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Uh... actually... no. The game was built after on a discussion Rich and I had at CAX 2009 and unveiled at CAX 2010 so I don't have any recent pictures. I did find a couple of photos of Rich's Tron Video Pinball 2.0 next to my original Atari Video Pinball when we were setting up at CAX 2011. The side art on his TRON is highly reflective so it is hard to achieve a good picture in low light and is way shiny when you get the right angle. After looking at the pictures I can tell there have been at least 2 artworks packages, lighting, audio, software and at least one playfield upgrade since these pictures were taken. The audio amp and speakers are larger at each outing and we went from a UV tube to a series of UV LEDs then back to multiple UV tubes. There have been a number of other upgrades after the Portland show too but I'll let Rich talk about those when he's ready. There is also a long, sad story of what happened to the Tron cab on it's way to the first public showing back in 2010. It involves a flat tire, car accident and an airborne game! We were literally gluing and screwing the cab back together on the CAX floor for the first 2 hours of the show back in 2010.

Yea, Rich did the art package for both games and I am still stunned how well the Yar's cab turned out. I did the custom hardware and software for his Tron Video Pinball 2.0 a couple years back and we have been working on a few upgrades since the Portland show so the Tron should be even more impressive next year. There is also Space Paranoids in the works but Rich is a little behind schedule on the integration so it did not make it to the last show.

You don't actually need all the components in the game pack to get stated, just the $32.95 cpu base board. Code already exists to interface the arduino with a VGA monitor and it can easily be connected to a joystick. It all depends on what you really want to get out of it. It's basically an 8 bit risc cpu running at up to 20mhz providing ~20fips of performance. Really kick ass hardware on the cheap! http://www.liquidware.com/shop/show/ARD/Arduino