The Last Starfighter Arcade Game Tutorial

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The Last Starfighter was a movie made in 1984, and it was a science fiction movie. The movie was made into a video game for various systems, but it never came close to how the arcade version Alex played in the movie. You had the Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment version of The Last Starfighter, but the graphics weren't even close to the version that was shown in the movie. Maybe, they didn't have the technology to make a game like that in 1984. The NES version of this game was terrible, it was a 2d game that wasn't playable at all. It was more like a isometric shooter, like 1942.

This version of The Last Starfighter was made in 2006 by a fan, and I must say he did a great job. This version was never released in the arcade, some guy developed it with his friends. This version resembles the arcade version which was shown in the movie.

In the actual movie, the graphics for the spaceships were generated by a Cray super computer, and this is why the movie cost $15 millions to make. Most of the space scenes used computer generated graphics which looked very good at the time. Even by today's standards, it is still pretty good.

The computer used to make the movie was a Cray Y-MP C90 which had a processing power of 160 mega flops, and a modern computer with a I7-4790k processor has a processing power of 42 gigaflops. That is about 42,000 mega flops. A modern computer with a I7-4790k processor is 262 times more powerful than a supercomputer of the 1980s. Most console systems at the time, like a Nintendo Entertainment System had 7 mega flops of processing power. A Cray-1 supercomputer was about 23 times more powerful than a NES console system. This is why it was impossible to make The Last Starfighter arcade game for a console system back in the mid 1980s! It would have been impossible to create. Just makes you think how common everyday computers are more powerful than supercomputers made in 35 years ago!

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