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Arcade Cabinets: Gyruss (1983)
Published February 25, 2012 Arcade Cabinets/Coin-Ops , Video Games Leave a CommentVideo Game Cabinet Art: Defender (1981)
Published February 2, 2012 Arcade Cabinets/Coin-Ops , Video Games 1 Comment
Fuck Yeah Discs of Tron
Published January 5, 2012 Arcade Cabinets/Coin-Ops , Discs of Tron , Disneyland , Video Games 4 Comments
Easily the greatest video gaming experience of my life, I first played the full environmental cabinet of DoT at Disneyland’s Starcade. Enveloped in black light and stereophonic sound, I was there, on the gaming grid of the mainframe, until I died playing (i.e. ran out of quarters).
The Starcade opened in 1977, a few years before Tron came out, and I almost always spent a couple of hours there. I remember mostly the slew of Tron games (both the original with the light cycles and DoT) and rows of pristine air hockey tables.
For the opening of the really sillyTron: Legacy, Disney opened a replica of Flynn’s Arcade and filled it with old school games, including the original Tron and a newly released Space Paranoids designed to look like the game Flynn played in the original movie. No DoT to be found, sadly, at least not in the video teaser below.
Hopefully these beauties were moved to the Starcade, which is something of a cultural landmark in itself, though it has been neglected for many years, the top floor closed off (that’s where my DoT was), two tired air hockey machines and that stupid basketball toss game on the ground floor.
UPDATE (1/10/12): I don’t know how long it will last, but you can play Discs of Tron and Classic Tron at the Disney Game Site.
2 Warps to Neptune 