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O Avoid Hitting Light Traces and Walls
dds are, if you consider your-
self a “Classic Gamer,”
you’ve seen the movie “Tron”
This was probably the main reason
112.4 times. That number
chine. How else were you ever going
comes from the fact that we know you you kept feeding quarters into the ma-
scan the movie to the “Space to pilot a Lightcycle? It didn’t seem to
Paranoids” scene and then matter that this was just a graphically
straight to when Flynn gets digitized more complex game than
and brought into the computer to meet “Surround.” There was no arcade
the MCP himself. We don’t have time adrenaline rush better than defeating
to screw around! We have Lightcycle two opposing Lightcycles. Certainly a
scenes to see, dammit! victorious moment to savor!
Face it, this movie is the Classic Overall Level Rating: A+
Gamer’s “Casablanca.” It’s the main
reason you bought a DVD player. Overall Tron Arcade Game
You’ve also felt the consequences Rating: A+
of openly declaring to “outsiders,”
“Yeah! Tron’s a great flick!” then Discs of Tron
quickly retreating from their scowls to
the safety of rec.games.video.classic It’s not often you get to step inside
on the Internet. an arcade game cabinet. It’s also not
It’s ok. You’re among friends. We often an arcade game inspires you to
at Classic Gamer Magazine believe go outside and hurl Frisbees with great
this movie and its actors stand out Tron’s Tank force at your fellow man. Discs of Tron
among the greats: Brando. . .De gets much tougher is such a game!
Niro. . .and that guy who played “Ram.” on later levels when you become liter- The Arcade cabinet is more like a
We know you devour Tron’s video- ally surrounded by hundreds of Grid- booth, which allows you to step inside
game counterparts just as ravenously. bugs. This would actually be a fairly to battle against Tron’s enemy, Sark.
So we’ve decided, in honor of this clas- blasé game if the bugs didn’t look so Inside you’ll find a dim environment
sic motion picture, to run down the impressive when they reproduced. with a cushy carpeted back support,
great and not so great games this Overall Level Rating: B+ which makes for comfortable standing.
piece of art has spawned. Stereo surround speakers and an en-
Try to Enter the MCP Cone ergy disc on the floor complete the ex-
Prepare for De-Resolution! This is basically a good game of perience.
Breakout. To enter the MCP Cone, The game is reminiscent of the
Tron the Arcade Game you need to create a path by shooting scene in the movie where Tron is de-
your way through rotating bricks that fending himself against an onslaught of
It’s four! four! Four games in one! shield the top of the structure. This is flying discs while returning the favor to
The first time you saw this glowing blue easier said than done because the his adversaries. This time the object of
beauty in the arcade, you knew it MCP Cone is slowly lowering down on the game is to de-rezz Sark by hitting
was going to be a great game. It you, creating a time limit. So break him twice with one of your discs. Doing
looked cool, so therefore it had to play through quickly or get de-res’d. so advances you to the next level.
cool. The joystick itself belongs in the Overall Level Rating: A The 3-D perspective the screen
Louvre! gives and the sound of Sark laughing
After you deposited your quarter Destroy All Enemy Tanks after he de-rezzes you are the crown-
and pressed the single player button, Guide your tank around a maze, ing touches to a perfect game.
you were then forced to choose be- dodging enemy tank fire while trying Overall Rating: A+
tween four directions onscreen. One to unload three shots on your enemy.
choice was as good as the next, so you Everyone seemed to have their theo- Tron Hits Home
picked one and were then greeted by ries on this game. It was either hide in
one of four games. one place (usually near the warp tun- Although the movie bombed at the
nel), or stay on the run while blasting box office, the games were a big hit in
Enter Flashing Cone Before Time away like crazy. Ricocheting shots the arcades. The next step in arcade
Expires were often worth a lucky hit or two and evolution is to bring the games home
Aaaah!!! Bugs! Bugs!! This is saved me more than once. After play- for the consoles.
probably the easiest of the games on ing this level, it became increasingly The original Tron arcade game
the first level. Blast your way through difficult to go home and face your never made it to the console scene. It
rapidly reproducing Gridbugs to “Combat” cartridge. was just too complex to do so - even
enter the flashing circle. This Overall Level Rating: B+ for the mighty Intellivision. Mattel was
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