Disney has announced a sequel to its classic 1982 cyber adventure on the big screen, with Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner reprising their iconic roles.

Hold onto your light cycles because TRON is coming back. News broke during a Disney conference taking place at the recent Comic Con in San Diego, USA. For those of you unfamiliar with TRON, it is the sci-fi adventure that surely inspired The Matrix, featuring humans that are zapped inside a computer to battle a nasty CPU.

Fine dramatic acting from lead protagonists Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, in their respective roles as Kevin Flynn and Alan Bradley (a.k.a. TRON), was solid in 1982. However visual effects mattered most to videogame fans, and we dare say after seeing the Visual Effects Concept Test aired during Comic Con that the same will be true when TRON returns to the big screen, in Disney Digital 3D no less.

This latest Walt Disney Pictures project has on board producer Steve Lisberger who co-wrote and directed the original TRON. The soundtrack this time around is being created by Grammy Award-winning Daft Punk. If the latter sounds like risk-taking, bear in mind that everything about the original movie was considered hair-raising. Musician Wendy Carlos and her distinctive Moog synthesiser sounds provided a most unusual sound space for the film. Then of course you had the first fully computerised visuals to grace a major studio production.

Some tantalising plot details have been revealed for the sequel: Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) is the 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who mysteriously vanished 25 years ago. Turns out Flynn senior has been living inside the computerised world all this time, and it isn’t long before Sam is battling by his side.

We'd say that news of a new TRON movie is enough to get most older gamers in a bit of a whirl, but we’re making a fair assumption that a new batch of stunning videogames won’t be too far behind. Meantime there’s always Discs of Tron to keep you occupied on Xbox LIVE Arcade.