Future Easter Egg Showing Alaska & Actor Barry Corbin (Northern Exposure) In WarGames (1983)

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I point out a future reference associating actor Barry Corbin and the state of the Alaska present in WarGames (1983). He later played businessman Maurice Minnifield (guy wearing the NASA hat) in CBS TV series Northern Exposure (1990-1995). In a scene at 1 hour 19 minutes, the WOPR computer simulates a Soviet attack on North America and the air defense facility goes on alert due to the spoofing of fighter planes in the airspace of Alaska. Corbin's character Gen. Jack Beringer has some screentime in this scene.

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00:00Here's an easy-to-see future Easter egg reference associating actor Barry Corbin with the state of Alaska.

00:08You can see this in 1983 techno-thriller War Games, directed by John Badham and starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy,

00:18and Dabney Coleman.

00:20Corbin has a role in this as General Jack Barringer.

00:23In a scene that starts around 1 hour 19 minutes, the supercomputer that the air defense uses believes that it's

00:32playing a game.

00:34Following a challenge by David Lightman, Matthew Broderick's character, proceeds to simulate a Soviet attack on North America.

00:44A map is brought up zooming in on the state of Alaska, whose airspace is falsely shown to be violated

00:53by Russian aircraft.

00:55Corbin's character has some screen time in here as well.

00:59He later played Morris Minifield, a.k.a. the guy with the NASA ball cap, in CBS TV comedy Northern

01:09Exposure, broadcast between 1990 and 1995 with Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, and John Corbett.

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