Tron

Tron is a top-down Mac shareware lightcycle game for up to four players, credited on Macintosh Garden to P-Tech and dated 1992. The graphics are deliberately minimal: each player steers a trail-leaving cycle around a shared arena, trying to wall opponents in without crashing into anyone else's tail.

Gameplay

Up to four cycles share one screen at the same time, with each player using a different cluster of keys. The Macintosh Garden listing notes that it is "very simple graphics but endless fun" and that "children are specially fond of it," reflecting its arcade pick-up-and-play design.

System notes

The build is a 68k application that targets early System 7 era hardware. Macintosh Garden flags that on faster Macs it runs unplayably quickly, and recommends using Mini vMac to throttle the speed back to something approximating the original arcade pace.

Distribution

The game was preserved on Macintosh Garden and is also represented in the Info-Mac archive on ftp.funet.fi alongside other lightcycle clones such as Tron-ish and a separate tron96 by Flying Cat Software, which targeted color displays and Sound Manager 3.0.