History VideoGame / WarGamesDefcon1

''[=WarGames=] Defcon 1'' is a 1998 RealTimeStrategy video game developed by [[Creator/BlitzGamesStudios Interactive Studios]] and published by [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM Interactive]] and Creator/ElectronicArts for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. A very, very, ''very'' loose adaptation of the 1983 film ''Film/WarGames'' [[note]] in fact, John Badham, who directed the film, served as a consultant during the making of the game [[/note]], re-imagined as a full-scale war epic, ''Defcon 1'' is a a tactical vehicle-shooting game taking place two decades after the film's events.

* TankGoodness: The backbone of the NORAD military consists of tanks, the default being the classic M1 Abrams (referred in-game as the Dragoon Tank), followed by the missile-spewing Slayer tanks and larger, stronger Gladiator tanks.

* TheBadGuyWins: For players choosing to play as WOPR, their final mission has them destroying the last NORAD command center in Tokyo, which leads to a cutscene where the rest of humanity are now slaves to evil machines. Yay to a happy ending!

* SentryGun: NORAD and WOPR both have turrets protecting their bases, the default capable of firing heavy-machine gun rounds. Later on enemy bases will have laser turrets and SAMs (harmless target practice to ground vehicles, deadly threat to aircraft) instead, while the player can have a turret carrier to deploy automated laser cannons anywhere on the map.

** WOPR's {{Catchphrase}} - "Shall we play a game?" is a direct nod to the movie. Also the checkpoints-cum-cheat-codes are depicted as buttons on a 3-by-3 panel, a reference to the movie's tic-tac-toe motifs.

* BonusStage: Selecting any NORAD level that hasn't already been unlocked and inputting a certain code will allow you to access the Papua New Guinea mission featured in the demo. However, doing so will lock you out of playing any other level (and disables the options menu on the title screen); the only way out is to reset the console. Furthermore, trying to input the code on a WOPR level will cause the game to hang on a loading screen.

* BonusStage: Inputting a certain code in the cheat menu will allow you to access the demo level. However, doing so will lock you out of playing any other level (and disables the options menu on the title screen); the only way out is to reset the console.

* TheBadGuyWins: For players choosing to play as WOPR, their final mission have them destroying the last NORAD command center in Tokyo, which leads to a cutscene where the rest of humanity are now slaves to evil machines. Yay to a happy ending!

Two decades after the deactivation of the War Operation Plan Response (W.O.P.R.), the military technology of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (N.O.R.A.D.) has made leaps and bounds in advancements, just as W.O.P.R. reactivates itself. Now, back with a vengeance, the rogue super-intelligent computer system is amassing an army of robotic drones and mechanized war machines to TakeOverTheWorld...

Players can choose between two campaigns; to play as a N.O.R.A.D. commander tasked with preventing global domination by machines, or be the lackey of W.O.P.R. and help machines enslave humanity, in thirty missions set in multiple countries all across the globe.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The game takes place in a futuristic version of 2004, where high-tech weaponry has been developed, until W.O.P.R. awakens and takes a second stab at global domination.

* AIIsACrapshoot: W.O.P.R. from the film is back online after twenty years, and this time it's amassing an army of drones and mechanized vehicles to TakeOverTheWorld.
* ArmchairMilitary: As with the norm of Real-Time Strategy games. Players in both N.O.R.A.D. and W.O.P.R. campaigns do not partake directly in combat, instead commandeering their units from the comfort of their offices (or their [=PlayStations=], to be precise).

* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Both N.O.R.A.D. and W.O.P.R. have APC units in their ranks, capable of transporting troops across terrains and then deploying them in enemy territory. The missions in Russia, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong in particular requires the player to use their APC to deliver special units from their base to enemy laboratories.
* TheBadGuyWins: For players choosing to play as W.O.P.R., their final mission have them destroying the last N.O.R.A.D. command center in Tokyo, which leads to a cutscene where the rest of humanity are now slaves to evil machines. Yay to a happy ending!
* BubblegloopSwamp: There are levels in both campaigns in swamp settings, where vehicle mobility is hampered by the terrain and players will have to circumvent around marshes to attack enemy bases. One N.O.R.A.D. level in Louisiana actually made it a plot point where because of difficulty in moving around the marshes, they are not allowed access to tanks or heavy vehicles (same goes for the W.O.P.R. enemies, who couldn't use their walkers either) and must rely on jeeps and [=APCs=]
* CarFu: Due to N.O.R.A.D. forces being composed mostly of tanks and heavy vehicles, players in N.O.R.A.D. campaigns can perform some insane vehicular rampage against W.O.P.R. drones, using their armored vehicles to ram into and squash human-sized drones into pulps.
* ChickenWalker: Most of the W.O.P.R. units are these (compared to N.O.R.A.D. who uses tanks), including the MK-III and MK-V walkers, having dual turrets on their sides and missile dispensers as backup weapons.

** W.O.P.R.'s {{Catchphrase}} - "Shall we play a game?" is a direct nod to the movie. Also the checkpoints-cum-cheat-codes are depicted as buttons on a 3-by-3 panel, a reference to the movie's tic-tac-toe motifs.
** Additionally, the final missions of N.O.R.A.D. have the players receiving messages from David Lightman, the main character of the film.
* CoolBike: On the W.O.P.R. side, is the Tri-bike, a three-wheeled drone motorcycle with machine-guns and flare dispensers.
* CoolBoat: The N.O.R.A.D. and W.O.P.R. navies have impressive vehicles at their disposal, with the Hovercraft / Otter transport serving as amphibious personnel carrier, while the Destroyer / Dreadnaught as primary assault unit.
* CoolShip: On both fronts. With N.O.R.A.D. having harrier jets and helicopters; W.O.P.R. on the other hand have a cool anti-gravity fighter plane called the Phoenix.
* DeathFromAbove: Jeeps (N.O.R.A.D.) and Tri-bikes (W.O.P.R.) have the ability to drop flares, which they can then use to summon airstrikes. Players on either campaign would make it an important priority to eliminate either units before they could reach their home base, where failing to do so the subsequent airstrike will take out a ''huge'' chunk of their units. Then again, players themselves can commandeer jeeps and Tri-bikes to deal severe damage to the enemy base.

* TheDreadedDreadnought: On the W.O.P.R. side, their navy's most powerful attack unit is the Dreadnaught, a mechanized ship with powerful cannons and automatic missile dispensers to unleash massive havoc on enemy bases.

* EpicShipOnShipAction: Sea battles are a common recurrence between N.O.R.A.D. and W.O.P.R. navies, turning up in missions set in Hong Kong, the Bering Sea and Russia.
* EvilIsBigger: Players might notice W.O.P.R. units tend to be bigger compared to N.O.R.A.D., with their standard Walker units towering over the latter's tanks. Most of W.O.P.R. (save for the speedy Tri-bike and Phoenix) lean towards offense, whilst the N.O.R.A.D. units lean more towards defense.
* FragileSpeedster: N.O.R.A.D. jeeps and W.O.P.R. Tri-bikes are both extremely fast, but lightly armoured and only have machine-guns which do ScratchDamage on vehicles and buildings, even when fully upgraded. What makes them useful is that these units have flare dispensers which can summon airstrikes, making them crucial to keep in certain missions.
* GlassCannon: The N.O.R.A.D. Laser and W.O.P.R. Mantis are both units which can release powerful laser blasts capable of shredding entire chunks of health from enemy units and buildings (when fully upgraded then can even execute {{One Hit Kill}}s on ''buildings''), and can even cloak themselves in stealth for a short period of time, but their health is pathetic. Two cannon hits and players will be retreating, lest they want to lose their precious invisible laser-firing super-vehicles. A lesser example is the N.O.R.A.D. Missile Tank; it's a small, light tank with a mere machine gun...and for secondary, launches an overhead 4-missile volley that hits like a train.

* HollywoodHacking: A few of the game's mission involves hacking into the mainframe of certain N.O.R.A.D. or W.O.P.R. buildings. Doing so involves getting a unit close to the designated building, pressing the "function" button, and then staying stationary for ten seconds while a circular-shaped countdown hovers above the player. That's "hacking" for this game.

