Still Saturday Still Supercade!

Closing out the Saturday Supercade weekend with a vintage Tron bookmark, thanks to the hard working programs over at www.tron-sector.com for the above photo.

Everyone have a great weekend and I'll see you all on Monday!

Some More Saturday Supercade!

There are some that have claimed that I post far too many things concerning Tron on this site...those are the same people that I now have in chains and are tasked the dubious honor of feeding my Radium Chimps!

Up top we have some wonderful digital Lego Tron artwork from Gil P.'s site: http://gil.acroyear.com You know it has to be good, it has my favorite Micronauts name in the web address!

Then we have Chad Mealey a.k.a Lego Tron with his skillful Tron recreations with those wonderful Lego bricks. Of course with a name like Lego Tron you would expect this., right?

Some More Saturday Supercade!

Finishing off this Saturday Supercade with some impressive artwork from the 2008 I am 8-Bit artshow in LA, a big thanks to Collider for these awesome photos!

Everyone have a great weekend and I'll see you on Monday.

Saturday Supercade Is Closed!

Well, I couldn't end this weekend's Saturday Supercade without at least one Tron item being included! Head over to Zazzle.com to pick up this sweet lightcycle t-shirt.

Everyone be safe and have a great weekend!

The Stage Of History - Soulcalibur

Saturday Supercade!

If you have a Saturday morning where you can find some excellent art of Lego Pac-Man/Super Mario Bros, homemade Tron suits, a Mega Man profile shot, Tron inspired V.I.N.C.E.N.T. from the Black Hole, and a real life Super Mario Bros. Level...you can call it a day and sit back and relax.

Battle On The Parapets - James Horner (Krull Soundtrack)

End Of Line.

We here at the Victory Pellet Vault know just what you need, yes indeed, and it is naturally not on this site.

However if you have a spare $250.00 then you might want to head over to the Thretris site to pick up your very own Tron inspired NES. From their own website:

"

This original NES has been custom painted using a special blacklight reactive glow paint. The NES will glow in a blacklight VERY brightly, and will also charge up with light and glow without blacklight (just not as bright)

The NES has also been fitted with one of low-gain's NESmods, which adds dual 1/4" audio outputs to the back of the NES providing an amplified stereo like sound (split mono channels)

Also has BRIGHT blue power LED

NES comes with Original Power adaptor, RF switch, and original controller."

Head over to http://thretris.bigcartel.com/product/glowing-tron-nes and check out the video they've kindly included.

A big thanks to Kotaku for the heads up.

Unforgettable - Nat "King" Cole

My Other Ride Is A Light Cycle

I am lucky enough to have a wonderful wife who looks out for my geek needs. I was pleasantly surprised to find this Tron t-shirt from www.threadless.com in the mailbox yesterday. The title of the shirt alone, My Other Ride Is A Light Cycle, is worthy of geek drool but throw in the fact that it glows in the dark as you can see from the above picture and this shirt is obviously full of win.

Retroist Podcast: Alf

Friday Flyers...Interrupted for Flynn Lives!

Today is the day. At the Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco the Flynn Lives group is going to gatecrash the Encom press conference. I only wish I wasn't scheduled to train my latest batch of Radium Chimps this weekend....otherwise I would hop on my hover craft and head down there to attend myself.

Make sure to hop on over to www.Flynnlives.com for more details.

Last Night-The Traveling Wilburys

Just to finish off that Tron bug I have.

Still had a lingering Tron thing going on over the weekend so I figured I would post that last two items I had secured.

First up is a Tron poster by those awesome cats over at Mondotees.com, made specially for the Alamo Drafthouse screening of Tron back in 2008. Brad Klausen is the artist responsible for this great piece of work and he also used glow in the dark ink on it!

I noticed at the top that Arcade UFO is listed as a sponsor, you might remember they were the arcade that won the Stride: Save the Arcades online game a couple of months back.

The Stitch, my wife and I both love this alien scamp, in Tron gear is a new item that will be offered at the San Diego Comic-Con this year by MINDstyle. I have a feeling that I'm going to be really missing out on some nice photo opportunities and merchandise this summer by not being able to attend. Sigh.

Saturday Supercade signing off!

"End of line."

So the last posting for the day is an item I've posted the box cover for in a previous entry. The Tron boardgame is something I did not see on the shelves locally so I feel I was robbed of what looks to be a pretty neat game judging from the pictures.

According to the Toy Archive site, the boardgame offers actually three different 'modes' of play. The first part of the game consists of the player using his lightcycle to follow the arrows, encountering recognizers and tanks as they travel until they reach the MCP tower where they need to use their character (As seen in the last picture) to flip a disc at the tower to try to topple it over.

The second game offering is Arena (Last picture) in which two characters fling their disc into the center ring, trying to knock out the colored chips of the opposing character. The third offering is described as being basically the same game...but shuffleboard.

I like that the characters you can choose as your playing pieces. Tron, Sark, Yori, and Dumont. So you can't play Flynn but you are able to choose as your boardgame representation, Barnard Hughes. I am so behind that idea it hurts!

Still some more Saturday Supercade!

"On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy."

The Tomytronic hand held game from 1981 so they say...but didn't Tron come out in 1982?

On a side note I don't know what that Starfox item is next to the Tron box...if you know what it might be please post a comment.

Still Saturday Supercade!

"Uh oh. A Recognizer!"

If you take a moment to go and visit 80's Tees, www.80stees.com, you will find they have a pretty nice selection of Tron shirts that you can order and wear proudly around your domicile or workplace.

I particularly enjoy the Recognizer shirt and the Encom Software Development shirt.

Saturday Supercade!

"I'm going to have to put you on the Game Grid."

Looks like it's going to be Tron posts for this Saturday Supercade today as I've found some items both new and old...mostly new though that I'm excited to share with you.

First up we have the Tron "Big Figure" thankfully posted by j. Pidgeon on Flickr, it seems only 150 of these were ever made, and if you look at the bottom pic you can just barely see a switch on the right hand side...this piece of art lights up!