Sentence examples for wargames for from inspiring English sources

In 1971, he began working as editor-in-chief at Guidon Games, a publisher of wargames, for which he produced the board games Alexander the Great and Dunkirk: The Battle of France.

The game is also credited in part for legitimizing war games and computer games; it has been called the first "serious wargame for a microcomputer".

SSI purchased a full-page advertisement in the April 1980 BYTE which stated "Now there's a true historical wargame for your home computer... There's never been anything like it".

One big issue is how realistic to make the Steadfast Jazz wargames planned for October-November 2013. October-November 2013

The IFW grew rapidly, especially by assimilating several pre-existing wargaming clubs, and aimed to promote interest in wargames of all periods and provided via its newsletters and societies a forum for wargamers to form local groups and share rules.

Perhaps it's time to update the wisdom of the ancients and say that if we want peace, we must prepare for wargames.

Would this be if it weren't for WarGames?

I find it most amusing that John Badham, two years after inappropriately garnering all the success for "WarGames," still finds it important to belittle Marty Brest's contribution while playing up his own ("Badham and Tesich Become Cyclemates," by Roderick Mann, June 19).

The wargames from which Dungeons & Dragons evolved used miniature figures to represent combatants.

It turned out that there was a good reason WarGames was so accurate: for their research the screenwriters had interviewed Willis Ware, who wrote a 1967 paper called Security and Privacy on Computer Systems and for years headed the computer science department at the RAND Corporation, an Air Force-funded think tank.

Wired recently hosted a sit down with the creators of the cult classic WarGames, discussing early inspiration for the script, the difficulties of selling a movie to studios who didn't understand the technology it was based on, and how John Lennon, "was kind of a spiritual cousin to Stephen Hawking".