Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 32 (click to see context) from:
* DestructibleProjectiles: Enemies regularly throws bombs and launch projectile weapons at you. You can shoot and detonate them before they hit.
to:
* DestructibleProjectiles: Enemies regularly throws bombs and launch projectile weapons at you. You Aside from gunfire, any projectiles thrown/launched by enemies (grenades, missiles, etc.) can shoot and detonate them before they hit.be shot down in midair.
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
** If John is killed in the third, sixth, and final levels, the player will lose a lot of life and has to restart the level.
to:
** If John is killed in the third, sixth, and final levels, the player will lose a lot of life and has have to restart replay it from the level.beginning.
Changed line(s) 52 (click to see context) from:
* SetSwordsToStun: The player's T-800 presumably had a ThouShallNotKill order from John, just like in the film. And yet the 1995 stages have them shooting at human mooks regularly, where they're presumably just maimed by bullets and explosions (somehow?).
to:
* SetSwordsToStun: The player's T-800 presumably had has a ThouShallNotKill order from John, just like in the film. And yet the 1995 stages have them shooting at human mooks regularly, where they're presumably just maimed by bullets and explosions (somehow?).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
* RandomDrops: Shooting the Endoskeleton's CPU will award the player with a random award.
to:
* RandomDrops: Shooting the Endoskeleton's CPU will award the player with You can get a random award.award by shooting a CPU when it pops loose from an endoskeleton head (level 1) or computer monitor (level 5).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super NES]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, UsefulNotes/GameGear, [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
to:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super NES]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, UsefulNotes/GameGear, [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Platform/GameBoy, Platform/SegaGenesis, Platform/GameGear, [[Platform/{{Amiga}} Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
Seven stages are available, spanning from the futuristic warzones of 2029 to present-day (1995) Los Angeles. Oddly enough, a two-player mode is available - the resistance probably sent a backup T-800 alongside the original.
to:
Seven stages are available, spanning from the futuristic warzones of 2029 to present-day (1995) Los Angeles. Oddly enough, a two-player mode is also available - the resistance probably sent a backup T-800 alongside the original.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 31 (click to see context) from:
* DegradedBoss: Ground [=HK's=] can be seen lumbering in the distance in the first stage, they can be destroyed with just one well-placed missile. But later one up-close becomes the stage boss, and later another becomes a sub-boss.
to:
* DegradedBoss: InvertedTrope. Ground [=HK's=] can be seen lumbering in the distance in the first stage, they can be destroyed with just one well-placed missile. But later one up-close becomes the stage boss, and later another becomes a sub-boss.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* DegradedBoss: Ground [=HK's=] can be seen lumbering in the distance in the first stage, they can be destroyed with just one well-placed missile. But later one up-close becomes the stage boss, and later another becomes a sub-boss.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* KubrickStare: The T-1000 appears doing one in the high score's screen.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* EscortMission: The player has to escort John in the third and sixth stages, and protect him from the T-1000 on the final stage. If he is killed, the player will lose a lot of life and has to restart the level.
Added DiffLines:
* HostageSpiritLink:
** In the first and second levels, the player will lose points during the bonus count if they accidentally kill a Human Resistance soldier.
** If John is killed in the third, sixth, and final levels, the player will lose a lot of life and has to restart the level.
** In the first and second levels, the player will lose points during the bonus count if they accidentally kill a Human Resistance soldier.
** If John is killed in the third, sixth, and final levels, the player will lose a lot of life and has to restart the level.
Added DiffLines:
* RandomDrops: Shooting the Endoskeleton's CPU will award the player with a random award.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, [[UsefulNotes/GameGear Game Gear]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
to:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], NES]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, [[UsefulNotes/GameGear Game Gear]], UsefulNotes/GameGear, [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
Changed line(s) 14,15 (click to see context) from:
The franchise will release another arcade shooter almost two decades later with ''VideoGame/TerminatorSalvationArcade''.
