Licensing Mickey to Atari in 1981 predates modern game-film crossover integration

Evidence

Disney licensed Mickey Mouse to Nintendo and Atari as early as 1981, and Tron, another live-action/animation hybrid about a simulated digital world and an evil businessman, is the eighth highest-grossing arcade machine of all time, earning an estimated 45 million by 1983, over 130 million in 2022 dollars and far more than the film grossed. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 418

Categorization

• XREF: The surprising fact that an arcade tie-in grossed far more than the film it was based on is exactly the kind of ownership-structure-leaves-fingerprints-on-form data point the reader is collecting.