* InvisibilityCloak: The W.O.P.R. have developed a special Stealth Field Generator late into the game, which players will either capture (N.O.R.A.D.) or defend (W.O.P.R.). Doing so allows them to respectively unlock a special unit, (respectively) the Slayer and Mantis, which can turn invisible for limited periods of time to sneak behind enemy lines.

* KillAndReplace: Late into the W.O.P.R. campaign in Washington, D.C., one of the last missions have the players assassinating an American ambassador and then transporting a clone to broadcast a faked message to the rest of the world. Most of the mission consists of the player's units preventing N.O.R.A.D. from uncovering the truth and eliminating opposing forces in facilitating W.O.P.R.'s campaign of world domination.
* RedshirtArmy: Both N.O.R.A.D. and W.O.P.R. have their own armies supporting their vehicles, where the player controls the machines whilst their personnel serves as backup, the former using a CloneArmy while the latter uses MechaMooks.
* SapientShip: As W.O.P.R.'s forces are entirely mechanized, their walkers, ships, transports and various vessels do not have pilots, and are instead sapient and active on its own.
* SentryGun: N.O.R.A.D. and W.O.P.R. both have turrets protecting their bases, the default capable of firing heavy-machine gun rounds. Later on enemy bases will have laser turrets and SAMs (harmless target practice to ground vehicles, deadly threat to aircraft) instead, while the player can have a turret carrier to deploy automated laser cannons anywhere on the map.

* TheMaze: The final N.O.R.A.D. mission is set in the Omaha Desert, where the W.O.P.R. headquarters is located, and has been converted into a maze filled with Walkers, turrets and Mantis. It's as lengthy and as frustrating as it sounds.
* MonumentalDamage: The N.O.R.A.D. mission in the Chinese outskirts have the Great Wall getting blasted apart by W.O.P.R. Walkers, as W.O.P.R. proceeds to launch an assault on Beijing. Most of the mission revolves around cleaning up W.O.P.R. forces stationed around the ruins of the wall, whose corners are fitted with turrets. W.O.P.R. mission 14 also nonchalantly (as in, not related to the mission) lets you destroy the White House! (Even though the ending cutscene for WOPR shows it being obliterated by WOPR airstrikes)
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: A rare example where it's the ''good'' guys who does it -- the W.O.P.R. mission in Mexico have the player uncovering a N.O.R.A.D. base consisting of captured Walkers and drones, being reverse-engineered by N.O.R.A.D. scientists, which they're tasked to destroy.
* TankGoodness: The backbone of the N.O.R.A.D. military consists of tanks, the default being the classic M1 Abrams (referred in-game as the Dragoon Tank), followed by the missile-spewing Slayer tanks and larger, stronger Gladiator tanks.

* TakeOverTheWorld: The objective of W.O.P.R., which players in the N.O.R.A.D. campaign are trying to prevent, while players in the W.O.P.R. campaign attempt to achieve it.
* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: The W.O.P.R. mission in Hong Kong had its first objective being retrieving a drone trapped between W.O.P.R. headquarters and the N.O.R.A.D. naval base in Victoria Harbor. Naturally, the mission has them blasting their way through enemy naval forces to allow the amphibious transport to pass through.
* UnderwaterBase: N.O.R.A.D.'s final headquarters is located underneath the Sea of Japan, and the final mission of the W.O.P.R. campaign has the players hacking into a N.O.R.A.D. base in Tokyo to reveal the base for them to capture. Succeed in that and the player has completed their final mission in W.O.P.R.'s global conquest.
* VillainShoes: For players choosing the W.O.P.R. campaign. Have fun helping your machine overlords to enslave humanity!

* SentryGun: N.O.R.A.D. and W.O.P.R. both have turrets protecting their bases, the default capable of firing heavy-machine gun rounds. Later on enemy bases will have laser turrets instead, while the player can have a turret carrier to deploy automated laser cannons anywhere on the map.

Two decades after deactivation of War Operation Plan Response (W.O.P.R), the military technology of North American Aerospace Defense Command (N.O.R.A.D) has made leaps and bounds in advancements, just as W.O.P.R reactivates itself. Now, back with a vengeance, the rogue super-intelligent computer system is amassing an army of robotic drones and mechanized war machines to TakeOverTheWorld...

