I was the only kid at my school who had an Intellivison, everyone else owned an Atari. I guess it was akin to being a Beta Hi-Fi owner---superior machine but definitely in the minority.
Tron Deadly Disks was pretty much based entirely on the first scene where you actually see the character of Tron taking on four opponents at once. In the game version, your adversaries appear three at a time, from doors that appear at any one of the four sides of the screen. Early on, the opponents (light blue in color) are relatively slow and easy to defeat. As your score increases, the opponents would gain different abilities (and color dependent on those abilities, from dark purple to dark blue to orange). Some took more than one hit to kill, some threw 'homing' disks, the last and most difficult opponents (which appeared only once your score had surpassed the 1,000,000 mark) were very slow but took several successive hits to kill and carried 'paralyzer sticks' that would end the game immediately if they touched you.
The doors your opponents came out of could be jammed open if you threw your disk into them. If you jammed open two doors adjacent to one another, you could use them as a quick escape hatch a la Pac-Man (go out the left side of the screen, come out on the right). Jam too many doors, however, and the next time you cleared the arena of all your foes, a giant Recognizer would hover out onto the screen to repair the damage! You could prevent the recognizer from completing the repairs by very carefully placing a shot through the "eye" at the top of the machine.
Lots of fun for me and maybe 5 other people on the planet in 1983. ;)
Tron Deadly Disks was pretty much based entirely on the first scene where you actually see the character of Tron taking on four opponents at once. In the game version, your adversaries appear three at a time, from doors that appear at any one of the four sides of the screen. Early on, the opponents (light blue in color) are relatively slow and easy to defeat. As your score increases, the opponents would gain different abilities (and color dependent on those abilities, from dark purple to dark blue to orange). Some took more than one hit to kill, some threw 'homing' disks, the last and most difficult opponents (which appeared only once your score had surpassed the 1,000,000 mark) were very slow but took several successive hits to kill and carried 'paralyzer sticks' that would end the game immediately if they touched you.
The doors your opponents came out of could be jammed open if you threw your disk into them. If you jammed open two doors adjacent to one another, you could use them as a quick escape hatch a la Pac-Man (go out the left side of the screen, come out on the right). Jam too many doors, however, and the next time you cleared the arena of all your foes, a giant Recognizer would hover out onto the screen to repair the damage! You could prevent the recognizer from completing the repairs by very carefully placing a shot through the "eye" at the top of the machine.
Lots of fun for me and maybe 5 other people on the planet in 1983. ;)
