Totally agree. Back then, anyone who could get deep into Dragon’s Lair or Space Ace would draw big crowds to watch. Breakthrough stuff, but frustrating to master.
The sound on this machine is so gorgeous. When it was new, those sounds called attention above all others in the arcade. I got to grow up with arcades stuffed full of games like this, Star Wars vector arcade, Dragon's Layer, Moon Patrol, Battle Zone, Tapper, Asteroids, Centipede, Qbert, Qix, Tempest, Gravitar, some odd old black and white games and even some old electro-mechanical games. The later half of the 80's was pretty great, too. The early 90's still had some real gems in there: Hard Drivin' cockpit version, Klax, Aliens, Super C, G-Loc, Pit Fighter, Hang On, et cetera. Then, arcades turned into giant pink and blue birthday cakes for children. After that, even the malls died (or close enough to it). What a drag.
@chocolatechips so glad you share my opinion on arcades. Theres one in my area called funspot that is exactly what you described. If you want to check it out its in weirs beach new Hampshire
Back in middle school I had this arcade in my town called The Place. It was 10 bucks an hour for every classic coin-op you could think of, Tron included. Unfortunately because of this business model it wasn’t making enough money to stay open and it sold off all of the machines.
Despite being so primitive in graphics, sound, and processing power, these early arcade games could be very difficult. I would spend hours playing in Aladdin's Castle while mom shopped in the mall. Managed to get the high score on most games. Of course I would have saved some quarters if the invincibility was turned on but with it on, it would become boring. The "hard" of these games made them great. Thanks for the memories
One of my all time favorite arcade games, there is one still close to me at a nickel arcade that I go play every now and then. Love it. I'm so glad I got to grow up during that golden age of arcade games & home consoles.
All of them… RPG , BASIC, COBOL, ForTran, PASCAL, etc etc. Any round not named ‘user’ was a 70s/80s language… And ya I played this thing at Chuck E. Cheese for hours
The look, feel and sound of this game was top notch for its time. It was really unique to have multiple different games to play at each level, and the music was outstanding.
Because he can showcase you the entire game. Games back then were very difficult. Most of the people including me can't get to the final unique stage on those games before it starts looping
@@wulfazwlkwos9019 Indeed. I can't even get past that stage where the tanks become recognizers, and I've been playing it for over 30 years. First video game I ever played, actually.
Awesome! Can't remember the last time I played this, but definitely remember this being one of the coolest sounding games in the arcade orchestra of games at the mall.
My high score on this game as a kid is a number I'll never forget: 619,000. I remember going into a book store just to check the Guinness Book of World Records to see if my score was higher than the world record at the time (mid-80s), and it was, by a wide margin. Finding that out made me the happiest 10-year old in the world, LOL.
I spent a lot of money on this game in college at Clemson. It was either Tron or beer...I could't afford both. My buddy would buy me a beer so we could both play. Thanks Ronnie.
Thanks to the movie, I was scared to approach that arcade machine because I thought it was going to get a laser beam and it was going to take me into the game
God,this brings back memories! I loved this. The only downside was all the cigarette smoke I had to endure in the arcade. Great analogue sound and music on this,too.
After watching the movie, I learned each game represented a part in the movie Battletanks = space paranoids which similarly felt a lot like Clu's experience fighting off Recognizers in a maze Gridbugs = was Tron trying to enter the I/O Tower to communicate with his user Alan MCP core = was near the end of the movie when Tron blasts the shield to kill the MCP while Kevin enters it Lightcycles = basically the same game as in the movie while also being the game Tron, Ram and Flynn fought to survive.
I always liked the second Tron game, "Discs of Tron" better. You had to bounce your disc off the walls so it hit your opponent or took out one of his floor rings, just like the movie.
If you watch the movie, at one point Grid Bugs are mentioned, shown onscreen via hand-drawn animation and a quite jarring voice over, and then never mentioned or shown ever again, i.e. they serve no purpose whatsoever in the movie. Apparently, that’s because they were only added as a cynical tie-in to this video game.
Lumibear - incorrect. From the wiki: "Their brief appearance in the original film seems confusing because they are never seen or mentioned in the movie again. Earlier drafts of its script allude to a big scene with gridbugs, but the scene was not a part of the final script. However, this explains their appearance in the TRON arcade game; the game was in development before the script was finalized, and its developers pulled the gridbug swarm from an early version."