Players can choose between two campaigns; to play as a N.O.R.A.D commander tasked with preventing global domination by machines, or be the lackey of W.O.P.R and help machines enslave humanity, in thirty missions set in multiple countries all across the globe.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The game takes place in a futuristic version of 2004, where high-tech weaponry has been developed, until W.O.P.R awakens and takes a second stab at global domination.

* AIIsACrapshoot: W.O.P.R from the film is back online after twenty years, and this time it’s amassing an army of drones and mechanized vehicles to TakeOverTheWorld.
* ArmchairMilitary: As with the norm of Real-Time Strategy games. Players in both N.O.R.A.D and W.O.P.R campaigns do not partake mdirectly in combat, instead commandeering their units from the comfort of their offices (or their Playstations, to be precise).

* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Both N.O.R.A.D and W.O.P.R have APC units in their ranks, capable of transporting troops across terrains and then deploying them in enemy territory. The missions in Russia, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong in particular requires the player to use their APC to deliver special units from their base to enemy laboratories.
* TheBadGuyWins: For players choosing to play as W.O.P.R, their final mission have them destroying the last N.O.R.A.D command center in Tokyo, which leads to a cutscene where the rest of humanity are now slaves to evil machines. Yay to a Happy ending!
* BubblegloopSwamp: There are levels in both campaigns in swamp settings, where vehicle mobility is hampered by the terrain and players will have to circumvent around marshes to attack enemy bases. One N.O.R.A.D level in Louisiana actually made it a plot point where because of difficulty in moving around the marshes, they are not allowed access to tanks or heavy vehicles (same goes for the W.O.P.R enemies, who couldn’t use their walkers either) and must rely on jeeps and [=APCs=]
* CarFu: Due to N.O.R.A.D forces being comprised mostly of tanks and heavy vehicles, players in N.O.R.A.D campaigns can perform some insane vehicular rampage against W.O.P.R drones, using their armored vehicles to ram into and squash human-sized drones into pulps.
* ChickenWalker: Most of the W.O.P.R units are these (compared to N.O.R.A.D who uses tanks), including the MK-III and MK-V walkers, having dual turrets on their sides and missile dispensers as backup weapons.

** W.O.P.R's {{Catchphrase}} - "Shall we play a game?" is a direct nod to the movie. Also the checkpoints are depicted as buttons on a 3 X 3 panel, a reference to the movie's Tic-Tac-Toe motifs.
** Additionally, the final missions of N.O.R.A.D have the players receiving messages from David Lightman, the main character of the film.
* CoolBike: On the W.O.P.R side, is the Tri-bike, a three-wheeled drone motorcycle with machine-guns and flare dispensers.
* CoolBoat: The N.O.R.A.D and W.O.P.R navies have impressive vehicles at their disposal, with the Hovercraft / Otter transport serving as amphibious personnel carrier, while the Destroyer / Dreadnaught as primary assault unit.
* CoolShip: On both fronts. With N.O.R.A.D having harrier jets and helicopters; W.O.P.R on the other hand have a cool anti-gravity fighter plane called the Phoenix.
* DeathFromAbove: Jeeps (N.O.R.A.D) and Tri-bikes (W.O.P.R) have the ability to drop flares, which they can then use to summon airstrikes. Players on either campaign would make it an important priority to eliminate either units before they could reach their home base, where failing to do so the subsequent airstrike will take out a ''huge'' chunk of their units. Then again, players themselves can commandeer jeeps and Tri-bikes to deal severe damage to the enemy base.

* TheDreadedDreadnought: On the W.O.P.R side, their navy's most powerful attack unit is the Dreadnaught, a mechanized ship with powerful cannons and automatic missile dispensers to unleash massive havoc on enemy bases.

