Still, gotta love David Warner, the go-to guy for early 80s adversaries.

Did you know there is a free light cycle game? GLTRON! Woo! http://www.gltron.org And someone has a Space Paranoids inspired game. I don't remember where that is.

Disneyland's extinct People Mover used to have a TRON section of ride. What was at one point a high speed tunnel became TRON. You'd hear a voice issuing a warning and then all these images from TRON would be displayed on the walls of the tunnel as your people mover went by. Then the voice would issue some other hostile announcement as you left, I think.

I wish Disneyland would make a dedicated TRON ride. You know how in Journey through Innerspace, in line, there'd be little scientific blurbs posted here and there for people to see? There could be information about computing hardware and software basics and how these have advanced over time. And people could be 'digitized' in groups like in the stretching room of the haunted mansion, and then there'd be a bunch of black-lit designs on the walls as you walked to the sit-down portion of the ride. Although it'd probably look hokey.

Here's the MCP singing Gerry Rafferty: "It's been you, wo-man, right down the end of line."

My mom told me I couldn't go see it because it looked "too loud and was obviously unrealistic about computers". I was nine years old and crushed. I had been cutting out and saving the comic strip adaptation that had been running in our newspaper, had been following it in Starlog and had played the video game in the arcade (yes the game came out first). I was beside myself to see it.

Then, my dad told me he would take me and we saw it at the only 70mm theatre in Columbus Ohio. You have to love the perks of being a child of divorce, when parents will willing defy each other in an attempt to win your love!

It was awesome. My first forbidden fruit and it tasted sweet. I kept Tron memorabilia hidden in my room the way some people hide their porn stache...Gross, I know--but if you are going to rebel against authority, isn't it nice that it was something as benign as "Tron"? A few years later, my mom caught Tron on the Disney channel--and loved it. I had to laugh when she asked "Why didn't we see this in the theatre?"

Oh, Mom!

Tron was cool. I liked it then and from what I saw of it on a repeat few years back, it's still good. Heck I just saw 'Starman' again on the telly a week ago-when's the last time you saw THAT? Jeff Bridges is plain great. I can remember how both Siskel and Ebert just gushed about it, for what it's worth. Interesting memories there.

I remember enjoying 'Clash of the Titans' from '81, though it Was pretty bad I imagine. At the time...hey we all thought it was fun.

Then we have one from 1984 I liked--Tank. James Garner. Word.

The coolest thing about Discs of Tron, was that the image of the discs was reflected on a piece of glass, so it looked like the discs you fought on floated like a hologram....cool stuff...

If you did well enough in the game, it'd stop sending out disc-wielding guys to fight you, and you'd instead get the guards from the movie with their stun staves. They each took a few hits with your disc to destroy, but if they touched you, you'd be paralyzed and the game would end. I liked this game. You only had a single disc, but you could cancel a throw and get it coming back to you whenever you wanted.

peace