Tron on the Home Systems

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I was just thinking about this the other day, when I was trying to come up with games that never made it to home systems and possibly why. Alot arcade games made thier way to the home system. One that was popular but seems not to have a home version was Tron and Discs of Tron. I can't find any home version was ever made from these arcades. Was it because of royalties issue with Dinsey or was making a home version was too difficult? Yes there were other games made based on the movie, but not a home arcade version.

Any others out there that were popular but never made it to a home system?
 
I was just thinking about this the other day, when I was trying to come up with games that never made it to home systems and possibly why. Alot arcade games made thier way to the home system. One that was popular but seems not to have a home version was Tron and Discs of Tron. I can't find any home version was ever made from these arcades. Was it because of royalties issue with Dinsey or was making a home version was too difficult? Yes there were other games made based on the movie, but not a home arcade version.

Any others out there that were popular but never made it to a home system?

I believe Discs of Tron is on the Intellivision.....
 
Twin Galaxies has a Tron entry for the C-64 (but doesn't appear to have any scores)

Looks like Todd Rogers holds the record for Tron Deadly Discs on the Atari 2600....
 
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This is not based on Midway's Arcade game Tron:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Deadly_Discs

It was its own game based on the movie.

So it seems the Xbox live version is the only home version out there right now, no other boxed versions from the 80's or even the 90's. So far no has shown a home version of the arcades, just other games that were based on the movie.

If the cab was so great just imagine what the boxart for the home version would have been.

Anyone think of other popular games in the arcades that never had a home release?
 
Would have been pretty hard to port it to a home console and have it look halfway decent especially on the 2600... considering it was 4 mini games combined into one...
I can only imagine them looking like some weak versions of "Combat" "Breakout" and "Surround" and I can't even imagine how they would destroy the grid bugs level

There was the Tron 2.0 pc game that came out a few years back though, and the new movie will have a home version...

I'm not sure of any other major arcade games that didn't have home ports off the top of my head...

Tron Deadly Discs was a great game though (IMHO :D)
 
I know it was a long time coming and probably doesnt qualify for have 'made' it to the home system. But I have Tron2.0:Killer App on my gameboy/DS and while the t2 game sucks- it has a port of tron arcade on it that is damn faithful and fun to play- and it is permanently stuck in the DS' gameboy port :)

The control scheme is pad for the move, button for fire, and the shoulder buttons are the spinner.
 
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