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djmousie
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Tron Game at Flynn's
on Monday, April, 21, 2003 5:02 PM
Ok, this might seem like a naive question, but the video game that Flynn is playing in the movie, is this an actual working video game or was this just made for the movie. I've played all Intellivision tron games and have seen screen shots of the Atari tron game and neither of these games are it.

Anyone have any ideas?

-djmousie

 
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Re: Tron Game at Flynn's
on Monday, April, 21, 2003 6:16 PM
djmousie Wrote:Ok, this might seem like a naive question, but the video game that Flynn is playing in the movie, is this an actual working video game or was this just made for the movie. I've played all Intellivision tron games and have seen screen shots of the Atari tron game and neither of these games are it.

Anyone have any ideas?

-djmousie

I wish. "Space Paranoids" as it was called, was never a real game. The graphics that Flynn and the audience see is not an actual video game either it is all CG just like the movie.

 
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Re: Tron Game at Flynn's
on Monday, April, 21, 2003 7:27 PM
Yeah. It's not a real arcade game. The cgi company MAGI created that segment to be used for that video game playing scene. Would of been awsome if they did actually create an actual arcade version.


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Re: Tron Game at Flynn's
on Sunday, March, 21, 2004 5:13 PM
I would have like to have seen an actual video game like that in the arcade games. But like what Sketch and the others have said. it was made only to view there in the movie. There wa not such game.



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Re: Tron Game at Flynn's
on Sunday, March, 21, 2004 6:53 PM
*flynn1978 suddenly has a cough in his programming...

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DaveTRON
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Re: Tron Game at Flynn's
on Sunday, March, 21, 2004 9:24 PM
No such game exists, no matter what Flynn is trying to cough up.
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Re: Tron Game at Flynn's
on Sunday, March, 21, 2004 10:20 PM


It wasn't possible to do a Space Paranoids game like that back then. Realtime 3-D rendered animations couldn't be done. It took several minutes per frame.

A 3-D Space Paranoids game back then would've been another amazing breakthrough. Someone should still have made an arcade version a few years later, though. That would've been awesome.


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tronfanx
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Re: Tron Game at Flynn's
on Tuesday, May, 11, 2004 3:16 PM
I remember wathing that scene and thinking to myself... "yea right video games will NEVER look llike that!"

LOL



 
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Re: Tron Game at Flynn's
on Tuesday, May, 11, 2004 4:57 PM
*points up*

And here we are now... we've got video games that beats Space Paranoids (in terms of graphics).

Agreed, I knew that the video game couldn't have been a real one because all the games in 80's were mostly pixels.
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