Spaceballs (thing)

A demo-group from Norway. They made demos (graphical/musical/technical presentations of skill) for the Amiga series of computers during most of the 1990ies. Their demography is as follows (aside from a number of intros and music disks):

• RGB Demo (1990)
• Multidemo (1990)
• Rubberdemo (1991)
• Spasmolytic (1991)
• Spaceballs Memtro (1992)
• Made in the Name of the Schwartz (1992)
• Wayfarer (1992)
• Shit Happens (1992)
• State of the Art (1992)
• Mobile Destionation Unknown (1993)
• 9 Fingers (1993)
• Funky Pixels (1994)
• Pinch (1996)
• The October Session (1997)
• Snack (1997)
• Smurph (1997)
• LoFi (ha'ko') (1997)
• Art by Coincidence (1997)
• Wayfarer 2 (1997)
• The Family Robot (1998)
• betaMAX (created 1998, but released 1999)
• Distortion (1999)
• Supermonster (1999)
• Spaceballs vs The Mad Hatter (1999)
• Hypnopolis (2000)
• Smurphine (2000)
• Powergod (2001)
• Alt hun vil ha (Special K-Edition) (2001) ("Alt hun vil ha" means "Everything/all she wants")
• Hideous Mutant Freaks (2001)

The most important members in the early days were Major Asshole and Lone Starr (coding), Travolta (music), and TMB Designs (graphics). Later on, Slummy took over most coding in the releases, while miscellanous members did music and graphics.

Among their most popular demos were "State of the Art" and "9 Fingers", both featuring dancing girls and containing next to only speedy vector-routines. State of the Art won the demo competition at The Party II in Aars, Denmark in 1992.

Audited November 14, 2001