* WOPR appears in the loose video game adaptation of the film, WarGames: Defcon 1, as one of the playable sides in the game.

: For the 1998 shooter game, see WarGames: Defcon 1.

* The strategy to show a computer its logic was nonsense was adapted in the movies WarGames ( 1982 ) and Echelon Conspiracy ( 2009 ).

A puzzle game, WarGames: WOPR, was released for iOS and Android devices in 2012.

A famous example of this sort of backdoor was used as a plot device in the 1983 film WarGames, in which the architect of the " WOPR " computer system had inserted a hardcoded password ( his dead son's name ) which gave the user access to the system, and to undocumented parts of the system ( in particular, a video game – like simulation mode and direct interaction with the artificial intelligence ).

References to these movies can be found throughout the game, including joke servers for companies such as Steve Jackson Games ( which has been raided by the Secret Service ) and a nuclear missile control system from WarGames.

He and director John Badham co-wrote the successful PC / PlayStation game WarGames, based on Badham's hit movie ).

A screenshot of WarGames ( game ) for ColecoVision.

WarGames is a 1984 video game developed by Coleco for the ColecoVision, and later ported to the

The game was directly inspired by MGM's 1983 film WarGames, but instead of depicting the film's events, it adapts its iconic NORAD scene into playable form.

The game uses a graphical and audio style which deliberately evokes images from films such as WarGames, cited by the developers as a major inspiration.

The game was released two years after the release of the film WarGames, when computer hacking and computer security were in the limelight.

A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct to DVD on July 29, 2008.

WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

A scene from the 1983 film WarGames was filmed near Darrington, and during one scene, when David Lightman ( Matthew Broderick ) is in a phone booth and says he is in Colorado, the mountain in the background is Whitehorse Mountain.

Having recorded a potential title song for the film WarGames that was never used, the band released it as a single and hastily assembled concert recordings around two studio tracks for the album Allies, their lowest-charting record to date.

His first big hit film was WarGames, a summer hit in 1983 he played the main role of David Lightman, a Seattle teen hacker.

In the 2008 direct-to-video sequel WarGames: The Dead Code WOPR was retired and replaced with R. I. P. L. E. Y., a new artificial intelligence supercomputer.

* WarGames was parodied in an episode of Robot Chicken.

In 1983 he was prompted by seeing the film WarGames to write a rudimentary self-learning tic-tac-toe program which made random moves and listed losing moves which it would not repeat.

According to biographer Robert Wright, the character Stephen Falken in the film WarGames was modeled after Fredkin.

In 1982, shortly after Galaga was released in the United States, MGM sent a Galaga machine to Matthew Broderick for him to practice prior to shooting the movie WarGames.

In the Halloween Havoc match, the timing of the maneuvers and hits was poor ; an arm injury that Warrior received at WarGames further slowed the action.

As detailed in the Kayfabe Commentaries release " Timeline of WWE: 1997 ", Cornette described this concept as a combination of a cage which surrounded the majority of the ringside area ( this was a cage design which was popular in Memphis wrestling promotions ), and the cage used in both the NWA and WCW for their WarGames matches ( which had a top on the cage ).

Brest was then hired to direct the film WarGames, but was fired during production.

On September 19, at Fall Brawl, Animal was the advisor for Sting's team, consisting of Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes, and The Shockmaster for WarGames, defeating Big Van Vader, Sid Vicious, and Harlem Heat.

The series was inspired by the feature film WarGames.

Juanin Clay ( born Juanin Clay de Zalduondo ; November 26, 1949-March 12, 1995 ) was an American actress who appeared in the 1983 drama-thriller film WarGames.

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham.

An acoustic coupler is prominently shown early in the 1983 film " WarGames ", when character David Lightman ( depicted by actor Matthew Broderick ) places a telephone handset into the cradle of a film prop acoustic modem to accentuate the act of using telephone lines for interconnection to the developing computer networks of the period, in this case, a military command computer.

In 1981, Richard Pryor came to town to film parts of the movie Bustin ' Loose and Snohomish received additional attention from Hollywood in the 1983 movie WarGames as the name of the high school from which the character David Lightman, played by Matthew Broderick, hacks into a military computer system.

: Don Bluth's 1982 animated film The Secret of NIMH ; the 1983 film WarGames ; and the James Bond, Pink Panther and Rocky franchises ).

War dialing or wardialing ( the name is derived from the 1983 film WarGames ) is a technique of using a modem to automatically scan a list of telephone numbers, usually dialing every number in a local area code to search for computers, Bulletin board systems and fax machines.

The popular name for this technique originated in the 1983 film WarGames.

* WarGames ( film )

Wardriving originated from wardialing, a method popularized by a character played by Matthew Broderick in the film WarGames, and named after that film.

Walsh co-starred in the straight to video sequel to the 1983 film WarGames called WarGames: The Dead Code.

Other films based on video games included the 1983 films WarGames ( where Matthew Broderick plays Galaga at an arcade ), Nightmares, and Joysticks, the 1984 film The Last Starfighter, and the anime Super Mario Bros .: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!

* In the 1983 film WarGames, the master computer WOPR is programmed to interpret a sudden power loss as the result of a decapitation strike and automatically launch all weapons in retaliation.

MGM released the sequel directly to DVD on July 29, 2008 along with the 25th Anniversary Edition DVD of WarGames.

Development on WarGames began in 1979, when writers Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker developed an idea for a script called The Genius, about " a dying scientist and the only person in the world who understands him – a rebellious kid who's too smart for his own good.

She is also known for her roles in WarGames, Short Circuit and High Art, for which she received critical acclaim.

Coleman is perhaps best known for roles in 9 to 5, Tootsie, WarGames, You've Got Mail, Sworn to Silence, The Beverly Hillbillies and as the voice of Principal Peter Prickly in Recess and Recess: School's Out.

War dialers take their name from a scene in the early-1980s movie WarGames in which a ' cracker ' programs a home computer to dial every number in an exchange, searching for lines with auto-answer data modems.

Following the event, Hogan grew interested in Vader and asked for his assistance in his developing feud with the Dungeon of Doom, by asking him to join him, Randy Savage, and Sting for WarGames.

Eddie Deezen ( born March 6, 1958 ) is an American character actor, voice actor and comedian, best known for his bit parts as nerd characters in 1970s and 1980s films such as Grease, Grease 2, Midnight Madness, 1941 and WarGames, as well as for larger roles in a number of independent cult films, including Surf II: The End of the Trilogy and I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

1983's WarGames proved to be the last mainstream film of Deezen's live-action career as he began working exclusively in independent film for the remainder of the 1980s, starting with his first starring role in the 1984 cult film Surf II: The End of the Trilogy, where he played mad scientist Menlo Schwartzer, the movie's antagonist.