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The game started with shooting target bouys and then proceeded onto shooting enemy spaceships.

To Clarify, and stop the rumors once and for all, this unit was never produced. The actual game was about 75 percent completed when the project was cancelled due to numerous reasons. The closest anyone outside of Atari or the licensing company ever saw of the prototype is what you see on the arcade game screens in the film, which were based on the initial designs of the coinop game. There was one set of wirewrapped prototype boards and those may have been reused in the creation of other games. The prototype software for the game may still exist in the archives at Atari, but getting access to it, and in turn using it, would be nearly impossible.

A version of The Last Starfighter game was created for the Atari 5200, however. The ROM image for the game has recently become available and it can be played using a 5200 emulator.

There was no production cabinet manufactured. The prototype used a variation of the custom controller designed for the military Battlezone project, and which was later used on the Star Wars vector game.

A free homebrew version of this game has been created based upon images of the game as seen in the movie. It can be access at:

www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php