The Last Starfighter

An arcade game expert finds himself on the front line to defend an alien against invasion from intergalactic attackers. Final film appearance of 1940s Hollywood leading man Robert Preston., Futuristic fantasy in which the fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of a teenager whose skill at video games gets him recruited by an alien race to aid them in their war against interstellar marauders., Engaging sci-fi fantasy in which the fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of a teenager whose skill at video-games gets him recruited by an alien race to aid them in their war against interstellar marauders., A videogaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force., A skilled video-game player is recruited by a fast-talking alien to battle an evil extraterrestrial., A video-game wiz (Lance Guest) is recruited by a fast-talking alien (Robert Preston) to battle an evil extra-terrestrial., A video-game wiz is recruited by a fast-talking alien to battle an evil extraterrestrial., A teenage arcade whiz discovers that his favorite video game, “Starfighter,” is actually an extraterrestrial recruiting device in this science fiction adventure. As a result of his high score, the teenager is asked to a join an interstellar fighting force, and soon finds himself leading a warship against evil aliens., A teen suddenly finds himself a hero when an alien recruits him for his video gaming skills to save the galaxy., When Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), a bored Californian kid, sets a record score on the Starfighter video game in the local store, he doesn’t realise it was a test and finds himself recruited to join the Star League to become a fighter against the evil Ko-Dan empire. Nick Castle’s delightful film was one of the first to create all its special effects on computer and although cinematic technology has advanced a pace since then, both the story and the look of this film stand the test of time.