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''[[Uplink]]'' is a game ~~that~~ could best be described as a [[Hollywood Hacking]] [[Simulation Game|simulation]]. The whole premise is that you, an unnamed agent of the Uplink Corporation (an underground hacker-for-hire service), have just joined up in the ranks. Using your PC, you move up the ranks of Uplink agents by hacking different companies' computers and servers.

''[[Uplink]]'' is a video game released in 2001 by the British software company Introversion Software. It could best be described as a [[Hollywood Hacking]] [[Simulation Game|simulation]]. The whole premise is that in the [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|future year of 2010]] you, an unnamed agent of the Uplink Corporation (an underground hacker-for-hire service), have just joined up in the ranks. Using your PC, you move up the ranks of Uplink agents by hacking different companies' computers and servers.

It's arguably one of the most realistic games out there, because you never see your character - in fact, the character is made out to simply be ''you'', operating under an alias. You never see your character because he's sitting in the same chair you are, typing in commands on your keyboard with your hands.

Compare with [[Net Runner]]. A fan sequel, called ''[[Codelink]]'', is on the works.

* [[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}}.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Also unintentional, but as a result of [[All Crimes Are Equal]] above, you can indeed send someone to prison for, say, genocide, conspiracy to overthrow the government, and parking on a double yellow line. They also have to be violating parole, as you cannot authorize arrest without that particular crime. So you can turn someone into a genocidal, mass murdering jaywalker...who was successfully paroled and [[Too Dumb to Live|subsequently violated their parole.]]

* [[Beeping Computers]] The Trace Tracker program.