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- SilentJay74, on 11/09/2007, -1/+36"The thrusters are not working! Were locked in the moon's gravitational pull! What do we do now?"
"WE DIE"! - atomicpoet, on 11/09/2007, -1/+29It ain't real or functioning until Centauri shows up to give you a space suit.
- deathbyspatula, on 11/07/2007, -1/+18does the arcade game have that Death Blossom move from the movie, where the starfighter just spins and shoots EVERYTHING?
- MrBabyMan, on 11/06/2007, -0/+12Who says he doesn't?
- krets, on 11/07/2007, -9/+20Does anyone ever pay attention to that screen that tells you there are articles EXACTLY like the one you just tried to post already on Digg?
- DolphinGL, on 11/07/2007, -0/+9Guys, I just beat the game and now there's an interstellar hit-beast waiting for me outside. I think he's muslim. Help please.
- GotTheGoods420x, on 11/07/2007, -0/+7the good guy defeats the bad guys and gets taken home by that old dude. he then gets the offer to go back into space and continue as a starfighter. he accepts and takes his girl with him. oh and the site is already down.
- lex0nyc, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7The kid got out of the trailer park.
- nowsourcing, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6Grig: Remember, Death Blossom delivers only one massive volley at close range... theoretically.
Alex Rogan: What do you mean "theoretically?"
Grig: After all, D.B. has never been tested. It might overload the systems, blow up the ship!
Alex Rogan: What are you worried about, Grig? Theoretically, we should already be dead! - toolegittoquit, on 11/07/2007, -2/+7MrBabyMan is a big time digger. He could repost something you've submitted days ago and pass your digg number in hours. Digg has a real problem with stuff like this. emobrat, msaleem, and the other top diggers pretty much run the show, and their ***** is pretty boring.
- ChromaVita, on 11/06/2007, -1/+6Dude that wasn't even in the movie, dick.
- str3ama, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4that movie was flipping awesome.... but I can't remember the ending? I sorta remember something at the end that left room for sequel..
- shavenlunatic, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4'tis still good.. watch it. It survives the 20+ year ageing period
- mahdaeng, on 11/07/2007, -0/+4It's not spyware, but don't be surprised if when you beat the high score, some scaly guy comes knocking on your door.
- schroeder, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Because it is.
- lex0nyc, on 11/07/2007, -0/+4So thee is a link to download Starfighter.exe at the bottom of that page. Anyone checked that out to see if it's spyware or something else nefarious?
- JeremyTTU, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Just to prove your point, there was only ONE gunstar with Death Blossom and that was the one that Grig was working on in the bay when Alex came back to Rilos *sp?*
- xpirateninjax, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3what button?
- SmokeMeAKipper, on 11/07/2007, -2/+5Yes I do, so when I did and it brought me here to the earlier submission, I dugg it.
- ChromaVita, on 11/06/2007, -1/+4The rest of them just aren't funny apparently.
- krets, on 11/06/2007, -3/+6Only every other one.
- MikeonTV, on 11/07/2007, -1/+4and the oldest screenshot award goes to...
- gametavern, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Recently purchased on HD-DVD - Oh yes, the classics of the 80s live on.
Nothing like a hot chick with hair that looks like someone from grumpy old men! - HappyScrappy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3The story is called "The Chosen One".
Starts off with some dude who thinks he's nobody. He'll never amount to anything. He'd be happy just to be able to go to Tashi to pick up some power converters and hang out with his friends. Turns out he or she is the most important person in the world. Sometimes he's merely royalty (The Princess Diaries, Cinderella), sometimes he's a hero (Spiderman), sometimes he's near godlike (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Luke Skywalker in Star Wars). - getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -0/+3One of my favorite "teenager saves the day" niche movies. High tech video game/computer stuff(for the 80s), sci fi space stuff, 80s music and attitudes...really covered most of the bases. Plus in the end he goes to live in space, and takes his lady with him.
