By: Marcelo Olivarez Jr. TRON

GAME INFORMATION Made in 1982 Manufactured and distributed by Bally Midway Action Game Received Coin-Operated game of the Year Lead Programmer Bill Adams Based of the movie

DEVELOPER Midway Games is an American game developer and publisher Titles include Mortal Kombat, Ms. Pac-man, Tron, and also has rights to Defender, Joust, RoboTron 2084, and Gauntlet

GAME CABINET Three Game cabinets Standard upright, Mini upright, and Cocktail (table)

GAME CONTROLS 8 Way joystick for moving One button for shooting or speed control A rotary dial for controlling the direction of the fire

GAMEPLAY Had four sub-games each with 12 increasingly difficult levels Had to complete each level in every sub-game in order to go to the next level Highest score achieved was 14,007,645 by David Cruz Original High Score was always the lead programmers initials “BA”

EXTRA GAME MODE There was originally supposed to be 5 th segment but the discs of Tron (the 5 th segment) was left out because programming was not finished at the time In the game mode it featured a disc throwing combat, similar to the film sequence It did get its own game release in 1983 but was limited releases in some areas

CABINETS AND REVENUE 800 cabinets were sold in ,000 cabinets in 1983 It made $30,000,000 dollars