One other point of amusement: all those great shifting lights on the WOPR computer? Those were controlled by a guy sitting inside the box, hooked up to the interface with an Apple II (that's pre-Mac, for you young folks!).
All in all, the WarGames 25th Anniversary Event was well-executed and a great deal of fun. Too bad it wasn't better advertised.
And just remember the next time you see some cinematic hacker unleash a bit of cyber-havoc... David Lightman may not have been the first-ever hacker on screen, but WarGames' breakout success did make "the hacker" a standard movie character type.
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