Hacker

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...

Series Hacker (1)
Added March 8, 2020
Published By Activision (UK) Limited
Front Cover (France,Germany,Italy,The Netherlands,United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
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Manual (France,Germany,Italy,The Netherlands,United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Manual (France,Germany,Italy,The Netherlands,United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
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Back Cover (Spain) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (France,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (France,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Spine/Sides (France,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Media (France,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Media (United States) (DOS) from mobygames.com
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Inside Cover (United States) (DOS) from mobygames.com
Beginning; try to log in (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Your name, please? (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
The main game screen (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Buy some items from this guy? (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Here's a quick update... (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
This guy can offer a piece of the document; but what will you give him? (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Offer some cash for a document piece (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Watch out for those approaching satellites (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
The document pieces I've recovered so far... (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Logon please. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
We're in! (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Identify the correct parts on the robot. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Align for your time. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
The start of the game. This is where the player first encounters the Magma site. (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Access is eventually granted (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The first encounter with the S.R.U. - Subterranean Remote Unit. (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
This is where the player gets to decide on their choice of controller (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
There's a lengthy activation process (aka puzzle) to go through (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Somehow The S.R.U. got positioned in the South Atlantic. I hope this is OK (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The first screen showing the S.R.U. position, a small black thing in the South Atlantic (that's coloured green). The MSG / message icon is flashing (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The company message. It does not look good. Perhaps we get to save the world. (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Back with the S.R.U.. The unit is moving. Its current direction is in the top left, its current view is in the centre, in this shot its just changing from a view of a rock wall to a view of a tunnel (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Can you hack into this system? (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Laser alignment procedure (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Setup your home position (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
In the tunnel system (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Your mission, should you choose to accept it... (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Talking with a shady character... (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Hacking into the system (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Diagram of the robots you use (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Map screen showing the tunnels your robot travels through (Amiga) from mobygames.com
You begin the game attempting to login... (Atari ST) from mobygames.com
Your name, please? (Atari ST) from mobygames.com
The main game screen (Atari ST) from mobygames.com
Is what this character's offering worth $5,000? (Atari ST) from mobygames.com
A news update... (Atari ST) from mobygames.com
Two pieces of the document found (Atari ST) from mobygames.com
This character may have something valuable to offer...for a price! (Atari ST) from mobygames.com
Where it all begins... guessing the password. (DOS) from mobygames.com
The main screen. You have to find your way through the underground. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Let's trade! This gloomy fellow offers valuables. (DOS) from mobygames.com
You're collecting fragments of this document. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Oops, another disaster? (DOS) from mobygames.com
Surveillance satellites (the pink crumbs) have been activated. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Title screen from mobygames.com
Credits screen from mobygames.com
Beginning the game from mobygames.com
The main game screen when in the tunnels from mobygames.com
On the surface; can this guy help you? from mobygames.com
A quick update on what's going on... from mobygames.com
Title screen from mobygames.com
Stylish computer-like intro from mobygames.com
Test, test... from mobygames.com
Looks simple enough... from mobygames.com
3D cyberspace from mobygames.com

Year of Release:
1986

Genre(s):
Experimental Interactive Fiction

Graphic Style:
2D

Camera View:
First-Person

Control Type:
Text Parser

Setting/Theme:
Sci-Fi

Gameplay:
Strategy

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