The Last Starfighter - Today's Time Waster

This is all too sweet. Some lucky dudes got a replica of the arcade cabinet used in the movie The Last Starfighter, and they are preparing to load a copy of the game used in the movie on it. Well, the game Starfighter is also a replica... But it's fun! And it's free. And with a little soldering know-how and a few spare weekends, maybe you too could build such a replica. The one they bought was used in a documentary on the movie (which is odd enough in itself), as the original was destroyed. And as one astute digg'er noticed, these guys have also given us a replica (mostly) of the game Jeff Bridges plays in his arcade in Tron, Space Paranoids! Now if they would slap together the Global Thermonuclear War game from War Games, we're all set...

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