Most TRON games made after the original film—or its sequel, Legacy—have tried to stay faithful to the source material. But let’s be honest: the 1982 arcade classic still reigns supreme. With four different challenges packed into one cabinet, skilled players could blaze through the entire thing in a single credit. While it didn’t recreate every beat of the movie, it was an impressive achievement for its time and pure coin-op bliss. Later, parts of it made their way to home computers, inspiring new spins on the formula.
For this list, I went back to replay every TRON title I could still get my hands on. Some were easy to find, others required more digging (and stretching the “hobby allowance”). And yes, I still believe TRON isn’t dead—it’s just lying dormant, waiting for the next big power surge. If you want to know which arcade classics inspired these games, check out The Classic Games That Inspired TRON.
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The Intellivision was released in 1979 by Mattel Electronics and sold over 3 million units in its lifetime. It was an ambitious video game console and its developers tried many new things that still influence game design even today. While the much more famous Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) would later resurrect the dying game industry and bring true mainstream appeal to the hobby, there were many other consoles released before Nintendo took over the world. Among them were such notable examples such as the ColecoVision, the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision which I am focusing on. It was the system I played the most as a child.