The Last Star Fighter & Tron

Tron and the Last Star Fighter have two very different depictions of the gamer hero. In The Last Star Fighter the gamer hero is Alex Rogan a poor lower class individual living in a remote trailer park in California. This particular type of gamer hero can be labeled as underdog hero. This type of hero "underdog" can be traced back to many ancient tales such as Aladdin, and Robin Hood. This type of gamer hero is always overlooked and under appreciated, but in the end it the underdog hero always ends up saving the day and getting the girl( which is exactly what happens at the end of The Last Star Fighter only with more cornyness). Throughout the movie Alex is faced with many obstacles in his path that leave him questioning his abilities to be a Starfighter. When Alex is taken to the starfleet base by Centari a clone replaces his role back home this is a new concept to the gamer genre, it is like Super man having a clone of Clark Kent around all the time to further ensure thet no one finds out the truth about his identity. I found that this movie appeals to a more childized version of the gamer hero not found in Tron but in game movies like The Wizard.
In Tron there are two different gamer heros. One hero by the name of Flynn who owns his own arcade and is an avid hacker, and one hero by the name of Tron(who is actually the character Alan who works for major corporaton run by the MCP). Tron and Flynn are two entirely different catagories of the gamer hero. Flynn is different because he is actually a user transported into the system via some super lazer that de-materializes things, Tron is not an actual person but a program designed by Alan to take down the MCP and establish a non-governed free system to all users. This movie appeals to a more broader audience than The Last Star Fighter because programmers and tech related people can relate to everything thats going on in the movie. Tron is much more of a tech-based movie adding to a newer generation of gamer heros such as hackers, but they still remain relevant in the classic example of a hero rising up against authority.