WarGames

Name: WarGames
Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama
Released: 1983-06-03
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin

Is it a game, or is it real?

WarGames (1983)

Timing: 1:54 (114 min)

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Actors and characters

Watch film WarGames | "Shall We Play A Game?" Scene

Release date

1983-06-03

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, Sherwood Productions, Leonard Goldberg Productions, MGM

Genre

Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama

Budget

$12 000 000

Revenue

$124 600 000

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Director

John Badham

Actors

Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay, Kent Williams, Dennis Lipscomb, Joe Dorsey, Irving Metzman
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

Producer

Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider, Leonard Goldberg

Operator

William A. Fraker

Composer

Arthur B. Rubinstein

Artist

Audition

Wallis Nicita

Editing

Tom Rolf
All team (52)

Short description

High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

What's left behind the scenes

During the height of the Cold War, the film popularized the concept of DEFCON in popular culture. It is thanks to this film that the hacker conference held in the United States received its name – DEFCON.
The film gave its name to one of the hacking techniques for scanning telephone networks for publicly accessible modem pools — wardialing.
The scenario of the battle was recreated in the 2006 computer game DEFCON, which accurately reproduces the 'schematic nature' of military operations and DEFCON levels.
The offer to play chess ('How about a nice game of chess?'), posed by the supercomputer to the player, can be found in the computer game Fallout, and the mention of a 'strange game that you can win without even starting it' — in another part — Fallout 2.
In the computer game Culpa Innata, you can find a computer that largely replicates Joshua. The main character can play chess with it (always losing) and tic-tac-toe (always a draw, or, if 0 players are specified, the computer freezes while playing against itself). 'Global thermonuclear war' is also on the list of games, but the main character refuses to play it.
The film was released in 1983, the same year ARPANET switched to the TCP/IP protocol, which can be considered the beginning of the internet era.

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