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Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo and Filmstalker are showing the Tron 2 (aka Tr2n) teaser from Comic-Con 08. From the Giz article: 'It's a tiny bootleg video, but I don't care. You can see that the 3D looks amazing, the new lightcycles are stunning (and move like real bikes), the world and the whole mood is Batman-like dark. And Jeff Bridges ... well, he is Jeff Bridges. What can I say, he looks like a badass version of The Dude. "It's just a game!" he shouts. No, it's not. It's Tr2n. At last. Note: excuse the excitement, but I saw the original in the movie theater, and 200 times after that. With War Games, it's what got me into technology when I was a kid, and ultimately here in Giz. The only thing that has me worried is that the characters in the computer world are fully 3D.'"
Eat a bag of dicks for insulting my childhood.
The reality of War Games at the time was that he used equipment that was already in the hands of people. Not fantasy land computers we see today in flicks. He was a normal bright underacheiving kid.
I suppose that hackers was so much more clever. Where everyone dressed like a refuge from a gay rave party meets the rainbow family?
You know when war games came out, you could war dial random numbers and stumble on governement systems, businesses, you name it. All very exciting times.
I am imagining your in your mid to early 20's and are used to CGI fests.
Wargames defined a generation of nerds who are responsible for where we are now in computing.