HACK THE PLANET

Controls

• ←→ skate — you're on rollerblades, so you carry momentum
• ↑↓ move up and down the floor
• Z hit — fists, or swing whatever you picked up
• X jump · Z in the air is a flying kick
• C fire — the laptop shoots 1s and 0s, floppies get thrown
• M mute · P pause · Enter start

Walk over a weapon to pick it up. Weapons break, and picking up a new one drops the old one.

Also lying around: a box of floppies throws ten discs, a can of Jolt Cola is worth 20% health, and the garbage file is worth 1,000 points.

On a phone or tablet: the controls appear on their own — drag the left stick to skate in any direction, and use HIT, JMP and 01 on the right. Two thumbs at once works. Turn the phone sideways for a bigger screen. On a desktop you can summon the same controls with Touch controls under the game.

The level

One level, four scenes, no continues you didn't earn.

• The school — lockers, a payphone, and the Secret Service in the hallway
• The streets — rollerblading Manhattan at night
• The subway — Grand Central, acoustic couplers, the downtown local
• The Gibson — the city of light, and a man on a skateboard

About

Hackers opened on 15 September 1995: Dade Murphy, two handles, one pair of rollerblades, and a garbage file worth $25 million.

This is a tribute, not a reproduction — every pixel, note and line of code here is original work. No assets, no libraries, no network calls. Just a canvas.

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