''Hackmud'' is a massively multiplayer online video game and/or

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that simulates 1990s hacker subculture through text-based adventure. Players use social engineering, scripting, and cracks in a text-based

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to influence and control other players in the simulation. Reviewers wrote that the game's "campy hacking" mimics that of films like ''

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'' (1983) and ''

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'' (1993).

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