Here's the plot: 'A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. The movie holds up with a compelling plot, state of the art (for its time) visual effects and excellent acting. I remember watching this on VHS - it must have been around 1985 / 86 and I absolutely loved it. Popcorn Time After Earthling Alex (Lance Guest) conquers the Starfighter video game, he is recruited by alien Centauri (Robert Preston) to be part of an elite legion of fighters. The Last Starfighter - the story of an everyday guy whose proficiency at the Starfighter video game gets him drafted into an interstellar war - is a lovely space opera that plays as well now as it did during its theatrical run. Well those of us who were into video games and Star Wars? It is a web app that works on any operating software including iOS and Android. The Last Starfighter is one of those movie gems from the 1980s which, if you were a young teenager, you would probably watch over and over. The graphics are a bit out-dated but still good enough for kids today. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. My family absolutely loved it and it made for great afternoon fun. To defeat the invaders, who are paying the bounty on him, he must be victorious.Select the department you want to search in. Unable to go home and live, Alex returns to the Starfighter base to find all the pilots have been killed and he is the galaxy's only chance to be saved from invasion. When he gets back home, he finds a Zando-Zan (alien bounty hunter) is stalking him. Alex gets as far as the Starfighter base before he really realized that he was conscripted and requests to be taken back home. Chosen to take the skills he showed on the video game into real combat to protect the galaxy from an invasion. Depressed, he meets Centauri, who introduces himself as a person from the company that made the game, before Alex really knows what is going on, he is on the ride of his life in a sports car flying through space. He defeats Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game to the applause of everyone in the court and later finds out he has been turned down for a student loan for college. Alex Rogan lives in a remote trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a massive extended family.

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