* EpicShipOnShipAction: Sea battles are a common recurrence between N.O.R.A.D and W.O.P.R navies, turning up in missions set in Hong Kong, the Bering Sea and Russia.
* EvilIsBigger: Players might notice W.O.P.R units tend to be bigger compared to N.O.R.A.D, with their standard Walker units towering over the latter's tanks. Most of W.O.P.R (save for the speedy Tri-bike and Phoenix) lean towards offense, whilst the N.O.R.A.D units lean more towards defense.
* FragileSpeedster: N.O.R.A.D jeeps and W.O.P.R Tri-bikes are both extremely fast, but lightly armoured and only has machine-guns which does ScratchDamage on vehicles and buildings, even when fully upgraded. What makes them useful is that these units have flare dispensers which can summon airstrikes, making them crucial to keep in certain missions.
* GlassCannon: The N.O.R.A.D Laser and W.O.P.R Mantis are both units which can release powerful laser blasts capable of shredding entire chunks of health from enemy units and buildings (when fully upgraded then can even execute {{One Hit Kill}}s on ''buildings''), and can even cloak themselves in stealth for a short period of time, but their health is pathetic. Two cannon hits and players will be retreating, lest if they want to lose their precious invisible laser-firing super-vehicles. A lesser example is the N.O.R.A.D Missile Tank; it's a small, light tank with a mere machine gun...and for secondary, launches an overhead 4-missile volley that hits like a train.

* HollywoodHacking: A few of the game's mission involves hacking into the mainframe of certain N.O.R.A.D or W.O.P.R buildings. Doing so involves getting a unit close to the designated building, pressing the "function" button, and then staying stationary for ten seconds while a circular-shaped countdown hovers above the player. That's "hacking" for this game.

* InvisibilityCloak: The W.O.P.R have developed a special Stealth Field Generator late into the game, which players will either capture (N.O.R.A.D) or defend (W.O.P.R). Doing so allows them to respectively unlock a special unit, (respectively) the Slayer and Mantis, which can turn invisible for limited periods of time to sneak behind enemy lines.

* KillAndReplace: Late into the W.O.P.R campaign in Washington DC, one of the last missions have the players assasinating an American ambassador and then transporting a clone to broadcast a faked message to the rest of the world. Most of the mission consists of the player's units preventing N.O.R.A.D from uncovering the truth and eliminating opposing forces in facilitating W.O.P.R's campaign of world domination.
* RedshirtArmy: Both N.O.R.A.D and W.O.P.R have their own armies supporting their vehicles, where the player controls the machines whilst their personnel serves as backup, the former using a CloneArmy while the latter uses MechaMooks.
* SapientShip: As W.O.P.R's forces are entirely mechanized, their walkers, ships, transports and various vessels do not have pilots, and are instead sapient and active on its own.
* SentryGun: N.O.R.A.D and W.O.P.R both have turrets protecting their bases, the default capable of firing heavy-machine gun rounds. Later on enemy bases will have laser turrets instead, while the player can have a turret carrier to deploy automated laser cannons anywhere on the map.

* TheMaze: The final N.O.R.A.D mission is set in the Omaha Desert, where the W.O.P.R headquarters is located, and has been converted into a maze filled with Walkers, turrets and Mantis. It's as lengthy and as frustrating as it sounds.
* MonumentalDamage: The N.O.R.A.D mission in the Chinese outskirts have the Great Wall getting blasted apart by W.O.P.R Walkers, as W.O.P.R proceeds to launch an assault on Beijing. Most of the mission revolves around cleaning up W.O.P.R forces stationed around the ruins of the wall, whose corners are fitted with turrets. W.O.P.R mission 14 also nonchalantly (as in, not related to the mission) lets you destroy the White House! (Even though the ending cutscene for WOPR shows it being obliterated by WOPR airstrikes)
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: A rare example where it's the ''good'' guys who does it -- the W.O.P.R mission in Mexico have the player uncovering a N.O.R.A.D base consisting of captured Walkers and drones, being reverse-engineered by N.O.R.A.D scientists, which they're tasked to destroy.
* TankGoodness: The backbone of N.O.R.A.D military consist of tanks, the default being the classic M1 Abrams (referred in-game as the Dragoon Tank), followed by the missile-spewing Slayer tanks and larger, stronger Gladiator tanks.