to:
The franchise will would release another arcade shooter almost two decades later with ''VideoGame/TerminatorSalvationArcade''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* LosingYourHead: You can shoot off the T-800 endoskeletons' heads, they will keep going for a few more paces before collapsing.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, [[UsefulNotes/GameGear Game Gear]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
to:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, [[UsefulNotes/GameGear Game Gear]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, [[UsefulNotes/GameGear Game Gear]], [[UsefulNotes/Amiga Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
to:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, [[UsefulNotes/GameGear Game Gear]], [[UsefulNotes/Amiga [[UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
to:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, [[UsefulNotes/GameGear Game Gear]], [[UsefulNotes/Amiga Amiga 500]], and MS-DOS as ''T2: The Arcade Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 4,5 (click to see context) from:
''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', also known as '''T2: The Arcade Game''', is a 1991 arcade RailShooter developed by Creator/MidwayGames and an official tie-in to the film, ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
to:
''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', also known as '''T2: ''T2: The Arcade Game''', Game'', is a 1991 arcade RailShooter developed by Creator/MidwayGames and an official tie-in to the film, ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, and MS-DOS as '''T2: The Arcade Game'''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
to:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, and MS-DOS as '''T2: ''T2: The Arcade Game'''.Game''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 4,5 (click to see context) from:
''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', also released as '''T2: The Arcade Game''', is a 1991 arcade RailShooter developed by Creator/MidwayGames and an official tie-in to the film, ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
to:
''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', also released known as '''T2: The Arcade Game''', is a 1991 arcade RailShooter developed by Creator/MidwayGames and an official tie-in to the film, ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
Added DiffLines:
The game was ported to multiple platforms, including the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Sega Mega Drive, and MS-DOS as '''T2: The Arcade Game'''. In 2023 it got a [[https://arcade1up.com/products/terminator-2 home arcade release]] by [=Arcade 1Up=].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 6,7 (click to see context) from:
Like in the film, players assume the role of the T-800, re-programmed after it's capture by the resistance and sent to the past by the human's resistance leader, John Connor, to protect his younger self from the T-1000, an advanced Terminator prototype made of liquid metal and impervious to all damage.
to:
Like in the film, players assume the role of the T-800, re-programmed after it's its capture by the resistance and sent to the past by the human's resistance leader, John Connor, to protect his younger self from the T-1000, an advanced Terminator prototype made of liquid metal and impervious to all damage.
Changed line(s) 17,18 (click to see context) from:
** The T-1000 can take far more punishment than it's cinematic counterpart. For instance, in the film seven shotgun blasts from Sarah sends it staggering backwards, followed by a grenade to the stomach from the T-800 is enough to send it plummeting into the pool of molten steel. In the game it absorbs ''hundreds'' of rounds and multiple explosions, shrugs off multiple grenade blasts and ''keeps on coming'' until you pushed it over a railing by way of MoreDakka.
** John and Sarah in the game is almost as durable as Terminators themselves, where they keep moving after getting hit by bullets or explosions. Somehow.
** John and Sarah in the game is almost as durable as Terminators themselves, where they keep moving after getting hit by bullets or explosions. Somehow.
to:
** The T-1000 can take far more punishment than it's cinematic counterpart. For instance, in the film seven shotgun blasts from Sarah sends it staggering backwards, followed by a grenade to the stomach from the T-800 is enough to send it plummeting into the pool vat of molten steel. In the game it absorbs ''hundreds'' of rounds and multiple explosions, shrugs off multiple grenade blasts and ''keeps on coming'' until you pushed grab a grenade launcher and blast it over a railing by way of MoreDakka.
into the steel.
** John and Sarah in the gameis are almost as durable as Terminators themselves, where they keep moving after getting hit by bullets or explosions. Somehow.
** John and Sarah in the game
Changed line(s) 25 (click to see context) from:
* CarFu: One stage set in 2029 have the T-800 defending a truck moving across the futuristic wastelands from enemy robots. Many of them who gets run over into scrap for getting into the vehicle's way.
to:
* CarFu: One stage set in 2029 have the T-800 defending requires you to defend a truck moving carrying John Conner across the futuristic wastelands from attacks by enemy robots. robots and H-K's. Many of them who gets the former get run over into scrap for getting into the vehicle's way.
Changed line(s) 30 (click to see context) from:
* GasMaskMooks: Another element made up just for the game; while infiltrating Cyberdyne there are scientists in hazmat suits and gasmasks who valiantly tries defending themselves by throwing exploding chemicals.
to:
* GasMaskMooks: Another element made up just for the game; while infiltrating Cyberdyne there are scientists in hazmat suits and gasmasks who valiantly tries defending themselves by throwing exploding chemicals.throw vials of chemicals at you.
