# Demoscene Cracktro: motion graphics style

> A chrome logo of the word bounces and wobbles over rolling raster bars and a parallax starfield while a rainbow sine scroller sends greetings along the bottom. The 16-bit demoscene intro look for music releases, game jams and code-art showcases.

- Category: [Retro Computing & Games](https://aimotions.art/category/retro-computing-games/)
- Also known as: cracktro, demoscene intro, copper bars, raster bars, sine scroller, greetings scroller, oldschool demo effect, 16-bit intro
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Intense · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/demoscene-cracktro/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/demoscene-cracktro/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Make a 16-bit demoscene intro for [TEXT]. Low-resolution black screen with a three-layer parallax starfield streaming sideways. Five shaded horizontal raster bars (dark edges, bright core, each a different saturated color) weave up and down on sine waves, overlapping by depth. On top, [TEXT] as a heavy chrome logo: vertical gradient from white and sky blue down to a dark horizon line then orange and yellow, a dark outline and a hard drop shadow; it bounces on an absolute-sine curve and every scanline is shifted sideways by a rolling sine wobble. Along the bottom, a large 8×8 bitmap-font scroller with a rainbow gradient moves right to left while each character rides a sine wave, sending greetings to pixel artists and musicians (no real names), with a rippling, darker water reflection beneath and thin rainbow divider lines. Endless, hypnotic motion.
```

## Visual DNA

- Bouncing chrome-gradient logo with a per-scanline sine wobble
- Shaded horizontal raster bars weaving up and down, overlapping by depth
- Three-layer parallax starfield on black
- Sine-wave scroller in a chunky 8×8 bitmap font with a rainbow gradient
- Rippling water reflection of the scroller and rainbow divider lines
- Low-resolution pixel graphics, endless hypnotic motion

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Demoscene Cracktro, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/demoscene-cracktro/