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War Games didn't feature a Commodore machine, it featured an IMSAI. It might have helped boost mainstream interest in computers, but by then Commodore was already a big, well established company and - I believe - hadn't yet thoroughly burned their reseller network.

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Well it was the C64's time. If you got enthused about computers by the movie, in 1983, chances were you'd get a C64.

Wasn't Broderick's character using an IMSAI to show he didn't have the money for new hardware, and had to make do with 2nd hand stuff?

'War Games' isn't a half bad game on the C64, either!

ah, you're right. The movie theater I saw the movie at had a contest at the same time. Fill out a form, drop in a big decorated box, and if your name was drawn you won a C64.

The contest was, if I recall correctly, tied to the movie. Like, win a computer "like" the one Matthew used in the movie War Games.... or something along those lines.

My friend and I took home a stack of those forms and filled out at least 100 (probably more) but we didn't win.

Fun & memorable times. Thanks for the info on the IMSAI.

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