I saw this movie in 1983 when I was 10 years old. The music brings me right back to that time in my life. It’s a great soundtrack and a great movie!

Still remember seeing this in 83 and going straight to the record store after. Kenwood mall Ohio. One of my favorite albums of the 80s!

One of the best movies of the early 80s and a great soundtrack. Thanks for sharing this.

This movie was easily 30 years ahead of its time.

TURN YOUR KEY SIR!

Ah, a 1980s synthesizer, Galaga, 8-inch floppy disks ... good times!

Such an excellent soundtrack. The end theme is gorgeous

Mista Potato Head....MISTA POTATO HEAD!?!

God, I love this movie.

I'm biased because it's the soundtrack of my childhood but I do think it's really underrated. Really the perfect mix of expressionism and cheesyness.

I LOVE that harmonica! So peaceful.

06 - 12:51 - History Lesson LOVE LOVE LOVE ^^

Thanks so much for sharing this awesome piece of soundtrack history! Searched so long for this!!!! Greetz from Germany

The ringtone on my smartphone is the end credits, I'd love a W.O.P.R case for it.

"A millisecond of brilliant light and your vaporized. Much more fortunate than those that will wonder around aimlessly. You will be spared the horror of survival. "

I don't care if it's been several decades, this movie and soundtrack are still amazing.

"Your wife?"

"Off to see Faulken" is why I'm here thank you for posting it! My tablet couldn't pick up what song it was. I'm watching War Games now! I've always loved this movie.

Thank you very much for this - it's one of the most underrated soundtracks - - so many moments are so memorable, even iconic. The music - was so perfectly choreographed. And the real fans - even the sound effects were so distinctive - be it Galaga at the arcade. The entry code for David's holding room at the military base....the opening credits. The end credits. The dial tones from the modem. So many more.

29:05 for Stranger Things fans (David Searches)

"Sili-cone diode"

This is the movie where I wanted to become a film composer... I ended up becoming a programmer instead.

Please release this on CD.... or even digital. But include the original Air Force launch test intro with the “turn your key Sir”

Wow...somebody actually uploaded Rubinstein's score for this film? Amazing! "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play... ...how about a nice game of chess?"

Here is some background info from Cynthia Morrow-Hattal I found somewhere.. "I just thought I should correct a few things, maybe add a few things. Arthur B. Rubinstein, Anthony Marinelli, Brian Banks and I created the Beepers as we added Synclavier II and all sorts of sythesized sounds for Blue Thunder, creating them as we went along. I also played a lot of the keyboards for that movie. War Games was different. First I wrote the lyrics for about six or seven different songs to go in various scenes in the film. Then Arthur B. set them to music and expanded on them for his score. I sang Video Fever through the Synclavier II, never having heard, or heard of Dale Bozio (still haven’t), with Brian and Anthony, two very talented and creative guys. I loved working with them. We got Yvonne Elliman to sing “Edge of the World”, which I always thought was beautiful and the closest Arthur and I ever got to writing a song for a film which might have been nominated for something, but the producer Frank Yablans had a daughter who was miffed that Arthur didn’t use her as his orchestrator (she’d been studying orchestration for 3 months) and talked her father out of using the song in the film. We wound up with a harmonica. Lovely, but not Academy nomination material. And so it went. I was first viola, not violin, on all the recording sessions. I was surprised and a bit shocked to read Arthur B.’s liner notes on the re-release. What can I expect? I broke our engagement. Twice. Still, It was a memorable if disappointing project, and I will always be glad at having worked with John Badham, a great guy and such an excellent director."

I saw the movie in 1982. The original feeling in time will never return, but it´s so moving hear it again in 2017!!!!!!!!!!

I'd not heard of this composer until today, but the soundtrack has always stuck with me, especially the music during the doomsday scenarios just before the "Greetings, Professor Falken" screen. I always thought it might be by Jerry Goldsmith, who is one of my favorite film composers.

One of my favorite movies.

Thank you for this!

The edge of the world tune has words?? its only taken me 40 years to find that out!

This soundtrack is so kick-ass.

fan of the film, and this music is amazing! thankyou for uploading

I gave 50¢ for a vinyl copy of this at a New Jersey thrift store in 2005. I had no idea. And have you seen what original pressings sell for now???

35:15 is such an underrated song. So cute and quaint

Thanks for sharing!

I'd piss on the spark plug if I thought it would make a difference, let the boy in there Major.

Thanks for sharing this.

'David...are you watching the news?!'

Im not that old so I think I saw this movie for the first time 5 years ago in school computer class, after that I must have seen it a million times. My mom and dad first met in 1983 and they told me about when they saw this in the cinema. I have to make a tape or several ones, so that I can listen to this amazing soundtrack in my Yellow Sports Walkman

That harmonica part, always stuck with me

thanks to share

In the song "Home Movie", the Yamaha DX7 internal patch "Electric Piano 1" was heard.

