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EL
CARACHO®
- The Story Behind The Name
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El who?
What on earth is that supposed to mean? ... Well, read on ...
This is
the story of how I got the name "El Caracho". Back in
the early eighties (must be around 1982) my friend got a computer
by Texas Instruments called TI99/4a. You know, the one that got
so hot with the extended basic cartridge plugged in that you could
almost cook eggs on it. Anyhow, my friend had a mountain climbing
game for it called "Alpiner". It was a two player game,
and you also had the option to play it in different languages.
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first we selected German, our native tongue. We were asked
to name the two players, so we came up with "Piz Pickel"
and "Paz Pockel", which we thought were two funny
german names, sort of "mountain climbing related",
because "Pickel" means pickaxe.
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After a
while of playing we decided to try out a different language and
ended up with "spanish". Now we had to find two spanish
sounding names, and after some thinking I came up with "El
Caramba" and "El Caracho". Voila, the name "El
Caracho" was born, and I use it ever since. The name was perfect
for those old C-64 olympic games (like Summer Games, Winter Games,
World Games, etc ..), where you had to pick a name with a maximum
of 10 letters and a nation (in my case MEXico, because they speak
spanish and I liked their national anthem).
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I still
use this name for every highscore I archive and every player I have
to name. In addition to that I signed everything with this name,
including the pieces of art I made in art class at school and all
the computer graphics, demos and games I created on the C-64 (like
the ones above), Amiga & PC. For our prom-night, which had a
fairy tale theme, I was leading the group creating the decoration
for the main stage, a huge "Cinderella Castle". And guess
what was on top of the highest tower? Right, an "El Caracho"
flag.
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The
first Logo I came up with was based on the old design of the
BOLS "Blue Curacao" liquor bottle label. I liked
this fancy looking blue liquor, and we often called it "Blue
Caracho", because if you drank to much of it, it would
knock you out with "caracho".
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The name
and logo could easily be modified from "Blue Curacao"
to "El Caracho", so my first logo was born. BOLS has changed
their design of the "Blue Curacao" bottles by now, so
I hope they don't mind if I use their modified old logo.
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I have
tried some other "borrowed" logos just for fun, but I
always came back to the original "BOLS Blue Curacao" design.
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Disclaimer:
The above pictures are based on existing logos, movies and artwork
of Commodore 64 and Amiga video games. The original artwork is still
copyrighted by their respective owners. Bols, Blue Curacao and their
respective logos are trademarked by Bols Royal Distilleries, Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
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