Great to see that you truly mastered this game...I worked in an arcade when this game came out and it was one of my favorite games to play. Those light cycles were a b*tch if you didn't have a working pattern.
In the original Tron game, there was plans to incorporate "The Arena" from the second game, Discs Of Tron. Regrettably, memory limitations of the time did not allow it. It's a shame because it was a truly wasted opportunity for both the mod community, and Arcade 1Up to not attempt to integrate both Tron and Discs Of Tron into a single game. With modern tech, it should be fairly easy to create a "transition screen" to let the player move from the main game to the Disc Arena to face off Sark. I know it was probably due to license limitations and Disney's lack of regard for it's gaming IP's. Other than that, you got mad skills in Tron!!! It's good you learned the real secret of playing well in this game. (Hint: less is more).
THere was a seperate game made, which I think was a good idea. It really caught the disk wars aspect with some reeally cool lstuff the deves threw in there.
Man, the memories this brings back... I played the stand up machine to death at a little local sub shop we had in town with the owner when things were slow. I got to User a few times but couldn't keep it going almost indefinitely like this. Cheers!
Just blown away here. I thought I was good back in the day because I could make it to level 5. Holy smokes man, that's insane! The Tron arcade experience is so immersive, I think I need to get one.
I LOVE YOU TRON VIDEO!! I USED TO SPEND HOURS IN THE ARCADE PLAYING THIS PARTICULAR GAME!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! IT WAS LIKE BEING A KID IN THE GREAT 1980's ONCE AGAIN!!🤗🙂😁🤗🙂
Loses 1st life at 33:15 Loses 2nd life at 48:28 Passed High Score at 1:01:35 Loses 3rd life at 1:34:42 Passes 1,000,000 at 1:37:50 Loses Last life at 1:47:17 Final Score: 1,103,976
I needed something to watch tonight, and this popped up on my feed. Nice playing! It makes it a lot nicer when you're not playing on old, beat up equipment
Kinda cool thing I remember. The first 3 lightcycle levels can be won by only pulling the stick left and wait. No speed, no other maneuvers. They destroy themselves.
Amazing play! I used to play this incessantly as a kid, but only managed like 183000 if I remember correctly. I guess the developers never thought anybody would get over a million points.
I thought I was pretty good at this game as a kid. Now, after getting the new Arcade 1up cabinet... I suck. Good up until the 4th level. I'm using your walk thru as a reference! I'll get this.
it’s just knowing the strategies for each screen. then being able to remember what’s next. you’ll get it. i want to try one of the arcade1ups, to compare to my original joystick and spinner.
@@coasterlvr I think it has to do with the game software, it doesn't seem to shoot as fast as I remember. The the feel of the controls are quite nice. It is a sharp cabinet. It is a nice tribute to the best looking cabinet ever made.
@@Bastdread when playing, the next game after a spider game will shoot 4 bullets instead of 3. it's best when you get two spider boards in a row. then you can shoot more spiders for more points. when that happens, it seems you're shooting faster, but you really just have an extra bullet on the screen at any given time. which is kind of the same thing. check it out after a spider screen if you get any board but light cycles. on the lower boards, it just adds one bullet. so if you're on the first set of games, the next screen will be two bullets at a time. 4 will be the max in the higher levels.
I played this game so much in college a quarter would last me for an hour. Could turn it over a million points. The lights cycles and tanks were patterns and the cone and bugs were just faster and you used the same technique every time.
late reply, but this is a Tron cabinet I spent many, many hours building. so doing the things i used to when i was 12-14 years old isn't happening since i don't want to damage my hard work. LMAO
I wish I was half as good as you. Never thought I would see the Recognizer level again. When I play I always tell kids "I don't play dubs." Meaning, I play alone. One kid persists and I relent. He lets me go first. I am not long for the TRON world before I die. He is up and I stand there and stand there and stand there. He proceeds to flip the score board as you have. In the end, his flipped score is less than mine. "See, you beat me." And he walks out the door. 😐😑😒🙄
3:14 - 3:18 You know for computer programs that was horrendously moronic. Who made those idiots anyways. And no it's not Midway or Disney they just made the game.
