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   Will it have leg warmers?

   

   dorpus, Sep 17th, 2003 @ 2:54am

   
   

   I want 80s cliches like "Garbage In Garbage Out". How about a Dot Matrix movie of a screechy reality that gets printed line by line?
   

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   Anonymous Coward, Sep 17th, 2003 @ 7:04am

   
   

   Hopefully this idea will work better than going from game to movie.
   
   Perhaps director's will start leaving their movies as cliff hangers now to get you to purchase the video game to determine how it ends. Better yet, when the movies go to DVD they can have game hints and/or alternate endings which can be useful for game play.
   
   Bet some of the media companies (like Lucas Arts) that do movies and games could exploit this for lots of big bucks.
   
   --RJD--

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   It's a great game

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Sep 17th, 2003 @ 7:50am

   
   

   I highly recommend this game to fans of FPS games and/or of Tron.
   
   The graphics are stupendous (actually better than the movie) and it's a lot of fun. It is definitely not your typical FPS game, it's more like a Deus Ex or System Shock.

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   What Age Bracket

   

   Munich, Sep 17th, 2003 @ 8:46am

   
   

   While I think this is a good idea, I am curious to how successful it will be in this specific case since the age of people who remember the original release and the age of the typical gamer are a bit spread out.
   
   Tron came out in 1982 - 21 years ago when the "typical" gamer - or the main demographic - was still in diapers or not around yet. While they may know it from cable, I caught a few minutes of it recently and thought it hadn't aged well. It will be interesting to see if it works.
   
   I remember the original release and actually played the ARCADE game, which I thought was pretty good at the time (anyone else remember - it had four different games based on different aspects of the movie, but the "light cycles" were the best by far).
   
   

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   This isn't the first sequel...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 17th, 2003 @ 10:47am

   
   

   There was an old Nintendo game called "Goonies 2".
   
   I don't know if there were any others.

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   Re: What Age Bracket

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Sep 17th, 2003 @ 10:47am

   
   

   It actually spawned two arcade games, the original Tron upright game machine with a joystick and a spinning knob, plus another upright/booth game called Disks of Tron where you engaged in one-on-one combat with a computer generated opponent throwing your program disks at each other.
   
   Tron 2.0 is more reminiscent of the Disks of Tron game (the combat training program is almost a dead-ringer for the arcade game) and the light cycles while similar are much more 3D and nicer than the original arcade game.

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   Re: What Age Bracket

   

   Milnesy, Sep 17th, 2003 @ 11:49am

   
   

   I don't think that the game is targeted at a specific age bracket, but to start a whole new fan base. I remember when it came out, and the different games along with it (I still have my intellivision copy of TRON) thinking that this movie was the best thing since sliced bread. I still do.
   

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   Before Bruce and Jeff die! Please another movie!

   

   Nekron99, Nov 4th, 2003 @ 1:30pm

   
   

   Yes, the game is beautiful and the game mechanics awesome ... but, it will never be neon bathed "real" characters battling for their silicon chip survival on the BIG screen! I was hoping for some kind of new technology to woo us like The Matrix did. Is that so much to ask for? I probably wouldn't be the computer geek I am now if it wasn't for that movie! Help us Steven Lisberger, you're our only hope!

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