<P> WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham . The film stars Matthew Broderick , Dabney Coleman , John Wood , and Ally Sheedy . The film follows David Lightman ( Broderick ) , a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR ( War Operation Plan Response ) , a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war . Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation , believing it to be a computer game . The computer , now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality , attempts to start World War III . </P>
<P> WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham . The film stars Matthew Broderick , Dabney Coleman , John Wood , and Ally Sheedy . The film follows David Lightman ( Broderick ) , a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR ( War Operation Plan Response ) , a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war . Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation , believing it to be a computer game . The computer , now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality , attempts to start World War III . </P>
when did the movie war games come out
when did the movie war games come out
1983
1983