I was the Location Manager on "WarGames" and you got a couple facts wrong as well as some omissions. The mouth of the tunnel and the jeep crash were filmed near a small town called Cement, in the Cascades north of Seattle. Yes, the tunnel interior is Griffith Park. The jeep crash was a real accident with the stunt doubles actually getting hurt, but not badly. The chainlink fence they tried to crash through caught under the wheels and flipped the jeep over. The fence should have been rigged by special effects and wasn't. Yes, they chose to keep it in. This was shot while Martin Brest was Director. As with many productions, there was often chaos and poor planning. John Wood was chosen well into pre-production in 1982 after considering many, many actors. The movie was brilliantly cast by Martin Brest, not John Badham. Martin Brest had several extravagant ideas he insisted upon... and there are a number of scenes and shots he made that are in the film...not just the ones you mentioned. Martin "demanded" the interior set of Norad be huge with different levels, catwalks offices, etcetera. The story I heard, was that when Martin and the writers toured Norad, they were going to the real Norad Command center until Martin said something about the storyline that prompted the Military to cancel the tour. Nevertheless, Martin wanted the huge set. Leonard Goldberg, the executive producer was increasingly fed up with demands by Martin and the money being spent on things like the Norad set. Though Martin Brest's filming was going well, I remember that he was falling behind....which is costly and unforgivable to many Producers. As you stated, after two weeks, he was fired and Badham was hired. In my opinion, Goldberg must have wanted to fire Brest earlier but it took some time to line up Badham, who was finishing "Blue Thunder". It is true that the original writers did profound research and came up with ingenious ideas...nevertheless, they were fired at one point and other writers were brought in to change aspects of the script. One of the writers brought in was Walon Green. Eventually, I believe the original writers were brought back. Though Badham's tenure as Director was smoother and he was liked by everyone...it was many of Brest's ideas and concepts that helped make the movie what it is. I do not believe the darker tone of Brest's concepts would have been detrimental to the final film...very hard to say. One of the more difficult choices Brest had to make, was whether the voice of the computer would be heard. Though computers may have had voices, they were not interactive, as I remember it. There was much consternation as to whether this would be believable..but it was decided to add it to the film. My memory is that it was not in the script and the computer's dialogue would have appeared on the computer screen. Obviously, this was a pivotal decision. Before Brest was fired, Goldberg brought in a known Production Manager, Harold Schneider, who had a reputation for firing people and drastic cost cutting. His term on the crew was unpleasant and was probably supposed to be. Goldberg did not have much confidence the film would be successful...mind you Broderick and Sheedy were essentially unknown. Both were very friendly and likable. One other note, there is a scene where Sheedy gives Broderick a ride on her scooter. The schedule had to be changed due to Sheedy crashing the moped....not seriously, but causing a delay in production. Also, originally, in the script, a private jet was to take Broderick and Sheedy to Falcon and was going to land on a two-lane road in the mountains but was cut. Martin Brest and Lisa Weinstein, found the script, originally called "The Genius" and developed it with the writers. They deserve some credit for what the final film is. My name is Robert Decker and I can be contacted through the Location Managers Guild International.

The NORAD set is worth every penny of it’s budget: amazing then, amazing now.

One of the most underappreciated movies of all time. There are few movies that so perfectly represent the time in which they were made.

Fun fact: I wrote the actor Irving Metzman who plays Richter in the film to ask for his autograph in hopes of completing my Wargames collection and he mailed me his ID badge that he wore in the movie. As an IT guy I think of this as a sort of relic.

A few points I wanted to make: 1) Ally Sheedy was hella cute. I stayed for the end credits because I wanted to know her name. 2) The computer simulation that almost started WWIII referenced in the video took place in 1979. However, in 1983 -- the year of WarGames' release -- there were actually TWO incidents that brought us close to nuclear annihilation (talk about your China Syndrome/Three Mile Island coincidence!) If you have a few minutes, look up "Able Archer 83" and "1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm." 3) Ally Sheedy was hot. 4) I knew that Martin Brest was the original director, and I knew that a couple scenes he directed made it into the final movie; however, I never knew which scenes those were. Now I know. Thanks, Jeff! 5) I had a major crush on Ally Sheedy. 6) There actually was an original song that made it into the movie. It was called Video Fever, written by the film's composer, Arthur B. Rubinstein, and performed by The Beepers. It appears in the scene in the video arcade when we are introduced to David. But it didn't get much push. 7) Did I happen to mention Ally Sheedy?

