Man, the memories this brings back... I played the stand up machine to death at a little local sub shop we had in town with the owner when things were slow. I got to User a few times but couldn't keep it going almost indefinitely like this. Cheers!
Great to see that you truly mastered this game...I worked in an arcade when this game came out and it was one of my favorite games to play. Those light cycles were a b*tch if you didn't have a working pattern.
Loses 1st life at 33:15 Loses 2nd life at 48:28 Passed High Score at 1:01:35 Loses 3rd life at 1:34:42 Passes 1,000,000 at 1:37:50 Loses Last life at 1:47:17 Final Score: 1,103,976
Just blown away here. I thought I was good back in the day because I could make it to level 5. Holy smokes man, that's insane! The Tron arcade experience is so immersive, I think I need to get one.
In the original Tron game, there was plans to incorporate "The Arena" from the second game, Discs Of Tron. Regrettably, memory limitations of the time did not allow it. It's a shame because it was a truly wasted opportunity for both the mod community, and Arcade 1Up to not attempt to integrate both Tron and Discs Of Tron into a single game. With modern tech, it should be fairly easy to create a "transition screen" to let the player move from the main game to the Disc Arena to face off Sark. I know it was probably due to license limitations and Disney's lack of regard for it's gaming IP's. Other than that, you got mad skills in Tron!!! It's good you learned the real secret of playing well in this game. (Hint: less is more).
THere was a seperate game made, which I think was a good idea. It really caught the disk wars aspect with some reeally cool lstuff the deves threw in there.
I LOVE YOU TRON VIDEO!! I USED TO SPEND HOURS IN THE ARCADE PLAYING THIS PARTICULAR GAME!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! IT WAS LIKE BEING A KID IN THE GREAT 1980's ONCE AGAIN!!🤗🙂😁🤗🙂
Kinda cool thing I remember. The first 3 lightcycle levels can be won by only pulling the stick left and wait. No speed, no other maneuvers. They destroy themselves.
I needed something to watch tonight, and this popped up on my feed. Nice playing! It makes it a lot nicer when you're not playing on old, beat up equipment
I thought I was pretty good at this game as a kid. Now, after getting the new Arcade 1up cabinet... I suck. Good up until the 4th level. I'm using your walk thru as a reference! I'll get this.
it’s just knowing the strategies for each screen. then being able to remember what’s next. you’ll get it. i want to try one of the arcade1ups, to compare to my original joystick and spinner.
@@coasterlvr I think it has to do with the game software, it doesn't seem to shoot as fast as I remember. The the feel of the controls are quite nice. It is a sharp cabinet. It is a nice tribute to the best looking cabinet ever made.
@@Bastdread when playing, the next game after a spider game will shoot 4 bullets instead of 3. it's best when you get two spider boards in a row. then you can shoot more spiders for more points. when that happens, it seems you're shooting faster, but you really just have an extra bullet on the screen at any given time. which is kind of the same thing. check it out after a spider screen if you get any board but light cycles. on the lower boards, it just adds one bullet. so if you're on the first set of games, the next screen will be two bullets at a time. 4 will be the max in the higher levels.
Amazing play! I used to play this incessantly as a kid, but only managed like 183000 if I remember correctly. I guess the developers never thought anybody would get over a million points.
I played this game so much in college a quarter would last me for an hour. Could turn it over a million points. The lights cycles and tanks were patterns and the cone and bugs were just faster and you used the same technique every time.
