this week in RetroNots Greetings programs.

Hi everyone, welcome to a fine and digital episode of RetroNots.

I'm Jerry Perish coming to you from the game grid and with me here in a hotel room in sunny Milwaukee Wisconsin is Anthony Schweider and Anthony you are the host or co host of game and movie podcast.

We take a part to game in a movie with every full episode and kind of break it down critically and you know go over all the details and get all the information on it.

Yeah, and we've kind of been doing that this this the past few months with RetroNots occasionally we will do an episode on licensed games and we've actually started to take the time to look into what the license material you know that that inspired the games is all about.

And so we're trying not to do too many of these ones we don't step on your toes but also because we don't want people to be like hey that came in for a video game podcast what's all this movie talk.

But you know like to me at least the video games and movies are all kind of bound up together you know they're they're all part of things that I they're all things I grew up with and things that I have a lot of nostalgia for and you know help shape my interests and even to some degree like you know who I am.

So I am you know trying not to abuse this but at the same time it does seem relevant and I can't think of any situation in which it would be more relevant than in a discussion of tron.

Tron is the quintessential video game and movie movie video game video game movie it's like it's all these things in twined together.

And so we're going to talk about the tron movies and I don't think we're going to talk about tron uprising because I haven't seen it and also it's all not really retro at this point.

But we're also going to talk about the games so for the first half we'll talk about the movies and kind of how they reflect video gaming and you know a very specific part of history of the history of video games and then we'll talk about the video games and how they reflect their time as well.

That sounds good yeah I think that tron I think you hit it right on the right on the head there it really is it eats itself as far as as far as movies and games go it eats itself you said yeah it's it's cannibalistic you know one side eats the movie one side eats the game.

So it's like an aerobarose but yeah yeah exactly.

Alright that's a strange way to look at it but I'll take your word for it.

Yeah so anyway tron of course the Walt Disney movie released in theaters in America in 1982 directed by Steve Lisberger who according to your notes did not direct much else.

Yeah he was a tron was really the movie that he made his name off of he did some other stuff he did like a he co-wrote and directed something called animal it animal Olympics which was an animated movie starring guild a radner and Billy crystal.

I feel like I vaguely remember the name animal Olympics but I've never seen it but that's like that's like SNL right there.

Yeah prime time you know it's absurd like that's exactly what I didn't think that I would see when I clicked on his bio and you did something else called hot pursuit which is another comedy starring John Qsack but yeah other than that that's really what he's known for.

You've mentioned slipstream a sci-fi adventure flick from 1989 starring Mark Hamill and man anything involving Mark Hamill in 1989 was probably not that good.

That was kind of like the needy or his career between Star Wars and Batman the animated series.

So it was like stream came his way and he was like oh yeah I'll take it.

Yeah there are no there are no like cat costume people to talk to for a video game so what the heck Steve let's make a movie.

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