<P> Alex Rogan is a teenager living in a trailer park with his mother and younger brother , Louis . After being disapproved for a scholarship application , Alex becomes angry at his go - nowhere existence . The only entertainment in the trailer park comes from an arcade game , called `` Starfighter '' , in which the player defends `` the Frontier '' from Xur and the Ko - Dan Armada in a space battle . After Alex becomes the game 's highest - scoring player , he is approached by the game 's inventor , Centauri , who invites him to take a ride in his fancy car as a prize for winning the game . Centauri is actually an alien and his car a spacecraft ; Alex is essentially abducted , and a doppelganger android named Beta is used to cover Alex 's absence . </P>
<P> Alex Rogan is a teenager living in a trailer park with his mother and younger brother , Louis . After being disapproved for a scholarship application , Alex becomes angry at his go - nowhere existence . The only entertainment in the trailer park comes from an arcade game , called `` Starfighter '' , in which the player defends `` the Frontier '' from Xur and the Ko - Dan Armada in a space battle . After Alex becomes the game 's highest - scoring player , he is approached by the game 's inventor , Centauri , who invites him to take a ride in his fancy car as a prize for winning the game . Centauri is actually an alien and his car a spacecraft ; Alex is essentially abducted , and a doppelganger android named Beta is used to cover Alex 's absence . </P>
recruited alex rogan video gamer to save the galaxy in the last starfighter
recruited alex rogan video gamer to save the galaxy in the last starfighter
Centauri
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