I'd love to play the real cabinet version. - HappyScrappy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Actually, IIRC, he accepted an offer to go back to space and train more starfighters, since they're all dead except for him.
- s14sh3r, on 11/06/2007, -1/+4*****, dugg you down by accident. The answer to your question is yes, it has the Death Blossom.
- HappyScrappy, on 11/06/2007, -2/+5If it does, that's not true to the game in the original movie. Most Gunstars didn't have the Death Blossom, so the ones in the game didn't have it.
- snotrokit, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3holy deja vu batman. I just referred to the ugliest sports car in the world as looking like the alien bounty hunter from The Last Starfighter, complete with a link to a picture.
Coincidence, or are there more than 3 fans of this truly great movie? - MadOgre, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Death Blossoms make me sneeze.
- Amazetbm, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Man, those lines were dripping with melted cheese.
- s14sh3r, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2It's not spyware. It's a replica of the game in the movie. I tried it out, but you really need joysticks to make it work correctly.
- HappyScrappy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2from "Judging Amy"
and the beta unit was not heard from again. - gamegenie, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2makes two additions to WIN.INI, but it seems pretty straightforward. No spyware detected.
- Thanehand, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2With his girl.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -1/+3little bedtime story for you...last starfighter
http://www.seeqpod.net/music/?plid=ddf43fd573 - ebob9, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2It's definitely a copy of the movie style arcade game. Wish it had a manual so I could get it working.
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The instructions are on a READ ME in the folder where it's installed: "C:Program FilesRogueSynapseStarfighter" - HappyScrappy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2wow, that sucks.
- grp77, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Why do I think this is cool?
- quickcomment, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Years ago, I'd read that that Atari lost a lot of the finished and playable code for one of the Atari TLS games (arcade, maybe?) because they made the mistake of storing it in a proprietary format that they eventually lost the working hardware to access it from. Any truth to that?
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 11/06/2007, -1/+3This was the holy beacon of my childhood. I saw it on a random movie rental in the 80's, was blown away I haven't heard of it before. I'm scared to watch it again since I probably won't like it as much now.
This and Metallica were the two things that didn't blow with 80's pop culture... maybe U2, but it's slim pickings. - hockey, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2krets that's got to be the most imaginative way of saying "dupe" I've ever seen.
- shavenlunatic, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2how "functioning" is it? cos if it's "Real" then it'll send signals to Centauri at Rylos telling him how "l337" the player is and if he would make a likely candidate to pilot a ship.
Somehow, I feel dissapointment may follow purchasing one of these to find that you're not really going to go on a space adventure upon completion of this game. :( - HappyScrappy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Sort of. The graphics displayed as the "game" were impossible in real time back then. So the game designed to be sold as the video game of the movie (and eventually sold as Star Raiders 2) was notably different.
The Wikipedia article says it would have used a MC68000. Hard Drivin' from Atari was one of the first 3D games, and it used a 68000 and an Analog Devices 2100 processor and came 4 years later. And it STILL didn't produce graphics nearly good enough to be used for this game. Most notably, the frame rate was too low for a shooting game. It seems unlikely that $10K would have covered the costs of a machine to attempt this in 1984. - mstoneburner, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2It's pretty corny but it's still good and watchable, especially if you consider it was the first real CGI effects movie.
- whiteguysamurai, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Crap, this was on Scifi like, last weekend.
Surprisingly, for a movie/game it's held up very well, and the graphics used in the movie are still appealing even after all this time. - NorthKorea, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2i had star raiders and i played the ***** out of it. it was one player only and you had to plug in another device to use warp and stuff. u could lose by being "lost in space" which is creepy for a little kid.......
- whiteguysamurai, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Also, this game HATES widescreen displays.
- Ajajadude, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Well, if it did (haven't seen the movie in years), nothing came out of it.
- neodorian, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Back to sleep, Louis, or I'm telling mom about your Playboys.
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