And for the second time, it turns out that this is not just a game. You have the standard choice of playing either the NORAD forces (good guys) or the insidious WOPR (misunderstood computer), after which you proceed to blast the others into their component compounds. Does this sound familiar? Somewhat, but the nukes have been left out this time, and you now take control of military units such as tanks, jeeps, walkers, boats, etc - all in the name of world conquest, or liberation. Apparently, you are a gamer who has hooked up to a gaming company's Internet server to play a game of strategic warfare. He might provide a second op on the game, though. One of my colleagues informs me that the manual is a standard fit-the-CD-box booklet, and not very informative. The copy I have of this game is just the CD. To test the WOPR, David lets the gamers play the computer through the Internet, in a game of tactical warfare. David now works for NORAD, and the WOPR is still around doing war simulations, despite the generals inclinations to sell it for scrap at the end of the movie. WarGames is a game developed by MGM-Interactive and is set 20 years after the movie. A while back, a movie was released on the subject, where a young boy named David Lightman cracked into the military supercomputer WOPR and well near caused a thermonuclear war, by playing the computer in what he thought was a computer game. Hackers are the role-models of young computer freaks and the dread of every systems administrator.
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