Terminator 2: Judgment Day (arcade game)
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- For other games of the same name, see Terminator 2: Judgment Day (video game).
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 Cover art of Sega Mega Drive version |
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| Developer(s) | Midway Games |
| Publisher(s) | Midway Games, Virgin, Acclaim |
| Designer(s) | George Petro, Jack Haeger |
| Release date(s) | 1991 |
| Genre(s) | Light-gun |
| Mode(s) | 2 players simultaneously |
| Platform(s) | Arcade Ports: Amiga, DOS, Game Boy, Sega Game Gear, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Master System, Super NES |
| Input | Light gun, 2 buttons |
| Arcade cabinet | Standard |
| Arcade system(s) | Midway Y Unit hardware |
| Arcade CPU(s) | TMS34010 (@ 6.25 MHz) |
| Arcade sound system(s) | Sound CPU: M6809 (@ 2 MHz) Sound Chips: YM2151 (@ 3.57958 MHz), DAC (@ 3.57958 MHz), OKI6295 (@ 8 kHz) |
| Arcade display | Raster, 400 x 256 pixels (Horizontal), 4096 colors |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the name of arcade game released by WMS Industries (the owners of the Williams and Midway brands) in 1991. The game is loosely based on the film of the same name. The home console versions are called T2: The Arcade Game to avoid conflict with the platform games.
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[edit] Story
The story of the game falls inline with the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day to save the leader of the Human Resistance, John Connor, and his mother, Sarah, from the T-1000, A mimetic poly-alloy terminator, bent on killing them both.
[edit] Gameplay
Running on the once-popular Williams/Midway Y Unit arcade hardware, the 2 players essentially take part in controlling a T-800 model and gun down the terminators of the opposing side in a light gun style fashion. The gameplay utilizes a first-person perspective, like the rest of the games in the genre, but what was noteworthy about T2 was the use digitized actors from footage specially shot during the making of the film. This made for realistic 2D sprites in a Light gun game for the time.
[edit] Ports
The game was converted to the 16-bit game consoles to the Sega Genesis and SNES. However, the Genesis version could not do scaling due to hardware limitation, and many of the images were redrawn at different sizes.
The MS-DOS port of the game was very loyal to the arcade game in terms of graphics and speed. However, it was notoriously difficult to run because of the high amount of conventional memory needed to run (580K out of 640K) and would usually need either a boot disk or memory tweaking (or both) in order to load.
The game was also retitled to T2: The Arcade Game to avoid conflict with the platform game. It was essentially sold and marketed as a non-Lightgun compatible game for home use due to the unpopularity of lightgun games in the 16-bit era. Players would mainly control the gun cursor with the control pad. Other lower graphical ports include Amiga, Gameboy and the Sega master system. Though the Super NES version did support the Super Scope and the Super NES Mouse. In North America it was one of the few games which supported the Genesis/Mega Drive's Menacer, but on the Master System, the Light Phaser was not supported, only a joypad.
[edit] Non video game ports
Williams released a pinball game, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, designed by famed pinball designer Steve Ritchie.
T2 was known as one of the first pinball games to feature a dot matrix display. It was also the first game to feature an autoplunger (replacing the traditional plunger), as well as a ball-firing cannon. Finally, T2 was the first game to feature a video mode. The playfield design was based on Ritchie's 1980 classic, Firepower.
[edit] Trivia
- The first mission is actually a backstory on what happened before the T-800 and the T-1000 entered Skynet. It also showed some of Skynet's machines that didn't appear in the film (for example, the Silverfish).
- In the demo sequence, the game has been rated "R" (for Righteousness) by the Motion Picture Gaming Association of America.
- In the original co-op version of the game, if you press the Player-1 or Player-2 'Start' buttons without any credits being available, a sample of Arnold Schwarzenegger will say "No way, Jose!"
[edit] Versions
 Arcade |
 Amiga |
 Game Boy |
 Sega Game Gear |
 Sega Genesis |
 Sega Master System |
 SNES |
[edit] External links
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day at The killer List of Video Games
- T2: Judgment Day Review
- IPDB listing for Terminator2: Judgment Day
- T2:The Arcade Game
