In the 1983 film WarGames, a young boy with an amazing grasp of computers accidentally engages a secret government supercomputer in what he thinks is a game. Unfortunately, the supercomputer, which controls the U.S. nuclear armaments, believes it is involved in a real World War III engagement with Russia. To learn more about this film, check out its page at the Internet Movie Database at us.imdb.com/M/
title-exact?WarGames+(1983), where you can find a plot summary, cast list, trivia information, and more. For a Web-based, Java-enabled taste of what the film is like, check out WarGames Logon at www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~ritterd/
wargames/logon.htm. At this Web site, you can view pictures from the film, listen to sound clips, play some games, take a tour of a decommissioned missile silo, and engage in some nostalgia for the 1980s.