The Cold War shapes video games in ways most players never notice, and this five-part film traces that influence from wartime code-breaking to the console era. It opens with Alan Turing's work cracking Nazi ciphers and the computing advances that grew out of it, then follows the American-Soviet space race after Sputnik's 1957 launch into the labs where programmers built the tools that would define early gaming. Spacewar, the two-player space combat game built by MIT students in 1962, gets singled out as the moment Cold War tension first became playable. The film then jumps to Tetris, designed in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, reading its falling blocks and rigid barriers as an echo of the system that produced it. It closes by tracking how the Cold War's collapse in 1991 coincided with computing going mainstream, while first-person combat games kept recycling Cold War settings and enemies long after the conflict ended. The argument throughout is that video games were never just entertainment but a running record of the political moment they were built in.