WarGames (1983)

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 4:12 a.m.

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"WarGames" changed the way \'80s kids looked at video games, computers, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. But in the age of smartphones and wireless Internet, does this 1983 geek-gasm still hold up?

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