Warner Bros. Entertainment now owns the licensing rights to the arcade game 1up is planning to release a replica of the arcade game which says (C)1982 - 2023 Disney. All rights reserved. Tron is a trademark of Disney Enterprises, Inc. Sold under license to WB Games, A Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
Clearly using some kind of assistant. Also, I surely don't remember being able to rapid fire like that! Still neat to see this again. Used to have a tron machine near me in a retro arcade but that was a while ago ...always wanted to buy one for myself!
Why did the game not skip level 3 - BASIC if he died at least once on level 2 - COBOL? Instead of the game going to a hard level (level 3 - BASIC), it should of gone to an easier level with the red recognizer tanks and slow moving walls on the MCP cone to give him a break, and then the harder level for level 4 - BASIC. Level 3 - BASIC is only if you did not die on level 1 or level 2 at all, or other wise it has to be Level 4 - BASIC.
The arcade game seems pretty neat even with putting in several mini games each level but disappointing they didn't have the disc battle in it along with the scoop ball game.
Back in the day, one quarter could last you a while once you got good. Well, the video game industry fixed that pretty quik with the games of the late 80's to early 90's, those things gobbled quarters ever 35 seconds seemed like.
Sure takes me back. Used to play this but mostly watced watced others. Was a teen and didn't ha e that much money. Would ride my bike 3.5 miles to the arcade in my town and carefully decide for an hour which few games I would spend my few quarters on. Most games could and in less than a minute if you weren't good and woyld end your long bike trip very quickly. (Especially Dragons Lair or Defender)lol. Also especially if you were new at it.
parts of it say the game was made (in Roman numerals) 1981, and some 1982.........in the same version of the game, guess they messed up. I know the movie came out in 1982.
why do I remember this game so differently? maybe I'm remembering the wrong game, but I thought it was two people standing on floating platforms throwing discs at each other. does that ring a bell?
I was real good at this game but only if it was not set to skip difficulty levels. I liked the Tron Music it played. It's not easy to play on MAME because you don't have the analog knob to aim with. If you enter the Light Transport Tower just as it starts the warning(at 99) seconds I think) sound it hangs the sound as you travel up the beam.
Although the arcade game is based on the classic 1982 Disney movie of the same name that starred Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and David Warner, the company that was known as Bally/Midway couldn't get the Wendy Carlos score due to licensing issues.
![Arcade Longplay [538] Discs of Tron](/img/n.gif)
I was 9 years old in 1983. I loved all these games. But, I’m still mad about how fast fifty cents went playing Dragon’s Lair!😂
Tron movie July 9,1982. Tron 2.0 Killer gameboy advance.
Totally agree. Back then, anyone who could get deep into Dragon’s Lair or Space Ace would draw big crowds to watch. Breakthrough stuff, but frustrating to master.
They weren't called coin munchers for nothing
Lol. Same
The sound on this machine is so gorgeous. When it was new, those sounds called attention above all others in the arcade. I got to grow up with arcades stuffed full of games like this, Star Wars vector arcade, Dragon's Layer, Moon Patrol, Battle Zone, Tapper, Asteroids, Centipede, Qbert, Qix, Tempest, Gravitar, some odd old black and white games and even some old electro-mechanical games. The later half of the 80's was pretty great, too. The early 90's still had some real gems in there: Hard Drivin' cockpit version, Klax, Aliens, Super C, G-Loc, Pit Fighter, Hang On, et cetera. Then, arcades turned into giant pink and blue birthday cakes for children. After that, even the malls died (or close enough to it). What a drag.
music was really impressive too, esp the level with the 'spider people?', sound effects too
"Dragon's Layer"
Lair, not "Layer".
@chocolatechips so glad you share my opinion on arcades. Theres one in my area called funspot that is exactly what you described. If you want to check it out its in weirs beach new Hampshire
Back in middle school I had this arcade in my town called The Place. It was 10 bucks an hour for every classic coin-op you could think of, Tron included. Unfortunately because of this business model it wasn’t making enough money to stay open and it sold off all of the machines.
