<story><title>Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid</title><url>http://kreldjarn.github.io/TRON/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lagged2Death</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t know quite what the headline meant - there was at least one TRON &lt;i&gt;arcade&lt;/i&gt; game - as in, a coin-operated game - that had a totally different concept and which is now mostly deservedly forgotten:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/discs-of-tron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mobygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;arcade&amp;#x2F;discs-of-tron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was also a TRON arcade game that was a mismash of mini-games, one of which was the light-cycles:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10204&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arcade-museum.com&amp;#x2F;game_detail.php?game_id=10204&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see from Google that indeed many, many people refer to this &amp;quot;use moving wall to make the other guy crash&amp;quot; style of game as &amp;quot;TRON&amp;quot; now, but TRON actually just put a brand name on a game genre that had been around:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_%28video_game%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Snake_%28video_game%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A home game circa 1977, years before TRON:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/surround&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mobygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;atari-2600&amp;#x2F;surround&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Snake&amp;quot; to TRON could actually be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, example of a big-budget studio movie adapting a video game concept. Doing so surprisingly directly.&lt;p&gt;Now, of course, half the movies that come out of Hollywood seem to have action bits that are vaguely video-game inspired.</text></comment>
<story><title>Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid</title><url>http://kreldjarn.github.io/TRON/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doodpants</author><text>I wish it supported arrow keys. WASD is &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; awkward on a Dvorak keyboard.</text></comment>