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Great find, and I'm curious who's trying to play a nine year-old single-player average game that's a tie-in to the somewhat forgettable Tron: Legacy movie. Looks like gamers were trying to play this and reported it on the Steam forums and elsewhere, but why this game specifically and why now? Was there a sale?



Really goes to show that games are no different a medium from books or film, and must be preserved and maintained in perpetuity in case that latter generations will want to consume them.


I’m very grateful for the efforts of the likes of archive.org, that tirelessly dedicate themselves to the preservation of digital media.


There's what, 20 or 30 years worth of games now, and some of them are still great (e.g. Half Life: Opposing Force). 9 years is nothing. It's even more true for music (luckily that's generally not hobbled by DRM though).


Right, but this one isn't like a beloved classic and there's no third TRON on the horizon to get people suddenly interested:

Tron: Evolution received "mixed or average" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Evolution#Reception

I don't have Disney+, maybe some people were newly watching the second movie and wanted to play the tie-in game.


Does it matter? They paid for it, they should be able to play it.


Why not? It’s interesting to ask why an old, average to mediocre game had enough users trying to play it to discover this problem.




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