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[..]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. It's a deceptively simple story: High schooler David Lightman (played by 21-year-old Matthew Broderick) is a digitally proficient goofball who wants to play an unreleased computer game — and impress a pretty girl (Ally Sheedy). So he does something most Americans didn't have a word for back then: He starts hacking. Little does he know, the "computer company" he's infiltrated is actually a military installation running a missile-command supercomputer called the WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), and the game — Global Thermonuclear War — is real. Naturally, only David can stop it from setting off World War III.

WarGames had its most indelible influence on hacker culture, not defense policy.The Cold War was ending, but the cyberwar was just getting started.

In 1993, the first hacker convention opened its doors. It was (and is) called Defcon, an affectionate nod to the movie that helped popularize the term[...]

>So we wrote down here a List of Notorious Wargames released upon the "real" contest contended in Wargames,

leaving out the hacking theme of how to get in a "WOPR" .

DEFCON is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software.The gameplay is reminiscent of the "big boards" that visually represented thermonuclear war .You play the role of a military Commander hidden deep within an Underground bunker. Your mission - to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst disabling their ability to attack your own. Start by launching your battleships, subs and bombers in order to decimate your opponent's defences. Scramble together your alliances but remember only one can stand victorious.