Tron - Videogame by Bally Midway

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Tron

Name: Tron
Developer: Bally Midway

Year: 1982
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Other
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Midway MCR II
Game Specific: Tron Pinout
Settings: Tron Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Rotary: Optical [Direction of Fire]
Joystick: 8-way stick with trigger [Fire/Throttle]

Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard (304 Pounds - TNT Amusements)
Cocktail
Cabaret/Mini

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Tron 3-D Model (QuickTime (TM))
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Tron Description

Based on scenes from the Walt Disney movie of the same name, this game has four distinct games per level: Lightcycles, Grid Bugs, Tanks, and the MPC Cone. All four games must be completed before you can advance to the next level.

Tron was produced by Bally Midway in 1982.

Bally Midway released 96 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980.

Other machines made by Bally Midway during the time period Tron was produced include Bump 'n Jump, Blue Print, Baby Pac-Man, BurgerTime, Earth Friend, Lazarian, Solar Fox, Wizard Of Wor, Adventures of Robby Roto, The, and Crossroads.

Tron - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.85 (30 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.94

     Overall 'Like': 4.30
     Fun (Social): 3.04
     Fun (Solo): 3.93
     Collector Desire: 4.59

Technical Impressions Score: 3.95

     Gameplay: 3.96
     Graphics: 3.89
     Originality: 4.32
     Sound/Music: 3.79

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.

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Cabinet Information

The 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

Type
Upright/Standard (304 Pounds - TNT Amusements)
Cocktail
Cabaret/Mini

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

In 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.

If a person holds down the player start button while another person switches the machine off and back on or unplugs and re-plugs the power cable into an outlet, the game will credit and start without having to insert a coin.

Game Play

There are four distinct games per level.

Light Cycles: The player controls a Light Cycle that leaves a blue trail. The joystick controls the direction of travel and the trigger controls the speed of the bike. The object is force the enemy Light Cycles yellow to run into each other or the trails while avoiding crashing.
Grid Bugs: Destroy the Grid Bugs and escape into the I/O Tower before the timer runs out. The stick controls the movement of your character and the whirlygig controls the direction of fire.
Tanks: Destroy all enemy tanks or Recognizers to clear the level. The stick controls the movement of your tank and the whirlygig controls the direction of fire.
MCP Cone: Destroy the blocks similar to Breakout and move your character into the cone to clear the level. A bonus is awarded if you destroy all the blocks. The stick controls the movement of your character and the whirlygig controls the direction of fire.

Miscellaneous

LICENSOR 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 Census

There are 12,117 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,611 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,935 machines (6,840 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 893 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 301 of these machines are owned by our active Tron collectors. And of these, 278 are original dedicated machines, and 23 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 are 2 active VAPS members with extra Tron circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 52 active VAPS members currently looking for Tron.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

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 98 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Trivia

The 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

Tron (1982)
Discs Of Tron (1983)

Manuals

Technical Manual Zaccaria 25 Pages, 2.1 MB File.
Parts and Operating Manual 129 Pages, 12 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 136; Color photo;
Arcade Fever, Sellers (ISBN 0762409371): Page: 114; Color photo; Price guide:
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 136; Color photo; Price guide:

Video Clips

Tron Arcade Game Cabinet Tour. Bally Midway 1982 (not mame)	Lets Play Disney's Tron Arcade	Bally Midway TRON Arcade Video Game
TRON: LEGACY - Official Movie Trailer

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Additional References
(logged in members often see more)

The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tron Flyer #1184
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tron Flyer #3645
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tron Flyer #3287
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tron Flyer #4444

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