Starfighter

[Rook3]

ACK! The NES.. ahem... "Last Starfighter" is the biggest POS of a licensed title that exists.  All it really is, is a conversion of a C64 game I think was called Iridium?

They even misspell the names of the characters in the game. Quality control was sleeping that day I think.

As big a fan of TLS as I am, I'm still not sad I never bought that title.

To learn some more about The Last Starfighter, feel free to visit:

http://www.rookscastle.com/videos/laststar.html

The FAQ hasn't been updated in a while now, and I need to make a few changes, such as Dan O'Herlihy passing away recently.

Still a lot of info out there. Enjoy!

Russ

[TOK]

Interesting FAQ. Unless I missed it in the game versions, you don't have info about the Atari computers/5200 version of the game. I played the pre-release on the Atari computers and it's a good game.

[eaviii]

I think the Atari computer version wound up as Star Raiders 2- The arcade never made it to proto- Just a bundled board set now lost I fear-

Doc

[Rook3]

I never added the Atari 5200/Star Raiders information. I need to get on that.

The prototype boardset was a hand wired version and with all the upheval over the last 10 years, and the eventual shutdown with no advance notice by Midway, it's assumed to be lost to the sands of time.

But, on an up note, I've uploaded the Starfighter Vector marquee to the arcade art library.

It looks something like this:



Russ

[eaviii]

Just an update- New pics posted on the RPF-

http://www.rpf.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=46549&st=180

Working on the final battle now though the Comand ship explosion kinetics/animation are in place already- Just working out relative movement for the fly-by and how to work the lasers-

Doc

[clanggedin]

I would rally like to update my current cab with this better and more accurate version of the emblem. Could you email it to me?? arcade30<remove-nospam>@gmail.com

I am going to send some artwork in to get printed in the next week or so and would love to add this with it.

[somunny]

Thought I'd bump this thread as I just saw a story on digg saying that a full version of the game had been released.

http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php