I was a high school senior 1983-1984. This film sent me into computer science, but I switched to engineering. I've watched it only a couple times since. Still love it.

Almost 40 years later, this is still such a great movie. The technology may have advanced, but the message remains

"I'd piss on a spark plug, If I thought it would do any good..." Has been my "go to" line for 35 years!

I was put into cadet training for the Soviet Army a year or so after this film was made. I spent three years off and on in Afghanistan up till the Soviet withdrawal. Then there were the hard years of the collapse of the USSR and my country restoring independence with the expulsion of the Soviet (now Russian) Army. In 1992 I and a few others drove a van to Berlin to find as much computer gear to take back. We explained Lithuania was trying to really get started seriously with computers. The local hacker types did everything legal and not legal to help us. They even called in help from a place in Scotland called the Barras. They got us everything from PCs to Amigas and every piece of software of any value. Other than to buy some new components and blank disks they took no money. On German man even found us a broken down Soviet truck that we repaired to bring more back. So hacker and computer nerds helped a poor country when it needed it most.

This movie was very influential to those of us who studied Computer Science in the early 1980's. It is still a favorite of mine after all these years.

Matthew Brodericks father died before filming had ended. Despite being a young man in his first major movie it shows how professional he was to still finish off his scenes despite the obvious sadness and loss he'd just endured.

A movie with 'heart'. It made the imagination soar. No super heroes.. no weirdos in capes trying to save the planet. Just a simple little story of human interaction. Broaddrick and Sheedy knocked this one out of the park.

Great video. Great film. This film helped influence me in 1985 to change professions into IT. A few years ago I retired as Senior IT Programme Manager in a major UK company after a fascinating career! Thanks, Wargames !

A piece of trivia you wouldn't know. In the credits, there is one for DataProducts. I worked on the three printers that are in the War Room.

The opening scene where the launch controllers fail to follow the launch order during the unscheduled drill is pretty key to the plot, since it gave them a reason to take the men out of the loop, so to speak.

I'm so glad to see a video ADDING something to the film. So many videos on KZfaq are just looking for "flaws" or mistakes.

When I first met my life partner in 1983, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and at that time his job was running the real life equivalent of the WOPR computer. Yes there really was one, just not by that name, however it was never connected to anything except a printer. Each run added some variable to the fictional battle and produced several hundred printed pages of possible outcomes. That's all Tom would ever tell me about it. After being together for almost 35 years, I lost Tom in January of 2018. I miss him so much.

My favorite scene/line of the whole movie is when they realize WOPR is still trying to launch and when asked what General Berringer is going to say to the president he says “I’m going to tell him we might have to go thru with this thing after all” with a defeated expression

I remember seeing this movie at the local theater in Porvoo/Finland back in late 1983 when I was 15. It had such an impact on me that I nagged for mom and dad to buy me a computer constantly during the next three weeks. They finally gave in and bought me a Commodore 64. This in turn lead to a lifelong hobby with computers, and since 1992 a full time career in IT in which I still am, at the tender age of 51. There aren't many movies that I can say defined my future, but this one most certainly did.

The 'big screens' in the war room were created using a HP9845 (one of the first hughely expensive CAD computers, with a light pen and...two TAPE DRIVES!) - it had a specific vector font, which is visible in the names displayed on maps. But there was not enough computing power to do these simulations in real time, nor there were any screens as big as ones shown in the movie. Instead, they filmed the HP9845 graphics frame by frame, then mounted a film, which was projected onto white screens from several projectors - so when David says in amazement "this is some set up!" to McKittrick, what we really see behind him is...a multiplex cinema of a sort ;-)

Barry Corbin as General Beringer is one of my all-time favorite movie characters.

The scene with the hackers where the dweeby guy grabs the paper away from his co-worker pretty much defines the idea of nerd -- this movie, corny as it was, was way ahead of its time.

I had such a crush on Ally Sheedy as a kid. And in those tights, whew lads!

This movie shaped me. I grew up in the 80's with a vic-20, TRS 80, coco2 and more. I had 300 baud modems with acoustic couplers. I was phreaking and bbs'ing from years 8 to 15. Amazing time. When you could open a computer and understand how it worked. When you didn't need a phd to read a data sheet. When you could memorize all the instructions of a processor. Before software and games became expendable. Miss those days.

Great movie!!! Love the old computer equipment also especially in David's room. Kids today have no idea.

Even as an early computer geek the biggest thing I remember from it was how god damn cute Alley Sheedy was!!

