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Tron is an arcade video game manufactured and distributed by Bally Midway in 1982. It is based on the Walt Disney Productions motion picture Tron released in the same year. Events from this science fiction film were the inspirations for four subgames of which the game consists. It features some characters and equipment known from the film, eg the Light Cycles, battle tanks, the Input/Output Tower. The game earned more than the film's initial release.[citation needed] Image File history File links Tron_Video_Game. ...
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Tron is a 1982 science fiction film starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley (and Tron), Cindy Morgan as Lora Baines (and Yori) and Dan Shor as Ram. ...
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In 1983, Midway released the sequel arcade game Discs of Tron, which was inspired by the disc throwing combat sequence of the film. Another sequel followed in 2003 with the computer game Tron 2.0. Discs of Tron is the second arcade game based on 1982 Disney movie Tron. ...
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Overview
The player in the role of Tron has to beat four subgames, each at 12 increasingly difficult levels. All four segments of one level must be completed before continuing with the next level. Tron, played by Bruce Boxleitner, is the titular character of the Disney movie Tron. ...
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Level keywords Each of the 12 difficulty levels has a different keyword. They all relate in some way to computing, and most of them are programming languages. The keywords are, from lowest difficulty to highest: RPG, COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, SNOBOL, PL1, PASCAL, ALGOL, ASSEMBLY, OS, JCL, USER. RPG or RPG IV is a native programming language for IBMs iSeries (aka AS400) minicomputer system. ...
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Subgames
1. I/O Tower This segment of the game mimicks Tron's quest to enter the Input/Output tower from the motion picture. In the arcade game, the player must destroy large numbers of Grid Bugs with Tron's disc and clear a path to the flashing circle, which must be entered before a timer runs out to complete the section.
2. MCP Cone This area imitates Tron's final battle against the MCP. The game's interpretation has the player destroying a multicolored wall in front of the MCP cone and getting by the wall, into the cone. A 1.000 point bonus is awarded for completing the level, and an additional 1.000 points is given for destroying all blocks of the wall. The Master Control Program (MCP), voiced by David Warner, is the main villain of the Disney movie Tron. ...
3. Battle Tanks
 The blue cycle loses the game as it hits the yellow light wall The Battle Tanks subgame is not strictly based on film events but the tanks are taken from there. The player must guide Tron's red tank through a maze and destroy several blue tanks or red recognizers controlled by the computer. This must be done without taking any hits from enemies. If the player drives into the purple diamond in the center of the maze, the tank is warped to a random area of the maze. A bug in the game results in a cheat option. When the player's tank is not touching the white line in the corridors, it can not be hit by the enemy's fire. But it can still be rammed by enemy tanks. Image File history File links Tron_light_walls_arcade_style. ...
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4. Light Cycles This game is well known and associated with the Tron franchise. The player must guide a blue Light Cycle in an arena, while avoiding the walls and trails (walls of light) created by his/her Light Cycle and that of his/her opponent. With quick maneuvers, the player must force opponents to run into walls. The enemy cycles have a fixed behavior pattern for each level and the player can find a pattern which will defeat them every time on this level. Categories: Stub ...
Arcade cabinet Tron was distributed in three types of cabinets: the standard upright, the mini upright, and the cocktail (table) version. The upright cabinet is designed as movie tie-in. It has, as a special feature, two blacklights and fluorescent lines painted on, resembling the blue, red etc. circuit lines from the film Tron. In a darkened room or arcade the lines glow. This arcade cabinet, containing Centipede, is an upright. ...
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All cabinets feature an 8-way joystick for moving, with one button for firing or speed control, and a rotary dial for controlling the direction of the fire (a setup also used in Kozmik Krooz'r another Midway game). The game can be played by one player or by two alternating players as the controls are made for only one player at a time.
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Sequels - Discs of Tron (1983): arcade game which was originally intended as a fifth segment of Tron but was left out because programming was not finished in time.[1] In it, the player engages in disc throwing combat, similar to the film sequence.
- Tron 2.0 (2003): first-person shooter computer game sequel with a new Light Cycle design by Syd Mead who had also designed them for the film.
- Tron 2.0 Killer App (2004): a port of Tron 2.0 as videogame to Xbox and Game Boy Advance with significant changes to the game. The Xbox version features new multiplayer modes. In the Game Boy Advance version there are Tron and Discs of Tron included.
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Armagetron Advanced running in windowed mode. ...
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Trivia The Light Cycle colors from the film are reversed in the game, where the player drives the blue cycle and the enemy the yellow cycle. In the film, the protagonists' cycles are yellow, orange, and red, and the enemies' are blue.
Erik Hermansen, creator of the little known but well-liked puzzle game DROD (or Deadly Rooms of Death) included a tribute to TRON in one of the rooms in Level Seven, using Serpents as the Light Cycles. Deadly Rooms of Death (commonly abbreviated to DROD) is a computer puzzle game. ...
The Light Cycle game was featured in the cartoon Family Guy. Peter is shown driving a light cycle, and recognizing the enemy as a friend from high school. His friend then takes a right and cuts Peter off, ending the game. Family Guy is an Emmy award winning American animated television series about a nuclear family in the fictional town of Quahog (IPA or ), Rhode Island. ...
The original high score in all of the games was programmed with the initials BA for Bill Adams, the lead programmer's name. He also included his children's initials.[citation needed]
Reference [3] Parts of information for the article were retrieved from this site including: technical specifications, cabinet information, gameplay including tricks, level keywords, trivia.
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