What is WarGames?
{{plot|date=April 2023}} {{italictitle}} [[Image:WOPR test.png|thumb|right|300px|<center>A quote from WarGames</center>]] '''''WarGames''''' is a 1983 [[United States|American]] [[science fiction movie|science fiction]] [[thriller movie|thriller]] [[teen movie]] starring [[Matthew Broderick]] and [[Ally Sheedy]] and [[Movie director|directed]] by [[John Badham]]. The movie follows a computer [[hacker]] named [[David Lightman]] (Broderick) who breaks into a [[NORAD]] [[war game]]s [[wikt:simulation|simulation]] computer that he thinks is really the computer for a computer game company. Lightman begins a series of events that could start [[World War III]]. The movie was nominated for three [[Academy Award]]s and was a big hit. It continues to be popular. ==Plot<ref>{{cite book|title=Wargames: The Screenplay|authors=Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Walon Green|isbn=1593001207|publisher=Harvest Moon Publishing|date=1982}}</ref>== The movie begins with two [[United States Air Force|air force]] officers in a [[Thermonuclear weapon|nuclear missile]] [[Missile silo|silo]] who are ordered to fire the missiles in the silo. The officers believe the order to be real and begin to fire the missiles. One of the officers decides not to fire and so the [[United States of America|US]] [[government]] replaces all the men in the missile silos with computer control. [[Image:IMSAI8080.jpg|thumb|right|150px|An [[IMSAI 8080]] computer like the one used by David in WarGames]] David Lightman (Broderick) is a smart [[high school]] student and [[computer]] [[hacker]] that at first limits himself to changing his and a girl whom he likes a lot, Jennifer's (Sheedy) [[grade]]s from failing to passing grades: Lightman being smart but not [[motivation|motivated]] at school. A little while later David uses his [[IMSAI 8080]] computer to dial many phone numbers and finds a [[backdoor (programming)|backdoor]] into a [[NORAD]] [[war game]]s simulation computer called [[WOPR]] ([[nickname]]d the ''Whopper''). At first David is looking for new comp