>>>I wasn't very good - compared to others around me - at these games, but I loved to play them. I did well at the Star Wars game - wireframe, but very realistic - though I've never met anyone else who even heard of it.
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>>>>>I remember playing these way too often in the early eighties:
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>>>>>Space Invaders
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>>>>I was 7th Dan at Space Invaders. Used to have pints lining up on top of the m/c in the pub, till I'd give the game away after c. 5 times round the clock.
>>>
>>...
>>>>There was a different, better, more difficult version than the Taito in the pub next door to that.
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>>>I didn't know there were more than one version.
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>>I think it might have been this one by Nintendo:
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Fever
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>>Note the differently shaped invaders and cannon. It was a looooooong time ago but it certainly seems to be it!
>>
>>...
>
>I don't recall that one, but I may have played it. The early 80s are a bit murky to me...
>
>This is the Tron one I was trying to remember: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discs_of_Tron
>
>Love that game. I'm going to see if I can find it for the PC anywhere.

Oh, I remember Tron alright. Just could never be bnothered playing it (didn't want to waste all that money getting to know each stage, bit by bit, eg the motorbike hemning in your opponent stage).

The film was on TV a few months ago. Man, did they have a weird sense of computer science, and its stage of dev. back then. The film is soooo dated. So is Lawnmower Man, or whatever they called it.

I think Tron might have been the first example of a movie and computer game deliberately set up together, to complement each other and rope people in.