@@Koexistence13 they had Tron there as soon as it came out. the greatest display of tron than any other arcade. the wall with each tron with external screen on top. i’ve seen omens good picture from an employee magazine from disneyland. none others seem to exist.
@@coasterlvr you are right! You didn't have to crowd to watch. It was dark and neon blue everywhere. It was located near space mountain. Dim memories of 40 years ago
Awesome gameplay! however I have a question for you. Why do you not spend more time shooting blocks from a safe distance in the MCP cone!? You could rank up even more points
there's some guys who go for points the fastest way. 1 million in under an hour. i don't do half of what they do but the fastest way to get points is to clear screens as fast as possible. not even shooting spiders for a long time. so it's better to just run screens as fast as you can. tanks are a high scoring screen for instance. you can spend too much time even shooting spiders. but that time could be used running screens and get more points. my slow, old school, light cycle patterns take a lot of time compared to some new school patterns. but i don't want to copy people. i just want to play mostly the way i played when i was 13 back in the day at the arcade.
I think though the blocks can become to numerous to shoot them all and some of those cones are coming down far to quickly to keep up. One has to shoot the blocks and make a mad dsah. Speaking of the spider boards, how much is that white cotton ball worth that the solar sailor drops off? I think it was 5k points?@@coasterlvr
they only shoot at you if you are in line of sight. you would have to be more than half way into the space/lane. if just your nose is sticking out, they won’t shoot.
I used to play this everyday after school at a cafe where my bus stop would be… i was never able to make tron shoot that fast…did you adjust it for a quicker shot?
no, all normal settings. on the higher levels you can have 3 shots on the screen at one time. after each spider stage, they give you 4. so depending on the game, and how close the enemies are, it looks like there are infinite bullets on screen.
@@coasterlvrwow awesome thanks for the reply…its amazing how long you went… back in the day you would have had a huge crowd standing around you trying to watch you play and all those quarters on the top of the game hanging on there for people waiting to play… its amazing you went almost 2 hours wow!!!
this is a tron cabinet i built. 3/4 scale running mame. there's a mod some guys do where they use an LCD screen in the back in place of the translight graphic. so it's an lcd screen playing a video of an mcp cone.
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I cannot say how many quarters I sank into this game! Just hearing the sounds again is a trip back in time!
i would watch it without quarters
Best arcade game 🎉
The opening music alone raises my anxiety! One of my alltime favorite video games!
1982. 43rd street and Times Square, Nathan's Hot Dogs, Tron and Ms. Pac-Man. I was twelve and spent a lot of time there...
He's fighting for the users
Great to see that you truly mastered this game...I worked in an arcade when this game came out and it was one of my favorite games to play. Those light cycles were a b*tch if you didn't have a working pattern.
the pattern is improv, man
In the original Tron game, there was plans to incorporate "The Arena" from the second game, Discs Of Tron. Regrettably, memory limitations of the time did not allow it. It's a shame because it was a truly wasted opportunity for both the mod community, and Arcade 1Up to not attempt to integrate both Tron and Discs Of Tron into a single game. With modern tech, it should be fairly easy to create a "transition screen" to let the player move from the main game to the Disc Arena to face off Sark. I know it was probably due to license limitations and Disney's lack of regard for it's gaming IP's.
Other than that, you got mad skills in Tron!!! It's good you learned the real secret of playing well in this game. (Hint: less is more).
THere was a seperate game made, which I think was a good idea. It really caught the disk wars aspect with some reeally cool lstuff the deves threw in there.
Man, the memories this brings back... I played the stand up machine to death at a little local sub shop we had in town with the owner when things were slow. I got to User a few times but couldn't keep it going almost indefinitely like this. Cheers!
