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Tron film - Legacy

Although the film was initially unsuccessful, it has remained somewhat popular due to its use of CGI and its computer plot line. The movie also inspired several popular video games. The Tron arcade game earned more than the film's first release and made it a cult favorite. Disneyland featured the Tron SuperSpeed Tunnel in its PeopleMover attraction.

Mattel Electronics released three separate Tron games (unrelated to the arcade game) for the Intellivision game console in 1982: Tron Deadly Discs, Tron Maze-A-Tron, and Tron Solar Sailer. Deadly Discs was later ported to the Atari 2600 (along with an original Tron game for that platform, Adventures of Tron), and a version also appeared for the short-lived Aquarius home computer.

Tron 2.0, a computer game sequel, was released on August 25, 2003. In this first person shooter game, the player takes the part of Alan Bradley's son Jet, who is pulled into the computer world to fight a computer virus. Versions of this game were released for Windows, Macintosh, and Xbox.

In Tron 2.0: Killer App, a game released for the Game Boy Advance, Tron and a new character, a Light Cycle program named Mercury, fight their way through the ENCOM computer to stop a virus called The Corruptor. The game includes light cycle, battle tank, and recognizer battle modes, several security-related minigames, and the arcade games Tron and Discs of Tron. While the game is minimally connected to the PC game, one of the 100 unlockable chips shows a picture of Jet Bradley.

On January 13, 2005, Walt Disney Pictures announced a new Tron movie (possibly a remake), with more emphasis on the Internet.

A world for the Disney/Square Enix video game Kingdom Hearts II is based in the world of Tron, called "Space Paranoids" (After one of Flynn's game in the movie). Tron himself is Sora's world-exclusive partner in battle and light cycles (which are somewhat different from the movie light cycles, gameplay-wise) are featured as well. It is worth noting that none of the human characters in the movie appears or are referenced in the game due to the fact that the world is in fact set inside one of Ansem's computers. It is also the most important non-original Disney world in the game storyline-wise, much like Neverland in the first game.

Tron was parodied in the Family Guy episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea." The visual style was also used in the "Homer³" segment of The Simpsons.

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