After finally achieving the high score on Starfighter, his favorite arcade game, teenager Alex Rogan meets the game's designer, Centauri; who reveals that he created Starfighter as a training ground for recruiting actual pilots to help fight a war in space. Whisked away from the banality of his trailer park life to a distant alien planet, Alex struggles to use his video game-playing skills to pilot a real ship, with real lives at stake. It's a fun 1980's SF action classic!