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War. Games: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars The Imsai 8. War. Games. Imsai FDC2- 2 disk drive courtesy vintagetech. In the midst of all this came War. Games, a fizzy little thriller about looming Armageddon.
It's a deceptively simple story: High schooler David Lightman (played by 2. Matthew Broderick) is a digitally proficient goofball who wants to play an unreleased computer game — and impress a pretty girl (Ally Sheedy). So he does something most Americans didn't have a word for back then: He starts hacking. Little does he know, the .
Naturally, only David can stop it from setting off World War III. This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links.
Contact wiredlabs@wired. Over the years, War. Games has written itself into the cult lore of Silicon Valley. Google hosted a 2. May, where keyboard jockeys cheered Broderick's DOS acrobatics.
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How did War. Games become the geek- geist classic that legitimized hacker culture, minted the nerd hero — and maybe even changed American defense policy? Related question: Shall we play a game? In 1. 97. 9, Walter Parkes, the future head of Dream. Works Pictures, was a young screenwriter with the outlines of an idea he'd developed with Lawrence Lasker, a script reader at Orion Pictures.
Called The Genius,it was a character film about a dying scientist and the only person in the world who understands him — a rebellious kid who's too smart for his own good. The idea of featuring computers and computer networks would come later. Walter Parkes, Screenwriter: War. Games is looked upon as technologically prescient, but we actually started off with a concept that had nothing to do with technology. Lawrence Lasker, Screenwriter: We were complete newbies. In 1. 97. 9, we didn't even know that home computers could hook up to other computers. Peter Schwartz, Futurist and creative consultant: I spent 1.
Stanford Research Institute, from 1. That's where all this began.
Walter and Larry came to SRI with a script idea called The Genius. And it was about a boy and a relationship he had with a great scientist named Falken, who was basically Stephen Hawking. Lasker: For me, the inspiration for the project was a TV special Peter Ustinov did on several geniuses, including Hawking. I found the predicament Hawking was in fascinating — that he might one day figure out the unified field theory and not be able to tell anyone, because of his progressive ALS. So there was this idea that he'd need a successor. And who would that be? Maybe this kid, a juvenile delinquent whose problem was that nobody realized he was too smart for his environment.
That resonated with Walter. So I said, let's actually go talk to people about how a kid could get in trouble and get discovered by a brainy scientist and take it from there.
Parkes: Before our conversation, the Falken character was just a way to access the adult side of the movie. It wasn't even much about computers yet. Schwartz made the connection between youth, computers, gaming, and the military — and The Genius began its long morph into.
War. Games. Schwartz: There was a new subculture of extremely bright kids developing into what would become known as hackers. SRI was in Palo Alto, and all the computer nerds were around: Xerox PARC, Apple just starting — it was all happening right there. SRI was node number two of the Internet. We talked about the fact that the kinds of computer games that were being played were blow- up- the- world games. Things like Global Thermonuclear War. SRI was one of the main players in this. SRI was, in fact, running computerized war games for the military.
Screenshot: Courtesy MGMIn the summer of 1. Parkes and Lasker went looking for inspiration for their war room set. They found it when they pestered their way onto a tour of the North American Aerospace Defense Command's central nerve center — 2,0. Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. From here, American and Canadian military officials could detect an incoming Soviet nuke from hundreds of miles away. Lasker: As we're walking back to the bus that's going to take us to the hotel, James Hartinger .
I've got 5. 0,0. 00 men under my command. You think I can't get you back to your hotel? Plus, I can't drink off the base. We kind of simplified it to !
I sleep well at night knowing I'm in charge. In one version, this kid was connected via computer to someone known as Uncle Ollie, or OLI. Later on, it's revealed that OLI stands for Omnipresent Laser Interceptor, a space- based defensive laser, and it's got this intelligent program running it. This was another version of what the WOPR became. We could never make it work, but I remember doing quite a lot of research into space- and Earth- based laser systems.
It turned out to be too speculative, not as specific as what we decided on. David Scott Lewis, Solar- tech entrepreneur and model for David Lightman: Hacking was easy back then. There were few if any security measures. It was mostly hackers versus auditing types.
Dial- Up Modem Scene from War. Games. Hochgeladen am 3. The dial- up & cradle modem scene from War. Games, wherein Matthew Broderick hacks into what he thinks is a computer games company. And check the size of the floppy disk he loads!
And the drive he puts it in! Amazing to think with this prehistoric junk, anyone could hack into the US defense system.