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Adventures of TRON
ATARI 2600 CARTRIDGE [#4317]
Release 1983
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
This game was supposed to be an Atari version of the Intellivision TRON Maze-A-Tron cartridge. However, as development continued, the game less and less resembled the Intellivision original. After the game was finished, it was decided to give it a different title. A PAL version was also produced by APh for international release.
BUG: When grabbing a bit, sometimes the whole screen turns blue, other times just the I/O beam.
BUG: Not so much a bug as a complaint: there is no on-screen indication of how many lives you have left.
BUG: If you grab a bit and die at the same time, your new life doesn't start by sliding down the I/O beam as normal.
FUN FACT: Since the resulting game was so different from TRON Maze-A-Tron, which it was supposedly based on, APh also programmed a faithful Intellivision Adventures of TRON. Mattel decided not to release it.
FUN FACT: Consumers who purchased both TRON Deadly Discs and Adventures of TRON could receive a free TRON joystick during a srping 1983 promotion.