Our go to place was the bowling alley, late 70’s early 80’s, what a blast.
Tron movie July 9,1982 arcade game is like Tron 2.0 Killer App Gameboy Advance in October 19 2004.
Oft. A Tron Legend. Played this game at the Game On Exhibition in Edinburgh yesterday. Thought I was quite good. Nowhere near. RESPECT.
I loved this game when I was a child in the 80s! You are a true master on this game!
This awesome game brings back great memories! Tron rules!
Just blown away here. I thought I was good back in the day because I could make it to level 5. Holy smokes man, that's insane!
The Tron arcade experience is so immersive, I think I need to get one.
That would be an awesome purchase!!!
you can mod a arcade1up get a Glenn's retro show tron controller, good option for less $$ and more reliable than original..
@@markwilson8985 I will keep that in mind for myself
yeah the originals are ridiculously overpriced @@markwilson8985
I spent HOURS playing...didn't even come close to winning every part!
Lol that’s me too
I LOVE YOU TRON VIDEO!! I USED TO SPEND HOURS IN THE ARCADE PLAYING THIS PARTICULAR GAME!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! IT WAS LIKE BEING A KID IN THE GREAT 1980's ONCE AGAIN!!🤗🙂😁🤗🙂
Oh man, what a great game! Played it dor years and was NEVER able to fire that fast.
Always loved that game.
I think he was using a button as opposed to the trigger. You can here it being pressed a lot. thats probably why for the rapid rate of fire
I loved this game as a kid, used to sneak out of school to play it at the local chippy. Never got far tho. Thanks for the memories.
Watching you has taught me how much I really suck at this game. I still love playing it from time to time.
Loses 1st life at 33:15
Loses 2nd life at 48:28
Passed High Score at 1:01:35
Loses 3rd life at 1:34:42
Passes 1,000,000 at 1:37:50
Loses Last life at 1:47:17
Final Score: 1,103,976
The last life... what a way to go out.. the timer got him! MAANN!
The frustrated sigh
Also, quite ironic he loses wasting shooting those spiders for nothing but points, no real other benefit
I needed something to watch tonight, and this popped up on my feed. Nice playing!
It makes it a lot nicer when you're not playing on old, beat up equipment
4:25 😱😱😃 incredible man, you're awesome
No shit 👍🏻
🙋
I would love to see them bring this Tron game out for Xbox big time.
Tron is still one of the greatest games of all times.
I don't remember this game looking this easy when I was 7 in 1982.
LOL! awesome! Like other people, I dumped a lot of quarters into Tron! Didn't help that the movie was so good 😁
Kinda cool thing I remember. The first 3 lightcycle levels can be won by only pulling the stick left and wait. No speed, no other maneuvers. They destroy themselves.
there’s a whole series of slow cycle patterns. their awesome, but i never played like that and back in the day i never saw anyone do it.
The Sound and the Music was so great. And then i saw the movie. 2 Arcade Automats, the best was Discs of Tron, stand up with black light. I love it.
Amazing play! I used to play this incessantly as a kid, but only managed like 183000 if I remember correctly. I guess the developers never thought anybody would get over a million points.
I thought I was pretty good at this game as a kid. Now, after getting the new Arcade 1up cabinet... I suck. Good up until the 4th level. I'm using your walk thru as a reference! I'll get this.
it’s just knowing the strategies for each screen. then being able to remember what’s next. you’ll get it. i want to try one of the arcade1ups, to compare to my original joystick and spinner.
@@coasterlvr
I think it has to do with the game software, it doesn't seem to shoot as fast as I remember. The the feel of the controls are quite nice. It is a sharp cabinet. It is a nice tribute to the best looking cabinet ever made.
