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Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy in WarGames (1983)

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WarGames

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Edited into

    • Crosby, Stills & Nash: War Games (Music Video 1983)

      The music video features clips from the film
    • Canadian Bacon (1995)

      The ICBMs shown prepping for launch in Canadian Bacon are the same missiles shown in the silo in the opening sequence
    • Surviving Disaster (TV Series 2009)

      A shot of the NORAD control room is shown when NORAD is mentioned in the airliner hijack, and nuclear attack episodes

Featured in

    • "At the Movies" Spacehunter/Tough Enough/WarGames/Harlequin (TV Episode 1983)

      Reviewed; clips are shown.
    • "Magic Micro Mission" Episode #1.5 (TV Episode 1983)

      A clip is shown
    • "Computer Chronicles" Laser Disk (TV Episode 1985)

      Shows footage from film on laserdisc.
    • Zap War (Video 1997)

      Clips from the film are featured
    • The Strokes: Hard to Explain (Music Video 2002)

      A clip from the film WarGames.

Features

    • One Million Years B.C. (1966)

      Professor Stephen Falken shows the Ceratosaurus vs. Triceratops scene from this film to David Lightman and Jennifer Mack
    • The Land That Time Forgot (1974)

      Shown by Falken.
    • Asteroids (Video Game 1979)

      Game appears in this film
    • Pac-Man (Video Game 1980)

      Game appears in this film
    • Donkey Kong (Video Game 1981)

      Game appears in this film

Followed by

    • WarGames: The Dead Code (Video 2008)

Referenced in

    • "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Richard Pryor/Ally Sheedy/Rod Hull (TV Episode 1983)

      Ally Sheedy talks about her movie
    • "The Facts of Life" Store Games (TV Episode 1983)

      Title reference to this movie, which is also about teenagers hacking into a computer
    • "St. Elsewhere" A Pig Too Far (TV Episode 1984)

      Walter Lankau refers to the film. There are similar plot points of hacking into a computer system.
    • "The Comic Strip Presents" Gino: Full Story and Pics (TV Episode 1984)

      The film's title is shown on the cinema marquee.
    • Moscow on the Hudson (1984)

      Advertised on a marquee.

References

    • The Howdy Doody Show (TV Series 1947–1960)

    • The Longest Day (1962)

      When General Beringer calls the President he dials 4 numbers. The tones from these numbers sounds like the openingof Beethoven's 5th Symphony. This was the theme music of the Longest day as the four nots corresponds to the letter V in Morse code. V for Victory.
    • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

    • Fail Safe (1964)

    • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Remade as

    • WarGames

Spin-off

    • Wargames (Video Game 1998)

      Movie licensed game is based on the 80s film

Spoofed in

    • "Not Necessarily the News" Episode #1.7 (TV Episode 1983)

      Includes a spoof trailer declares
    • Sex Games (1983)

      hardcore parody
    • Head Games (Video 1984)

      Video's title is a takeoff on the mainstream film's title from a couple of years earlier.
    • Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (Video 1987)

    • Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

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