I ran a war dialer in the late 80s that was written in BASIC. I found a few computers, but never got past the login screen. I also found a BBS (bulletin board system)that I didn't know existed. For those of you who don't know what a BBS is, it was our way of connecting to others before the internet. Our computer modem would dial another running BBS software. We would post messages and download/upload games and pictures. One picture took longer to download than a 2gb movie does now. In many cases, the picture would load line by line at a rate of 1 line every 2-3 seconds. Some of the bigger BBSs had country-wide message boards. Their servers would dial each other up at night to send and receive new messages. You would wait a couple of days in most cases for responses to your questions.

A classic. Entertaining from start to finish. Barry Corbin is the secret sauce. He steals every scene he is in.

Note: In _War Games_ Mathew Broderick’s character hacks into his School’s computers to manipulate his record. In _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_ he does the same thing.

for you non Brits - 'Are you sitting comfortably ? then I'll begin .." is a bit of a British staple which is why actor John Wood probably said it. There was a radio program in the 50s called Listen with Mother, where children's stores were read - preceded with this line. It still pops up here and there, usually sarcastically.

This is one of the best vids about the "side info" on a movie I've ever seen. Really cool. This was one of my favorite movies back in the day. Must have seen it a hundred times

""All right, Lightman, maybe you can tell us who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex?" "um......your wife?" Somehow, I still laugh out loud every time I see the scene. I should say, part of the reason it works so well is the guy does a great job setting up the punch line.

This was on tv recently and brought back so many memories. Ally Sheedy was so cute. I had a huge crush on her. This and 'The Last Starfighter' were faves.

In the summer of 1981, I spent a day on set of "War Games" as an extra. A couple scenes were filmed at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle. But in one, the moped Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy were on tipped over and the two were taken away by ambulance as a precaution. They ultimately cancelled shooting for the day and all of us extras were sent home and the scenes were later reshot by a different director.

I taught middle school Tech ed for 9 years. 8th grade we learned Excel, took apart and put together a PC, Watched Triumph of the Nerds (PBS Doc about PC/Mac invention) and WATCHED THIS MOVIE. They weren't super excited when we started it, but when the bell rang 1/2 way through they BEGGED to stay and watch the end. I watched the movie, made a note of all the swear words, and then made a VHS Tape of the movie and muted the DVD audio at each swear (Cant be too careful in today's world of teaching). The kids LOVED it and I NEVER got tired of watching it or watching them understand it. Then we had a class period of discussion about it and hacking, updating to today's IP addresses, VPNs, and just don't do it. AWESOME MOVIE!

Falken's actor also played Joshua--holy crap, I never noticed that until you pointed it out! Now I feel dumb for missing it : )

Great video. I always liked the fact that the writers didn't know which way the DEF-CON numbering system worked. Was DEF-CON 5 worse than 1, or vice versa? It was apparently a state secret at the time, so they had to guess. In the DVD commentary they STILL didn't know for sure, but had been told they'd gotten it backwards. Now we now the truth: They guessed correctly!

When I tell people one of the first computers I ever built was an IMSAI 8080 and they look at me funny I say; "you know, Matthew Broderick's computer in War Games with the blue and red paddle switches.." (at 2:30) FYI those switches, 16 for addressing, 8 for data, plus misc control, were for reading and writing data into the system in binary. If your entire system crashed you could manually load, one byte at a time, a boot loader into RAM that would read an OS off a cassette tape machine provided of course you could correctly set all the switches correctly for hundreds of bytes without making a single mistake. I would of killed for one of those Shugart 8" floppy drives they show in the movie.

Happens I just re-watched this film about two or three months ago after at least a decade, and all I can say is that it stands up spectacularly after 35 years. Nice video. You managed to come up with some stuff I didn't know. :-)

TRIVIA: this was one of the first movies to ever shoot video display consoles with film. If you look at the Crystal Palace set, you will see loads of monochrome video displays at most of the console stations on the stage. Since cathode ray tube (CRT) displays refresh at a frame rate that is different from a film camera, they had to hack the dot clock on all the displays to electronically change their refresh rate from NTSC 29.96 frames per second, down to cinema's 24 frames per second, so that it would look proper on film. They also had to have built a special master timing circuit that controlled all of the displays on the floor so that they could advance or retard their timing depending on when they needed the completely-drawn displays to be up, so the camera could capture it at full exposure, as well as sync their hardware with a Panavision camera. It really was an incredible feat, A very clever bit of real life hacking within the context of a movie about hacking. Absolutely brilliant. Listen to the First Assistant Director for WarGames recounting his team's amazing feat here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qbqGdpt40tDUnnk.html

This is one of the most brilliant movies ever made .

