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* [[100% Completion]]: Subverted - you can't get all 12 special badges in a single playthrough.▼
* [[555]]: The computers you hack into use nonsense IP addresses.▼
** And the phonelines you ring for voice print IDs use nonsense phone numbers.▼
** As mentioned on the article, your gateway is ''always'' 127.0.0.1. [[A Worldwide Punomenon|No place like home]]...▼
* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: An unintentional example, but someone will go to jail just as readily for rape, murder, and arson as for jaywalking, spitting, and littering.
* [[Apocalypse How]] : Between Type 0 and Type 1 {{spoiler|if Revelation succeeds}}.
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** The v3 and below Trace Tracker somewhat subverts this in that it will sometimes jump around a little, but still stays fairly consistent. V4 shows your [[Exact Time to Failure]]. The MapTrace HUD upgrade, despite costing more than the best Trace Tracker, does ''not'' show how much time you have until the trace is complete, only many bounces your hack has been traced through.
* [[Extreme Graphical Representation]]: Justified, because it ''is'' a representation of [[Hollywood Hacking]].
* [[Fan Sequel]]: ''[[Codelink]]'', currently in open beta. [http://codelinkv2.com/web/ Here's their dev blog.]▼
* [[Featureless Protagonist]]: You have no photo in your school records, Social Security, or bank account.
** And during the secret mission to {{spoiler|steal the agent roster from the Uplink Internal Services machine, there's always one of the ten files missing - the one containing your own record.}}
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** The passworded "Game Bible"
** The shiny bonus disc, with old builds of the game and their ideas for ''Uplink 2''.
▲* [[Fan Sequel]]: ''[[Codelink]]'', currently in open beta. [http://codelinkv2.com/web/ Here's their dev blog.]
* [[Final Death]]: Get caught during a hack or passive traced, and your account will be suspended. To all intents and purposes, that game file is dead (justified in that Uplink disavows all knowledge of your actions, prevents you from ever reconnecting your gateway computer, and generally pulls the plug on your actions, while also implying that your gateway contains the only information that can lead directly back to you).
** Unless you go a bit meta with the hacking concept, and [[Save Scumming|backup]] your save games regularly.
▲* [[555]]: The computers you hack into use nonsense IP addresses.
▲** And the phonelines you ring for voice print IDs use nonsense phone numbers.
▲** As mentioned on the article, your gateway is ''always'' 127.0.0.1. [[A Worldwide Punomenon|No place like home]]...
* [[Game Mod]]: Lots.
** Sometimes, the simplest are the best. The Log Nuke program wipes every log in a server, no questions asked.
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* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: The blank screen when your account is suspended.
* [[One-Gender Race]] / [[Gendercide]]?: Not acknowledged in story but you will only see adult men in the databases. Well, it was made in 2000, back when [[There Are No Girls on the Internet|there were no girls on the internet]].
▲* [[100% Completion]]: Subverted - you can't get all 12 special badges in a single playthrough.
* [[One World Order]]: There is only one government, which makes hacking their databases very convenient.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: Partially averted - admins will normally use random strings of letters and numbers, but give their [[Red Shirt|co-workers]] passwords from a list of common words shared by every company. Presumably, {{spoiler|God}} won a survey of easily remembered words, closely followed by {{spoiler|admin}} and then {{spoiler|password}}
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* [[Scare Chord]]: While not a literal chord, any first time LAN hacker will jump at {{spoiler|the shrill sound when the System Administrator logs on.}}
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: ARC's email spells it out very, very clearly: {{spoiler|"DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUN REVELATION LOCALLY."}} And yet there are still reports of people who have destroyed their own gateways in that very manner...
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Instead of following ARC's instructions, {{spoiler|1=you can destroy the whole Internet by yourself as soon as they send you the first version of Revelation. In fact is easier than sticking to the storyline since nobody else knows about the existence of the virus, therefore Faith hasn't even been conceived. The only difficulty added to this shortcut is that one must infect about twice the amount of computers that Revelation 3.0 would need, as well as amassing loads of money early to build a decent rig for the task (usually via [[Game Breaker|bank hacking]]).[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZp9CUwGhg This speedrun demonstrates it.]}}▼
* [[Self-Destructing Security]]: One security measure you can purchase for your gateway is a [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]], intended as a last resort if the Feds are closing in on you. You lose all the hardware, but at least you avoid getting [[Game Over]]'d; if you have extra bank accounts set up you can use them to rebuild.
* [[Sensor Suspense]]: The Trace Tracker is an absolute necessity, since it shows you how close you are to being backhacked and identified. Much of the strategy in the game consists of finding ways to increase the amount of time you can spend on a system before they start getting too close.
▲* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Instead of following ARC's instructions, {{spoiler|1=you can destroy the whole Internet by yourself as soon as they send you the first version of Revelation. In fact is easier than sticking to the storyline since nobody else knows about the existence of the virus, therefore Faith hasn't even been conceived. The only difficulty added to this shortcut is that one must infect about twice the amount of computers that Revelation 3.0 would need, as well as amassing loads of money early to build a decent rig for the task (usually via [[Game Breaker|bank hacking]]).[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZp9CUwGhg This speedrun demonstrates it.]}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: Protovision's machine is a homage to ''[[WarGames]]'' (it's the only machine you can't crack with the Password Breaker - you need to recognise the shout out to get the password ({{spoiler|JOSHUA}}, of course), and Introversion (the developers) have an in-game website which mentions ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'' and ''[[Mission: Impossible]]''. And then there's the [[Steve Jackson Games]] server, which has of course been pinched by the US Secret Service.
** Also, the use of "Quads" as a measurement of data storage could be a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Star Trek]]'', as [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Quad quads] are what the Federation computers use.
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