late reply, but this is a Tron cabinet I spent many, many hours building. so doing the things i used to when i was 12-14 years old isn't happening since i don't want to damage my hard work. LMAO
I wish I was half as good as you. Never thought I would see the Recognizer level again. When I play I always tell kids "I don't play dubs." Meaning, I play alone. One kid persists and I relent. He lets me go first. I am not long for the TRON world before I die. He is up and I stand there and stand there and stand there. He proceeds to flip the score board as you have. In the end, his flipped score is less than mine. "See, you beat me." And he walks out the door. 😐😑😒🙄
Awesome gameplay! however I have a question for you. Why do you not spend more time shooting blocks from a safe distance in the MCP cone!? You could rank up even more points
there's some guys who go for points the fastest way. 1 million in under an hour. i don't do half of what they do but the fastest way to get points is to clear screens as fast as possible. not even shooting spiders for a long time. so it's better to just run screens as fast as you can. tanks are a high scoring screen for instance. you can spend too much time even shooting spiders. but that time could be used running screens and get more points. my slow, old school, light cycle patterns take a lot of time compared to some new school patterns. but i don't want to copy people. i just want to play mostly the way i played when i was 13 back in the day at the arcade.
I think though the blocks can become to numerous to shoot them all and some of those cones are coming down far to quickly to keep up. One has to shoot the blocks and make a mad dsah. Speaking of the spider boards, how much is that white cotton ball worth that the solar sailor drops off? I think it was 5k points?@@coasterlvr
not sure what you mean. the tanks only shoot if you are in their site. so they shouldn't ever shoot. if they do shoot, you're probably going to die. also, you are able to have 3 shots on screen at once. except after a spider stage, then you are given 4.
@@darrenrein3600 it's a cabinet i made myself running mame. but it's no different in gameplay from an original cabinet. so if you can play mame, you can play at the arcade. it is using an original tron joystick and spinner. facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=JTsVideoGames&set=a.522688318209265
@@darrenrein3600 i pretty much only play the old games. 1979-1985 and street fighter 2. i've never had any problems with those games for close to 20 years of mame. but i don't know about newer stuff. so for old stuff, you can pretty much use any i think.
I used to play this everyday after school at a cafe where my bus stop would be… i was never able to make tron shoot that fast…did you adjust it for a quicker shot?
no, all normal settings. on the higher levels you can have 3 shots on the screen at one time. after each spider stage, they give you 4. so depending on the game, and how close the enemies are, it looks like there are infinite bullets on screen.
@@coasterlvrwow awesome thanks for the reply…its amazing how long you went… back in the day you would have had a huge crowd standing around you trying to watch you play and all those quarters on the top of the game hanging on there for people waiting to play… its amazing you went almost 2 hours wow!!!
they only shoot at you if you are in line of sight. you would have to be more than half way into the space/lane. if just your nose is sticking out, they won’t shoot.
this is a tron cabinet i built. 3/4 scale running mame. there's a mod some guys do where they use an LCD screen in the back in place of the translight graphic. so it's an lcd screen playing a video of an mcp cone.
Do you have the difficulty turned way down ? The tanks don't even attempt to fire at you. In the 3rd level with 6 tanks, I don't see a any tank firing even a single shot. I played this again in two different arcades yesterday in Dallas, and owned this cabinet back in the 80's .
@@coasterlvr The game has great potential, but some very lousy enemy AI. Same with the cycles, you are able to defeat them the same way over and over again. Would be cool if they learn from your tricks.
A remarkably easy game to play forever. The real challenge was getting to "User" level. Once you did that, the game didn't get any harder. Tanks is a gimme, MCP is just "can you shoot fast", Spiders is just "don't make a mistake", and light cycles was "have a working pattern." I remember once my dad took me bowling with some buddies of his and I asked for a quarter to play Tron while they bowled. He was like "... just one??" I was like yep. Four hours later, I have a crowd of 10-15 watching me and my dad was like "that's still the same quarter?!" I was like "yes, I can play this forever. lol" I gave someone else my game as we left, and I'm sure they died in 5 minutes. Good times!!! :)
@@scottsnyder4004 lol maybe. What I've noticed reading arcade longplays like this is that a lot of it depends on the version of the code, and the settings of the machine. Like I could also play Gauntlet to infinity, but a later version of the code (past 1.14?) makes it so once your score is so high, food stops spawning. But I did my "infinite" plays on a machine where that didn't happen, so obvs before that version of the code. Also, the arcade owner was able to select how much health the food actually gave you. So if that's dialed way down, you can't get to the point of living forever. There are a lot of variables that keep my ego in check. :)
3:14 - 3:18 You know for computer programs that was horrendously moronic. Who made those idiots anyways. And no it's not Midway or Disney they just made the game.
