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.
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