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	The Last Starfighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Last Starfighter is a 1984 science fiction movie, its subsequent novelization that year by Alan Dean Foster, and a video game based on the movie.
		The Last Starfighter was the last film role of character actor Robert Preston before his death.
		Beta is destroyed just as he successfully interrupts the assassin's transmitted warning that the last Starfighter is on duty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Last_Starfighter (1860 words)

	AtariProtos.com - All Your Protos Are Belong To Us!
		After Atari acquired the rights to The Last Starfighter (convinced it would be a hit), they set to work on developing games based on the movie for the 5200, 400/800, and 2600.
		The problem was that The Last Starfighter license was owned by MCA who was currently suing Warner (who owned Atari at the time) over lack of payment.
		The Last Starfighter is one of the lucky few games lost in the crash to actually be released, many others weren't as fortunate.
	www.atariprotos.com /2600/software/tlsf/tlsf.htm (704 words)

	TechnoFILE Reviews "The Last Starfighter" on DVD
		While "Starfighter" probably won't go down in history as one of the masterpieces of film, it's a gentle, worthwhile film that pushed the state of the moviemaking art through its innovative use of digital special effects.
		"Starfighter" tells the story of Alex Rogan, a teen with his eyes on the future but who's stuck in the deadend rut of life in a small rural trailer park.
		Frustrated, Alex hones his skills on the video game "Starfighter," which he gets plenty of time to play while all his friends are off having fun - oblivious to their meaningless teen partying lives.
	www.technofile.com /dvds/last_starfighter.html (650 words)

	AGH 8-Bit Computers -- Side-By-Side Comparison: Star Raiders II Vs. The Last Starfighter
		For instance, in The Last Starfighter, when your energy is very low and you need to refuel, you'll only have to go to any sun because there are no space stations in the game.
		Starfighter and Raiders also share the same kind of difficulty level: In Starfighter, more your level is advanced, more your frontier will be attacked.
		So, more than a different presentation and a different graphic bonus (the intro and the frontier in Starfighter, the starbases in Raiders II), the two games are really different by their respective gameplay, their action (fast and furious in the case of Starfighter) and their strategy (really improved in Raiders II).
	www.atarihq.com /atcomp/lastsr2.html (1450 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Last Starfighter
		The Last Starfighter was the first movie to use computer graphics to represent what had up to that point been the sole province of models and miniatures.
		However, not until The Last Starfighter had the technology and financing progressed to the point where it was viable.
		Once their, Alex finds that Centauri is quite the rogue and con artist, having broken the rules to recruit him in the first place, and then failing to tell him that the Star League is engaged in a deadly war with the renegade Xur (Norman Snow) and his allies in the Ko-Dan armada.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/thelastsfce.php (1718 words)

	The Last Starfighter
		The Last Starfighter is one of those guilty pleasure films that come along once in awhile.
		One of the most memorable things about The Last Starfighter and the reason why it made film history is that all of the special effects shots are done with CGI.
		The Last Starfighter was different because it tried to integrate the CGI shots into what was supposed to be reality.
	www.digitalmonkeybox.com /the_last_starfighter.htm (1191 words)

	Filmtracks: The Last Starfighter (Craig Safan)
		The Last Starfighter: (Craig Safan) The early 1980's represented the peak of corny science-fiction movies, with one of the typical stories to streak into space at the time being The Last Starfighter.
		It's hard to imagine now that in 1984, The Last Starfighter was a rather innovative and serviceable film in the genre, featuring cutting edge special effects technology that served as the origins of computer-generated animation.
		The resulting theme for The Last Starfighter would live on as one of the most noble and heroic of the era.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/last_starfighter.html?page=print (804 words)

	DVD REVIEW: THE LAST STARFIGHTER-COLLECTOR'S EDITION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		You have to go a little deeper to understand that significance of "The Last Starfighter." Released in 1984, it was the first theatrical film to utilize computer generated special effects designed to replace standard models and miniatures.
		It helped that "The Last Starfighter" was so engaging that audiences were willing to suspend disbelief for two hours and buy into the premise.
		Some big names in the business of visual effects check in with their thoughts on the process that was used to create all of the film's computer generated effects.
	www.lightviews.com /laststarfighter.htm (1293 words)

	ASCII by Jason Scott: Review of "The Last Starfighter: The Musical"
		Alex has scored a new record on The Last Starfighter, but has also learned he will not have the loans to go to college.
		He is told that the video game he has been playing has actually trained him to be a Starfighter, and Centauri and Alex travel to the planet Rylos, where a battle to save the universe is underway.
		You have been recruited..." and the last words of the Ko-Dan empire remain the immortal "What do we do now?" "We die." It is difficult to describe the feelings as one sits through this production.
	ascii.textfiles.com /archives/000059.html (3897 words)