Great film and amazing soundtrack, finally got it on vinyl

01:00:20 Since first watching this movie in the 80's, I have always appreciated that the end credits start with this music. It feels like the music is allowing the film (and the audience) to almost breathe an audible sigh of relief that World War 3 was averted. Sadly, there is probably just as much risk of nuclear war breaking out currently as there was during the Cold War. The only real question is which will impact us all first: worsening and dramatic man-made climate change effects in 30-40 years from now, or a regional (and then possibly global) nuclear war breaking out.

thanks for sharing :)

6:00 - "Alright Lightman...maybe you can tell us who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex." "Ummm...your wife?!" ("Principal's Office" cuestarts; class laughs but teacher isn't amused) "Get out, Lightman. Get out."

Have watched this film countless times since the early eighties, one of those you can recite every line by heart. It actually inspired me to become a software engineer. It's unreal to be listening to this soundtrack whilst I work.

Truly excellent!

History lesson so takes me back to this movie!!

Excellent. Great 80s movie and great soundtrack. I still have the original soundtrack. Cool.

"Tic Tac Toe" made my 10-year-old self shit my pants, in absolute terror. Still does.

Great movie and great soundtrack!

Amazing how young kids today have no idea why this movie was even made.

The corn! IT'S RAW!

I'm sure they used part of this in Stranger Things.

The history lesson montage and music are fantastic! Why would you have someone sing over that great music?

Just lay back close your eyes and for a few seconds i was back 1984

I never realized that "Video Fever" and "The principal's office" really mirror each other! Or that the main theme is pretty much Video Fever.

Dammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!

i love this soundtrack it really brings me back

god i need to watch this again now

I love the piece when they're watching the old footage of joshua.It just conjures up humanity,intrigue and the achievements of Turing,Von Neumann,Nash etc in strategy,computation.

YESSS!!!! thanks paris 12:51

This is so so good. I always assumed that Arthur Rubinstein was one and the same as the classical composer, but now I see he's a different guy entirely.

Merci sa fais lomgtemp que je cherchais certaine de ces musiques👍

Amazingly unique

I enjoyed the "tech punk" selections as instrumentals on the movie. The vocals, eesch!

Wow - never heard Edge Of The World (Choral Version) before. Great stuff.

The first game on the list! Go right through Falken's Maze!

Thanks, thanks, thanks.....

Tnx Intrada

Where can I get the cd or a digital copy?

Anyone know if its possible to pull a clip off of this onto a playlist. I want to add closing the mountain to my playlist.

RIP Arthur B. Rubinstein

"God dammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought'd do any good!"

The END CREDITS - while cheesy - made me feel back then like not only the film was ending, but for whatever reason - it was really time to move on. And that hopefully we as a planet would move on too. Unfortunately the planet has moved on, and the nations and people (The Middle East in particular) both the USA and USSR exploited during The Cold War have come back to be the planet's biggest threats to peace. Crazy - but things are more complicated today.

I first seen Wargames in Salt Lake City. Must have watched that movie a million times since then. Best ever.

Could you see if you can find the following movie soundtracks. Raid on Entebee and Skyjacked to add to your soundtracks ?

A masterpiece movie...atemporal!

The music for the end credits is beyond gorgeous. It seems to encapsulate everything the human race must learn if we are to survive. Thank you so much for posting this.

Came for the song that turned out to be 'Video Fever', stayed for the rest; I never knew that 'History Lesson' or the end credits music had lyrics!

"gentlemen, we've had men in these silos since before any of you were watching Howdy Doody"

25:51 - 27:42 man that is some seriously "creeping dread" music right there

There is something special about this and the soundtrack from Blue Thunder for me. Thanks.

Great

I have this version of "Video Fever", but not identical - the one here has a shorter instrumental beginning before the girl starts singing. Anyway, it's different from the one heard in the movie. Do anyone knows about the movie version? I wish I could get that one...

46 so far will be thermonucleared.

Very under rated cold war paranoia film. You gave me a 'D' !?!?!?!?

Does anyone know who plays harmonica on the end theme?

Goddamn it! I'd piss on a spark-plug if it'd do any good!

3:39 - What is that song? SoundClouding it and nothing comes up. Love this soundtrack!

Un saluto Dall'ITALIA.. GRAZIE

A strange game. The only winning move is to watch this film 347 times.

So many good ringtones from this soundtrack but none in itunes.

Missile Command Arcade Cabinet, 99 Luftballons by Nena, this movie, The Day After, Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood...

I seen this movie in Salt Lake City. Great film.

I wrote Video Fever back in the 80s when I was on a lot of crank, and my gerbil got stuck inside my VCR, and I didn't notice even after I watched Robocop and Lost Boys in that VCR until the smell happened. Then I called up Cynthia Morrow and told her I wanted to make a song about a gerbil that gets stuck inside a betamax machine and rots and she was all for it. I was born in 1991 but 1983 was the date of my conception.

How can I find the instrumental version of “history lesson”?

Una de las mejores películas jamás hecha, la segunda parte no es tan buena. Me encanta todo en ella, personajes, música, guión, escenografía, BSO etc. Hasta el videojuego de Play station 1 es buenísimo.

Rubinstein's best work in My opinion.