Classic arcade game Discs of Tron left out for garbage collection
Tony Temple, writing at The Arcade Blogger, tells the story of his friend Tim Lapetino who miraculously came across an environmental cabinet of the 1983 arcade game Discs of Tron in pristine condition just sitting at the end of a driveway in Chicago in the hopes that the garbage truck would pick it up. Of course, this cabinet is super rare and worth thousands of dollars.
This story makes me sad, happy, and jealous all at once. Discs of Tron was one of my absolute favorite games mostly because I didn’t get to play it very often. In my dream arcade, I have five arcade games: Galaga, Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator, the original Star Wars arcade game, Mortal Kombat, and Discs of Tron.