Discs Of Tron

Manufacturer: Bally Midway
Year: 1983
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Midway MCRIII
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 1
Gameplay: Single
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Rotary: Optical with pull-up and push-down buttons [Level Up|Level Down]
Joystick: 8-way stick with trigger and one thumb button [Fire|Deflect]

Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

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Discs Of Tron Description

Based on the film "Tron". Play Tron and fling discs at Sark in an attempt to knock him off his platform. Knocking off Sark will advance you to the next level. Other levels vary the level and number of platforms to jump between.

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Cabinet Information

The environmental version of this game is huge, weighing in at over 700 pounds. The game was often sawed in two to make it easier to move. The cabinet, though it looks like it should come apart, does not the roof and floor boards span both halves of the cabinet. The environmental is called such because it attempts to replicate the environment that your character on the screen is experiencing. The player stands inside the cabinet on a disc, and lights around the disc flash when your character dies just like on screen. The surround sound replicates the sounds of discs that whiz by your character.PThe two player upright looses a lot of the bells and whistles of the environmental, including speech though there are some versions of the upright that do have speech boards installed.

Miscellaneous

LICENSOR The ITRONI name and concept were licensed from Walt Disney, the makers of the film.

CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,489 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,729 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 61,171 machines (3,629 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 72 known instances of this machine owned by Discs Of Tron collectors. Of these, 68 of them are original dedicated machines, it is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 3 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

This game ranks a 43 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 57 VAPS members currently looking for Discs Of Tron.

This game ranks a 92 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

For Sale - There are 5 VAPS members with Discs Of Tron machines for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them even though arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses, while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up.
Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector.
In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
For a clue to value, look at absolute numbers of owners and potential owners above, compare a ratio of how many people want this game vs. how many people have this game (79%) and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

The environmental cabinet is different from its upright counterpart in a few ways 1 EPROM data, 2 Additional PCB boards, including sound, speech, and light sequencer boards and relays, and 3 the upright supports two players. One version of the upright ROMS has the attract mode displaying the points for derezing a disc. There are some other differences in the test mode for this version.PThe environmental cabinet has nine total fluorescent lights four black lights and five cool whites. The easy way to tell which assemblies contain the coolwhites versus the black lights is that the coolwhites go in the assemblies which have FS2 starters and the assembly behind the monitor backdrop art. The control panel black light fluorescent assembly actually has its ballast and transformer mounted on a separate frame near the rear of the cabinet. The speech is provided via a Squalk and Talk board. The two relay boards are interchangable one board activates the 3 blacklights where the player stands, and the other one activates the backgroundmonitor artwork lights.

Trivia

This game was going to go on the original TRON game, but was moved off due to hardware limitations and time constraints.

Legacy

Tron
Discs Of Tron

Manuals

Operating Manual 36 Pages, 3076 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 167; Color photo;

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