When Flynn takes control of the damaged Recognizer he remarks that the controls are just like "the old arcade grips".
In my misspent youth I enjoyed quite a number of hours in various arcades, and I can attest I never once encountered control grips like the ones Flynn used. What about the rest of you?
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Maybe Flynn ment it as a sarcastic joke?
When Flynn takes control of the damaged Recognizer he remarks that the controls are just like "the old arcade grips".
In my misspent youth I enjoyed quite a number of hours in various arcades, and I can attest I never once encountered control grips like the ones Flynn used. What about the rest of you?
That's a fair perspective.
"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"
I think it was all ambiguous jargon. Several usages through out the movie, like when he said "SCSI Data" (scuzzy data). Correct me if I'm wrong, but that would be an oxymoron. Not that there is anything wrong with using an oxymoron, but those two words used together to form a noun is idiotic to those that know better.
However, whenever I hear this comment from Flynn, I am reminded of one game that is probably the only arcade game that would come close to what he's referring to:
Battle Zone : http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7059
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Several usages through out the movie, like when he said "SCSI Data" (scuzzy data). Correct me if I'm wrong, but that would be an oxymoron.
However, whenever I hear this comment from Flynn, I am reminded of one game that is probably the only arcade game that would come close to what he's referring to: BATTLEZONE
SCSI is hardware and is an acronym for Small Computer System Interface and refers to basically a cable, or the connector on the back of the computer that this cable plugs into.
Data is the information that travels along the hardware. IDK, but hearing him say this just sounds like a bunch of computer jargon thrown together and for a compute geek like myself will go, "I know what that means!" LOL.
But regarding the grips, you may be right. Especially since we didn't really see this actual arcade game in the movie. I never really went too deep into this one, but figured he was being ambiguous with the "old arcade grips" comment, as if trying to make the movie reviewer relate to the fact that Flynn was a "gamer".
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Battlezone! You just mentioned one of my all-time favorites.
"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"
As other posters noted, he might have been talking about his own (fictional) arcade coin-op Space Paranoids.
Otherwise, I'm sure he was just speaking somewhat generally, probably referring to the then-"old" coin-ops of the late-'70s, quite a few of which had "grips" not so terribly dissimilar to the controls of the recognizer.
And yes, I know what I'm talking about because I played many of those old pre-Space Invaders games when they were brand-new, and many control-schemes had yet to be as streamlined and as standardized as those of the significantly more advanced games of the early-'80s were.
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Um, that's because the game Space Paranoids didn't exist in real-world arcades.... It only existed in the arcades of the TRON film. And we didn't see that particular arcade game in the movie (although it is mentioned by Flynn, and there's a giant poster on the wall for it).
As for wild control systems in the arcades, there were tons of them in the early 80s (Star Wars, Battlezone, Paperboy, Discs of TRON, and the full-size Space Harrier cabinet all come to mind).
You just reminded me how much I'd love to be able to afford a classic Discs of Tron cabinet game.
"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"