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Hacker

1 August 19857.1/ 10 · 43 votes6

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About

Hacker is an adventure/trading game based on what was then a unique idea. You're starting into the adventure as a real hacker would do, lacking information of what is to come, only driven by your ambition. Consequently, the game opens with a plain text screen, prompting you for the login password. To break into the system is the first puzzle you've got to solve.

Once in, you'll soon find out that you've accidentally stumbled upon a conspiracy of global impact. From then on, you'll maneuver a robotic drone around the globe through a tunnel system deep in the earth. In major cities, you may surface and talk to contact persons, who'll trade items for cash. When delivered to the correct city, you can exchange these items for a piece of evidence. If all evidence is collected, you're to inform the FBI. As if figuring out the correct routes and trades wasn't hard enough, frequent system malfunctions and security checks test your skill as well...

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Perspective

First person

Languages (1)

Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
English

Game details

Business Model

Commercial

Media Type

5.25" Floppy Disk

Input Devices Supported/Optional

Keyboard

Number of Offline Players

1 Player

System requirements

Min. CPU Class Required

Intel 8088 / 8086

Min. RAM Required

128 KB

Video Modes Supported

CGA

Sound Devices Supported

PC Speaker

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Facts

Developer

Activision

Released

1 August 1985

Series

Hacker

Platforms

PCDOSAmigaAtari STCommodore 64Apple IIAtari 8-bitZX SpectrumMSXAmstrad CPCMacPC-88

Tags

Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi