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Tron

As each player drives around the game area they leave a solid trail behind them. The object of the game is to cause other players to crash into one of these trails, one of the moving barriers, or the edge of…

31 December 1997

Tron is an arcade developed by MMB Softs, released 31 December 1997 on DOS.

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What Tron is

Tron is an arcade game developed by MMB Softs and released in 1997. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

As each player drives around the game area they leave a solid trail behind them. The object of the game is to cause other players to crash into one of these trails, one of the moving barriers, or the edge of the game area. The first player to win the required number of rounds wins the game, the default winning score is fifteen but this can be altered. An optional feature of this game is the use of missiles which can punch holes in the trails. There are four kinds of missiles available in the game, which the player picks them up by running into them, however each player can only carry one missile at a time.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Tron series

Tron is the ninth of 21 entries we hold in the Tron series. It arrived 14 years after Tron. The next entry was Tron 2.0 in 2003.

See all 21 Tron games in release order →

What it launched against

Tron launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

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When did Tron come out?
Tron was released on 31 December 1997 for DOS.

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