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...height of a movie season marked by record-setting box-office successes, TIME's Cinema section this week takes note of one of the most innovative and significant of all the new entries: TRON. A fantasy-thriller about what it might be like to be trapped inside a video game, TRON not only is the first feature film to achieve its special effects largely through the use of computer-assisted imagery and animation, it also gives to the abstract world of computer technology a witty and dramatic visual form...
First books became movies; then movies became books; now there are movies that have become video games. Parker Brothers is marketing a The Empire Strikes Back cartridge; a Raiders of the Lost Ark game will be out by December; and both Mattel and Bally are launching games inspired by Tron, a Disney Studios movie due out this summer. Bally is blitzing the arcades; Mattel is shipping more than 1 million Tron cartridges to dealers; and Disney Spokeswoman Hilary Clark says, "It's only the beginning." Indeed. Atari is developing a game called Krull, based on a movie that...
Spielberg has formidable competition for the attention of moviegoers this summer. The producers of Annie have engineered a powerful media blitz to herald their lavish if lead-souled musical. Tron, a futuristic melodrama set inside a video game, hopes to lure the addicts of the arcades back to moviehouses. New versions of Rocky, Grease, Star Trek and The Thing will tempt old adherents. The Road Warrior and Blade Runner will offer up eye-catching punk-rock apocalypses. Robin Williams will attempt to enter The World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds...
...living-room revolution with Monopoly in 1935-are jumping in. Mattel, which makes Atari's archcompetitor, Intellivision, says it has sold more than a million units at $249 and expects to be marketing 40 cartridges by December. One design will be based on an upcoming Disney movie called Tron, about a whiz who finds himself, Alice-like, trapped inside a video game. Hollywood fights back...
...times don't matter, just whether you win." All-American fencer Dave Heyman, originally from England, notes that although "it's just you and the other guy out there on the strip," in American fencing "you're fencing for the team, not for your self." Track co-captain Lenny Tron of Alberta says that while in Canada "the winning aspect of sports is just as great as in the U.S. Americans place extra emphasis on team performance. The "unfortunate" result is that "a coach's fate is often decided by his win-loss, record, rather than his technical knowledge...