DEFCON 5 is “normal.” If you reach DEFCON 1 however, to quote Egon from Ghostbusters, “It would be bad.” Enough of my 80’s movie flashbacks (for now). I spent many hours in my Cold War youth dreaming of playing that game and now, 20+ years later, I had my chance.ĭEFCON is an abbreviation for defense condition and is used to establish the relative threat level during a nuclear confrontation. However, the most remarkable character in the film was a computer that Broderick’s character was able to hack in to, thus starting the countdown to an all out global nuclear war. In high school, I fondly remember a movie entitled Wargames, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy (who still has never called me, despite my obvious fondness of her). DEFCON: Everybody Dies is a time capsule of a title that dragged me back to my youth.
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