A computer genius uses a GameBoy to avert a meltdown in a nuclear plant
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A handheld video game helps save the world from a homicidal supercomputer AI in Terminal Error
- from Terminal Error (2002)
- Creator: John Murlowski
- Distributor: Porchlight Entertainment
- Posted by Critical Commons Manager
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GameBoy is used to deliver a counter-virus
by Critical Commons ManagerIn this climactic scene from the low-budget cyberthriller Terminal Error, a computer ethicist and programmer played by Marina Sirtis writes a counter-virus on a GameBoy that is used to defeat a homicidal AI supercomputer before it has a chance to cause a nuclear meltdown, thereby leading the reconstitution of her own nuclear family.
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