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"War Games" is one of my favorite sci fi thriller about how a teen guy unknowingly hacks into a mainframe computer at NORAD (Cheyanne, Wyoming) to play a global war simulation between USA and USSR before he realizes he has already login into a real machine using the power of artificial intelligence named Joshua. He asked the machine "Is this game real?". AI Joshua replied "You should know professor". The start of WW III..
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gg04 Nov. 2023
go on and launch, you cowards.
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WOPR25 Jun. 2023
no thanks. i'd rather play thermonuclear war...
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Euhill03 May. 2022
Since this is an old IBM Basic program, I tried running this under the Python version of basic called PC-Basic that recreates GW-Basic. Sadly all I got was an illegal function call in line 8440. Looks Like this will have to be run under dosbox. It was worth a try.
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Joshua20 Feb. 2022
Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
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Joe Mama08 Feb. 2022
I tried playing this and some computer called Joshua kept calling me back...
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supertomcat13 Apr. 2020
Like DEFCON but older
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Player08 Nov. 2017
Top comment
Strange game, the only winning move is not to play...
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krashd06 Sep. 2016
WOULD. YOU. LIKE. TO. PLAY. A. GAME?
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No comment nor review for this game at the moment.
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"War Games" is one of my favorite sci fi thriller about how a teen guy unknowingly hacks into a mainframe computer at NORAD (Cheyanne, Wyoming) to play a global war simulation between USA and USSR before he realizes he has already login into a real machine using the power of artificial intelligence named Joshua. He asked the machine "Is this game real?". AI Joshua replied "You should know professor". The start of WW III..
go on and launch, you cowards.
no thanks. i'd rather play thermonuclear war...
Since this is an old IBM Basic program, I tried running this under the Python version of basic called PC-Basic that recreates GW-Basic. Sadly all I got was an illegal function call in line 8440. Looks Like this will have to be run under dosbox. It was worth a try.
Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
I tried playing this and some computer called Joshua kept calling me back...
Like DEFCON but older
Strange game, the only winning move is not to play...
WOULD. YOU. LIKE. TO. PLAY. A. GAME?
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.