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Tron Lightcycles, in Real Life

Posted by timothy on from the please-be-careful-in-there dept.

Digital_Quartz writes "This is a clever hack, using a laptop and GPS to play the classic Lightcycles game from Tron, using bicycles and a city. The page is a little light on details, but does give the essentials, including screen shots."

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  1. No thank you by nokilli · · Score: 5, Funny

    As I recall, the point to the Tron lightcycle game was to make your opponent crash.

    Which means my opponent is trying to make me crash.

    I don't need any help in that regard. I can get into accidents all by myself.

  2. Link to a mirror by kdark1701 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slashdotted already. http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/5dcc252f0f43fc6f2 52db1df395c93a7/index.html

  3. Darwin Natural Selection? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gee, talking on a cell phone while driving is safe, so using a keyboard and mouse while staring at a display while riding a bicycle in city traffic must be really safe, eh?

  4. The second outdoor video game by technoextreme · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I noticed that this is the second video game that has been retrofitted for outdoors. Pac man was the first one that I know of. I wonder how many of these games can actually be made for the outdoors.http://www.pacmanhattan.com/about.php

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    1. Re:The second outdoor video game by c0bw3b · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey! How about Grand Theft.. oh nevermind.

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  5. Other interesting (but failed) video game hacks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried doing real-life pac-man with a yellow highlighter and some altoids. Didn't go so well.

    I tried Donkey Kong with a fake moustache, a mallet, and my local zoo. Didn't go so well either.

    I tried yelling "hadouken" after throwing a bowling ball wrapped in a lit kerosene-doused rag. The neighbor kid thought it was pretty cool.

    I pulled on the passenger door of a cop car, and as he tried to go after me, I went to the drivers' side to try to floor it. I yelled "It's CJ, foo!" I forget, I was either busted or wasted...and nobody thought it was cool.

    I think next I'm going to re-create Hitman: Contracts by shaving my head, and getting good with a shotgun.

  6. Re:exercise is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be thankful they didn't do a real life version of Joust.

    That was our initial aim but PETA terrorists stole our ostriches. Bastards.

  7. you have to wear the suits. by intro · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are missing a VERY important part of Tron. You HAVE to wear the suits!

  8. Re:exercise is good by nycbicyclist · · Score: 5, Funny
    I have to add that I was a spectator at one of these jousting events last year in NYC. One match-up left the two participants flat on the ground, both unconscious.

    A few minutes later I overheard the following conversation between one of the event organizers and an ambulance medic:

    Medic: OK, what happened here?

    Organizer: Well, they were jousting and....

    Medic: Jousting? Did you say jousting?