Tron arcade game repair

It is based on the Walt Disney Productions motion picture Tron released in the same year. The game consists of four subgames inspired by the events of the science fiction film. It features some characters and equipment seen in the film, e. The game earned more than the film's initial release. Arcade cabinet Tron was distributed in three types of cabinets: the standard upright, the mini upright and the cocktail table version.

All cabinets feature an 8-way joystick for moving, with one button for firing or speed control, and a rotary dial for controlling the direction of the fire a setup also used in Kozmik Krooz'r, another Midway game.

The game can be played by one player or by two alternating players as the controls are made for only one player at a time. All four segments of one level must be completed before continuing on to the next level. In the arcade game, the player must destroy large numbers of Grid Bugs with Tron's disc and clear a path to the flashing circle, which must be entered before a timer runs out to complete the section.

If a Bit appears on the screen, it can be picked up for a bonus of points. The game's interpretation has the player destroying a multicolored wall in front of the MCP cone and getting by the wall, into the cone. A point bonus is awarded for completing the level, and an additional points is given for destroying all blocks of the wall.

Battle Tanks The Battle Tanks subgame is not strictly based on film events, but the tanks are taken from there and the gameplay is similar to Atari Combat. The gameplay does resembles a two dimensional version of the in-universe game Space Paranoids which itself was realized as a 3-D first person maze shooter but would have been difficult to realize on real world arcade machines of the time.

The player must guide Tron's red tank through a maze and destroy several blue tanks or red recognizers controlled by the computer. This must be done without taking any hits from enemies.

If the player drives into the purple diamond in the center of the maze, the tank is warped to a random area of the maze. A bug in the game results in a cheat option. When the player's tank is not touching the white line in the corridors, it can not be hit by the enemy's fire, but it can still be rammed by enemy tanks.

Light Cycles This game is well known and associated with the Tron franchise. The player must guide a blue Light Cycle in an arena against an opponent, while avoiding the walls and trails walls of light left behind by both Light Cycles. The player must maneuver quickly and precisely in order to force opponents to run into walls. The enemy cycles have a fixed behavior pattern for each level: if the player can find it, the opponent can be defeated every time on this level.

Recognizers These floating vehicles, colloquially referred to by the public as "stompers" for quite some time, take the place of the tanks at higher levels in the tanks game.

The designation "recognizers" was used very sparingly in the film and many viewers might have therefore been unaware of the proper name. In the film, the Recognizers were the vehicles that attempted to stop the light cycles from escaping the game grid by "stomping" on them, and one of these vehicles was also the type of machine that Flynn "resurrected" with his user powers.

Recognizers do not fire at the player's tank at all but move at high speed, relentlessly converging on the player's location, and each still requires three shots to be destroyed. Level keywords Each of the 12 difficulty levels has a different keyword. They all relate in some way to computing, and most of them are programming languages. The Xbox Live version offers competitive or co-op play to go for the highest score, and a mode that features enhanced graphics. Reviewer: CaptainTightpants - favorite favorite favorite - June 1, Subject: How to Play For those having difficulty, you need to use the Z and X keys to simulate the spinner.

Press the TAB key while in the emulator and the menu that appears includes an option for mapping the keys, which is where you can see how things are set up currently. Emulation works okay as long as you don't go full screen - that seems to blank the screen even though the game is still otherwise working.

Playable, but barely since the keyboard is no replacement for the original controls. Reviewer: tcountry - favorite - February 16, Subject: Doesn't work I've also tried running this on I. Does anyone know how to make these games that work? Its really helpful for me, awaiting for more new post. Keep Blogging! Mass Calibration. Tron Cabaret cabinet with Satan's Hollow - Note the red joystick and white "shield" button instead of the standard blue stick and spinner from Tron.

Over time, I found all of the parts needed including a few tricks to restore this. Although SH used the same boardset, the controls were wired differently. Once I got the Tron board, and realized how rare this machine really is, I re-wired it using a wire harness from a junked Tron machine. I also found the correct power supply to install, repaired by a fellow collector. The controls were also out of another junked machine. Over time, I got the machine as restored as I could get it.

Midway used this boardset for a few games, including Tron, Satan's Hollow, Two Tigers, and a couple other ones. If you have a ROM programmer which I do , you can buy one of the cheaper boardsets to use as a replacement for one of the more desirable machines.

The boardset I have Tron running on right now is a Two Tigers boardset. When restoring a game, there's a line to walk with respect to what parts to put into it. This machine has some vinyl veneer on the sides, which are somewhat damaged.

It also has a fair bit of wear on the front edge of the control panel. It's not like the damage is too severe for either issue. I'm actually very happy with the overall condition The monitor on this one showed a wavy haze, distorting the image a little, and mucking with the brightness across the screen, which you can kinda see here:. I was given a solution about 11 years ago , involving modifying one of the boards in the monitor the "neck board", which connects directly to the back of the picture tube but never did it, and lost the parts a few years ago.

I instead bought a "cap kit" from Amusements Plus around 3 years ago , and decided to install it.