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This category is a list of video games with gameplay specifically designed to simulate computer hacking. For fictional hackers who appear in video games , see Category:Hackers in video games . Subcategories
Along with the terminal, the computers in the game simulate a Unix-like file system, through which the player can explore the computer, and even destroy them by deleting critical system files. The core of the gameplay is to connect to other computers and run dedicated programs to break the security and acquire superuser privileges on the computer.
Don Kneller ported the game to MS-DOS and continued development there. [5] Development on all Hack versions ended within a few years. Hack descendant NetHack was released in 1987. [6] [7] Hack is still available for Unix, and is distributed alongside many modern Unix-like OSes, [5] including Debian, Ubuntu, the BSDs, [5] Fedora, [8] and others.
In hacking, a wargame (or war game) is a cyber-security challenge and mind sport in which the competitors must exploit or defend a vulnerability in a system or application, and/or gain or prevent access to a computer system. [1] [2] [3]
But unlike real-world hacking which consists of command line usage and programming, this alternate reality puts systems and the hacking process into a GUI (graphical user interface) to make things easier to try and hack other people. [10] The game starts you out performing simple hacks with a recently met acquaintance called "Marty".
Uplink (also known in North America as Uplink: Hacker Elite) is a simulation video game released in 2001 by the British company Introversion Software.The player takes charge of a freelance computer hacker in a fictional futuristic 2010, and must break into foreign computers, complete contracts and purchase new hardware to hack into increasingly harder computer systems.
Hacker is a 1985 video game by Activision. It was designed by Steve Cartwright and released for the Amiga , Amstrad CPC , Apple II , Atari 8-bit computers , Atari ST , Commodore 64 , Macintosh , MS-DOS , MSX2 , and ZX Spectrum .
Sean Gubelman, the developer. Hackmud is a massively multiplayer online video game and/or MUD that simulates 1990s hacker subculture through text-based adventure. Players use social engineering, scripting, and cracks in a text-based terminal to influence and control other players in the simulation. [1]