In a new video from 8-Bit Show And Tell, The Last Starfighter (1984) is highlighted as one of the host’s favorite 1980s films. The movie combines many beloved elements: video games, space battles, aliens, androids, and cutting-edge CGI rendered on a Cray supercomputer—a groundbreaking feature at the time. Atari had promised a video game adaptation of The Last Starfighter, but it was never released, disappointing both Atari and Commodore fans. In 1990, Mindscape finally released an official game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), though it bore a strong resemblance to Andrew Braybrook’s Uridium on the Commodore 64, with only name and sprite changes.
In the video, David Youd brings his analytical skills to address a long-standing question: does The Last Starfighter on NES share level data or code with the original Commodore 64 game?
