, new 12/90)
- Fox (ex Paramount, new 12/90)
Boards
THE DUNGEON (usa, 09/95-01/96) MYSTICAL PARADISE (ger, 01/96) Warez Aquarium (se)
History
1990
- Curlin (crack) joined from Vision, and Derse from Ruthless in december. News in WOW's "Internal #3" that someone named 'RAF' joined with Curlin are untrue.
1991
- Early january saw the release of "ViNews #3" by Curlin and Mad Butcher, which announced the joining of three ex-members of Internal Affairs; Hires, Mad B. and Bass. Dr.Disk changed his handle to Hermit and joined Chromance in january. Dense left for Manowar in january. Swedes Mason and Stanze joined early in the year. Jihad was interviewed for Triad "Gamers Guide #5" in the early months of the year, but then inexplicably left the group not long after... According to the "Gamers Guide #9", the group died, probably around may. Jihad formed another new group, called Joy Division. The german members Curlin (code crack, ex Vision, new 12/90), Thunder (gfx), Racoon and Alfatech left for Triad.
ViNews #3 (1991, 02.01, Multifile Diskmag).
INT - code: Curlin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
MAG - code: Curlin, gfx: Curlin (main), Thunder (werner), DMC/Dominators
(2x2 font), music: Laxity/Vibrants, editors: Mad Butcher (main),
Curlin.
review: First of all, this mag will get a positive response to their
unorthodox design. Perhaps not all ideas are the best (what is that
'Werner' doing there guys?), but at least they have the courage to think
new. Apart from that, the mag's editorial content is about normal for this
kind of thing. Atleast the English is on such a levels that the news items
don't confuse, like can sometimes be the case with Sex'n'Crime =] One nice
section, which I'd like to see expanded is the 'crax test' (inspired by
Triad's "Gamers Guide"?). If they wrote a little more about WHY one
version is superior to another, instead of just giving us those
meaningless numbers, this would be an interesting section. There is no
mention of the music being exclusive or anything, so it was most likely
ripped. To sum up, this is actually above average for these kinds of mags,
where the editorial content is not really supposed to transcend the
'editorial, news + adresses' formula. [glenn]
1993
- Silver joined Topaz early this year. Rad joined TRC in may.
1995
- Hi-Lite joined from Hardcore around august-september. Around september, they recruited Dodger and Shok'Ray from Onslaught. They also left swapper Suzuki (previously in Dytec, Equinoxe etc) join on trial basis, but after a short while decided to end his membership.
1996
- Dodger (ex Onslaight, new 09/95) was removed in january, after his behaviour was not deemed fit for the group. The board THE DUNGEON was scheduled to go up again on march 15th.
1998
- German coder and graphiciain Hi-Lite (01/96-) left for Padua around the middle of this year.
Releases
Demos
- Cucumber Juice (1996, 08.04, Demo). 2nd in the X96 demo competition.
