AKA. TBL ("The Bitsoft Ltd"), Dr. Bit, DBC ("Double-Bit Cracking's") (?), ECO (?) and later TTL ("The Tough Lord") from 1988-09-04, as announced in Mercenary German. First release under the Fusion handle is Musical Madness (June 22, 1989). Birthdate mentioned in Trail Mix.
It's uncertain if TBL is referred to Fusion by alone as an older nickname, or if it actually indicates a whole crackers' group. There are some hints spreadt among the releases published under this label, in particular from the games' cracks. Some of those notes follow:
- The TBL crack of Tom Thumb reports the city for TBL itself, which actually results to be Bonn, Germany; Bonn is actually where Fusion lived;
- the scrolling in the intro of the Spore's crack signed by D.I.S.C. reports some dissing expressions against TBL, referring to it as a group first, and then pointing the finger against "The Bytebreaker" (TBB, a different one?); they talk about the TBL's crack of Championship Wrestling, actually cracked by The ByteBreaker, but this one refers to him also as "The Bytecracker" in the scrolling text!
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