astercontrol:

arcade scene at the beginning of TRON 82 where it alternates between a user playing the lightcycle game on an arcade machine and the programs competing in the lightcycle game inside the computerALT


I want to get creative with the idea that when Users play in the arcade, there’s another side of the game that the Programs play

I mean, in this Lightcycle scene, or in any fighter game where the program plays the NPC, that’s a more human-relatable playing style

BUT I bet some programs LOVE the more program-centric games, where the goal is “you play a randomizing process and see how much you can get away with before the user curses you out for being personally biased against them”

like when a User is playing Tetris, the game the programs play is “let’s pick which shapes to drop for them”

Program inside my old Windows 98 computer having much more fun shuffling my solitaire deck than I ever was having playing solitaire

“hey”

“hey Tron”

“hey TRON”

“…what”

“what’s your favorite Tetris piece to play”

“…why. are you making assumptions”

“what is it what is it”

“…not everyone chooses video game characters for looking like themselves, you know”

“tell me tell me”

“ok. ok FINE you are RIGHT”