Tron 2: Electric Boogaloo

In yesterday’s post you heard from Justin and David, software creators (by day) who spent their wee hours on a rare hardware project – resurrecting a vintage 1982 Tron arcade game. It. Is. Alive! Today they dish on how to beat Tron, the merits and demerits of a film by the same name, and what it all means to their Pentathanerd dreams (Winter Games, anyone?).

Tron 101 from The Nerdery on Vimeo.

More on MAME, as referenced in today’s clip by the chairman of the Nerdery Hardware Club.
MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game’s ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.

So while our Tron will always be Tron (or until it suffers some irreparable breakdown), our Solitaire game will get a complete Nerdery makeover. What games should we add? Stay tuned…