TRON games...

[badbrad]

I had the Discs of Tron arcade machine for a couple years.  The big environmental cabinet. It was sweet.

 

What did you do with it and why did you get rid of it? I would gladly have taken it off your hands, even if it meant driving all the way to central Iowa to borrow my parent's truck, all the way to Sioux City, and all the way back again to store it at their farm until I got a house and all the way back to Omaha AGAIN. Yes I would have wanted it that badly. I even bid $1,000 or so for one on eBay last year when I got my tax refund.

 

heheh, I kinda GAVE IT AWAY!

 

a few reasons, since I'm sure you'll ask.

 

1. too damn BIG

2. weighs 700 pounds

3. I got tired of playing it, I could play on the first life for hours.

4. I moved 3 times with it, and I finally couldn't take it anymore.

 

(I still have an extra control panel for it)

[xulchris]

Speaking of controllers. Was Atari's Mindlink controller ever made available? The Mindlink was a headband that the player wore on his head and plugged into the joystick port. See here. This is one controller that is missing on the controllers page

[CPUWIZ]

Only a prototype of that surfaced, AFAIK, Marco has it.

[MegaManFan]

Only a prototype of that surfaced, AFAIK, Marco has it.  

 

So if we combined that prototype with the prototype game shown at AA's booth for PC4 we'd have.. two things that look cool but still don't do jack!

[Atariman]

If you say so!! maybe I should start lifting some weights so I can get strong enough to break my controllers.

 

   

 

I've had the same problem. I have two of the controllers that are similar to the tron ones (the champions or whatever they're called) and one of them broke exactly as described. I'm not exactly hard on my controllers and I only used them a few times after I bought them at a garage sale.

[xulchris]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=27232

 

^^ This is what eventually happened to the MindLink controller, known today as the MindDrive

[ATARI TROLL]

You mean tempest doesnt have that proto yet?

[Godzilla]

If you say so!! maybe I should start lifting some weights so I can get strong enough to break my controllers.

 

   

 

I've had the same problem. I have two of the controllers that are similar to the tron ones (the champions or whatever they're called) and one of them broke exactly as described. I'm not exactly hard on my controllers and I only used them a few times after I bought them at a garage sale.

 

yup, cheaply made turds, they are.

 

(unrelated: go see x2.)