Retro Review: Tron (Arcade)
Release Date: 1982 Developer: Bally Midway Manufacturing Co., Inc. Publisher: Bally Midway Manufacturing Co., Inc. Arcade is king! Disney is an absolute monster nowadays. In addition to their own IPs and those belonging to the uber-animators at Pixar, the acquisitions of Marvel and Lucasfilms have given the House that Mickey Built access to a vast treasure trove of marketable content. Back in 1982, however, ol’ Walt’s empire was very shaky. It was largely coasting on the nostalgia for its old properties and struggling to find a new property that would carry it to new prosperity. Tron was introduced in 1982 and became a strange anachronism.
