3:00AM Owen Good | Wired has put together a retrospective on the silver anniversary of
WarGames, which if it isn’t the first movie premised on PC gaming, is certainly the most notable. The film came out in 1983, the summer of
Return of the Jedi. And as I recall it at the time,
WarGames was well overshadowed in hype even next to movies like
Krull (and
Scarface, or
Flashdance, but my parents probably weren’t gonna let me see those.) But it came away with three Academy Award nominations and taught my generation some powerful lessons: No one can win a nuclear war, and you can get free calls from a payphone using a soft drink can tab.
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