I didn't know quite what the headline meant - there was at least one TRON
arcade game - as in, a coin-operated game - that had a totally different concept and which is now mostly deservedly forgotten:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/discs-of-tron
There was also a TRON arcade game that was a mismash of mini-games, one of which was the light-cycles:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10204
I see from Google that indeed many, many people refer to this "use moving wall to make the other guy crash" style of game as "TRON" now, but TRON actually just put a brand name on a game genre that had been around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_%28video_game%29
A home game circa 1977, years before TRON:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/surround
"Snake" to TRON could actually be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, example of a big-budget studio movie adapting a video game concept. Doing so surprisingly directly.
Now, of course, half the movies that come out of Hollywood seem to have action bits that are vaguely video-game inspired.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/discs-of-tron
There was also a TRON arcade game that was a mismash of mini-games, one of which was the light-cycles:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10204
I see from Google that indeed many, many people refer to this "use moving wall to make the other guy crash" style of game as "TRON" now, but TRON actually just put a brand name on a game genre that had been around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_%28video_game%29
A home game circa 1977, years before TRON:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/surround
"Snake" to TRON could actually be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, example of a big-budget studio movie adapting a video game concept. Doing so surprisingly directly.
Now, of course, half the movies that come out of Hollywood seem to have action bits that are vaguely video-game inspired.