It all started basically when Spike and myself were members of the trimendous AMIGA-group called "TARDEX International". You don't know that famous group ?? Well, I guess that's no problem because of the fact, that that mighty group had only 2 members, both living in Vienna. Nevertheless, the "international" could be explained: Spike was born in Poland, and I in Austria, so.... :-))

Anyway, there was a day, when a friend of ours named Shithead took us to ReeBoK the first time, and this guy was a member of Scoopex (ed. under the name TMB /ReeBoK). He couldn't code, he was a incapable graphic artist (ed. grrrrr /ReeBoK), but he was a good organiser and trader. He called himself TMB (The Megabrain... well *lol*).

At that point of time, he wasn't just member of Scoopex, but he also was a member of Rebels; and he was working on building the Austrian part of Rebels. Well, we showed some stuff, he liked it and 5 minutes later Spike and I left the world biggest and most famous group (TARDEX.... hmm.. the group totally disintegrated after we left... we must have been _very_ important :-)))) and joined Rebels.

We didn't really care about the whole thing. I didn't give a damn, wheather I was in Scoopex or in Rebels or in fairy-tale-motherfuckers-international, I just wanted to code a little, have fun, get the newest demos, music and all that stuff.

ReeBoK took care 'bout the whole thing. So when he came and told us, that we were from that day on not members of Rebels any longer (ed. they kicked all members outside Skandinavia /ReeBoK), we were maybe a little disappointed, but it wasn't that bad... but when he told us, that instead of that we joined Tristar & Red Sector Inc. (TRSI), we totally freaked out. Red Sector ... well ... they were (and are still) a legend.

We coded some intros and had fun ... Someday Spike and I were at my place discussing what to do next. I had an idea for a little intro, which should look like that: black screen... an egg rolling into the screen, and when in the middle of the screen it stops... long pause... then the egg explodes with big "SURPRISE!" letter popping out. All the following effects should come out of that egg. I liked the idea... :-) I wanted to call this intro the SURPRISE! intro.

Spike and I looked at each other and instantly said: GOOD NAME FOR A GROUP!

Spike added a "Productions"... so the name was fixed "Surprise! Productions".... wow so we went to ReeBoK and told him 'bout the intro and the name and all that stuff...

He said, that this all sounds good, but we should start as a subgroup of TRSI. Hmmm subgroup... I wasn't that enthusiastic. I did't think it was a good idea, but it definitely turned out to be a GREAT idea... with the united power of TRSI and Surprise! Productions we made some nice things happening.

Some day (I really can't remember, if it was me or one of the other guys) someone (ed. it was me! /ReeBoK) came up with the idea of the short form of Surprise! Productions... S!P, which is (in my opinion) the most genious short form of a group name ever, with a lot of other groups copying... (J!P just to mention one)

Well that was the beginning of a wonderful story...

 

In 1991 an Amiga guy called The Megabrain (TMB) left the famous group Scoopex and changed his name to ReeBoK to build up an Austrian section of the group Rebels. He found some talented Austrian people like Luke and Spike from Tardex, Momo from Grace and some others, also some fellow Scoopex members followed into that new Rebels section like Prince, Corwin and Atron.

Two friends of Luke called Rick Dangerous and Burning Chrome built up our PC section. We released 2 Intros and 1 little Demo on Amiga and the Rebels Megademo on PC. After a while Rebels told us we had to leave, because they want only Scandinavian members (jerks!).

So the Austrian part of Rebels teamed up with the new big co-operation: Tristar & Red Sector Inc. While the name of the group was famous and welknown, the internal organisation was not the best. That was the reason why we decided to found a sub-group of TRSI... Luke and Spike have been thinking about a name and found: Surprise! Productions, also known as S!P. As soon as we have been an self-organised sub-group of TRSI, we became international.

From Sweden the group Active (former Scoopex Sweden) joined our forces and in Austria J.O.E. from Scoopex merged into the team; in the UK we got some fellow Rebels members, in Finland some Alpha Flight'ers teamed up, Jean from Hungary and a phone-phreak from Australia (Saint Sinner) as well as the founding members of the group Action from Germany became a part of S!P. With a lot of productions by our 2 PC and our Amiga members we became a wellknown group.

In 1992 TRSI was stealing our German Amiga section (except Hi-Lite and Zodiak who joined in from Sanity) and told us we are out of their group because of lazyness. So S!P Amiga and PC left the TRSI mothership. The Amiga section teamed up with some Cytax members from Germany and new sceners from Norway and joined back into Scoopex as sub-group. Our PC section teamed up with a little Danish group and joined INC (International Network of Crackers) as Demo-section. Also some members in Denmark arrived.

Later the year 1993 Scoopex was stealing our Danish, German and Norwaygian Amiga section and INC on PC corrupted so we became an independed group on both systems. Wild Rage, Dragos and Dr.Grell from the dying Amiga group Grace joined in. Messerschmitt and the group Creator built our new Hungarian section. The French members of Agile also joined our famous team on Amiga (but left later for Scoopex).

In the end of 1993 we released our stunning PC demo The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (2nd at The Party 93) and the Austrian Amiga section moved to PC as well. The Amiga organisation was given to Messerschmitt who got new Amiga members in Sweden, France and the UK.

1994 a lot of famous PC people teamed up with us: in Switzerland the group Pentagram (or was it Pentagon?), from Belgium Access Denied, new Finish members and the former Danish c64 group Bonzai also joined our PC department, but Bonzai and the Danish section left the S!P brotherbound the same year... in Poland members from Substance arrived.

We really had a lot of members on PC, but unfortunately only the Austrian and the Polish sections have been active. Everything corrupted in 1995 when the Polish section left to form Pulse. Soon also the Swiss and Belgian sections left the S!P homegrounds...

Then we got Onyx from the USA and Aquafresh a former S!P Amiga member from the UK (whom released in 1996 2 64k intros for S!P on PC) also Multiplex from the Nederlands teamed up and in the end of 1996 we decided to stop the group, because most of our famous members started to work as professional designers/programmers for various companies (neo Software just to mention 1 of them).

End of 1999 Multiplex, Loonix and ReeBoK had the idea of a S!P revival and soon former S!P Amiga and PC members found their right place in our group again and some new ones teamed up as well. Unfortunatly nothing got released until today...