Play Tron at Home — Flight Stick & Spinner Setup

Play Tron at Home — Flight Stick & Spinner Setup

Tron is one of the few arcade classics that used two signature controls: a translucent flight stick with a trigger for the grid bugs and tanks, and a spinner for Ring Game and Discs of Tron. Reproduce both and the 1982 experience comes back completely.

What you need

• GRS Tron Arcade Flight Stick — trigger-topped stick built for Tron-style cabinets (Arcade1Up Tron and AtGames ALU ready)
• GRS Push & Pull Spinner Ultra — weighted spinner for Ring Game and Discs of Tron
• Deflection button upgrade kit — adds deflection-button compatibility for A1Up Tron and AtGames ALU setups

Setup notes

• Both controls are USB — in MAME assign the stick to joystick input and the spinner to the Dial/Mouse axis
• On Arcade1Up Tron-style cabinets the GRS stick and spinner install as replacements — the Arcade1Up guide maps what fits
• Discs of Tron benefits from slightly lower spinner sensitivity than Tron itself — set per-game overrides

Explore more spinner games in the Tempest guide or plan a full build with the MAME cabinet parts guide.