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

WarGames: Defcon 1, a real-time strategy game that was very loosely related to the film was released for the PlayStation and PC in 1998.

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

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.

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 ).

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

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.

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.

* WarGames ( 1983, writer, nominated for Academy Award )

Lasker and Walter F. Parkes were nominated for an Academy Award in screenwriting in 1983 for 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Third, diplomatic misunderstandings and / or opposing political ideologies may lead to escalating mutual perceptions of threat, and a subsequent arms race which elevates the risk of actual war — a scenario illustrated in the movies WarGames and Dr. Strangelove.

His next film, WarGames, in collaboration with Lawrence Lasker, garnered a “ Best Original Screenplay ” Oscar nomination.

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

The Genius began its transformation into WarGames when Parkes and Lasker met Peter Schwartz from the Stanford Research Institute.

WarGames did well at the North American box office, earning $ 79, 567, 667, the fifth-highest of 1983.

In November 2006, pre-production began on a sequel, titled WarGames: The Dead Code.

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

This led to the WarGames match at Fall Brawl, with Syxx teaming with Kevin Nash, Buff Bagwell, and Konnan to face the Four Horseman team of Flair, Steve McMichael, Chris Benoit, and Curt Hennig.

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.

The term DEF CON comes from the movie WarGames, referencing the U. S. Armed Forces defense readiness condition ( DEFCON ).