The Last Star Fighter - As Adventure Jump Start

Quotes

Alex Rogan: Centauri! I thought you were dead.
Centauri: Me, die? And miss all the excitement? Ha-ha, no. I was merely dormant while my body repaired itself. Ah well, enough with the details. Suffice it to say, you're on Rylos, my boy. Stop thinking human. That's Lesson Number One. Lesson Number Two...
[leans in]
Centauri: You've got a good thing going here. Keep smiling, don't blow it. Lesson Number Three: Always trust Centauri...

If there was a movie that spoke to me was the Last Star Fighter.I was in the middle of a nowhereville job & the things were getting worse. The film concerns Alex Rogan who lives & works in a trailer park until he beats  the arcade game & then gets sucked into an intergalactic war of epic proportions..
 Where have we seen this before??? Hmmm

Ohh hell go read about the movie The_Last_Starfighter <<<<<<< Warning this contains spoilers

The Last Star Fighter & The OSR 


One would think that this movie is simply another Star Wars/Star Trek/ insert science fiction trope right here. That's where your wrong. This movie has all of the right ingredients for a classic science fiction campaign especially a game like Human Space Empires. Imagine the characters are recruited from some backwater planet & press ganged into service by an intergalactic conman because of their skill at a game. Imagine now that they learn that the Empire is almost doomed & they really are the Last Star Fighters. There might be an internal rivalry going on between feudal houses that only the young recruits can stop.
The movie makes a perfect start to a low level science fiction campaign. The formula can be used again & again as long as you change the details.
  They begin to learn that the entire secret weapons of the Empire will be turned against them & again they might be doomed. It goes on from there. There is a lot  to mine from this movie if your willing to take the time to look into it.
A few other facts that have nothing to do with the OSR but  you might not know about this film:

• The Gunstar and other spaceships were the design of artist Ron Cobb, who also worked on Alien, Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian.
• In the same year as the release of the film, Marvel Comics released a three issue mini-series adapting the film to comics format. In 2004, it was also adapted as an off-Broadway musical debuting at the Storm Theatre in New York City.
• A real The Last Starfighter arcade game by Atari, Inc. is promised in the end credits, but was never released. If released, the game would have been Atari's first 3D polygonal arcade game to use a Motorola 68000 as the CPU. Gameplay would have been taken from game scenes and space battle scenes in the film and would have included the same controller that was used on the first Star Wars arcade game. Ultimately, it was not released because the arcade machine would have had a sale price of $10,000, which the vice president in Atari considered too high
  
• In 1984, FASA, a noted sci-fi tabletop game maker, created a gaming system for The Last Starfighter.
  
• Did you ever want to play that wonderful looking game from the movie? Well don't ever say I didn't do anything for you, go here & Play the Last Star Fighter On Your PC
• The way I see it, if you're going to build a spce ship, why not do it with style!
  I did notice that any car that had "hover capabilities" was patterned after the DeLorean. Take a look at M.A.S.K. (80s cartoon)

Alex Rogan: Wait a minute... when did the hangar go up?
Grig: I told you! When Xur attacked!
Alex Rogan: And where were the Starfighters?
Grig: In the hangar!
Alex Rogan: You mean they're dead?
Grig: [scoffs] Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.
Alex Rogan: In another dimension? How many are left?
Grig: Including yourself?
Alex Rogan: Yeah.
Grig: One!
Alex Rogan: *One*?
[the Gunstar takes off] 

Always remember -Trust Centauri