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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:41 AM
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Cool! I watched TRON the other day and wondered about it, now there's
a writeup about what was going on behind the scenes at Tom's Hardware

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/03/16/tron_uk/

Well, I say that I 'watched' TRON, but it was soo hookey I had to switch over to something else now and then.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:45 AM
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1. Was tronguy Jay Maynard there?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:14 AM
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6. Yep, he's in it
Jay Maynard, a.k.a. Tron Guy, is a middle-aged computer consultant from Minnesota, who designed his own Tron costume, which he proudly wore on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Nearly 25 years after Tron's release, Maynard's passion for the film still runs hot like a Light Cycle in overdrive. "The movie was so ahead of its time," Maynard said. "It was much better than I expected because I wasn't sure Disney really understood computers and technology. But it was amazing because Steve Lisberger was really looking ahead to what computers could be."
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:47 AM
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2. There is nothing "cool" about watching Tron.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:50 AM
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3. Shut yer mouth whippersnapper!
I lived on that movie

In 4th Grade :P
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:58 AM
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4. I was quite good at the arcade game.
In 2nd grade.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:06 AM
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5. I was partial to Tempest
:shrug:
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:17 AM
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7. Sinistar was the true game of the gods.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:15 PM
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18. BEWARE! I LIVE!
RUN, COWARD! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHH!

I posted a tribute to the magnificent Sinistar on an another thread the other day, and no one seemed to know what I was talking about. Glad to know that there are other people who remember that game, and who remember that pants-wettingly awful scream (in a cabinet with speakers that must have been 50 watts per channel) when Sinistar come to life.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:26 AM
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10. 2nd grade? Buncha whippernsnappers
I was in 8th grade when that game came out. It was nearly a revelation-- nearly, because Zaxxon was still in the house.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:28 AM
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11. Zaxxon was all Three-Dee an shit
gotta fly through the notch in the wall
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:58 AM
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17. I spent way to many allowances on that thing
but I was t3h R0x0r on Ikari Warriors. I could finish that one.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:43 AM
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14. but it was pretty cool when it came out
of course that was in the dark ages....

can't remember if there were substances involved....
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:45 AM
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15. no substances, those graphics were beyond anything we'd seen
at the time.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:54 AM
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16. surreal without the substances
true.
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LisaLynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:20 AM
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8. I watched Tron the other day, too ...
and by that I mean that it was on in the background while I played "The Sims 2". Anywoo, that movie meant a lot to me and my cousins back in the day. We were all 10 or so or something when we saw it in the theater and totally were not buying it. So, we started making fun of it and then got shushed by some nuns. My very Catholic cousin was appalled and ashamed, but what were nuns doing going to see Tron anyway? :)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:23 AM
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9. Nuns in Tron?
That sounds sorta like SNAKES ON A PLANE!
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LisaLynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:32 AM
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12. Hee hee.
That's going to be the best movie ever, btw. :)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:33 AM
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13. see trailer in my new thread
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SouthoftheBorderPaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:21 PM
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19. I caught that this past weekend too.
I was surprised how appealing the "cinematography" was--really easy on the eyes, not jarring, like a lot of 80s imagery. I was impressed, but by that alone.
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