Get a Life (1991)

Get a life is a game of Teonaki. In this game you're a virus and you have to kill a mainframe using some sort of VOS ("Virus Operating System") from command line.

The idea of this game was born in Teonaki's head, he wanted to create a game in which the player would play the role of a deadly computer virus. In those days encounters with viruses were pretty common things. The game took third prize as well in a contest.

I don't remember exactly the game play. In the upper part of the screen a schematic map of a computer network was displayed, with some terminals and a main frame. The object of the game was to kill the main frame through infecting machines. There was a central virus killer that removed infection from machines. It was a really nice real-time game.

The lower part was some sort of a console. The player was able to execute commands to control the virus, to infect different parts of the network. The commands were interpreted and executed or denied by the Virus Operating System.

The commands I was able to decipher:

• cls: Clear screen
• quit: Give up
• ver: Display version info
• dir: Display disk information of drive
• a: / c: (only on consoles): change drive
• c1 - c12: change console
• 1 / 2 / 3: change local board
• cxx/y: change console and board at the same time
• I was able to discover some other command fragments, but was unable to use them properly: brain, tape, hico ?, hide ?, track. I have absolutely no idea how you can infect disks, machines, etc.

Download

• Full Version: The full version of Get a Life. (174 848 bytes)
  Autoloader, start with LOAD":*",8,8

Music

• Intro Theme 2426 KBytes, MP3, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, 96 KBps, Mono
• Hall of Fame Theme 2653 KBytes, MP3, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, 96 KBps, Mono

All screen shots presented here contain the whole screen area (or even more), the borders are always included. Of course there're some border take-offs... Captured using CCS64 and its Use PAL Palette mode.