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Tags: <story-identification><tv>
Title: What children's TV show had a boy recruited by an organisation because he was the best at a computer game?
Question: It was about this boy who was the best player of a computer game in the world, and gets recruited by this organisation by using the same weapons in the game.  It was a drama played by actors, not a cartoon. Anyone know the title of it?

Answers:
sents: text: The Last Starfighter (1984) is a feature length theatrical release that fits the main plot elements you have outlined here.
text: Main protagonist is named Alex Rogan, who's kind of an average teenager, who does maintenance at a trailer park and is the best at the video game Starfighter.
text: Unknown to Alex, the video game is actually a test, and the conditions in the game with the war against "Xur and the Ko-Dan armada" are real.
text: After much teen angst, Alex Gets his act together and saves Rylos, and is proclaimed a hero by the people.
text: He returns to Earth to get his girlfriend and then leaves to train a new generation of Starfighters.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/12305/JohnP
score: 22
sents: text: You might be thinking of the first episode of Stargate Universe, where character Eli Wallace is playing a game called Prometheus.
text: Being the first and only person to win the game solve a top secret weapon puzzle placed in the game results in the military general in charge of the Stargate program showing up at his door...
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/487/Tanath
score: 6
sents: text: My guess is Warriors of Kudlak from series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures .
text: It's about a laser-tag game where the children who are best at it disappear without a trace.
text: And as it turns out, they are being recruited by aliens.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4495/Mr Lister
score: 4
sents: text: While not technically a "computer game" in the strictest sense, this also reminds me of Photon , which was based on the laser-tag style game/set of toys.
text: Per Wikipedia: Photon followed the adventures of a young high school student, Christopher Jarvis with the alias of "Bhodi Li".
text: Chris discovers that the lasertag game Photon is actually a way to detect the strongest warriors in the galaxy, who will then be recruited to fight the forces of darkness.
text: After shooting his laser gun and saying "The light shines!
text: ", he would be transported to a space station to join his fellow Photon Warriors.
text: His alien compatriots include an orphan earthling boy genius named Parcival, a shape-changing blob named Pike, a lizardoid named Leon, a cyborg named Lord Baethan, and Tivia, a black ninja princess from Nivia populated by women after the males became extinct.
text: Their mentor is a sentient computer named MOM (Multiple Operation Matrix).
text: The villains' motto is "Let the darkness grow!"
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5184/phantom42
score: 4
sents: text: The Demon Headmaster series (first broadcast on the BBC in 1996) featured a plot a little like this, although it was a girl, Dinah, who was good at the game.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/440/Paul D. Waite
score: 4
sents: text: I think you're searching for Aaron Stone.
text: He also needs to fight mainly the villains that are included in the video game, and he also gets a Robot to live with him as a sort of handler/watcher.
text: http://www.tv.com/shows/aaron-stone/
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56186/user56186
score: 2

Summary of the answers:
Suggestions for films and TV shows with such a premise include "The Last Starfighter"(1984); "Stargate Universe", where character Eli Wallace is playing a game called Prometheus; "Warriors of Kudlak" from series 1 of  The Sarah Jane Adventures; "Photon"; or "Aaron Stone".
The title of this may be one of: The Last Starfighter; Stargate Universe; Warriors of Kudlak; Photon; or Aaron Stone.