Part 2 - Japanese animation, Kaiju & SFX director Hideaki Anno future connections present in WarGames (1983):
- Matthew Broderick later acted in Roland Emmerich's 1998 American Godzilla film.
- Anno directed Shin Godzilla in 2016 for Toho.
- In a scene at around 30 minutes in, David pulls up a list of games the system can play.
Among them: "Falken's Maze", named after the computer scientist key to unraveling the trouble that develops.
- Folken (which may have a similar pronunciation in Japanese) was the tactician for the enemy Zaibach empire in Escaflowne, a TV anime that broadcast in Japan in 1996.
- Shōji Kawamori co-created, co-wrote, & produced Escaflowne for Sunrise. He became a fan-favorite creator following providing the mechanical designs on the Macross TV animation in 1982.
- Macross was an influential work on the founders of GAINAX & in their semi-autobiographical OVA Otaku No Video in 1989, the members of the SF club show off Macross to the new member.
- The VF-1 Valkyrie fighter plane / transforming battle droid in Macross is based on the American F-14 Tomcat jet aircraft flown in the military. James Tolkan of the WarGames cast was also in Top Gun in 1986 with Tom Cruise. This film also famously used the F-14.
