Hacker

Location

Game Details

• Publishers
  • Steve Jackson Games
• Year
  1992
• Authors
  • Steve Jackson
• Links
  BoardGameGeek
• Players
  3-8
• Playtime
  90min-2.5h

Components

Ratings

• Dieter Baron
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• Calvin Schwarz
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• Nicolas Schwarz
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• Ilse Schwarz
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• Ute Baron
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Description

This game was written by Steve Jackson as a satirical comment on the Secret Service raid and the hacker community. The hacker community liked it. There's been no visible reaction from the Feds.
It uses a variation of the Illuminati system; players lay out cards (representing systems) to create the Net, which is never the same twice. But instead of separate ``power structures'' for each player, there is only one Net, and players place tokens to indicate what systems they have invaded and how completely they control them.