TRON Film 1982. Written by Steven Lisberger. Directed by Steven Lisberger. Starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes. | |||
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1 | Arc Wars | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Arc Wars Arcade game created by Kevin Flynn. | |||||||||||
2 | Astro Gunner | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Astro Gunner Arcade video game in Flynn's arcade. | |||||||||||
3 | Code Wars | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Code Wars Arcade video game in Flynn's arcade. | |||||||||||
4 | Encom | BBB | Corporations | Software Companies | |||||||
Encom The software and game manufacturing company. ENCOM was founded by Dr. Walter Gibbs in 1972. | |||||||||||
5 | The End | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
The End Arcade video game in Flynn's arcade. | |||||||||||
6 | Flynn's | BBB | Amusement | Video Game Arcades | |||||||
Flynn's Home of Space Paranoids. | |||||||||||
7 | Intruder | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Intruder Arcade video game in Flynn's arcade. | |||||||||||
8 | Kraz-bot | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Kraz-bot Arcade game created by Kevin Flynn. | |||||||||||
9 | Light Cycle [vehicle] | BBB | Vehicles | Motor Vehicles | |||||||
Light Cycle [vehicle] | |||||||||||
10 | Light Cycle [video game] | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Light Cycle [video game] Arcade video game in Flynn's arcade. | |||||||||||
11 | Matrix Blaster | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Matrix Blaster Arcade game created by Kevin Flynn and stolen by Dillinger. | |||||||||||
12 | Space Paranoids | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Space Paranoids Arcade game created by Kevin Flynn and stolen by Dillinger. | |||||||||||
13 | The Times | BBB | Periodicals | Newspaper Times | |||||||
The Times Threat from the MCP to Dillinger: "You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file and read it up on a VDT at The Times, would you?" Accompanied by an image of The Times, with the headline: ENCOM SENIOR EXEC INDICTED and a picture of Dillinger. | |||||||||||
14 | Vice Squad | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Vice Squad Arcade video game in Flynn's arcade. | |||||||||||
15 | Zero Hour | BBB | Media | Video Games | |||||||
Zero Hour Arcade video game in Flynn's arcade. | |||||||||||
FICTITIOUS TIMELINE | |||||||||||
16 | September 22, 1982 | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |||||||
September 22, 1982 When programmer Alan Bradley and engineer Lora Baines discover that ENCOM's Master Control Program has closed off their access to projects, they team up with former Encom employee Kevin Flynn to break into ENCOM to unlock Alan's Tron security program. While hacking into a laboratory terminal, Encom's Master Control Program (now a powerful virtual intelligence that has been illegally appropriating personal, business, and government programs) uses an experimental laser to digitize and upload him into the ENCOM mainframe cyberspace. | |||||||||||
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19 | Crom & Guard | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Crom & Guard Crom: Look. This. is all a mistake. I'm just a compound interest program. I work at a savings and loan! I can't play these video games! Guard: Sure you can, pal. Look like a natural athlete if I ever saw one. Crom: Who, me? Are you kidding? No, I run out to check on T-bill rates, I get outta breath. Hey, look, you guys are gonna make my user, Mr. Henderson, very angry. He's a full-branch manager. Guard: Great. Another religious nut. | |||||||||||
20 | Dumont | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Dumont Dumont: Yes I'm old. Old enough to remember when the MCP was just a chess program! | |||||||||||
21 | Dumont | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Dumont Dumont: All that is visible must grow beyond itself, and extend into the realm of the invisible. | |||||||||||
22 | Kevin Flynn | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Kevin Flynn Kevin Flynn: On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy. | |||||||||||
23 | Kevin Flynn & Yori | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Kevin Flynn & Yori Kevin Flynn: It's time I level with you. I'm what you guys call a user. Yori: You're a user? Kevin Flynn: I took a wrong turn somewhere. Tron: If you ARE a user, then everything you've done has been according to a plan, right? Kevin Flynn: Ha, ha, ha, you WISH! Well, you guys know what it's like. You just keep doing what it looks like you're supposed to be doing no matter how crazy it seems. Tron: That's the way it is for programs, yes. Kevin Flynn: I hate to disappoint you, pal, but that's the way it is for users, too. Tron: Stranger and stranger. | |||||||||||
24 | Master Control Program | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Master Control Program Master Control Program: You've enjoyed all the power you've been given, haven't you? I wonder how you'd take to working in a pocket calculator. | |||||||||||
25 | Master Control Program & Sark | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Master Control Program & Sark Master Control Program: You're getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic. Sark: Thank you, Master Control. | |||||||||||
26 | Sark | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Sark Sark: The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the game grid. | |||||||||||
27 | Sark & Master Control Program | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Sark & Master Control Program Sark: What kind of program is he? Master Control Program: He's not any kind of program, Sark. He's a user. Sark: A user? Master Control Program: What's the matter, Sark? You look nervous. Sark: Users. well, I mean. users wrote us. A user even wrote you! Master Control Program: No one user wrote me! I'm worth millions of man-years! | |||||||||||
28 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Wall v1, The | |||||||
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29 | Untitled | Other | Themes | 3-D | |||||||
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30 | Yori | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Yori Yori: They haven't built a circuit that could hold you! |
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