TRON
First came the Tron movie: an electric adventure story about a computer wiz who tries to terminate a runaway program in a huge computer information system only to get pulled into the system. Produced by Walt Disney studios, Tron is not only about computer adventures, it is filled with computerized effects: graphics that aren’t possible in the real world of film-making, but exist through the magic of computer electronics.
TRON
THE GAME
First came the Tron movie: an electric adventure story about a computer wiz who tries to terminate a runaway program in a huge computer information system only to get pulled into the system. Produced by Walt Disney studios,
Tron is not only about computer adventures, it is filled with computerized effects: graphics that aren’t possible in the real world of film-making, but exist through the magic of computer electronics.
Tron may well pick up where Disney films like Fantasia left off. It will be visually astounding and at the same time, create seemingly impossible effects for the first time on film.
Bruce Boxloitner portrays a rebellious video warrier in a computer world controlled by a malevolent.
The computer adventures of ■fron won’t be limited to the movie screen. Bally Manufacturing is reported to be readying a Tron game for arcade play. The arcade version of Tron will also be placed in movie theaters before the movie opens as sort 0{ an electronic coming attractions unit to alert movie-goers to the computer potentials of Tron.
Home game players won t be left out of the Tron adventures either. Mattel has announced