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Starhawk was a pretty popular game in 1977 if you were lucky to have one in your town. Couldn't help but notice the controls kind of imitate the controls from the ficticious Last Starfighter Arcade machine from the film. A Fun & Popular game back in the day.
Jonathan R. Betuel stated the genesis for the film came about because he wandered into a video arcade and saw a young boy playing a video game. At that time, he was reading the book The Once and Future King by T. H. White. He wondered what would happen if a video game were a metaphorical sword in a stone, and a boy racked up an incredible score, which would cause a ripple effect across the universe