Greetings! Do you want to play a game?

Whatever happened to director John Badham, eh? Master of the 80's dumb-but-fun techno thriller, he disappeared in the 90's, buried under the weight of middling action-pap like The Assassin and Drop Zone.

War Games (1983), despite its primitive computer code and phone modem depiction of cutting edge home computing, remains enjoyable, thrilling and tense stuff.

Of course the plot holes are huge; guided public tours around NORAD...leaving a known terror suspect alone in a secure office with computer... Plus it doesn't measure up to the mighty Dr Strangelove or Lumet's Failsafe.

But when naive super-computer Joshua asks Matthew Brodderick, " Do you want to play a game?"... you know thats real shit in your pants...