Tron uses a joystick with a handle and fire button, and also a spinner. not easy to play on a keyboard. but there are elite players that use a keyboard. i have no idea how. lol
![[TAS] Tron Arcade (20 rounds)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/so2BB_42w4s/mqdefault.jpg)
![Arcade Longplay [538] Discs of Tron](/img/1.gif)
I cannot say how many quarters I sank into this game! Just hearing the sounds again is a trip back in time!
i would watch it without quarters
The opening music alone raises my anxiety! One of my alltime favorite video games!
1982. 43rd street and Times Square, Nathan's Hot Dogs, Tron and Ms. Pac-Man. I was twelve and spent a lot of time there...
Man, the memories this brings back... I played the stand up machine to death at a little local sub shop we had in town with the owner when things were slow. I got to User a few times but couldn't keep it going almost indefinitely like this. Cheers!
Our go to place was the bowling alley, late 70’s early 80’s, what a blast.
Tron movie July 9,1982 arcade game is like Tron 2.0 Killer App Gameboy Advance in October 19 2004.
Great to see that you truly mastered this game...I worked in an arcade when this game came out and it was one of my favorite games to play. Those light cycles were a b*tch if you didn't have a working pattern.
the pattern is improv, man
Loses 1st life at 33:15
Loses 2nd life at 48:28
Passed High Score at 1:01:35
Loses 3rd life at 1:34:42
Passes 1,000,000 at 1:37:50
Loses Last life at 1:47:17
Final Score: 1,103,976
The last life... what a way to go out.. the timer got him! MAANN!
The frustrated sigh
Also, quite ironic he loses wasting shooting those spiders for nothing but points, no real other benefit
Just blown away here. I thought I was good back in the day because I could make it to level 5. Holy smokes man, that's insane!
The Tron arcade experience is so immersive, I think I need to get one.
That would be an awesome purchase!!!
you can mod a arcade1up get a Glenn's retro show tron controller, good option for less $$ and more reliable than original..
@@markwilson8985 I will keep that in mind for myself
yeah the originals are ridiculously overpriced @@markwilson8985
In the original Tron game, there was plans to incorporate "The Arena" from the second game, Discs Of Tron. Regrettably, memory limitations of the time did not allow it. It's a shame because it was a truly wasted opportunity for both the mod community, and Arcade 1Up to not attempt to integrate both Tron and Discs Of Tron into a single game. With modern tech, it should be fairly easy to create a "transition screen" to let the player move from the main game to the Disc Arena to face off Sark. I know it was probably due to license limitations and Disney's lack of regard for it's gaming IP's.
Other than that, you got mad skills in Tron!!! It's good you learned the real secret of playing well in this game. (Hint: less is more).
THere was a seperate game made, which I think was a good idea. It really caught the disk wars aspect with some reeally cool lstuff the deves threw in there.
I loved this game when I was a child in the 80s! You are a true master on this game!
This awesome game brings back great memories! Tron rules!
I spent HOURS playing...didn't even come close to winning every part!
Lol that’s me too
Oh man, what a great game! Played it dor years and was NEVER able to fire that fast.
Always loved that game.
I think he was using a button as opposed to the trigger. You can here it being pressed a lot. thats probably why for the rapid rate of fire
I LOVE YOU TRON VIDEO!! I USED TO SPEND HOURS IN THE ARCADE PLAYING THIS PARTICULAR GAME!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! IT WAS LIKE BEING A KID IN THE GREAT 1980's ONCE AGAIN!!🤗🙂😁🤗🙂
4:25 😱😱😃 incredible man, you're awesome
No shit 👍🏻
I don't remember this game looking this easy when I was 7 in 1982.
🙋
I would love to see them bring this Tron game out for Xbox big time.
Tron is still one of the greatest games of all times.
