Why Tron (1982)?

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by bruce_pullen

Why is it important? Is it still relevant? Or a Jay Leno joke?

It was groundbreaking.

Personal computers were rare, and barely understood by the populace. They were mystery machines, and anything that took you "inside" one was very interesting to people.

This was the age of the Atari, and the Commodore, the Texas Instruments TI-64, and the Radio Shack TRS-80. IBM had just introduced the PC. No one had a clue who Bill Gates was.

In the middle of this, Tron was released. It had non-standard animation (the equivalent of Pixar today, at lease in tone) and wasn't anything like what people had seen before. It had brilliant production design, and though the story was improbable, it's no more fantastic than the Star Wars series.

If you haven't seen it, or haven't seen it recently, it's worth a look for the design of the movie alone. As a story, it's clear that the film makers had no clue how to move it along; but as eye candy, and in visual concept, it was something very, very different than anything that had come before, at least as a commercial venture.

[Tsmith13]

Alot of people liked the game tron. The movie wasnt too bad for its time like said earlier. But just think if they do this right it will have really good special effects...Look cool on Blu-Ray...I could see it possibly with a speedracer look to it i guess. I wont judge something til i see it tho and how it came around.
So i'm 50/50 on this one

[doctorsteve]

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

This was the age of the Atari, and the Commodore, the Texas Instruments TI-64, and the Radio Shack TRS-80. IBM had just introduced the PC. No one had a clue who Bill Gates was.

You used to be able to get computer game magazines, type a few dozen lines into a computer, SAVE it to a cassette tape recorder, and when you wanted to RUN the program, you had to PLAY the cassette tape to LOAD the program to the TI

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by doctorsteve

You used to be able to get computer game magazines, type a few dozen lines into a computer, SAVE it to a cassette tape recorder, and when you wanted to RUN the program, you had to PLAY the cassette tape to LOAD the program to the TI

Oh boy thanks you to bring me back to those good old days