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-Spectre Complex AKA Sceptre Complex
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-Proto-digital mall developed by
-[[knight-ridder]]
-Knight Ridder and designed exclusively for use on the second generation of
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-'s Sceptre console. Sceptre Complex, as it was initially known, followed on the heels of the
-[[viewtron]]
-system, layering skeletons of the previous
-[[videotex]]
-coding structure with updated (and often malformed) graphic skins to create the illusion of three dimensional space. This process, known as ray casting or billboarding
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-, was inspired by the original iteration of
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-, a hyper-violent gaming platform released by
-[[error]]
-in 1993. The mall was navigable by user-generated conversable avatars - a functionality whose development reportedly swallowed over 80% of the project's overall budget.  As with Viewtron, the project was by any metric a failure, in part due to the commercial ineptitude of many of the mall's corporate tenets, a floundering cadre of enterprises including, but not limited to,
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-Bed, Bath, and
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-Beyond, and
-[[error]]
-. Additionally, the mall featured what it referred to as "Ad Zones" - lightly interactive and often buggy graphic banners geared towards blatant promotion. Ad Zones were presented on a revolving basis and focused mainly on debut or limited time products, including McDonald's Shrimp McBites™,
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-tea, Abercrombie's overpriced luxury perfume Cerulean Mist, and the IROC Z sports car
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-. By the time of Knight Ridder's dissolution in the late 1990's, the Spectre Complex had for all intents and purposes been abdicated. However, the platform's functionality
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-proved attractive to hackers, as did Videotex's veritable sieve of a security system. The mall was subsequently squatted, experiencing a "
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-" of unofficial and unsanctioned use. This transition was signified by the neologistic respelling of the mall's forename as "Spectre" by its new inhabitants.
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-Relating to but not synonymous with the
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-phenomenon.
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-The poorly rendered "mall car" Ad Zone was later infiltrated by hackers who programmed legions of pubescent NPC sprites to incessantly frot the vehicle's tail pipe
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-Especially the rudimentary direct user interactivity.
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