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Cracking the Conspiracy

Cracking the Conspiracy is a point-and-click adventure game released by Pixel Shop Inc. in 1998. The game focuses on science fiction and political secrets. A possible Macintosh version was planned, but never…

1 August 1998

Cracking the Conspiracy is an adventure, released 1 August 1998 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Cracking the Conspiracy is

Cracking the Conspiracy was released in 1998. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

An old friend sends you a mysterious package and pleads for your help in uncovering a massive conspiracy that could ultimately result in alien invasion of Earth. The package contains a communicator with encrypted secret government files. Your friend, Kelsey Hart, was able to escape but without the communicator. She tells you to break into Area 51, unlock the files, and then send the communicator to her hiding place. Only then will the world believe the terrible secrets the government has been hiding for decades. Your character, John, proceeds to an abandoned uranium mine, which leads to a back entrance of the Roswell base in Nevada. The game's first of many challenges begins here. Finding…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Cracking the Conspiracy launched on 1 August 1998, within three weeks of SoulCalibur, F-1 World Grand Prix and The King of Fighters '98.

Released around the same time: SoulCalibur, F-1 World Grand Prix, The King of Fighters '98.

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When did Cracking the Conspiracy come out?
Cracking the Conspiracy was released on 1 August 1998 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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