WarGames — Falken's Maze

Falken's Maze scene from WarGames, with music by Arthur B. Rubinstein.

"WarGames - Soundtrack (Limited Edition) - Full Album (1983 - 2008)"

[gilhernandez]

Journals in binders, microfilm, the card catalogue, asking the librarian for help ... those were the days.

[danielm]

It’s a great movie memory. I was 10 when I saw it in 1983. I remember loving everything about it. All of the characters. The new computer technology. The humor. The music. The military story. It has great writing and directing. What a decade to grow up watching excellent movies in. I’m so thankful.

[craigsips]

This track still sends a shiver down the back of my neck. Adrenaline I think.

[AlanCanon]

Brings back sitting in the theater at age 14 seeing it for the first time. What a kick ass movie. It's aged really well. I showed it to a geeky 14 year old (son of my girlfriend) just a few years ago, and he ate it up.

[christopherzdebski]

Oh man, 38 years later this music is still in my head every time I play any 80’s games Pac-Man, galaga, donkey Kong, never gets old! Even though I am!😁

[cliffsta]

Man I wish they’d show this in a theatre again. Maybe one of those summer throwbacks once.

[jamesabell]

We need Melvin's genius ideas at this point in time😆

[rodneymckay]

Wish this soundtrack was readily available. Helps me feel smarter when I’m studying.

[RikersStupidBeard]

This movie is so good. The soundtrack here is killer. Love the fake Atlantic article (that shook a few people up)!

[tommym]

Man! Look at the library! That just gave me a jolt of nostalgia

[pferreira]

Great scene from a great movie. I love the music too! 😊

[kellychuang]

Which for this scene you can tell kids now this was how you really had to get info before Internet, smartphones and Google and it took really sometime and it wasn't as fast but that was reality back then.

[MysticRhythms]

This is a nostalgia trip like no other...and I'm not just talking about the music. Though I give credit to The Beepers: the song playing here ("History Lesson") and "Video Fever" are always fun to listen to now and again.

Anyway, I feel like I get a few more grey hairs when I watch scenes like this. WarGames came out 40 years ago. Holy hot damn!

[scottm]

My favorite scene in the movie. Him guessing probably hundreds of passwords. Which we've all tried.

[magus]

When the music gets to the climactic dot-matrix printer part and the rhythmic BONG...! BONG...! BONG...! BONG...! BONG...! BONG!!! in time with the printhead going back and forth is my favorite part of the whole damn movie! I find myself slamming my fist on the desk in time with the rhythm also. This whole movie is really good! I wish I had this song as a ringtone, but then I see myself slamming the phone repeatedly when the printer part of the music comes on!!🤪

[johnkim]

Doing a modern remake of Wargames would be tough. That research montage could be compressed to a 5 second Google search on a smartphone lol

[AnthonyWilliams-limz]

suddenly feel old when you remember working with these kind of computers in my day

[ntom]

I'd love to ask a kid from today, at various points during this scene, "do you know what he's doing? Do you know what that tool is that he's using?" To see how familiar they are (or not!) with the resources that were available in the early 80s!

[stutteringcris]

0:00 Jennifer just realizing what an Alpha, Malvin is!

[ralphjackson]

A hacking movie where you actually look for a back door by looking into the guy that designed the system? Say it ain't so!