@@Bastdread when playing, the next game after a spider game will shoot 4 bullets instead of 3. it's best when you get two spider boards in a row. then you can shoot more spiders for more points. when that happens, it seems you're shooting faster, but you really just have an extra bullet on the screen at any given time. which is kind of the same thing. check it out after a spider screen if you get any board but light cycles. on the lower boards, it just adds one bullet. so if you're on the first set of games, the next screen will be two bullets at a time. 4 will be the max in the higher levels.
What? There’s more than one tank? Haha. I was never that good at this game but I tried and hearing and seeing this takes me so far back
I played this game so much in college a quarter would last me for an hour. Could turn it over a million points. The lights cycles and tanks were patterns and the cone and bugs were just faster and you used the same technique every time.
Played this often at Star Worlds Geneva Illinois. Long gone, Aldi there now.
Good times, noodle salad 🥗.
You are THE MASTER! I love this game!
YewoZa!
There's probably 5 girls that were interested in games this far back.
@@supercoolyguy Yep, I was one of them :)
I did not know I needed this Today but I did. Great job!
that moment at 1:39:56 when you almost died! I also gasped!!
Thanks for sharing.
You are an amazing player. Thank you for sharing, always love this game but was never very good at it!
Let me say again that is a awesome build from the ground up!!!
uhhhh the real cabinet didn't have animated art - that's an interesting cabinet design to be sure.
This arcade was the best. From the gameplay to the design of the cabinet.
I used to surpass the million point mark with one quarter. Memories!
They had this cabinet at the arcade at Carolina beach in the 90's and it NEVER worked! Now I see what I missed out on.
Most impressive!! One of my favorite games of all time!!
33:15 😂😂😂😂
Showed more restraint than I did when I played this.
late reply, but this is a Tron cabinet I spent many, many hours building. so doing the things i used to when i was 12-14 years old isn't happening since i don't want to damage my hard work. LMAO
Can see the shake! Lol
Back in the 80's at the Arcade (Todays kids thats where we use to hang out at the Mall) I must have spent $500.00 as a kid!!
Tron movie in July 9,1982 is like Tron arcade game is like Tron 2.0 Killer App Gameboy Advance in October 19 2004.
This was my fav Tron game. Hours of Fun as a kid.
I wish I was half as good as you. Never thought I would see the Recognizer level again. When I play I always tell kids "I don't play dubs." Meaning, I play alone. One kid persists and I relent. He lets me go first. I am not long for the TRON world before I die. He is up and I stand there and stand there and stand there. He proceeds to flip the score board as you have. In the end, his flipped score is less than mine. "See, you beat me." And he walks out the door. 😐😑😒🙄
Tjis game wa game still in action in 92' it was atull tuff to learn and a lotta quarters
My favorite arcade cabinet of all time.
I WANT HIM IN THE GAMES UNTIL HE DIES PLAYING. ACKNOWLEDGE!!
Thanks for the memories!
Crazy skilll...i never got good at this game....spent a lotta dough trying through 😂
I hear the music I heard in the Disney movie from 1982
A cult classic
Wish I had back the quarters I spent playing this game😭🤓👏🏻👏🏻
I can make it to level 3 but I always lose to the tanks on level 3. Now after studying this video I know how to handle that. Thanks.
Vary good
I have to say you are a very skilled Tron player that is for sure
So good at playing it that now it looks very tedious and repetitive, well done. 🤣
Basically, most of the Arcades.
Tron! It was tough game. I burned alot of silver. Never got that good.
this was my favourite arcade game back then
Master .. Amazing!!!!!
Wow I am Surprised I mean impressed my Dad Can go to 3 That's it He haven't Played this sense it Came out in the 80's
Man this brings back memories
3:14 - 3:18
You know for computer programs that was horrendously moronic. Who made those idiots anyways. And no it's not Midway or Disney they just made the game.
How is the MCP cone above the screen rotating in the background? It’s a very cool touch, and I never saw the real arcade ever do that
After the vid the guy went behind the machine and went to the grid
Putting physical money into video games to play. You old timers had it rough.😊
Damn! Just damn! Well done!
