Diversions

November, 1982

Since Pong first kicked the Foosball game out of the neighborhood bar, video games have issued ever greater challenges, thrusting players outward from the friendly confines of earth. Now Tron presents the logical extension of computer-game evolution, sucking us back to inner space, into the unfamiliar guts of the thinking machine. It's a jungle in there, and in a metaphorical search for the computer's heart, we encounter a mechanical solipsism in which the machine is the universe.Disney's Tron f...