	Attack of the 50 Foot DVD: The Last Starfighter (1984)
		When Alex beats the high score on game, he is suddenly recruited into the ranks of the Starfighters, where he must decide if he's got what it takes to save the universe, or if he's just going to go home and whine some more about his life.
		The Last Starfighter attempted to capture the excitement of Star Wars with the "it could happen right here" feel of E.T. the Extra-Terrestial.
		Not quite as momentous as Tron and certainly not as sentimental, Starfighter is nevertheless perfectly watchable Saturday morning kids fare.
	www.50footdvd.com /movies/l/last-starfighter.html (577 words)

	Cylon Alliance - The Last Starfighter
		The 1984 film, "The Last Starfighter" told the story of a kid in a trailer park who wanted a better life.
		During the battle, Alex realizes that he does have what it takes to be a Starfighter and realizes he's the last one, the others having been killed in the earlier attack.
		Tron was given the larger credit but The Last Starfighter had the bigger impact on CGI in movie making.
	www.cylon.org /films/last-intro-01.html (1181 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Starfighter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Music: Original Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		THE LAST STARFIGHTER is about a high school senior who is swept off the planet and dropped into an interplanetary war as the last hope in a fight for freedom.
		In this way, "The Last Starfighter" fails to achieve the epic heights that some of the scores of John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and David Arnold have achieved.
		The theme for The Last Starfighter has lived on as a favorite of movie theme buffs and is one of the most noble and heroic ever produced.
	www.amazon.com /Last-Starfighter-Original-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B000000O71 (1277 words)

	The Last Starfighter Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		Don't forget that The Last Starfighter is now available to order on Widescreen DVD using our special 80s search device...
		The Last Starfighter was the first, yes the first, movie to do all special effects on a computer.
		The place behind the store where "The Last Starfighter" video game stood is still recognizable but the small trailer park is gone...
	www.fast-rewind.com /lstarfighter.htm (1658 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: The Last Starfighter review
		Within it is Centauri (Robert Preston in his last film role, reprising a musicless version of the music man).
		The Last Starfighter suffers from some serious hokeyness, apparently the filmmakers' intent.
		The Last Starfighter was the first film that attempted to produce all its special effects as photo-realistic computer generated images (CGI).
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/laststarfighter.htm (1265 words)

	The Last Starfighter FAQ
		The Last Starfighter movie had already been released, and was far from the huge commercial success aniticipated.
		It was decided that since the hardware was a problem, and would result in avery expensive product in a poor arcade market, and since the movie had not been a huge hit, that the risks in continuing the project (and possibly incurring the million-buck guarantee) were imprudent.
		``The Last Starfighter FAQ'' is © 1996-2004 by Russ Krook III and may be freely distributed in it's original form as long as this copyright notice remains intact, and the person distributing this FAQ does not recieve monetary compensation in any form.
	www.rookscastle.com /videos/laststar.html (3854 words)

	purevolume™ \| The Last Starfighter
		Composed of a group of five, these guys have been tearing up the stage for two years, playing throughout the United States.
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	www.purevolume.com /thelaststarfighter (70 words)

	Cold Fusion Video Reviews: The Last Starfighter
		The Last Starfighter is something of a perennial favorite; since it's initial release, it's never been out of sight.
		The Last Starfighter, on the other hand, shows that there are other facets to Star Wars' success than John Dykstra's special effects.
		However, spies among the Rylans have informed the Kodans that a qualified Starfighter is unprotected on earth, and the trailer park is immediately swamped with Zandozan bounty hunters.
	www.coldfusionvideo.com /l/laststarfighter.html (1319 words)

	The Last Starfighter
		Not much has changed but this was a new phenomenon then, and the producers grabbed on to that as their hook for this film.
		Alex is a master at the Starfighter video game and it seems his excellent playing skills have caught the attention of an otherworldly audience.
		Flabbergasted, Alex initially refuses the invitation to be a real Starfighter, but he soon realizes the impossible odds they're up against and agrees to help.
	stvivona.tripod.com /stevedvd/id39.html (627 words)