I loved this game as a kid, used to sneak out of school to play it at the local chippy. Never got far tho. Thanks for the memories.
He's fighting for the users
Watching you has taught me how much I really suck at this game. I still love playing it from time to time.
Kinda cool thing I remember. The first 3 lightcycle levels can be won by only pulling the stick left and wait. No speed, no other maneuvers. They destroy themselves.
there’s a whole series of slow cycle patterns. their awesome, but i never played like that and back in the day i never saw anyone do it.
I needed something to watch tonight, and this popped up on my feed. Nice playing!
It makes it a lot nicer when you're not playing on old, beat up equipment
I thought I was pretty good at this game as a kid. Now, after getting the new Arcade 1up cabinet... I suck. Good up until the 4th level. I'm using your walk thru as a reference! I'll get this.
it’s just knowing the strategies for each screen. then being able to remember what’s next. you’ll get it. i want to try one of the arcade1ups, to compare to my original joystick and spinner.
@@coasterlvr
I think it has to do with the game software, it doesn't seem to shoot as fast as I remember. The the feel of the controls are quite nice. It is a sharp cabinet. It is a nice tribute to the best looking cabinet ever made.
@@Bastdread when playing, the next game after a spider game will shoot 4 bullets instead of 3. it's best when you get two spider boards in a row. then you can shoot more spiders for more points. when that happens, it seems you're shooting faster, but you really just have an extra bullet on the screen at any given time. which is kind of the same thing. check it out after a spider screen if you get any board but light cycles. on the lower boards, it just adds one bullet. so if you're on the first set of games, the next screen will be two bullets at a time. 4 will be the max in the higher levels.
LOL! awesome! Like other people, I dumped a lot of quarters into Tron! Didn't help that the movie was so good 😁
What? There’s more than one tank? Haha. I was never that good at this game but I tried and hearing and seeing this takes me so far back
Amazing play! I used to play this incessantly as a kid, but only managed like 183000 if I remember correctly. I guess the developers never thought anybody would get over a million points.
You are THE MASTER! I love this game!
YewoZa!
There's probably 5 girls that were interested in games this far back.
@@supercoolyguy Yep, I was one of them :)
The Sound and the Music was so great. And then i saw the movie. 2 Arcade Automats, the best was Discs of Tron, stand up with black light. I love it.
I played this game so much in college a quarter would last me for an hour. Could turn it over a million points. The lights cycles and tanks were patterns and the cone and bugs were just faster and you used the same technique every time.
that moment at 1:39:56 when you almost died! I also gasped!!
Thanks for sharing.
I did not know I needed this Today but I did. Great job!
uhhhh the real cabinet didn't have animated art - that's an interesting cabinet design to be sure.
You are an amazing player. Thank you for sharing, always love this game but was never very good at it!
Played this often at Star Worlds Geneva Illinois. Long gone, Aldi there now.
Good times, noodle salad 🥗.
Let me say again that is a awesome build from the ground up!!!
I used to surpass the million point mark with one quarter. Memories!
They had this cabinet at the arcade at Carolina beach in the 90's and it NEVER worked! Now I see what I missed out on.
I WANT HIM IN THE GAMES UNTIL HE DIES PLAYING. ACKNOWLEDGE!!
My favorite arcade cabinet of all time.
Most impressive!! One of my favorite games of all time!!
Tjis game wa game still in action in 92' it was atull tuff to learn and a lotta quarters
Thanks for the memories!
Master .. Amazing!!!!!
33:15 😂😂😂😂
Showed more restraint than I did when I played this.
late reply, but this is a Tron cabinet I spent many, many hours building. so doing the things i used to when i was 12-14 years old isn't happening since i don't want to damage my hard work. LMAO
Can see the shake! Lol
Tron movie in July 9,1982 is like Tron arcade game is like Tron 2.0 Killer App Gameboy Advance in October 19 2004.
