A young computer whizz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing?


Books with substantial mentioning of WarGames

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1984, A Survey of 1983 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1984
pp. 458-461 info

Articles on WarGames

Kai Mihm, War Games, in: epd Film, nr. 11, 2013 pp. 29

Reviews

Kenneth M. Chanko, Wargames, in: Films in Review, vol. 34, 1983 pp. 442

Andrew Ellard, Wargames, in: Empire, nr. 284 (February), 2013 pp. 135 (DVD review)


Year: 1983
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0086567