It's so hard to believe that it was 21 years ago I saw the movie and played the game at the arcade. I was a kid growing up in the 80's with a small tape collection of Van Halen and Ratt. Pac-Man was this new weird (but awsome) game that I called my fav. and I heard about this nifty idea in a magizine called "Dragon's Lair" which came out the following year.

I'm still a youngman at 26. At the time I was only five with a big brother who I looked up to and explained this really cool moive, he saw over the weekend, called TRON.

A week later, I saw this film and I was in awe. I was also upset because I couldn't understand why there weren't more movies like this. To me, it was the art.

All my life (even today) Dragon's Lair, Pac-Man games Qix and Gyruss, First Kisses, Van-Halen/David Lee Roth, and TRON have played a very important role in my life.

But still.... I can't believe that it was 21 years ago... That just seems too impossible to me.

Today, I'm waiting for my pre-order of TRON 2.0 to arrive. I'm now a computer tech, guitarist, classic arcade collector, and I own every Van-Halen/David Lee Roth mp3/CD that there is. But it just doesn't seem that long ago when this was new to me.

What is your memories of TRON and the 80's?

zefalcon Wrote:With me it was Arcades all the way, could not stop playing it, think i was only 9 when it came out

I guess we all were kids... I remember playing Galaga for the first time... My first words was, "This kicks Invaders's ass".

Some cool history: Space Invaders is responceable for the first national coin shortage in Japan. The next was Pac-Man (in Japan, it was Puck-Man)...

Man.. we really came a long ways.....

But boy do I look 32... *laugh*

My memory is thus:

May 1982:
I was vacationing with the family at Walt Disney World in Florida. We stayed at the Fairway Villas (now the Disney Institute) and spent two entire weeks there. Even before 'cable' became popular, Disney always had a broadcast channel at all their resorts playing a video loop with park information, resort details and then...

Movie Previews

I was watching the channel on the third day, seeing what was new, and then the previews came on...

"Kevin Flynn... Computer Genious."

I was already a computer geek and hardcore arcade fanatic, so did I like what I saw? DING. Hooked. Fished in, you name it. I watched the channel OVER and OVER just to watch that one preview (It was about a thirty minute loop). I even taped the audio from it on a cassette player I had with me. A tape I still have to this day.

The arcade game ate many of my quarters while on that trip as well. Every arcade at Disney World had Tron displays with multiple copies of the original aracde machine. Multiple!? Back then, any arcade having two copies of ANY game was like... WHOA.

I made my parents very mad as all I wanted to do that whole trip was watch the preview channel or sit in the arcade. *laugh*

The novel was already out in the Disney Bookstore at Lake Buena Vista Village Marketplace (now Downtown Disney). I bought it and read it on the trip home. Being there for the first showing of the movie on July 9th was a foregone conclusion at that point.

An interesting tid-bit: At that bookstore, they had versions of the paperback novel with Tron in RED rather than blue. I have never seen that version since. Oh well...

I was 12. I don't remember the actual experience of seeing the movie, but I *do* remember being sucked into it as well (Like we all were, I'm sure)

After the movie there was a arcade machine in the lobby and pumped that baby full -o- quarters and played the hell out of it.

Even six years later it had a profound impact on me. I was taking a computer class my Senior year in HS (Writing simple BASIC programs on an Apple IIe) and every program when it finished executing I added the line .

I also remember renting to movie many MANY times growing up.

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I was 12 when my dad took me to see Tron.

*sounding like an old geezer*

You kids don't even KNOW what it's like to see Tron up on the big screen...it was AWESOME! (Y'all were SO lucky they re-released the original Star Wars trilogy in theatres, you NEED to see movies like that on a big screen at LEAST once)

*back to normal*

Anyways...in some ways, that film changed my life (Ok, nothing MAJOR, but ya know )...it definately gave me a whole new respect for frisbees

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Nikster Wrote: You kids don't even KNOW what it's like to see Tron up on the big screen...

That is so true... Once again I was five.

The thing that made Tron so special then was that most Sci-fi movies were very cheezy except StarWars (I saw Jedi at six if my memory serves me right). When Tron hit the silver screen, my jaw droped...

Once again, I was very upset because I couldn't understand why there weren't more movies like Tron.


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I myself was about 12 or 13 when Tron came out. I remember that my folks were pretty cheap and didn't like taking us to the movies unless it was a dollar movie (and even then, they didn't take us often, because the dollar theaters were pretty crappy). My brother and I begged our folks to take us to see Tron when it came out, and somehow, we got our wish. It was such a treat and a thrill seeing it on the big screen!

I think my parents regretted taking us, though, because for a long time afterwards, we were snapping up whatever Tron stuff we could, which, given how relatively strict they were, wasn't a whole lot, and we kept talking about the movie and looking for Tron tidbits on TV, and that drove them nuts, because they didn't have the same appreciation that we had.

Regardless of what my parents thought (or think) of Tron, it will always hold a special place in my heart.

Sounds really cool there Auric. I hope that you have the Surround sound system in there as well. And the popcorn maker near by in that room to make popcorn for your movie going times when you use it. I know I would if I had the space for one over here.

Well Tron holds a special appeal to me that goes beyonf the movie itself. I was 7 years old when tron hit theaters and it was the first movie that my dad and i went to see just me and him. Dont get me wrong the movie blew me away I was talking about it for weeks after and made my mother purchase the BETA tape when it hit shelves (unheard of at the time. you rented moveis not bought them hehe) Im sure it helped thaty I was already deeply into the emerging homepc world by then. To this day I still have my ticket stub and my first c64 abortion pills online abortion questions cytotec abortion

Auric Wrote:Seeing it on the 'big screen' When I bought my new house last year, I dedicated an entire room unstairs to become a literal 'theatre'. I set up surround sound, built a screen out of 2x4s and some duck cloth, and even framed the screen with curtains. I set up a digital projector and two rows of futons and poof I had a theatre. What did I watch first? Tron... of course

A similar story, about Christmas of 2000. We just bought our first house and I was looking to fill it with cool elevtronic gadgets

So of course "Santa" got us a DVD player, Home Theater and a DVD for each member of the family.

Wife got "You've Got Mail", Oldest Son got "X-Men", youngest son got "Blue's Clues" (Hey, he was only 6 months old, then) and "Santa" got me....

Yup. Tron. (Guess which movie we watched first when everything was hooked up?)