I wish I was half as good as you. Never thought I would see the Recognizer level again. When I play I always tell kids "I don't play dubs." Meaning, I play alone. One kid persists and I relent. He lets me go first. I am not long for the TRON world before I die. He is up and I stand there and stand there and stand there. He proceeds to flip the score board as you have. In the end, his flipped score is less than mine. "See, you beat me." And he walks out the door. 😐😑😒🙄
Back in the 80's at the Arcade (Todays kids thats where we use to hang out at the Mall) I must have spent $500.00 as a kid!!
Crazy skilll...i never got good at this game....spent a lotta dough trying through 😂
So good at playing it that now it looks very tedious and repetitive, well done. 🤣
Basically, most of the Arcades.
I can make it to level 3 but I always lose to the tanks on level 3. Now after studying this video I know how to handle that. Thanks.
this was my favourite arcade game back then
Wish I had back the quarters I spent playing this game😭🤓👏🏻👏🏻
I hear the music I heard in the Disney movie from 1982
A cult classic
MCP approves!
Tron! It was tough game. I burned alot of silver. Never got that good.
This was my fav Tron game. Hours of Fun as a kid.
GG's
Vary good
Man this brings back memories
Awesome gameplay! however I have a question for you. Why do you not spend more time shooting blocks from a safe distance in the MCP cone!? You could rank up even more points
there's some guys who go for points the fastest way. 1 million in under an hour. i don't do half of what they do but the fastest way to get points is to clear screens as fast as possible. not even shooting spiders for a long time. so it's better to just run screens as fast as you can. tanks are a high scoring screen for instance. you can spend too much time even shooting spiders. but that time could be used running screens and get more points. my slow, old school, light cycle patterns take a lot of time compared to some new school patterns. but i don't want to copy people. i just want to play mostly the way i played when i was 13 back in the day at the arcade.
I think though the blocks can become to numerous to shoot them all and some of those cones are coming down far to quickly to keep up. One has to shoot the blocks and make a mad dsah. Speaking of the spider boards, how much is that white cotton ball worth that the solar sailor drops off? I think it was 5k points?@@coasterlvr
Putting physical money into video games to play. You old timers had it rough.😊
I have to say you are a very skilled Tron player that is for sure
Damn! Just damn! Well done!
This game is like pacman, its endless
After the vid the guy went behind the machine and went to the grid
Bravo!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
4:23. Nice
This game was awesome 4 the time
You my friend are a master of this game. I wouldn't have lasted ten minutes. 💯👍😎
Wow I am Surprised I mean impressed my Dad Can go to 3 That's it He haven't Played this sense it Came out in the 80's
Bow down, amazing dude!!!
Needless to say, whomever played this game... might've been it's creator! 🤔
I think it was Data from Star Trek TNG
Don’t know why they don’t have this game on a iPhone 📱 version. What I see are light cycles type games with the tron name.
This does not look like the original. The tanks do not shoot back and Tron has way to much fire power. Please explain!
not sure what you mean. the tanks only shoot if you are in their site. so they shouldn't ever shoot. if they do shoot, you're probably going to die. also, you are able to have 3 shots on screen at once. except after a spider stage, then you are given 4.
@@coasterlvr I want to learn how to play Tron. All I'm asking is this you playing a original Tron upright or cocktail with no modifications?
@@darrenrein3600 it's a cabinet i made myself running mame. but it's no different in gameplay from an original cabinet. so if you can play mame, you can play at the arcade. it is using an original tron joystick and spinner. facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=JTsVideoGames&set=a.522688318209265
@@coasterlvr That is awesome!!!!!! What in your opinion is the most staple Mame for the arcade games?
@@darrenrein3600 i pretty much only play the old games. 1979-1985 and street fighter 2. i've never had any problems with those games for close to 20 years of mame. but i don't know about newer stuff. so for old stuff, you can pretty much use any i think.
Tron Sensei
4:24 made me laugh hard
Miss my childhood games
Damn, you're good! Well done.
I used to play this everyday after school at a cafe where my bus stop would be… i was never able to make tron shoot that fast…did you adjust it for a quicker shot?
no, all normal settings. on the higher levels you can have 3 shots on the screen at one time. after each spider stage, they give you 4. so depending on the game, and how close the enemies are, it looks like there are infinite bullets on screen.
