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Monday April 16, 2007
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As we celebrate our 25th anniversary over at PC Magazine, and pull together the best of the last two-and-a-half decades in technology, computing, and electronics innovations, it got me thinking that the '80s were not only a groundbreaking decade for personal technology. Like any great lifestyle shift, the dawn of PCs and video games, and the flood of home electronics, was reflected on the big screen. Scheming high school hackers, video game wizzes, and futuristic robots became staple characters and paved the way for countless tech-themed travesties (ahem, The Net) and cultural benchmarks (The Matrix) in the decade-and-a-half that have followed. So, fellow movie and techie geeks, I give you the Top 8 Techie Movies of the 1980s:
1. War Games (1983)
2. Tron (1982)
3. The Terminator (1984)
4. RoboCop (1987)
5. Weird Science (1985)
6. Superman III (1987)
7. The Wizard (1989)
8. Back to the Future (1985)
Also be sure to check PC Mag's Top Innovators and Top Products of the '80s.
Post by Corinne Iozzio
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April 17, 2007 8:43 AM
no real genius? really, corinne? really?
April 17, 2007 3:45 PM
re: the wizard.
i love the powerglove, it's so bad.
April 17, 2007 4:30 PM
The Wizard was definitely an all time winner. Man, I could still watch that movie. ;)
War Games is definitely deserving of the top slot there.
April 18, 2007 12:44 AM
no SNEAKERS?!?!?!!?!?! what kind of geeks are you?
April 16, 2008 2:13 PM
Real Genius should be number one.
DARYL (admittedly a goofy kids movie, but maybe an honorable mention?)
What about the technical genius of Firefox, as Clint Eastwood is forced to "think in Russian?"
Short Circuit's Johnny Number 5 doesn't rate but Weird Science and the poop monster does?
As to Sneakers it was a 1992 film, but I agree this list seems short and strangely padded in the wrong direction.