I agree.. the arcades of the 80's are long gone.. now we have these stupid kiddy games for little kids
Hearing the music/sfx takes me back to when I was 9 at a roller rink that smelled like old shoes.
my roller rink had this game too lmao
My local roller rink smelled like new shoes. Weird, huh?
@Justus Jaxx Definitely, have been watching on flixzone} for since november myself :)
I couldn't have said it better. I was 13
Piss and cigarettes
This game was ahead of its time. Really well designed for a 1982 game.
The Cabinet design was way ahead of its time.
The magic of tron..
I thought the movie was as well.
Despite being so primitive in graphics, sound, and processing power, these early arcade games could be very difficult. I would spend hours playing in Aladdin's Castle while mom shopped in the mall. Managed to get the high score on most games. Of course I would have saved some quarters if the invincibility was turned on but with it on, it would become boring. The "hard" of these games made them great. Thanks for the memories
One of my all time favorite arcade games, there is one still close to me at a nickel arcade that I go play every now and then. Love it. I'm so glad I got to grow up during that golden age of arcade games & home consoles.
The sounds and music on this are what make this so enjoyable. Also, all the successive rounds are named after early programming languages.
i didn't know that. like which ones?
All of them… RPG , BASIC, COBOL, ForTran, PASCAL, etc etc. Any round not named ‘user’ was a 70s/80s language… And ya I played this thing at Chuck E. Cheese for hours
The look, feel and sound of this game was top notch for its time. It was really unique to have multiple different games to play at each level, and the music was outstanding.
What's the point of you're using an invincibility cheat?
Because he can showcase you the entire game. Games back then were very difficult. Most of the people including me can't get to the final unique stage on those games before it starts looping
@@wulfazwlkwos9019 Indeed. I can't even get past that stage where the tanks become recognizers, and I've been playing it for over 30 years. First video game I ever played, actually.
Loren Helgeson whoa, the tanks become Recognizers?!? I never even got that far!!!
LOL Just enjoying the tour...Lord knows I fed that thing enough quarters as a kid🤣
@@LorenHelgeson I think I saw it...Once.
Awesome! Can't remember the last time I played this, but definitely remember this being one of the coolest sounding games in the arcade orchestra of games at the mall.
My high score on this game as a kid is a number I'll never forget: 619,000. I remember going into a book store just to check the Guinness Book of World Records to see if my score was higher than the world record at the time (mid-80s), and it was, by a wide margin. Finding that out made me the happiest 10-year old in the world, LOL.
I spent a lot of money on this game in college at Clemson. It was either Tron or beer...I could't afford both. My buddy would buy me a beer so we could both play. Thanks Ronnie.
Thanks to the movie, I was scared to approach that arcade machine because I thought it was going to get a laser beam and it was going to take me into the game
This game drove me absolutely nuts. I always regretted begging my parents for it.
God,this brings back memories! I loved this. The only downside was all the cigarette smoke I had to endure in the arcade. Great analogue sound and music on this,too.
I was 12 and smoking at the arcade! Sorry for the smoke!
Yeah its a lot better smoking outside
I dropped roughly $130 or 520 quarters into this game when I was a kid.
Is that all?🤣
@@TheSentientParadox Right?
The music is triggering all these memories.
I haven't seen or heard this in a long long time. Thank you for not talking over it.
The early to mid 80s were the hayday for arcade games.
Totally agree.
Wish it was still around today.
This was my favourite game in the arcades. Felt so powerful playing it with that awesome music and bass pumping out!
Imagine doing the light cycles on this while you listen to Derezzed
J Terry TV Mind blown!
I was. 13 years old when I play that game in Chicago back in 1984
This was one of my main games back then. This was an era of optimism in technology. It was everywhere. If I recall, I made it to the Snobol level.
I saw this game back in an arcade in 1988.
😅😅😅 4:22 got the man "dabbin" across the screen lol good win though 👏
Deadly Discs mini game may as well of been “Yeeting green balls really hard into people the game”
After watching the movie, I learned each game represented a part in the movie
Battletanks = space paranoids which similarly felt a lot like Clu's experience fighting off Recognizers in a maze
Gridbugs = was Tron trying to enter the I/O Tower to communicate with his user Alan
MCP core = was near the end of the movie when Tron blasts the shield to kill the MCP while Kevin enters it
Lightcycles = basically the same game as in the movie while also being the game Tron, Ram and Flynn fought to survive.
