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Tyyr wrote:We where Christmas shopping last night and my wife saw one of the lightcycle toys and said it looked cool. I replied that Tron was pretty cool.

She said, "What's Tron."

I have a movie to rent tonight.

Hell yes.

-puts hand up- What's Tron?

Reliant121 wrote:-puts hand up- What's Tron?

You being serious, or pulling our leg? Tron indroduced the concept of scanner technology!

I'm serious, I have never heard of it before this thread.

Well, given how you hated outdated graphics in video games, I doubt you'll like it much

When I was a kid, I used to use a permanant blue marker and draw circles on frisbees, and then chuck 'em at people.

I was in the game!

Well, Reliant, Tron was a movie from 1982. Basically taking place inside a computer world. It featured cutting-edge effects at the time... although yes. They do looka a bit silly nowadays. We don't care, though.

It was one of those films that was just fun, like Spaceballs or The Princess Bride.

Yeah, Reliant, it's the whole "early eighties experience" when personal computers and video games were still a novelty, and the new "electronic" music scene was burgeoning. And you were cool if you had a digital watch.





Right after the invention of fire, basically.

Tron also spawned the greatest movie-based video game ever (all things being relative to their times, of course.)

That was back when you went to an arcade to play video games.

Mikey wrote:Tron also spawned the greatest movie-based video game ever (all things being relative to their times, of course.)

That was back when you went to an arcade to play video games.

Wait. there were arcade video games based on Tron?

Yep. An awesome one, that looked like so:

and here's a description.

Mikey wrote:Yep. An awesome one, that looked like so:

and here's a description.

Dude, I LOVED THIS GAME!!!

The lightcycles were my personal favorite, but fighting those "spiders" rocked too.