The Tron franchise began in 1982 with the Walt Disney Pictures film Tron. It was followed by various film tie-ins, video games, a comic series and the 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy. More sequels are planned, and a television animated series entitled Tron: Uprising premiered on Disney XD in June 2012.
The name TRON was borrowed from the TRON command used in the early versions of the computer programming language BASIC. TRON stood for TRace ON, which prompted the program to print or display line numbers for each command line of a program as it ran, in order to assist in the debugging of the program.
