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Name: The Terminator series (3 titles)
Terminator 2 - The Arcade Game
Terminator 2 - Judgement Day
Terminator
Author/Vendor: Probe Software
Released: various
Type: Shooter
Language: English
Premise: In the future, humanity is trapped in a desperate battle for survival with its own creation - the SkyNet computer system, which has deemed mankind unfit for survival. To that end it has created (among many other weapons) the Terminator series of cyborgs - souless killing machines which cannot be distiguished from humans until it is too late. SkyNet's data banks have predicted its ultimate demise at the hands of the humans, so it launches a last desperate effort to survive. By mastering time travel and sending Terminators into the past, it hopes to kill off the human leader John Conner before he can grow into the deadly threat to SkyNet's existence that he will certainly become. Based on the hit series of films that made Austrian actor and former bodybuilding champion Arnold Schwarznegger an international film star.
Impressions: What can I say? The games fail to live up to the excitement of the original movies (especially the first one), but they get better as they go. By the time the last installment rolls around, which is the best of the lot, you wonder what took them so long in coming out with a pretty decent game.
Variations: According to creator James Cameron, there should be no "the" in the title of the first film - it should just read Terminator. The extra word was added over his objections by the film studio prior to release of the movie. By the time the second film rolled around, he had gained enough clout to ensure that the objectionable word was dropped in the sequel's title.
Terminator 2 - The Arcade Game (1992, released by Arena Entertainment - inferior port of the original arcade shooter, almost impossible to play without a light gun)
Terminator 2 - Judgement Day (1993, released by Flying Edge/Acclaim - first of the side-scroll action games and the inferior of the two)
Terminator (1994, released by Virgin Games - second and best of the side-scrolling action games)
Fans of the series may also want to look at another game released for the Genesis - Robocop vs. the Terminator. See separate entry for more details.
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