The Disc Wars are just one of many gladiatorial events played out in the Game Arena, where programs are placed into separate compartments and forced to fight using their Identity Discs. If the disc makes contact with its target, the opposing program immediately loses the game by way of deresolution. The gravity in each compartment can be reversed, as seen in TRON: Legacy when Sam Flynn fights Rinzler.
Weapons
Notable Players
Trivia
Combatants' names are visible on the floating circle-shaped leader board which appear to have been named after notable real-world computer scientists or other computer science subjects. The inconsistent presentation of these names (and reappearance of some of the derezzed competitors in the Light Cycle Grid) prevents them from being used to document them as minor characters.
- Aurora - Aurora operating system for portable computers.
- Backus - for John Backus, creator of the computer language FORTRAN.
- Cray - Seymour Cray, Founder of Cray Inc. (now Cray Research) and maker of the Cray X-MP supercomputer used in the making of TRON.
- Eckert - for John Eckert, jr., inventor of the first programmable digital computer, ENIAC.
- Hurd - GNU Hurd, a computer operating system kernel.
- Landin - Peter John Landin, a British computer scientist.
- Logg - for Ed Logg, programmer of the original Asteroids.
- Miner -
- Pike - for the Pike programming language.
- Perlis - Alan Perlis, computer scientist and the first recipient of the Turing Award.
- Turing - for Alan Turing
- Urban -
- Wulf - William Wulf, computer scientist.