In 1983, I was in the USAF, assigned to the 23 Air Defense Squadron, NORAD. While the displays in the film are not really like what we had (too much color display for that time), we did in fact think and behave this way about security, nuclear secrets, and ICBM and Long Range Bomber countermeasures. After the Air Force, I went on to my preferred career, computer programming, which of course, I began by hacking dumb terminals in NORAD's "Battle Staff" room to fool a Captain into thinking he had just initiated a data download that was beyond his security clearance level. That "hack" was little more (in fact nothing more) than programming some "macro key" recordings and playing them back in sequence. But it worked. "Warning, Captain nnnn n. nnnnnn. Download of data, classified , in 30 seconds...... 30...29...28..." To which I remember him in a panic saying "I gotta get my gd damn name off this thing..." Classic.

The "piss on a spark plug" line is one of my all-time favorite movie quotes, and I use it often.

I remember as a kid I did a bit of war dialing local numbers from my C64 around this time, but never was able to get past a login screen on the few computers I found. Also: “Mr. Potato Head, Mr. Potato Head, backdoors are NOT secrets.” “Yeah but you’re giving away all our best tricks!”

addition to #6: Falke(n) is the german word for Hawk (Stephen Falken Stephen Hawking)

I loved this movie ♡ Even as a 20-something when I saw it for the first time, I thought John Wood as Professor Falken was a great actor and an attractive man. Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy were terrific as the main characters.

One thing I caught in the background after watching the movie for about the 50th time, was when David came home from school and overheard about his computer hack on the TV. As the camera focuses on him realizing what happened, a news story airs about a fire in a prophylactic (condoms) recycling center. Imagine having a job there.

Back in the '70s and early 80s when everyone still used bell system landlines. Myself & a few buddies were phone hackers. Yes, it was possible to get a dial tone on a payphone using bottle caps to ground. Using the Captin Crunch whistle with the right tones could get a long-distance dial tone from ATT, MCI, and Worldcom. Auto dialers were used to find back door computer systems like War Games. Today bell landlines are rarely used? Firewalls & antivirus have improved. But the old days sure were fun. Like being able to fly anywhere without ever paying a cent in real money.

The 70's and 80's were the best time to be a computer nerd.

The annoying skinny hacker and the fat hacker with the beard are based on Leonard DiCicco and Kevin Mitnick. Both ended serving prison sentences years after this film for computer hacking. The later movie Sneakers has even more thinly veiled versions of real life hackers. Though not the German hacker Pengo, Hans Heinrich Hübnerr.

I saw Wargames with my grandfather when it was released. It had a profound impact on me, and to this day I will watch it everytime it comes on. I love Ready Player One and that is one part of the book I just loved! Great video

The research behind this movie was pretty good. I was in NORAD in the 1970's and the map's depiction of the NORAD regions spot on.

Early computer technology: 1. *8-in floppy discs & drives* 2:29 2. *"Analog" [head/hand-set] telephone rest/connection to the first modems.* 2:35 _Oh, the memories!_

Ally Sheedy was HOT

In 1982 I worked for HP in Southern California as a new Sales Rep. One day I was contacted by HP Corporate and told to deliver a demo HP 9845C desktop computer to a guy in Simi Valley (about a half-hour north of LA). The 9845C was an ungainly-looking thing. It looked like a double-sized AppleII with an EXTREMELY-heavy 14" color CRT mounted on top on two short pedestals. About $20K in 1982 dollars--very expensive. I delivered it to a house in suburbia. The guy who answered the door was dressed in a one-piece orange jumpsuit made of ripstop nylon. His name was Colin Cantwell, and his job was to create all the graphics for all the Norad screens using the 9845C. I presume he would do a sequence, then have it scanned to film, to be projected from behind for each screen during a take. A few months later, just before I left HP for a job at Apple Computer, Colin invited me to the set. They were about halfway through the build, and it was in a large sound stage with lots of carpenters hammering and sawing 2x4's and plywood. The large screens were not yet in place but the elevated glass command center in the back of the room was completed. Colin is still alive. He was a modelmaker and was involved in the original StarWars (Episode IV). He was thinking about what a Death Star should look like, and glued two styrofoam hemispheres together. The glue reacted with the foam and forced the hemispheres apart, creating an "equator" canyon. They worked the story into the idea that Luke would fly into that canyon in order to shoot his weapon into the ports, blowing up the whole megillah.

