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It was a Sunday afternoon, sometime in 1984. In the living room my dad turned on the transformer for our black&white TV (yes, transformer AND black&white), and turned the manual VHF modulator until we had a picture.

Two hours later I was flashed like rarely in my life, and even if I really missed color, TRON was gigantic at that time. The story, and especially the graphic effects were something, that had never been seen before. Even years later - but then in color - the movie picture had lost hardly anything of its fascination, and should become formative at least for me personally - the rest is history.

Hard to believe that the actual release of TRON was 40 years ago this week. I mean ... 40! And hard to believe Jeff Bridges was in the sequel almost 30 years later … he was old in the first part already. 😂

Ryan Britt has gone into a little more detail about the history of the Master Control Program 👺, and for those who miss the times, his article will make you feel right at home.

Happy Birthday TRON!