Adventures of TRON

INTELLIVISION CARTRIDGE [UNRELEASED]

Based on the motion picture TRON from Walt Disney Productions

Produced by Aph Technology Consultants for Mattel Electronics

Program: Hal Finney

CATALOG DESCRIPTION (January 1983, Consumer Electronics Show)

Outwit a complex master control program that sends out recognizers, grid bugs and cannon firing tanks in an attempt to destroy you! It'll take strategy, quick reflexes and a cool head to survive. Based on the movie TRON by Walt Disney Productions. (One player.)

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY

APh did this conversion of their original M Network Atari 2600 game without the prior knowledge of Mattel management. Mattel paid for it ($27,000) but ultimately chose not to release it because of the weak performance of the movie TRON.

FUN FACT: The graphics for the game itself are rather pedestrian, being a faithful copy of the Atari 2600 version, but the title screen is terrific. Using routines developed for the Intellivision III Exec, the screen has a background of cycling colored bands that radiate from the center at hypnotically high-speed.