This movie was the first time I heard the expression "back door" to refer to a way to hack a program. I became a programmer in the 80's and always put a back door in any program I thought I needed to get into to fix a bug quickly.

Scene where Matthew Broderick comes home and the news playing a story (in the background) about something happening at the "prophylactic recycling center"!

It's interesting to see the connection between Wargames and Sneakers. Both are movies I talk about as being "more realistic" towards cyber security to my students.

When David gets reservations to Paris, the screen shows that the flight would be leaving from Chicago instead of Seattle. (I guess they knew he was going to be there a couple of years later.) You can see a member of the crew's back crouching behind the WOPR when they first show a spinning shot of it.

As a young computer programmer of Basic and Assembly on hobby/home computers of the time, this film changed people's, especially parents', views of our hobby and efforts.

The hacking stuff in this movie was pretty realistic... I was about Lightman's age at the time and I was into that scene. I did wardialing, phreaking, and tried my hand at hacking in to some systems (unsuccessfully; I wasn't very good). His life was basically my life except that he was good at it. Of course most of us weren't using IMSAI computers at the time, but that's a liberty I can excuse since that computer just looks so good in the movie. And it's got that heavy "computery" look that they probably wanted for a mass audience.

Fun fact -- and somewhat unrelated to the movie -- but in the 1980s, all school-kids in many districts around the Seattle area were required to take (and pass) a mandatory, 9-week-long swimming class in certain Jr. High and High School grades. But we simply overlooked that incongruity in the movie because we really enjoyed it.

a personal funny addition, I watched this in a Dollar Theater, and someone sitting behind me, sees the "LOGON:" prompt come up on the screen, and says "Logan? Who the hell is Logan???"

The title is "WarGames: 16 Things You Don't Need To Know" but I am glad to know most of these after this video. Well done!

Dad: "This corn is raw!" Mom: "I know, can't you just taste the vitamin A and D?"... Dad: "But it's RAW!!!"

Been using the password "joshua" or some variation of it for about 30 years. Still one of my favorite movies.

You mentioned that United Artist was the only studio interested in the movie, but didn’t give the reason why. It was because at that time Alexander Haig,, a former 4 star Army General who had been Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe and served two years as Secretary of State under President Reagan, was on the UA board of directors at the time. He, like the Reagan Administration officials you referenced, believed the film was plausible and convinced the rest of the board to green light the film for that reason.

Don't know what I loved more. WarGames the movie, or Ally Sheedy THE BABE!!!

There are funny parts in the movie for example if you listen closely to the TV in the background when he comes home with his grades you will hear something of an explosion at a prophylactic factory. May favorite part of the movie was when he escaped the locked room by recording the tones with a cut up headphone wire and played it back to unlock the door. It was very plausible method if door lock keypads used the DTMF tones.

This was greatly researched and presented...but - how about "The one thing we didn't need to "see" in Wargames" : when Dabney Coleman gives his assistant, Juanin Clay, his chewing gum to throw out, and she just nonchalantly tosses it into her mouth. It was kind of a gross "why the heck did she just do that?" moment that's difficult to forget.

It wasn't until the late 90s when I got onto the internet and found out that three of my favourite films: wargames, sneakers and project x (1987) were all produced by the same guys. Respect.

John Badham grew up in Birmingham Alabama...and was the son of Army General. There's a nod to this with the tour group scene and General that welcomes the visitors from Birmingham.

I was a young Air Force officer when this movie was made working inside Cheyenne Mountain. We were instructed to NOT answer any questions or comment on the movie. Of course the door and tunnel didn't resemble the real thing perfectly but they were close enough. Given that some cars were allowed in meant that walking the tunnel meant inhaling a lot of car exhaust which probably wasn't healthy. The inside didn't resemble the movie at all really. And most of all, the tech was wildly optimistic -- at that time, NORAD used pretty basic tube terminals due to the tempest requirements which limited radiation from them and distance from the telephones, etc. The idea of all those high tech pieces of equipment was laughable, especially the artificially intelligent computer. But I thought the movie was fun and entertaining. The mountain was a neat place. I don't think NORAD is there anymore, but I think the mountain still has tenants. Just the altitude (over 7000 feet, about 1000ft from the 6000ft plus of Colorado Springs) was different. Just try doing your fitness test at 7000 feet, and cars had much less power too.

I'm ready for 16 more things, same movie:)

Resisting the test of time apply perfectly to this movie. I've been watching it for almost 30 years...

