cracktro Combination of "crack" and "intro". An introduction image or animation inserted at the startup of cracked proprietary software. Cracktros typically gave a shout out to the nicknames or the crackers or the cracking group, similar to graffiti tags in meatspace. The cracktros of the late 1980s on systems such as Atari ST and Commodore Amiga gave birth to the demoscene of artistic computer animation demos, and was originally a particularly European phenomena.