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I'm happy I got an Arcade 1Up Star Wars - I play it nearly daily (I'm just a few thousand points away from removing "OBI" from the top of the high score table) and it's again out of stock. I missed the window for its sibling TRON arcade machine - not that I really have room for two. It's a great game with a satisfying spinner and flight stick controller, but I think I would be almost as satisfied if I could get a big chunky hardware button for my desk that played the "disc blast" sound - it's really one of the most satisfying arcade sound fx ever.

Here's an .mp3 and .wav of it:

tron-blast.mp3

tron-blast.wav

But now that I think about it... in the game it acts more the weapon feels more like a regular gun then the movie's signature frisbee-ish discs. In between the way it launches from an extended arm and TRON's electric-blue-and-cyan suit and hat... dude feels like Mega Man's dad more than anything.

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Insider on the Apprentice speaks up All the flim flammery (and edited out horrible racism) that paved Trump's way to the whitehouse. Between this and his time with Pro-wrestling? Yeesh.

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Huh. Like the QR code later, the barcode clawed its way back into acceptance.