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“Shall we play a game?” is a memorable line from the film WarGames, which features a teenage hacker played by Matthew Broderick. The film is set against the backdrop of thermo nuclear war during the Cold War and resonates more than 40 years later.
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uclear war. More than 40 years after the Cold War-era thriller WarGames, I can still see the blinking screen and hear the computer voice invitation to teenage hacker Matthew Broderick, and the creeping realization that the machine missed