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Jul242008

WarGames 25th Anniversary

Posted by Gene in Classics

I can’t believe that it’s been 25 years since I saw WarGames in the theater. I didn’t even know what a modem was then or how it would eventually change my life. I’m so going to check this out again on the big screen.

Great article on Wired.com about this move re-release. It’s the must-see nerd event of the year for sure.

It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire”; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy little thriller about looming Armageddon.