Changed line(s) 43 (click to see context) from:
* SmartBomb: One with the symbol of a nuke painted on it's side, which can be used to clear the screen of enemies.
to:
* SmartBomb: One with the symbol of a nuke painted on it's its side, which can be used to clear the screen of enemies.
Changed line(s) 45 (click to see context) from:
** By default, characters killed in the film (like the foster parents, and Miles Dyson) doesn't die in the game, due to being AdaptedOut.
to:
** By default, characters killed in the film (like the foster parents, and Miles Dyson) doesn't don't die in the game, due to being AdaptedOut.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
Not to be confused with ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' for the Sega Genesis.
to:
Not to be confused with any of the ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' for the Sega Genesis.
games released by other publishers (mostly Creator/LJNToys) on consoles and home computers.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 33,34 (click to see context) from:
** Accidentally shooting resistance fighters in the 2029 stages won't harm them in any way.
** The kid in the Hideout can't be killed, as mentioned above.
** The kid in the Hideout can't be killed, as mentioned above.
to:
** Accidentally shooting Subverted with resistance fighters in the 2029 stages won't harm them in any way.
** The kid in the Hideout can't2029; if you accidentally kill them, points will be killed, as mentioned above.deducted from your bonus score.
** The kid in the Hideout can't
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* MultipleEndings: Whether you completely destroy Cyberdyne Systems in the second mission depends on what ending you get:
** If you destroy all of Cyberdyne's equipment, you get the good ending, indicating that Judgment Day is averted.
** Leave one piece of equipment intact, and you get the bad ending, indicating that research at Cyberdyne will continue, and that Judgment Day could still happen. Also, John's picture turns red as well.
** If you destroy all of Cyberdyne's equipment, you get the good ending, indicating that Judgment Day is averted.
** Leave one piece of equipment intact, and you get the bad ending, indicating that research at Cyberdyne will continue, and that Judgment Day could still happen. Also, John's picture turns red as well.
Changed line(s) 48 (click to see context) from:
John Connr is alive.\\
to:
John Connr Connor is alive.\\
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* RobotWar: The game's first half, which is set in the Skynet takeover in 2029 with you assisting resistance soldiers in fending off a robot army.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 25 (click to see context) from:
* CarFu: Of stage set in 2029 have the T-800 defending a truck moving across the futuristic wastelands from enemy robots. Many of them who gets run over into scrap for getting into the vehicle's way.
to:
* CarFu: Of One stage set in 2029 have the T-800 defending a truck moving across the futuristic wastelands from enemy robots. Many of them who gets run over into scrap for getting into the vehicle's way.
Changed line(s) 27 (click to see context) from:
* CrateExpectations: You'll repeatedly come across crates in seevral stages (helpfully marked with the words, "WEAPONS"). And recover their contents by shooting those crates.
to:
* CompressedAdaptation: Despite the expansion in the game's first half which is set entirely in 2029, most of the game's second half seems to skim over major events of the movie, going straight for the action scenes and leaving out most of the film's character interactions and development. To be fair, [[ExcusePlot it's made for arcades]].
* CrateExpectations: You'll repeatedly come across crates inseevral several stages (helpfully marked with the words, "WEAPONS"). And recover their contents by shooting those crates.
* CrateExpectations: You'll repeatedly come across crates in
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* RoboticReveal: The second stage (before the TImeTravel sending the players to 1995) have un-modified T-800 robots (with Schwarzenegger's likeness) as enemies. Shooting them reveals their robotic interiors.
to:
* RoboticReveal: The second stage (before the TImeTravel TimeTravel sending the players to 1995) have un-modified T-800 robots (with Schwarzenegger's likeness) as enemies. Shooting them reveals their robotic interiors.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/62173101.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Nice, a Terminator playing a Terminator game.]]
''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', also released as '''T2: The Arcade Game''', is a 1991 arcade RailShooter developed by Creator/MidwayGames and an official tie-in to the film, ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
Like in the film, players assume the role of the T-800, re-programmed after it's capture by the resistance and sent to the past by the human's resistance leader, John Connor, to protect his younger self from the T-1000, an advanced Terminator prototype made of liquid metal and impervious to all damage.