I wasn't aware that Tron had a God mode.
It doesn't. The content provider of this channel uses cheat codes.
In MAME, on a PC.
Cheats "ON". Hahaha, I love that you didn't try to hide it. Thanks for the vid!
It would be nearly impossible to finish this game without it. My dad was a pro at this game for years
I always liked the second Tron game, "Discs of Tron" better. You had to bounce your disc off the walls so it hit your opponent or took out one of his floor rings, just like the movie.
IIRC that was intended to be one of the levels for this game, but they couldn’t get it done in time and it became a separate game.
Wow. This brings back so many memories from my childhood.
Loved playing this game :) saw Tron on video disc; and Tron : Legacy on DirecTV Encore :)
Stage 1 is very Easy, but Stage 2 after 4 parts are getting more harder than you think.
"It's all in the wrists!"'Kevin Flynn
Unless you activate the unkillable cheat like he has.
Good lord did I really spend hours playing this at the arcade? LOL. Good memories though
huh so this is what jeff bridges got sucked into
oh back to college- such wonderful memories
If you watch the movie, at one point Grid Bugs are mentioned, shown onscreen via hand-drawn animation and a quite jarring voice over, and then never mentioned or shown ever again, i.e. they serve no purpose whatsoever in the movie. Apparently, that’s because they were only added as a cynical tie-in to this video game.
Lumibear - incorrect. From the wiki:
"Their brief appearance in the original film seems confusing because they are never seen or mentioned in the movie again. Earlier drafts of its script allude to a big scene with gridbugs, but the scene was not a part of the final script. However, this explains their appearance in the TRON arcade game; the game was in development before the script was finalized, and its developers pulled the gridbug swarm from an early version."
Warner Bros. Entertainment now owns the licensing rights to the arcade game
1up is planning to release a replica of the arcade game which says
(C)1982 - 2023 Disney. All rights reserved.
Tron is a trademark of Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Sold under license to WB Games, A Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
Was anyone at 1up even alive in 1982?
How quaint the levels are listed in difficulty by computer language name.
I don't understand, cheating in the light-bikes? why he can overpass the others walls or the field frame?
I think the purpose of the channel is just to show the arcade game. They cheat in many more, so yeah.
Clearly using some kind of assistant. Also, I surely don't remember being able to rapid fire like that! Still neat to see this again. Used to have a tron machine near me in a retro arcade but that was a while ago ...always wanted to buy one for myself!
I remember walking to the arcade with a pocket full of quarters twitching my trigger finger to warm up for this game.
I remember this old game back in 82' it was a looooooooong time ago good memories and alot of memories
07:14
"Breaking the *smirk* '4th Wall'."
Why did the game not skip level 3 - BASIC if he died at least once on level 2 - COBOL? Instead of the game going to a hard level (level 3 - BASIC), it should of gone to an easier level with the red recognizer tanks and slow moving walls on the MCP cone to give him a break, and then the harder level for level 4 - BASIC. Level 3 - BASIC is only if you did not die on level 1 or level 2 at all, or other wise it has to be Level 4 - BASIC.
Because this is MAME, and he enabled cheats. Normal code progression and conditional branches are not followed.
I remember this game when I was 8 or 9 at Chuck E Cheese ❤️
VRRV got banned from chuck e cheese for punching chuck e in the nose
daaayummm!
Too bad those old games are no longer in Chuck E. Cheese, Itz, Boomers or Dave and Busters and replace them with future 3D games
You could post this video with the worst quality and it would still be TH-cam gold for me :)
Geez we can't all just cheat like that
I would like to buy this arcade cabinet for Dad. It was his favorite game of all time
There is a scene with a Tron arcade game machine inside the bar with billiards tables in the movie The Color of Money by the director Martin Scorsese.
The arcade game seems pretty neat even with putting in several mini games each level but disappointing they didn't have the disc battle in it along with the scoop ball game.
thanks for bringing me right back
I got several Arcade Hits of the '80s for Playstation, but they didn't have Tron, Gorf, or Turbo.
Back in the day, one quarter could last you a while once you got good. Well, the video game industry fixed that pretty quik with the games of the late 80's to early 90's, those things gobbled quarters ever 35 seconds seemed like.
