Editing WarGames (section)

=== Critical response ===
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."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wargames/ |title=WarGames (War Games) (1983) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date=August 21, 2023}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] score of 77 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/wargames |title=WarGames Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=May 6, 2018}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] gave ''WarGames'' four out of four stars, calling it "an amazingly entertaining thriller" and "one of the best films so far this year", with a "wonderful" ending.<ref name="ebert">{{cite news |title=WarGames review |first=Roger |last=Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wargames-1983 |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=June 3, 1983 |access-date=December 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701054930/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19830603%2FREVIEWS%2F306030301%2F1023 |archive-date=July 1, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Leonard Maltin]] gave it a mixed review calling it "''[[Fail Safe (1964 film)|Fail Safe]]'' for the [[Pac-Man]] Generation" and "Entertaining to a point". He concluded, "Incidentally, it's easy to see why this was so popular with kids: most of the adults in the film are boobs."<ref>{{cite web |first=Leonard |last=Maltin |author-link=Leonard Maltin |title=23. WarGames (1983) |url=http://maltinsworstratings.blogspot.com/2012/11/23-wargames-1983.html |website=Leonard Maltin's Worst Ratings |access-date=January 9, 2016}}</ref>

''[[Computer Gaming World]]'' stated that "''Wargames'' is plausible enough to intrigue and terrifying enough to excite&nbsp;... [it] makes one think, as well as feel, all the way", raised several moral questions about technology and society, and recommended the film to "Computer hobbyists of all kinds".<ref name="wilson19830708">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1983&pub=2&id=11 | title=Movie Micro Review / "WarGames" | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=Jul–Aug 1983 | access-date=July 6, 2014 | author=Wilson, Dr. Johnny L. | page=43}}</ref> ''[[Softalk|Softline]]'' described the film as being "completely original"; unlike other computer-related films like ''[[Tron]]'' that "could (and do) exist in substantially the same form with some other plot", ''WarGames'' "could not exist if the microcomputer did not exist&nbsp;... It takes the micro and telecommunications as a given—part of the middle-class American landscape". The magazine praised the film as "Very funny, excruciatingly suspenseful, and endlessly inventive, this movie is right on the mark; authentic even when highly improbable".<ref name="softline19830708">{{cite news | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1983&pub=6&id=12 | title=Games at War | work=Softline | date=Jul–Aug 1983 | access-date=July 28, 2014 | pages=31–32}}</ref> Christopher John in ''[[Ares (magazine)|Ares Magazine]]'' commented that "The movie cloaked itself in a standard message, but then set out to take something we have seen many times before and retell it in a new, interesting fashion. ''War Games'' is highly entertaining, fast-moving, colorful, and mentally stimulating".<ref name="Ares">{{cite journal | last=John | first=Christopher | title=Film | journal=[[Ares (magazine)|Ares Magazine]] | publisher=[[TSR, Inc.]] | date=Fall 1983| issue=15 | pages=11–12}}</ref> [[Colin Greenland]] in ''[[Imagine (game magazine)|Imagine]]'' stated that "''Wargames'' is a tense, tight film, sharply acted, funny, sane, and with a plot twist for every chilling sub-routine in WOPR's scenarios for World War III".<ref name="Imagine8">{{cite journal | last = Greenland|first = Colin |author-link=Colin Greenland| title =Film Review | type = review | journal = [[Imagine (AD&D magazine)|Imagine]] | issue = 8| pages =19 | publisher = TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. |date=November 1983}}</ref>