	The Killer List of Videogames> - The Last Starfighter
		The screenshots shown here are not actual game screenshots, but frames from the CGI animation used in the movie "The Last Starfighter" for the 'Starfighter' Arcade Game.
		Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector.
		A version of The Last Starfighter game was created for the Atari 5200, however.
	www.klov.com /L/Last_Starfighter,_The.html (675 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Last Starfighter (Collector's Edition) (Widescreen): DVD: Lance Guest,Robert Preston,Nick Castle,Dan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For one, instead of taking place in the future, The Last Starfighter imagines that intergalactic strife and epic gallantry are concurrent with the humdrum lives of American teenagers in trailer parks, and it shifts between these two realms with ease.
		The best explanation for the popular failure of The Last Starfighter is that it caught the audience on a downtrend away from science fiction, which went through a period in which it was box-office poison compared to escapist alternatives like sleek thrillers and action-adventures.
		When I was young, "The Last Starfighter" always held my attention with it's awesome CG effects.
	www.amazon.ca /Last-Starfighter-Collectors-Widescreen/dp/B00000IQW3 (1836 words)

	Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
		Here he is greeted as a gifted Starfighter and recruited into an interstellar war against the tyrant Zur (Bernardo De Paula) that threatens not just the worlds of the Star League, but Earth as well.
		And Alex himself, fighting feelings of inadequacy, must at last decide whether to retreat to the cold safety of home or take his rightful place in battle as the last Starfighter.
		Even to its ardent defenders, the movie version of The Last Starfighter has always played like a low-rent version of Star Wars, with a thinner, more maudlin story, inferior special effects and a production design no more convincing than the original Star Trek's.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue391/screen4.html (694 words)

	DVDCC.COM: Last Starfighter, The DVD REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Last Starfighter's story is a timeless tale of a young man who desires so much more than what he has.
		He must them prove to himself, that he has the “gift” to be a good starfighter so that he can go off and save the universe.
		At the time of it's release, The Last Starfigher made ground breaking visual effect through the use of computers.
	www.dvdcc.com /review.php?laststar (338 words)

	The Last Starfighter News
		The Last Starfighter News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		The score to the musical The Last Starfighter, by composer-lyricist Skip Kennon, will be released on a world premiere recording on Bruce Kimmel's new Kritzerland label, according to an announcement on Kimmel's...
		Opening Statement The Last Starfighter, although in many respects following the footsteps of Star Wars, broke into new ground with its pioneering use of computer...
	www.topix.net /movies/the-last-starfighter (206 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Starfighter: Video: Nick Castle,Kay E. Kuter,Dan Mason (III),Lance Guest,Dan O'Herlihy,Catherine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He beats the Starfighter Video Game to the applause of everyone in the court and later that day finds he has been turned down for a student loan for college.
		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.
		The Last Starfighter marks a milestone in film special effects being the first film to utilize a computer to achieve the great majority of the visual FX shots.
	www.amazon.com /Last-Starfighter-Nick-Castle/dp/6300183483 (2221 words)

	The Last Starfighter (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Also, the game was nothing like the arcade machine Alex played in the film - the technology did not exist at the time to produce real-time 3-D polygonal graphics on a home machine.
		Rumor also has it that Atari produced one prototype Last Starfighter arcade machine, but it since has been lost.
		That particular Starfighter game was supposed to be delivered to Vegas, not some fleaspeck trailer park in the middle of tumbleweeds and tarantulas.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0087597 (409 words)

	SciFlicks.com ---> The Last Starfighter - The SciFlicks Guide - Sounds, Pictures...
		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...
		Also, enjoy some The Last Starfighter facts and share your thoughts or write your own review in the The Last Starfighter discussion forum.
		There are also some very cool The Last Starfighter posters on display.
	www.sciflicks.com /the_last_starfighter (165 words)

	THE LAST STARFIGHTER
		The Last Starfighter was largely overlooked as a Spielberg wannabe on its original theatrical release but quickly amassed a devoted following through home video and frequent screenings on HBO.
		Centauri explains that the Starfighter game is an elaborate test to find a human starfighter who can help the them defeat the evil Xur, an upstart who's starting a rebellion and planning on wiping out numerous planets throughout the galaxy, including Earth.
		Its sweet-natured spin on the hoary sci-war premise is a welcome change from the usual ear-splitting hardware clashes in space, and the interesting, well-drawn characters go a long way towards endearing the film to its audience.
	www.mondo-digital.com /starfighterdvd.html (523 words)

	The Last Starfighters League
		The Last Starfighter League is among the most enduring Star Wars Multi-Player internet gaming leagues.
		Whether you are an Officer of the Imperial Navy, a starfighter pilot in the Rebel Alliance, a Jedi Knight, Sith Lord, Army Ground Commander, Bounty Hunter, Pirate or Mercenary, you will find it all and more within LSF.
		Star Wars Galaxies has the potential (we still don't know if it will) to deliver a depth of gaming that could be unrivaled with any SW game released yet.
	www.starfighters.com /lsf (461 words)

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