@@coasterlvrwow awesome thanks for the reply…its amazing how long you went… back in the day you would have had a huge crowd standing around you trying to watch you play and all those quarters on the top of the game hanging on there for people waiting to play… its amazing you went almost 2 hours wow!!!
So you roll the score and it places at 16th on the high score list?!
yeah, only counts for what's on the screen. so need to kill the game at 999, 990 if i want the top score.
This guy is good!!✊❤❤😊 👍
Wow, you are too good man.
i like your video
Is this on mame? Or an arcade console?
Question: is there a bonus for clearing the spiders?
the only bonus is what's left on the clock when entering.
Masterclass!
Wait...why aren't the tanks ever shooting back? Them shootnig back at the player is the only reason i would ever die on those levels...
they only shoot at you if you are in line of sight. you would have to be more than half way into the space/lane. if just your nose is sticking out, they won’t shoot.
I was never good at, Tron. I’m the person looking over your shoulders 😂😂😂
What is spinning behind the marquee? Or is that a reflection?
this is a tron cabinet i built. 3/4 scale running mame. there's a mod some guys do where they use an LCD screen in the back in place of the translight graphic. so it's an lcd screen playing a video of an mcp cone.
Do you have the difficulty turned way down ? The tanks don't even attempt to fire at you. In the 3rd level with 6 tanks, I don't see a any tank firing even a single shot. I played this again in two different arcades yesterday in Dallas, and owned this cabinet back in the 80's .
no, there isn’t any difference anyway. the tanks only fire if you’re in their line of fire, which i never am.
@@coasterlvr The game has great potential, but some very lousy enemy AI. Same with the cycles, you are able to defeat them the same way over and over again. Would be cool if they learn from your tricks.
From Disney interactive and wb games
Nice gameplay
Greetings Programs.
I hate that "computer typeface" ... it was never used in any computer environment, ever in history.
Is it true that the spider level is based on a deleted scene from the movie?
If I remember correctly, there was a very quick look at and mention of the grid bugs when they were on the solar sailor.
@@originalfred66You may be right. It has been ages since I've seen the movie.
Impressive
A remarkably easy game to play forever. The real challenge was getting to "User" level. Once you did that, the game didn't get any harder. Tanks is a gimme, MCP is just "can you shoot fast", Spiders is just "don't make a mistake", and light cycles was "have a working pattern." I remember once my dad took me bowling with some buddies of his and I asked for a quarter to play Tron while they bowled. He was like "... just one??" I was like yep. Four hours later, I have a crowd of 10-15 watching me and my dad was like "that's still the same quarter?!" I was like "yes, I can play this forever. lol" I gave someone else my game as we left, and I'm sure they died in 5 minutes. Good times!!! :)
man, you should have been in the 82 tournament. would have won the whole thing easily playing for 4 hours back then.
@@scottsnyder4004 lol maybe. What I've noticed reading arcade longplays like this is that a lot of it depends on the version of the code, and the settings of the machine. Like I could also play Gauntlet to infinity, but a later version of the code (past 1.14?) makes it so once your score is so high, food stops spawning. But I did my "infinite" plays on a machine where that didn't happen, so obvs before that version of the code. Also, the arcade owner was able to select how much health the food actually gave you. So if that's dialed way down, you can't get to the point of living forever. There are a lot of variables that keep my ego in check. :)
3:14 - 3:18
You know for computer programs that was horrendously moronic. Who made those idiots anyways. And no it's not Midway or Disney they just made the game.
AMAZING BRO😎😎😎
what are the controls for Tron on the Apple to computer please help this game is hard
Tron uses a joystick with a handle and fire button, and also a spinner. not easy to play on a keyboard. but there are elite players that use a keyboard. i have no idea how. lol
@@coasterlvr oh well of you find out for keyboard let me know
So it seems the game gets easier as it goes on
Tanks don’t fire middles.