Keep it Oldskool Movie of the week

 

 

Tron was released in 1982. The movie was pure fantasy and at that time cost a whopping 17 million to make. The movie relied heavily on computer graphics and was marketed directly to the very people that were in the video game market. This was a period when the arcade was king and there was no such thing as PS3 or XBOX 360. Sure the was Atari etc but you could not get the graphics that were on the arcade game. (Example Pac Man at the arcade and Pac Man on Atari)

The movie starred  Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan

 

 

 

The movie is about Kevin Flynn (Bridges) a software engineer who work created games for the company he works for ENCOM was stolen by another engineer. He passes his days at an arcade and trying to get into the mainframe computer to get the proof he needs of his authorship of the games. He is assisted in his quest by Alan and Lora (Boxleitner and Morgan respectively) It seems that Alan has come up with a program called “Tron” that is searching for the evidence of Flynn’s work.

 

Flynn is unaware that the Mainframe is Artificially intelligent and has decided to take over the world (don’t they always) Flynn after challenging the Mainframe is sent physically into the computer world and has to survive the challenges and games that are in the system. He meets the Tron program who looks a lot like Alan in spandex. The movie was full of great visuals like the Light Cycle matches and the Discus Throwing.

 

 

 

This Disney produced movie went on to make $74,000,000to date  and spawned a sequel in 2008 called Tron Legacy. As a teenager this author had the toy light cycles and much of the merchandise that was used to market the movie. Tron was a movie that a kid would enjoy and the “Kid in you” remembers

 

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