Crack intro

A crack intro, also known as a cracktro, loader, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software, designed to inform the user of which "cracking crew" or individual cracker was responsible for removing the software's copy protection and distributing the crack. Many people who did the actual cracking did this competitively. They even credited themselves alongside the software publisher's name in their custom cracktro screens. It had to look good to impress viewers as well as peers, and sometimes the result was more impressive than the game itself. They first appeared on Apple II computer in the late 1970s, early 1980s. The early text screens are in many ways similar to graffiti, although they invaded the private sphere and not the public space.