This movie was a classic, but the way it wove tangential topics like Cold War tactics, and Game Theory in to make a substantial story blows my mind even today...
This movie was the first inkling that I can remember as a kid that I needed to put time into nonlinear games and their associated thought processes. Poker, Role-Playing Games, Wargames, etc... Anything and everything that "upped the ante" when it came to strategy, complexity, realism, and paradigm modeling became more interesting to me as time moved on, and it more or less started about the time I first saw this film.
It's amazing to me how well it stands up even after all these years.
[+] [-] countzeroasl|9 years ago|reply
This movie was the first inkling that I can remember as a kid that I needed to put time into nonlinear games and their associated thought processes. Poker, Role-Playing Games, Wargames, etc... Anything and everything that "upped the ante" when it came to strategy, complexity, realism, and paradigm modeling became more interesting to me as time moved on, and it more or less started about the time I first saw this film.
It's amazing to me how well it stands up even after all these years.
[+] [-] briandear|9 years ago|reply