War Games: Kriegsspiele (1983)

War Games: Kriegsspiele: Directed by John Badham. With Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy. A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

“This was an old favorite for many younger baby-boomers, who were teenagers and in their twenties at the dawn of the personal computer age.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis one was a bit more than amusing, though. It opened many eyes to both the potential and the dangers we faced while coming into the computer age. The government had these marvelous machines and the internet by which they communicated for decades before the public was given access from these ancient Commodore 64u0026#39;s, Amigas, and Atari home computers via phone line, back in the late 1970u0026#39;s.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile this work is entertaining, it also bears a valid warning, even today.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBroderick and Ally Sheedy both were 21, playing 17 year olds, competently.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt rates a 7.6/10 from…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ethe Fiend :.”