1982 has so many A++ games released. Champion year of the 80s
Sure takes me back. Used to play this but mostly watced watced others. Was a teen and didn't ha e that much money. Would ride my bike 3.5 miles to the arcade in my town and carefully decide for an hour which few games I would spend my few quarters on. Most games could and in less than a minute if you weren't good and woyld end your long bike trip very quickly. (Especially Dragons Lair or Defender)lol. Also especially if you were new at it.
So many memories...
I used to play this at Showbiz Pizza as a kid. They had the og Star Wars game too.
Just remembering these sounds 41 years later
So that's where the Battle City game was based. The similarity is very great. These Tron tanks are more defined in look than the Battle City ones.
Player game when I was really young and hadn’t seen the movie. Years later it all made sense.
This game has a virus on the Light cycles level
Skating rink 1984. I sank so many quarters in that damn thing. I also had a trash 80 with the knockoff called "Kron" lol.
This ain’t the Tron arcade game I played with back in the 80’s. Not even close.
I love this game.
I have this now in my Retropie Arcade Machine.
Has this game a END?
You got it on cheat mode, that is no challenge.
Ive looked at 2 different videos from this production and neither have audio
You didn't use the pink diamond or show you can move the cone left or right by pushing against the barriers
Exploits not used. Sad.
How did you become invincible?
Tron movie July 9 1982 arcade is like The Tron 2.0 Killer App gameboy advance in October 19 2004.
parts of it say the game was made (in Roman numerals) 1981, and some 1982.........in the same version of the game, guess they messed up. I know the movie came out in 1982.
Wait where's the disc toss part of the game where you leap back n forth on the ring floor
One of the best games at that time.
Is it possible to only play light cycle? I don't really enjoy any of the other games...
Is that some kind of cheat mode at 5:41?
lol he pretty much started cheating on the 2nd round of the tanks and every stage after that. 😂
why do I remember this game so differently? maybe I'm remembering the wrong game, but I thought it was two people standing on floating platforms throwing discs at each other. does that ring a bell?
Because you're talking about DISCS OF TRON which came out later. . .
When the playing started in earnest, and the sound came on, it was like monetized meritocracy.
3 years after New York waged a WAR against pinball while they were snorting up our education, we were sharpening our reflexes.
easy when you cant die very challenging
Is it from the movie "Tron: Legacy" (2010)?
Sean Andre Lacuin Alcedo no man 1982 after the initial release of the Original TRON movie
20:44: Stage Failed
Sutton library 1983. I owned that machine! (Not literally, of course).
There was no way to get this far on the real machine and I think Disney robbed a lot of kids.
Same here, multiple times.
Gameplay starts at 3:10
... and ens at 5:12 when he goes invincible.
Correct
Sark, all my functions are now yours. Take em
This game was awesome !
this game is my childhood
I will own this arcade machine one day
Tron Legacy refenced this arcade game in universe
as it being a game developed by Encom and based on Kevin Flynns experineces in the Encom grid
This game goes from easy in the first level to killing in the second!
You're lucky to get past the 4th level. It gets difficult fast! I still remember 38 yrs ago when I was 21 yr old.
0:03: Introductions and Xadx
I saw this at a local arcade once.
So with the light cycles just follow that same pattern and it's a win everytime?
I was real good at this game but only if it was not set to skip difficulty levels. I liked the Tron Music it played.
It's not easy to play on MAME because you don't have the analog knob to aim with.
If you enter the Light Transport Tower just as it starts the warning(at 99) seconds I think) sound it hangs the sound as you travel up the beam.
Although the arcade game is based on the classic 1982 Disney movie of the same name that starred Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and David Warner, the company that was known as Bally/Midway couldn't get the Wendy Carlos score due to licensing issues.
What do you mean? It plays the Tron Main Theme in the board where you shoot at the spiders and enter the transport tower.
The Tron Main Theme was composed by Wendy Carlos.
Dana Long - all the music cues in the game are from the soundtrack composed by Wendy Carlos. Where are you getting your info from?
tron, dragons layer, space harrier space ace, 1982 in the arcades was special,
20:35: Another Dead Start (Another Life Lost)
15:59
The cone used to crush me.
So many times they were dead... Going through the light beams... Touched by the spiders a few times and the tanks going through them
somebody knows code.