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>>3745723
If that game was made between 1979 and 1999, it is accurate. Pluto was actually (temporarily) closer to the Sun than Neptune (as it is for a couple decades every three centuries or so). Pluto's orbit is much more elliptical than any of the large planets.

>>3746170
Stars don't look anything like those images. You can see some pretty amazing and complex forms in space, such as uniquely distorted galaxies and nebulae, but they are many millions of times larger than stars.

Anyone can download raw image data from most of the world's most capable observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope (which has a clearer view of stars than most earthbound observatories, because it is above the distorting effects of the atmosphere). Here's a published and captioned image (not the same thing as the raw data you can download, but you could reconstruct this image if you did) showing the first observation to actually resolve a star (to see it as more than a single pixel or point of light).

Betelgeuse is a very large star that is also nearby compared to other large stars, giving us a better view of it.