Maybe you have to be a hard-core geek of a certain age to even see the wonderment of such a thing, but Jason Scott, who wrote the review, shares a delightful anecdote about Pac Man at the beginning to establish his credentials. He says that the off-broadway musical based on the 80’s cheesy sci-fi movie is great. I just happened to catch The Last Starfighter on HBO a couple weeks ago, and it didn’t disappoint my adolescent memories of it.
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I still have that on VHS. I blame many wasted hours of playing spaceinvaders on that movie!
This is now both an OS (or OS-centric) and newsworthy? If I wanted to read articles about sci-fi, I’d visit slashdot.
but i dont care, i love this movie!
It was really well done. They left off for a sequal. To bad none ever came about 
I still have it on VHS. need to get it on dvd soon 
What is this? Slashdot?
This has nothing to do with Operating systems, programming, or any other computer related topic.
Please don’t turn OsNews into another Slashdot by posting off topic stuff like this. If I wanted to see stuff like this, I would go to Slashdot.
This has nothing to do with Operating systems, programming, or any other computer related topic.
Wrong. The space scenes were all early CGI and stand up pretty well for their age. The film stands out as a reminder of just how far computing has come (I figure you could do the whole thing on a desktop PC now). Tenuous link, but there nontheless.
Honourable mention to Death Blossom, which is a feature I’ve been waiting for in every 3D space game I’ve ever played.
…but it was one heck of a stride in computing. I loved the movie and read up on how it was made back in the day. The computers used were Cray XMPs, monster mainframes. As I remember, this movie followed the path laid out by Tron, which had some CGI. It was a major achievement for it’s time. Alot of it could definitely be done on a high end desktop now.
More like a masterpiece.
Yeah, the CGI was top of the line back then. Wonder how many machine-years it took to render that stuff. Now that CGI would be antiquated in a real-time game on modest hardware.
i remember that atari was related with this movie. there was even a game “The Last Starfighter” on atari 8-bit computers.
I look forward to the day when all movies using CGIs will be featured in OSNews… After all, Jurassic Park was great for its time!…. Those dinausors…. Come on, be serious and publish some interesting articles in here! or rename this site MovieNews. You’re so desperate for content you include just anything these days…
I remember this film! A musical though?! Unbelievable.