TRON: The Arcade Game

[keithbk]

I have the TRON games for the Atari, I have the TRON games for Intellivision...

 

But has there ever been a faithful port of TRON: The Arcade Game for any classic game system (Colecovision, NES, etc)?

 

I always liked the stand-up arcade game and the fact that you get to choose from 4 totally different games. I thought maybe someone has done either a Homebrew or something, but have been unable to locate one.

[+Nathan Strum]

A start was made on one, but it's incomplete. One of the issues keeping people away from it (besides the fact you're effectively programming four games rather than one), is the likelihood of Disney shutting down any sales of a completed cart.

 

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/284017-tron-arcade-port/

 

[ColecoJoe]

Collectorvision did a game called light Grid racing which is basically the light cycles game from the arcade. It’s pretty cool even has the music. 

[keithbk]

47 minutes ago, Nathan Strum said:

A start was made on one, but it's incomplete. One of the issues keeping people away from it (besides the fact you're effectively programming four games rather than one), is the likelihood of Disney shutting down any sales of a completed cart.

 

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/284017-tron-arcade-port/

 

That's awesome; will give it a go on my Flashback!

[JeffVav]

I know it's not a classic system but we did an official licensed emulation of Tron on Xbox Live Arcade back in the Backbone Entertainment days. 

[jhd]

 

I too loved the Tron arcade game, Sadly, it is not playable on MAME without a spinner control. 

 

 

[Swami]

1 hour ago, jhd said:

 

I too loved the Tron arcade game, Sadly, it is not playable on MAME without a spinner control. 

 

 

I think you can use a mouse/trackball as a spinner but you do need a joystick with a fire on the stick and the ability to use the mouse joystick at the same time, like a dual joystick game with fire button. 

[Emulator]

Also the arcade version of Tron was ported to the Game Boy Advance with the title Tron 2.0: Killer App.

[Nukey Shay]

On 10/18/2019 at 4:07 PM, Swami said:

I think you can use a mouse/trackball as a spinner but you do need a joystick with a fire on the stick and the ability to use the mouse joystick at the same time, like a dual joystick game with fire button. 

Just remap the controller functions for the game (MAME allows this).  Anything with a d-pad, a shoulder button, and an analogue will work.  Not an authentic experience, but playable.