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WarGames: Defcon 1, a real-time strategy game only loosely related to the film, was released for the PlayStation and PC in 1998. A game inspired by the film, called "Computer War" from Thorn EMI, in which the player must track and shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as crack a computer code, was released for the Atari 8-bit ...
MU-TH-R 182 model 2.1 terabyte AI Mainframe/"Mother" (more commonly seen now as "MU/TH/UR 6000"), the onboard computer on the commercial spacecraft Nostromo, known by the crew as "Mother", in the 1979 movie Alien (cf. Dark Star, above, which used a similar name and was co-written by Dan O'Bannon, the primary writer of Alien)
Age of Sail (video game) Age of Sail II; Ageod's Wars of Succession; Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich; Allied General; American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox; Armor Alley; Armor Assault; Armored Brigade (video game) Armored Task Force; Arnhem (video game) Arsenal of Democracy (video game) At the Gates of Moscow 1941; Axis & Allies ...
This is a list of films about computers, featuring fictional films in which activities involving computers play a central role in the development of the plot. Artificial intelligence plots [ edit ]
Artificial intelligence names Computer or program Robot or android Ref 1927 Metropolis: Germany Maria's robot double [1] 1934 Der Herr der Welt (i.e. Master of the World) Germany Überroboter / Kampfmaschine (i.e. fighting machine), working-robots 1935 Loss of Sensation: USSR: 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still: USA Gort [1] 1957 The Invisible ...
Computer hacker breaks into military intelligence computer to play games, which almost starts a thermonuclear war. Joysticks (1983) – Directed by Greydon Clark. When a top local businessman and his two bumbling nephews try to shut down the town's only video arcade, arcade employees and patrons fight back.
Steve Russell, designer and main programmer of the initial version of Spacewar!, with a PDP-1 in 2007. During the 1950s, various computer games were created in the context of academic computer and programming research and for demonstrations of computing power, especially after the introduction later in the decade of smaller and faster computers on which programs could be created and run in ...
Computer wargames derived from tabletop wargames, which range from military wargaming to recreational wargaming.Wargames appeared on computers as early as Empire in 1972. . The wargaming community saw the possibilities of computer gaming early and made attempts to break into the market, notably Avalon Hill's Microcomputer Games line, which began in 1980 and covered a variety of topics ...