Gametron (Empath stories)

Gametron is an alternate world that exists in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, with its first appearance being in the story "Inside The Game". It is a world that vaguely resembles the computer world known as the Grid from the Walt Disney motion picture TRON.

Its residents are known as the Gametronians, who basically live for playing games, although mostly non-lethal sports and activities resembling video games. However, in the story that they appear, the Gametronians are captured and held prisoner inside a gaming complex created and owned by the evil Sarkamel, who with his evil Game Minions subject the peaceful Gametronians to endless lethal game battles in the hopes of exterminating them or converting them to being Game Minions.

Hefty, a Smurf who was playing a game with the Game Wand in the Smurf Village, was somehow transported into Gametron and forced to play the games inside Sarkamel's gaming complex until he broke free and joined with some other Gametronians in an attempt to free their world from Sarkamel and his Game Minions.