Hackers World 1

Hackers World 1 is an Estonian-language hacking adventure written in QBASIC. You break into other people's systems, work out passwords and move through missions whose idea of the computer underground clearly owes more to the movies than to reality – which is much of the charm today.

It was written in 1998 by two brothers and hosted on hot.ee, the free Estonian web space where most of the country's hobby scene kept its home pages. That is where late-1990s Estonian amateur development actually happened: in QBASIC, in Estonian, for an audience of a few dozen friends.

The full source code was published alongside the game. On OldGame.cz Hackers World 1 runs right in your browser.