Quick Tour of Waterborn's Arcade & TRON Play Through

In the midst of all the TRON mania of 2010, I intended to video tape me playing through a game on my arcade cab, but somehow failed to ever get around to doing so. Well now that the dust has settled on the movie release (and I am not constantly glued to Unfiction trying to keep on top of the latest Flynn Lives ARG happenings) I have a little more time to actually head down to the basement, enjoy playing my games and record video of them. So here is a relatively short playthrough of the first 9 levels of the game. The game consists of 10 levels which represent various computer program languages and of course User, which is the final one before the levels begin to repeat. Below is a list of the 12 primary levels in TRON and where each name came from.

Level 1
RPG the initials stand for “Report Program Generator”, but referred to only as RPG.

Level 2
COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages. Its name is an acronym for “Common Business-Oriented Language”.

Level 3
BASIC is an acronym for “Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code”. The original BASIC was designed in 1964 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Level 4
FORTRAN derived from IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System, is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

Level 5
SNOBOL Acronym for “String Oriented Symbolic Language” is a generic name for the computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Level 6
PL/I "Programming Language One",( pronounced "pee-el-one") is a computer programming language designed for scientific, engineering, business and systems programming applications. It was introduced in the 1960s, and is actively used as of 2010.

Level 7
Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

Level 8
ALGOL short for Algorithmic Language. Is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and became the de facto way algorithms were described in textbooks and academic works for almost the next 30 years.

Level 9
Assembly is a low-level programming language for computers, and other integrated circuits. It implements a symbolic representation of the binary machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture.

Level 10
OS “operating system” is software, consisting of programs and data, that runs on computers and manages the computer hardware and provides common services for efficient execution of various application software.

Level 11
JCL Acronym for “Job Control Language” is a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem. The term "Job Control Language" can also be used generically to refer to all languages which perform these functions.

Level 12
User If your not sure, see the movie!

In the video below, I was able to get as far as the Assembly level with a score just over 120,000 points. My personal HS is around 135K. As a reference point, the current World Record is 11,125,999 and was set by David Cruz this past December. So as you can see, I have a long way to go before I can consider myself good at this game. Anyway, check out the game play and be sure to watch through the end of the video for a quick tour of my basement arcade.

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