The Last Starfighter

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I picked up the Last Starfighter movie from walmart for 5.00. Hadnt seen that in about 20 years. Still corney as hell but fun to watch. Ive always wondered if they made an actual Starfighter arcade game like the one he plays in the movie. If so, anybody ever seen one for sale?
 
I picked up the Last Starfighter movie from walmart for 5.00. Hadnt seen that in about 20 years. Still corney as hell but fun to watch. Ive always wondered if they made an actual Starfighter arcade game like the one he plays in the movie. If so, anybody ever seen one for sale?

I'd do a search on the words 'last starfighter' here on the forum.
 
You know I watched another old movie the other day "The Wizard". I was cool to see alot of the games in there that I have or had in my collection. He plays mostly the playchoice 10. Which by the way, yours looks incredible. Have you posted any more pics of your mini cabinet your working on? i went to this guys house over the weekend and he had a mini pac and it reminded me of your post.
 
You know I watched another old movie the other day "The Wizard". I was cool to see alot of the games in there that I have or had in my collection. He plays mostly the playchoice 10. Which by the way, yours looks incredible. Have you posted any more pics of your mini cabinet your working on? i went to this guys house over the weekend and he had a mini pac and it reminded me of your post.

Yeah the PC-10 did turn out pretty nice. As to the cabaret, I have been working on it one piece at a time. Everything is cut and sanded by hand and then has to be test fit, so it's a slower process now.
 
I picked up the Last Starfighter movie from walmart for 5.00. Hadnt seen that in about 20 years. Still corney as hell but fun to watch. Ive always wondered if they made an actual Starfighter arcade game like the one he plays in the movie. If so, anybody ever seen one for sale?

Only one in existence that I know of and its at seawolfs house,
custom built for him by dptwiz, looks awesome too but still a work in progress.
 
There are some pretty good plans of the Last Starfighter cabinet out there. I have them somewhere. I figure if I ever built a full sized MAME cabinet, might as well make it look like that, but don't know that I'd ever do it. It's really just a big movie prop.
 
Here's the big thread on it:

http://www.therpf.com/f9/last-starfighter-video-game-project-completed-243/

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i built one for seawolf, and i will never build another. That's a month of my life i'm never getting back.
 
Here's an interesting video I stumbled across showing supposedly the actual coin op game emulated under MAME, not the PC based recreation seen with the cabinet projects. It's unfinished, some of the graphics are corrupt and generally looks unplayable but still cool to see none the less:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfhoGKb9VLg

In terms of history, that's really interesting, but is it just me or does that game look awful?
 
In terms of history, that's really interesting, but is it just me or does that game look awful?

Yeah but keep in mind they abandoned it very early on when they were just getting the basic framework down, who knows how it would have turned out if they completed work on it? I'm just surprised any code for it still survives.
 
Starfighter

That video is not from the arcade game
This one is by one of the original developers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghjjeZpoKLI

the game was never finished and the boards and the game code for the original no longer exist

This game for me was my grail and Will be finished up this winter it works now but there is a lot of art to be made and getting the dual joystick to work is a pita
 
i built one for seawolf, and i will never build another. That's a month of my life i'm never getting back.

Did you document the build enough to at least pass on the info for others if they want to tackle the project?
 
In terms of history, that's really interesting, but is it just me or does that game look awful?

Ditto.

I loved the movie, even though I thought the "state of the art" computer graphics were terrible.

The best thing about the movie for me was Catherine Mary Stewart. :D

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
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