Atari A to Z: Computer War

Nuclear war is a scary prospect, but as a general rule we, the people of the world, don’t seem to be nearly as nervous about its possibility as we were back in the 1980s, for one reason or another.

The ’80s, as we’ve seen a few times on this series, played host to a variety of media that acknowledged and explored the strong degree of paranoia and fear that existed with regard to the United States’ Cold War with Russia in various ways. One of those pieces of media was the excellent movie WarGames, which in turn inspired several video game adaptations on various platforms.

One such video game was Thorn EMI’s Computer War for Atari 8-bit, a game I very much enjoyed when I was a kid — and still like firing up now and then today. Check it out in the video below, and don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube for more!

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2 thoughts on “Atari A to Z: Computer War”

  1. I loved the movie and never knew that there was a game for this back in the day. (Not a real surprise honestly because well, my first console was the Playstation 1). Looks great though, and it’s nice to have an oldie that you still fire up from time to time!😃😃

  2. I remember playing both this and the “official” WarGames but funnily enough I remembered the gameplay from this one and the title sequence from the other. This was a fun game. 🙂

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