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The Case for Remaking War Games
Apr. 30th, 2018 08:31 pmNote: There was a sequel long after the original. I did not watch that. I've heard of some kind of interactive online fiction. This Case won't take either of those into account. It only references the original movie that we have.
War Games, for those who did not experience the 80s, was the movie in which a Highschool student and early computer gamer nearly causes the nuclear apocalypse. It's a good movie and I would not suggest replacing it. In a decaded marked by a debate over nuclear weapons and shadowed by a cold-war policy of preserving life through the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction, this was a movie with something to say about how we, as a nation, responded.
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War Games, for those who did not experience the 80s, was the movie in which a Highschool student and early computer gamer nearly causes the nuclear apocalypse. It's a good movie and I would not suggest replacing it. In a decaded marked by a debate over nuclear weapons and shadowed by a cold-war policy of preserving life through the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction, this was a movie with something to say about how we, as a nation, responded.
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