One of my all time favorite movies

does anyone know if that Atari video game actually existed?

 

nope!

Looked pretty cool. What was the weapon...a death blossom?

 

I know I used to play a Last Starfighter game that was released for the Atari 800, but I don't know if there was truly a cabinet game, or if there were other games released for other platforms.

 

dude, that GunStar is great, even in today's CG standards.

 

i HAVE played an arcade version!!! it was just like in the movie. Actually, i think it was a full sit-in game. at least i think i did...


that starfighter game on the 800 kicked ass...it was a dual ROM game on the custom cartridge unit I had for my atari warez

 

a quick search on google yielded this url: http://www.paulbunyan.net/users/wayland/ar...tar.html#arcade

 

I loved that move... You know why?

The people whom he was trying to save were called the "Rylans"

My name is Rylan. They thought I was so cool they named a whole race after me!!!!

 

"Just as the opening audio of the Starfighter game proclaimed, Alex has been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and Ko-Dan Armada. Alex's performance in simulation triggered an interstellar communicator that beckoned Centauri, a recruiter/bounty-hunter. They land on Rylos, where Alex is quickly immersed in a war briefing. "Victory or death" does not sound like an attractive choice. When Alex insists that he doesn't want to get involved, its quickly discovered that he's from a nonaligned world. Centauri illegally involved a neutral, undeveloped planet, and he's forced to return his bounty to the Rylans and return Alex to Earth."

 

i remember riding my bmx bike with my brother to the valley view twin cinema to watch that flick.

good times!

 

man... that was a great movie!