Name the Classics in This Viral Tron Game
By Jared Newman
Why thank you, viral Tron: Legacy Web site, for giving us an awesome way to procrastinate this Friday. Pictured above is just a small snippet of a strange town, where everything’s a pun on some well-known video game, both new and old. In this screenshot alone, there are six game references (“Call of Duty” being the most obvious), and 56 in all at the quiz page itself. I had trouble getting the game to run in Chrome, but it worked just fine in Firefox. Anyhow, I’m stumped right now at 34 games, but I’m going to leave that window up and see if anything dawns on me later in the day.
The game is hosted on ArcadeAid, ostensibly an arcade cabinet repair site, but really a viral site for the upcoming film Tron: Legacy. On both that site and the quiz game, you’ll find references to Kevin Flynn, the original film’s protagonist hacker who apparently disappeared in 1989. Another Web site, Flynn Lives, is dedicated to searching for him. I guess I’m somewhat intrigued now. But I won’t be fully intrigued until I can figure out the names of these last 22 games. [ArcadeAid via .tiff]
