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Beat

If I recall correctly, Alex does not "beat" TLS; he "beats" the posted high score. I think it was 1,000,000.

Both. In the film it doesn't show what his final score is, only that it is in excess of 960,000. (The one million figure comes from Alan Dean Foster's novelisation.) Alex does end up destroying the Ko-Dan command ship in the training game, which is the ultimate goal IIRC. thefamouseccles 00:37, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

In addition, it is not Grig that returns Alex to Earth, but Centauri. He gives him a communication device, so, if he changes his mind, he can return to Rylos and take up the fight. Grig remains on Rylos, working on a modification to a new Gunstar - DeathBlossum - which he makes outside of the main hangar, thus avoiding the meteor assult from Xur.

Video game

Atari wrote a "Last Starfighter" videogame for their Atari 5200 but it was never released. The game was complete except for the Gunstar having no shields so a single hit destroys it.

There definitely was a version for the Atari 800, and it was really cool. -- 213.39.198.56 (talk) 04:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly, there was a game under this name, I had it on Atari 65 XE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.233.197.138 (talk) 11:16, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You say there was never an Coin Operated Arcade Game, released by Atari, Inc., and, based on the storyline from the film. I say you are incorrect. There is one, at that. There is video evidence of it on YouTube. A more likely scenario is due to timing. The "Great Videogame Crash" of 1983, was most likely Atari's main decision, for not producing the units in vast quantities. However the fact remains that they DO exist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7081:7E3E:8D3B:690F:97CE:2D2B:7341 (talk) 03:18, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First to use CGI

I changed the line saying it was the first major movie to use CGI extensively. Tron pre-dates it by 2 years, and I am sure there were other films before it.99DBSIMLR 15:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The first film to use real computer graphics for SFX was Westworld. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 23:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Westworld used computer graphics...it depends then on how you define "extensive." 74.104.189.176 (talk) 02:10, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Digital graphics

"It is one of the first films to use CGI to represent "real-life" objects instead of digital graphics." CGI *is* digital (it's even referenced as such in the credits). I assume who wrote this had meant to say "optical"? Kumagoro-42 (talk) 22:28, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is referring to the slightly earlier Tron, which was the first(?) movie with 3D-CGI, but its objects were still supposed to be part of a digital world within a computer. The CGI in The Last Starfighter on the other hand was used for what was supposed to be actual physical objects. I am not sure how significant this distinction really is, though one could argue that The Last Starfighter was a bit more ambitious in its use of CGI - i.e. for Tron it was easier to get away with things looking like unreal computer objects, because that is what they were supposed to be, while The Last Starfighter wanted its ships to look like real ships. Elanguescence (talk) 05:36, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]