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* For [[Walt Disney Pictures]] itself for commissioning this film. Remember, at the time of this film's production, the company was sinking even more into irrelevance as [[George Lucas]] and [[Steven Spielberg]] seized the culture zeitgeist the way that Walt did in his prime. Furthermore, the company's one attempt to imitate them, ''[[The Black Hole]]'', proved an embarrassment in 1979 and their animation department was barely surviving with new talent still suffering the loss of [[Don Bluth]] and his team and vision. Out of this despair, the company was approached by Steven Lisberger on this idea for a film with a radically different look with revolutionary visual effects technology, and ''took a chance'' in saying "yes" to producing it. Maybe it didn't work out all that well, but it was a gamble worth taking and a [[Cult Classic]] franchise was born regardless ([[Vindicated
** And the fact that so many little (and not so little) kids looked at this and went "Cool!" Then, some of those kids went on to found [[Pixar]], including [[John Lasseter]], who stated during the "Making of ''Tron''" feature on the DVD that "without ''Tron'', there would be no ''[[Toy Story]]''".
** Also the fact that this was something of a "coming out" album for Wendy Carlos after her gender reassignment surgery.
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As for the movie itself:
* The Light Cycle battle. Arguably the most famous sequence from the first film, making the Light Cycles the coolest bikes ever on film, and done with such incredible detail and pacing that it holds up thirty years later.
* Dumont's "[[Defiant to
{{quote| '''Dumont''': ''(in obvious pain)'' What do you want? I'm busy!<br />
'''Sark''': Busy dying, you worn-out old excuse for a program?<br />
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