Greetings, listener. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada! That’s right, it’s time to brush up on your video game skills and fly into my coverage of the 1984 sci-fi flick, The Last Starfighter. Over the course of this episode, I recap the movie and give it my review; plus, I take a look at the novelization by Alan Dean Foster, the comics adaptation from Marvel, the aborted toy line, and several attempts at video game adaptations. I also talk about sequel and reboot rumors.
You can listen here:
Pop Culture Affidavit podcast page
As mentioned in the episode, here are some extras …
The storybook …
Plaid Stallions’ post on the aborted toy line (I mentioned another site in the show but then realized that they had swiped all of their pictures from Plaid Stallions, so I went to the source): Galoob Last Starfighter
Video Game Attempts …
The Wikipedia pages for … Solaris and Star Raiders II
Atari Protos looks at what could have been the video game version of The Last Starfighter
The NES Version …
Rogue Synapse’s “Starfighter” Game: The Last Starfighter Starfighter Resources Page
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