Had all of the tron games at Disneyland in 83,84? I think. I wanted to play them more than do anything else
@@Koexistence13 they had Tron there as soon as it came out. the greatest display of tron than any other arcade. the wall with each tron with external screen on top. i’ve seen omens good picture from an employee magazine from disneyland. none others seem to exist.
@@coasterlvr you are right! You didn't have to crowd to watch. It was dark and neon blue everywhere. It was located near space mountain. Dim memories of 40 years ago
Bow down, amazing dude!!!
MCP approves!
Miss my childhood games
4:23. Nice
This game is like pacman, its endless
Damn, you're good! Well done.
Don’t know why they don’t have this game on a iPhone 📱 version. What I see are light cycles type games with the tron name.
I was never good at, Tron. I’m the person looking over your shoulders 😂😂😂
This game was awesome 4 the time
Wow, you are too good man.
This guy is good!!✊❤❤😊 👍
Nice gameplay
Needless to say, whomever played this game... might've been it's creator! 🤔
I think it was Data from Star Trek TNG
4:24 made me laugh hard
i like your video
GG's
From Disney interactive and wb games
You my friend are a master of this game. I wouldn't have lasted ten minutes. 💯👍😎
So there is no end to this game just like the game berserk I made it to level 103 and gave up
Awesome gameplay! however I have a question for you. Why do you not spend more time shooting blocks from a safe distance in the MCP cone!? You could rank up even more points
there's some guys who go for points the fastest way. 1 million in under an hour. i don't do half of what they do but the fastest way to get points is to clear screens as fast as possible. not even shooting spiders for a long time. so it's better to just run screens as fast as you can. tanks are a high scoring screen for instance. you can spend too much time even shooting spiders. but that time could be used running screens and get more points. my slow, old school, light cycle patterns take a lot of time compared to some new school patterns. but i don't want to copy people. i just want to play mostly the way i played when i was 13 back in the day at the arcade.
I think though the blocks can become to numerous to shoot them all and some of those cones are coming down far to quickly to keep up. One has to shoot the blocks and make a mad dsah. Speaking of the spider boards, how much is that white cotton ball worth that the solar sailor drops off? I think it was 5k points?@@coasterlvr
AMAZING BRO😎😎😎
Greetings Programs.
Bravo!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wow...nice job !
Tron Sensei
You make this look so easy.
Masterclass!
Wait...why aren't the tanks ever shooting back? Them shootnig back at the player is the only reason i would ever die on those levels...
they only shoot at you if you are in line of sight. you would have to be more than half way into the space/lane. if just your nose is sticking out, they won’t shoot.
Impressive
So you roll the score and it places at 16th on the high score list?!
yeah, only counts for what's on the screen. so need to kill the game at 999, 990 if i want the top score.
Question: is there a bonus for clearing the spiders?
the only bonus is what's left on the clock when entering.
I used to play this everyday after school at a cafe where my bus stop would be… i was never able to make tron shoot that fast…did you adjust it for a quicker shot?
no, all normal settings. on the higher levels you can have 3 shots on the screen at one time. after each spider stage, they give you 4. so depending on the game, and how close the enemies are, it looks like there are infinite bullets on screen.
@@coasterlvrwow awesome thanks for the reply…its amazing how long you went… back in the day you would have had a huge crowd standing around you trying to watch you play and all those quarters on the top of the game hanging on there for people waiting to play… its amazing you went almost 2 hours wow!!!
What is spinning behind the marquee? Or is that a reflection?
this is a tron cabinet i built. 3/4 scale running mame. there's a mod some guys do where they use an LCD screen in the back in place of the translight graphic. so it's an lcd screen playing a video of an mcp cone.
I hate that "computer typeface" ... it was never used in any computer environment, ever in history.