WarGames

A young computer whiz 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 and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Now the kid has to convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing., When a computer whizz-kid taps into the government early-warning system, it invites him to play Global Thermonuclear Warfare. Little does he realise that this is not a variation on Space Invaders, and his gleeful decision to nuke Las Vegas precipitates a full-scale countdown to Armageddon…, 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., Blockbuster starring Matthew Broderick as a computer whizz-kid who accidentally triggers a nuclear war between the superpowers when he hacks into one of America’s biggest defence systems., A high-schooler unwittingly gains access to the Pentagon’s missile-warning system and fires up his favourite game: “Global Thermonuclear War”., Matthew Broderick stars in John Badham’s thriller as a high school student who uses his computer skills to hack into the college computer to improve his grades. After further developing his skills, he attempts to hack into a video company’s site for a preview of their latest game. But he accidentally gets into a military computer that co-ordinates early warning systems and the launch of nuclear weapons. Thinking he has found the game, Broderick starts playing, but the end result could be World War III…, John Badham’s thriller about a high-schooler whose home computer gains access to the US missile-warning system., When a computer whizz-kid taps into the government early-warning system, it invites him to play ‘Global Thermonuclear Warfare’. Little does he realise that this is not a variation on Space Invaders, and his gleeful decision to nuke Las Vegas precipitates a full-scale countdown to Armageddon…, A young student accidentally accesses a military central computer thinking it is a new computer game., A high-school computer whiz unwittingly gains access to the Pentagon’s missile-warning system. Innocently, he agrees to a game pitting America against Russia an inadvertently sparks the countdown to World War III., An extremely bright young man, thinking that he’s sneaking an advance look at a new line of video games, breaks into the country’s Norod missile-defence system and challenges it to a game of global thermonuclear warfare., When a computer whiz-kid taps into the government early-warning system, it invites him to play ‘Global Thermonuclear Warfare’. Little does he realise that this is not a variation on Space Invaders, and his gleeful decision to nuke Las Vegas precipitates a full-scale countdown to Armageddon., Matthew Broderick stars in John Badham’s thriller as a high school student who uses his computer skills to hack into the college computer to improve his grades. After further developing his skills, he attempts to hack into a video company’s site for a preview of their latest game. But he accidentally infiltrates a military computer that co-ordinates early warning systems and the launch of nuclear weapons. Thinking he has found the game, Broderick starts playing, but the end result could be World War Iii…, A blockbusting hit dating from the Reagan-era Cold War. A teenage computer whizz-kid taps into the Pentagon computer and plays an apparently innocent video war game which is in reality the control sequence for World War III. Once underway, it seems the game cannot be stopped.