On this day, June 3, 1983, "WarGames" premiered.

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SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?

Today in 1983, “WarGames” premiered. In 2008, screenwriter Lawrence Lasker recounted to “Wired” how he arranged a special screening for President Ronald Reagan, who was a family friend, at Camp David the following evening. https://wired.com/2008/07/ff-wargames/

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At a White House meeting the next week to discuss the MX ICBM with his national security advisers and 16 members of Congress, Reagan eagerly recapped the plot, as former Washington Post correspondent Lou Cannon described in his 1991 book, “Ronald Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime.”

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In his 2016 book “Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War,”
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revisited this episode, adding that when Reagan finished, he asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Vessey, “Could something like this really happen?”

‘WarGames’ and Cybersecurity’s Debt to a Hollywood Hack (Published 2016)
After seeing the Matthew Broderick movie, President Reagan questioned the vulnerability of military computers, leading to a ...

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Surprisingly, “WarGames” was not inspired by the major nuclear false alarms at NORAD on Nov. 9, 1979, and at NORAD and SAC on Jun. 3 and 6, 1980. It originally concerned a dying Hawking-like scientist and his relationship with a smart, rebellious teenager.

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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars

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WarGames (1/11) Movie CLIP - Asexual Reproduction (1983) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
David (Matthew Broderick) insults his condescending teacher in front of the whole class.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in Wargames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. Broderick and government official Dabney Coleman race against time to reverse the computer's resolve to send bombers to Russia. Wargames scored a hit, especially with teenage filmgoers.

CREDITS:
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Cast: Alan Blumenfeld, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy
Director: John Badham
Producers: Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider, Bruce McNall, Leonard Goldberg
Screenwriters: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Walon Green

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WarGames (3/11) Movie CLIP - Shall We Play a Game? (1983) HD

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WarGames movie clips: http://j.mp/1bGFr39
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
David (Matthew Broderick) and Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) hack into the computer and initiate a game of "Global Thermonuclear War."

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in Wargames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. Broderick and government official Dabney Coleman race against time to reverse the computer's resolve to send bombers to Russia. Wargames scored a hit, especially with teenage filmgoers.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1983)
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy
Director: John Badham
Producers: Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider, Bruce McNall, Leonard Goldberg
Screenwriters: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Walon Green

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Tue Jun 4, 2024: On June 3, 1980, the Strategic Air Command was alerted that the Soviet Union was attacking the US.

Fri May 17, 2024: Dabney Coleman, actor who specialized in curmudgeons, dies at 92

Mon Jun 5, 2023: On June 3, 1983, "WarGames" premiered.

[Arne]

1. This was before Windows and before internet and before giant flat screens, amazing.

[Aristus]

2. The scene where Matthew Broderick and Alley Sheedy run for the ferry to Goose Island was filmed in Steilacoom,

Washington. I got to watch them film it. My dad heard about the filming and drove me and my brother down there to watch. I had heard how slowly things go on a film set, and got to see it first hand. We were there for a couple of hours, but they only went through two takes of them running for the dock.

I only saw the actors from about a hundred feet away, as they had set up barricades to keep observers at a distance.

It was pretty cool.