Initially unaware that he is participating in 'gladiator' games, Flynn realizes the danger of his situation when he refuses to kill a fellow conscript, Crom, in a ring game. Shortly afterwards, Flynn meets a program named Ram and is told all about the Master Control Program's rules, eventually discovering that captured conscripts are forced to play in the games. As his body is broken down into digital information, Flynn finds himself transported into cyberspace, where the MCP notifies his forces of Flynn's true nature and tasks Commander Sark to kill him in the games. Kevin proceeds to access the terminal, located directly in front of the laser, but is spotted by the MCP almost immediately and fired upon. Lora takes Flynn to her terminal in a laboratory where she has been working on an experimental laser technology that transported matter. Then, Alan will command Tron to shut down the MCP, which will in turn release Flynn's stolen file. Their plan is to have Flynn forge a Group 6 access, so that Alan can gain access to Tron again. Unable to uncover the plagiarism personally, Flynn asks for help from his former lover, Lora Baines, and her new boyfriend Alan, who decide to help Flynn get direct access to computer systems that may hold the incriminating evidence. Among those affected was Alan Bradley, who is barred from working on his security program Tron. Flynn's actions lead Dillinger to enforce additional security by shutting down all access to the mainframe, including access for ENCOM's programmers. The MCP finds the data that Flynn wants and attempts to hide it from him, even going so far as to block him from accessing the system. In the 1982 film, Flynn makes several attempts to hack into the ENCOM mainframe via the terminal at his arcade, using his best hacking program - CLU - to try and obtain the evidence that will prove Dillinger's fraudulence.Д«y this time, Dillinger has developed the Master Control Program from a chess program, to administer the ENCOM mainframe. Flynn saw the arcade as the only way he could profit from the games that were stolen from him. In 1981, Flynn founded his own establishment - appropriately named ' Flynn's Arcade' - and filled it with his own creations as well as several other classic video arcade machines.

When Flynn protested, Dillinger fired him. Dillinger was quickly promoted, eventually rising to senior executive Vice President. Three months later, Dillinger unveiled the games to the company without even bothering to change the names.

A competing ENCOM programmer named Ed Dillinger learned what Flynn was doing and stole Flynn's games.

As an up-and-coming young programmer, Flynn began developing new video games in secret. Flynn got his doctorate from CalTech before joining ENCOM in 1979.

3 Flynn's chronological age/continuity of existenceДЇlynn's hometown is Paramus, New Jersey, where he was born near the end of the 1940s.

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