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Name: Tron Manufacturer: Bally Midway Year: 1982 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Tron Pinout Settings: Tron Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)
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Tron DescriptionTron was produced by Bally Midway in 1982. Bally Midway released 89 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1981. Other machines made by Bally Midway during the time period Tron was produced include Blue Print, Super Pac-Man, Bump 'n Jump, Roto, BurgerTime, Adventures of Robby Roto, The, Lazarian, Solar Fox, Wizard Of Wor, and Xs and Os. Tron - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.77 (12 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThe uniquelyshaped upright cabinet featured characters and objects from the movie on the sideart, while the control panel and much of the other cabinet surfaces were painted with circuit lines similar to those seen in many of the films set designs. The control panel also featured a pair of blacklights, one located just above the controls behind a clear plastic shield and one underneath the panel together, these caused the translucentblue joystick and the fluorescent paint used on the cabinet circuit lines to glow. In a darkened arcade, the effect was quite eeriePCabaret or mini and cocktail cabinet versions were also produced.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsIn the Lightcycle stage, the cycles have a fixed behavior pattern for each stage and so, like IPacManI, it is possible to find a pattern of your own which will defeat the cycles every time on that level. In the Tanks stage, if no part of your tank is touching the white line running through the center of each corridor, the enemy tanks fire cannot hit you. If you are careful, you can move halfway into the central transporter diamond, just far enough to get off the white line, then pick the enemy tanks off at will. Note the tanks can still ram you, though.Game PlayThere are four distinct games per level.
MiscellaneousLICENSOR The TRON name and concept were licensed from Walt Disney, the makers of the film.POne of the more unique touches in the game is that the levels, instead of being simply designated Level 1, 2, 3, etc., were named after programming languages you start out at RPG and advance through PASCAL, BASIC, ASSEMBLER, etc. until you reach the USER level.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Tron CensusThere are 8,662 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 7,158 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 114,340 machines (5,231 unique titles).Very Common - There are 430 known instances of this machine owned by Tron collectors who are active members. Of these, 412 of them are original dedicated machines, and 16 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 14 active VAPS members with Tron machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Tron circuit board for sale. Wanted - Very Popular - There are 126 active VAPS members currently looking for Tron. This game ranks a 94 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 100 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaThe game that became IDiscs Of TronI was supposed to be included in ITronI, but the programming was not completed in time.PAs every good Tron fan knows, the grid bugs were almost entirely edited out of the movie what was left was about two seconds of an animation of a grid bug creating itself. Grid bugs appear in the game because of pressures to develop the arcade game in time for the release of the movie all part of Disneys sales strategy for the movies launch posters and trailers ended with a tagline along the lines of See the movie. Play the game. So, game programmers had to use whatever script elements they could from the movie before the film itself was actually completed. Light cycles, tanks, recognizers, and the MCP, of course, all made the final cut the grid bugs did not.Legacy
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