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On Rotten Tomatoes, WarGames received an approval rating of 94% based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 7.60/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Part delightfully tense techno-thriller, part refreshingly unpatronizing teen drama, WarGames is one of the more inventive—and genuinely suspenseful—Cold War movies of the 1980s."
This book comes in both a 285-page hardcover edition and a paperback version. In both editions, it is divided into two parts: Part 1: "An Introduction to Wargames" takes up about 25% of the book, and is divided into five chapters: Can War Be Fun? A brief history of wargaming, some of the notable companies, and what type of people play wargames.
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. [1] Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts.
War Room was released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on December 22, 2015. [38] The film debuted in second place on the home video chart behind Minions. [39] The following week, War Room reached the top spot of the home video sales chart. [40] As of June 2019, the film has made $48 million from home media sales.
WarGames: The Dead Code is a 2008 American direct-to-video thriller film written by Randall Badat and Rob Kerchner and directed by Stuart Gillard. It is the sequel to the 1983 film WarGames . Production began on November 20, 2006, in Montreal , and the film was released on DVD on July 29, 2008, by MGM 's home video distributor 20th Century Fox ...
The project was inspired by the late Paddy Griffith, a professional military historian on the staff of the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before becoming a full-time author and freelance historian and lecturer in the early 1990s. Paddy Griffith asked why the history of wargaming was poorly documented and why there ...
Board wargames were more popular than miniature wargames in the USA, unlike in the UK where miniatures dominated through hobby press and conventions. One reason was that assembling a playset for miniature wargaming was expensive, time-consuming, and required artisanal skill. Another reason was that board wargames could be played by correspondence.
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