Followed by
Starfighter (2010)
Edited into
No Fate But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects (2003) (V)
- clip shown
Referenced in
"Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Guiron (#4.12)" (1991)
- "I saw this on the Last Starfighter"
'Halloween' Unmasked 2000 (1999) (V)
"Clerks: Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and a Bunch of New Characters and Lando Take Part in a Whole Bunch of Movie Parodies... (#1.5)" (2001)
- The Professor mentions it
"Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Moon Master (#3.8)" (2004)
- Ignignokt and Err use a videogame to recruit warriors to fight a battle on their homeworld.
"Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Storm Over Ryloth (#1.19)" (2009)
- The scope device on Captain Tuuk's data goggles was inspired by the mechanical monocle worn by a Ko-Dan fleet officer.
Featured in
The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
- it is cut into the footage of the video game louis is playing
Spoofs
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Spoofed in
Team America: World Police (2004)
- The leader of team america picks the actor up in a fancy flying car and takes him to his layer in the same exact way Centauri in Last Starfighter captures the boy. Even the stars are arranged the same way.
"South Park: Best Friends Forever (#9.4)" (2005)
- boy is recruited with a videogame
"Robot Chicken: Cracked China (#2.7)" (2006)
- a sketch recreates scenes from the film
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