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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Ramblings.....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.040736.20221@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:07:36 GMT
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- In article <dpn2.231.727838869@po.CWRU.Edu> dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:
- >>I was watching Tron the other day...
- >>Shouldn't grid bugs be green???
- >>*grins*
- >What _is_ a grid bug anyway?
-
- It's a creature from Tron. :-)
-
- Tron was a movie that came out around 1981 right smack in the middle of the
- first video game boom. The main character entered the "world of the
- computer" via a prototype transporter, to defeat the evil Master Control
- Program, running through basically a fantasy world where programs were people
- and things. The movie had some computer animation in it, and lots of fake
- "computer animation" done by recoloring normal scenes. There was an associated
- video game, with four parts based on scenes from the movie.
-
- The main grid bug scene apparently was cut from the movie, but stayed in the
- game. In it, grid bugs are cannon fodder which you shoot a path through; you
- then spend the rest of the scene blasting them for points. They only move
- along grid lines (tilted diagonally in the game). They weren't green in the
- game, though I don't know about the movie.
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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