* TakeOverTheWorld: The objective of W.O.P.R, which players in the N.O.R.A.D campaign are trying to prevent, while players in the W.O.P.R campaign attempts to achieve.
* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: The W.O.P.R mission in Hong Kong had it's first objective being retrieving a drone trapped between W.O.P.R headquarters and the N.O.R.A.D naval base in Victoria Harbor. Naturally the mission have them blasting their way through enemy naval forces to allow the amphibious transport to pass through.
* UnderwaterBase: N.O.R.A.D's final headquarters is located underneath the Sea of Japan, and the final mission of the W.O.P.R campaign have the players hacking into a N.O.R.A.D base in Tokyo to reveal the base for them to capture. Succeed in that and the player have completed their final mission in W.O.P.R's global conquest.
* VillainShoes: For players choosing the W.O.P.R campaign. Have fun helping your machine overlords to enslave humanity!

* MonumentalDamage: The N.O.R.A.D mission in the Chinese outskirts have the Great Wall getting blasted apart by W.O.P.R Walkers, as W.O.P.R proceeds to launch an assault on Beijing. Most of the mission revolves around cleaning up W.O.P.R forces stationed around the ruins of the wall, whose corners are fitted with turrets.

* EnergyWeapon: For both sides, the Slayer and Mantis tanks both use powerful laser cannons, the former in the form of green energy bolts while the latter as a WaveMotionGun.

* EvilIsBigger: Players might notice W.O.P.R units tend to be bigger compared to N.O.R.A.D, with their standard Walker units towering over the latter's tanks. Most of W.O.P.R (save for the speedy Tri-bike and Phoenix) leans closer to MightyGlacier territory, dealing bigger damage and having more health, but slower than N.O.R.A.D tanks and carriers.

* GlassCannon: The N.O.R.A.D Slayer and W.O.P.R Mantis are both units which can release powerful laser blasts capable of shredding entire chunks of health from enemy units and buildings (when fully upgraded then can even execute {{One Hit Kill}}s on ''buildings''), and can even cloak themselves in stealth for a short period of time, but their health is pathetic. Two cannon hits and players will be retreating, lest if they want to lose their precious invisible laser-firing super-vehicles.

* EliteMook: Depending on the player's chosen faction, the MK-IV and Dragoon Tank serves this purpose.

''[=WarGames=]: Defcon 1'' is a 1998 RealTimeStrategy video game developed by [[Creator/BlitzGamesStudios Interactive Studios]] and published by [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM Interactive]] and Creator/ElectronicArts for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. A very, very, ''very'' loose adaptation of the 1983 film ''Film/WarGames'' [[note]] in fact, John Badham, who directed the film, served as a consultant during the making of the game [[/note]], re-imagined as a full-scale war epic, ''Defcon 1'' is a a tactical vehicle-shooting game taking place two decades after the film's events.

** Additionally, the final missions of N.O.R.A.D have the players receiving messages from David Lightman, the character of the film.

* InNameOnly: The entire video game have practically ''zilch'' to do with the movie it's based on, save for some names and lines being referenced.

''[=WarGames=]: Defcon 1'' is a 1999 RealTimeStrategy video game developed by Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. A very, very, ''very'' loose adaptation of the 1983 film ''Film/WarGames'' [[note]] in fact, John Badham who directed the film serves as a consultant during the making of the game [[/note]], re-imagined as a full-scale war epic, ''Defcon 1'' is a a tactical vehicle-shooting game taking place two decades after the film's events.

Players can choose between two campaigns; to play as a N.O.R.A.D commander tasked with preventing global domination by machines, or be the lackey of W.O.P.R and wreak havoc across the world, in thirty missions set in multiple countries all avross the globe.

* ArmchairGeneral: As with the norm of Real-Time Strategy games. Players in both N.O.R.A.D and W.O.P.R campaigns do not partake mdirectly in combat, instead commandeering their units from the comfort of their offices (or their Playstations, to be precise).

''WarGames: Defcon 1'' is a 1999 RealTimeStrategy video game developed by Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. A very, very, ''very'' loose adaptation of the 1983 film ''Film/WarGames'' [[note]] in fact, John Badham who directed the film serves as a consultant during the making of the game [[/note]], re-imagined as a full-scale war epic, ''Defcon 1'' is a a tactical vehicle-shooting game taking place two decades after the film's events.