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10+ Mind-Blowing Movies featuring Video Games
This isn’t another list of terrible film adaptations of various video games (of which there are many), but a list of the better conceived ones which feature them, which have influenced development of actual games, or have taken inspiration from their ideas, exploring how they overlap into the real world.
With much of the planet under lock-down (due to COVID-19) there’s a good opportunity to hunt down, catch up on, or re-watch, these great movies.
War Games
Matthew Broderick stars as the original 80s geek, playing around at home in his bedroom on a primitive but powerfully-connected computer, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union (Russia).
Much to the envy of many real-life geeks who were inspired by the potential of home computing, he has a girlfriend, and together they end up trying to save the world from real War Games and World War 3. The journey to this film’s ending is exciting to this day. In fact, it could be time for some kind of re-make. [More about War Games…]