Great Video! Even though I knew a lot of this, I was still pleased! The bit about John Lennon was news, THAT would have been something to see! As a computer "nerd" AND raging Beatles/John Lennon fan, THAT would have been...to go all '80s TOTALLY AWESOME!

In a comedic note, at the end of the news broadcast where they realize there game had been real, the news broadcaster finishes up with"in other news, a fire at a prophylactic recycling factory" Great movie!!!

I loved this movie when I was 13. The NORAD set was much cooler than the actual NORAD war room.

As a filmmaker I always thought that was a real accident with the jeep. thanks for sharing that info. love this movie.

That last statement about DefCon was misleading. When I enlisted in the USAF in 1975, I was taught the five Defense Conditions and their code names including: DEFCON 1 - COCKED PISTOL - Maximum readiness. Immediate response. (Nuclear war is about to occur or has already begun.) That was not made up for this movie. It was a military reality that was first revealed to the public in WarGames. As a side note: I also learned in 1975 that the code name for a nuclear weapons accident was "Broken Arrow" which was revealed to the public in, and became the title of a movie in 1996.

The term "war dialer" actually comes from the movie. The programs were called war games auto dialers. Not sure what they were called before that, or if they were even in regular use. I didn't start using them until about 86 or 87.

Such a classic movie that made an indelible impact on me when I saw it at a young age. I have it on bluray now and it definitely holds up with a good dose of nostalgia to boot.

One of my favorite parts of Gen. Barenger is when he realizes that WOPR was going to launch the ICBMs and he could not stop it. "I'm going to tell him that I am ordering our bombers back to failsafe, we might have to go threw with this after all." He knew that if we struck first we were going to have to go all the way, he never flinched from the decision that was going to end the world. And then at the end where it is all over and WOPR and Falken are going to play some chess, he sits down and almost cries he is so relieved that he was not going to be responsible for the likely extinction of the human species.

WarGames is amazingly accurate for how computers were in the 80s, did plenty of wardialing on my Commodore 64..manual modems were quite the hoot.

" I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good"was my favorite quote from the general

Trivia: Matthew Broderick learned how to type to make his performance of David Lightman believable.

Omg Barry Corbin he was so young I love him in anger management with Charlie sheen that guy is comedy gold!

A fact you missed is that it took me way too many views to get the joke about “we got to beef up security around the WOPR!”

I know that it's just a movie, but this one still is my gold standard for 'Cool looking underground command center'.

Two facts that I've always found interesting and charming in that movie is that Professor Falken's dinosaur clip includes scenes from “The Land That Time forgot” - a movie I really like - made with gomotion puppets by Roger Dickens (from "Alien"). Also the professor has a RC model of a flying reptile. A similar project was already available in the American Modeller magazine in 1951.

The video game Mathew Broderick plays before school, that makes him late is... GALAGA!

Very well done. No prolonged and overblown introduction. You got right into the list. You actually showed video examples and good examples of your items. No unnecessary filler. Brevity is the souls of wit. And you didn't infect some video of yourself in hopes of gaining internet stardom. THIS is how all of these videos should be done. And because of that I will subscribe...and I rarely do that.

Just a great 80s movie.

I was a teenager in the early 1980s when wargames came out. It was and still is one of my all time most favourite movies of that era. Ladyhawke is another one. Both of those movies star a young matthew broderick. Ferris buellers day off was also a great movie, but I much prefer Wargames and Ladyhawke. I have not read Ready Player One although it is on my TBR list. Must read that one soon!! Great video!!

" I"d piss on a sparkplug if i thought it would work"! My favorite line from this movie! Lol #NCLBA #HackThis

The first I ever hear of back doors was in this movie, but not the last. My brother told me about a back door for Galahad, which can allow the game to last much longer. The game is seen in the movie. This was all in the 80s when there were not many computer owners, and hackers had a lot of undetected fun. My brother was in high school when he taught himself how to repair arcade games. Techs were scarce, and hard to get to small towns in rural areas. My brother did repairs at the local arcade in return for unlimited free play.

I had so much fun learning these facts, I lost count and was surprised and sad when it ended. Thank you for this, though.

As Mr.Spock would say,"Fascinating"

I worked at NORAD in the 80s, the access badge reader system Matthew Broderick’s character tampers with was installed at NORAD years after the movie was made.

The payphone hack was a real hack. It worked. Grounding the microphone positive to chassis is how the dial tone authorize worked at the time. This scene has been cut out of most of the TV edits for decades even though pay phones are irrelevant and obsolete now.