People taking part in this game had to assassinate their target, (and yes it was totally legal to murder people!)
Due to the movie being old, it had odd ideas of what the future contains, such as 'boob guns', parents hidden behind secret walls, and leather armor (the only one in the world) that prevents harm from bullets.
However it was this movie that inspired real life versions of the assassin game, (even in our own university), where players use fake harmless weapons to assassinate their given targets (other players) who do not know who has them as a target, but have their own target to assassinate. Naturally only one person remains alive at the end, and thus that makes the last person standing the winner.
Assassin games happen world wide, and there is even an event for this real life game, where several people play it in a city mixed with other non-players, sometimes causing a bit of confusion to those not participating.
Though I personally find the movie was terrible when compared to the ones I'm used to watching nowadays, one has to respect how it was one of the building blocks that led gaming to be what it is today.
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