Seven stages are available, spanning from the futuristic warzones of 2029 to present-day (1995) Los Angeles. Oddly enough, a two-player mode is available - the resistance probably sent a backup T-800 alongside the original.
Not to be confused with ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' for the Sega Genesis.
The franchise will release another arcade shooter almost two decades later with ''VideoGame/TerminatorSalvationArcade''.
----
!! Hasta la Vista, player:
* AdaptationalBadass:
** The T-1000 can take far more punishment than it's cinematic counterpart. For instance, in the film seven shotgun blasts from Sarah sends it staggering backwards, followed by a grenade to the stomach from the T-800 is enough to send it plummeting into the pool of molten steel. In the game it absorbs ''hundreds'' of rounds and multiple explosions, shrugs off multiple grenade blasts and ''keeps on coming'' until you pushed it over a railing by way of MoreDakka.
** John and Sarah in the game is almost as durable as Terminators themselves, where they keep moving after getting hit by bullets or explosions. Somehow.
* AdaptationExpansion: The game adds a few additional elements absent in the movie:
** The first half is set in the future war of 2029, and depicts the player(s) T-800 fighting other enemy robots alongside resistance fighters. As well as the process of them teleporting to the future.
** There's a massive shootout inside Cyberdyne labs with the player T-800 shooting policemen left and right, unlike the film where they're spooked by the T-800 and sent packing.
** The steel mill finale has numerous SWAT officers actually making it into the area and trying to arrest John, unlike in the film. And you'll need to gun down everyone.
* AdaptedOut: After time-traveling from 2029 to 1995, the next stage skips directly to the Cyberdyne infiltration, completely leaving out John's interactions with the T-800 as seen in the film. Key characters in the movie like Dr. Silberman, John's bestie Tim, the foster parents, Sarah's weapons supplier Enrique, and even Miles Dyson are absent as a result - the last one rather glaring because of his HeroicSacrifice in the film being such a big deal.
* AirborneMooks: Hunter Killers and robotic drones, who have a habit of swooping all over the place to take potshots either at you or other resistance fighters.
* CarFu: Of stage set in 2029 have the T-800 defending a truck moving across the futuristic wastelands from enemy robots. Many of them who gets run over into scrap for getting into the vehicle's way.
* ChildSoldiers: At one point in the Human Hideout, you can see a young prepubescent boy among the resistance fighters (listed in the credits as "Hideout Kid"). Who actually tries fending off hostile robots with a pistol. He can't be killed or injured because of ImprobableInfantSurvival though.
* CrateExpectations: You'll repeatedly come across crates in seevral stages (helpfully marked with the words, "WEAPONS"). And recover their contents by shooting those crates.
* DestructibleProjectiles: Enemies regularly throws bombs and launch projectile weapons at you. You can shoot and detonate them before they hit.
* GasMaskMooks: Another element made up just for the game; while infiltrating Cyberdyne there are scientists in hazmat suits and gasmasks who valiantly tries defending themselves by throwing exploding chemicals.
* ImplacableMan: The T-1000, just like in the film itself. Fighting it as the FinalBoss is a lengthy MarathonBoss battle where it tanks bullets and explosions like no tomorrow and keeps on coming.
* InvulnerableCivilians:
** Accidentally shooting resistance fighters in the 2029 stages won't harm them in any way.
** The kid in the Hideout can't be killed, as mentioned above.
** Sarah and John Connor can be seen running around in a few stages. They couldn't be killed by bullets either (yours, or the police), should they be gunned down they'll fall over for a second before getting back up.
* MechaMooks: The first few stages set in the future war of 2029 have the players aiding the resistance in battling Skynet's robot army.
* AMoltenDateWithDeath: The T-1000 is killed by getting dropped into a vat of molten steel, just like in the movie.
* RoboticReveal: The second stage (before the TImeTravel sending the players to 1995) have un-modified T-800 robots (with Schwarzenegger's likeness) as enemies. Shooting them reveals their robotic interiors.
* SetSwordsToStun: The player's T-800 presumably had a ThouShallNotKill order from John, just like in the film. And yet the 1995 stages have them shooting at human mooks regularly, where they're presumably just maimed by bullets and explosions (somehow?).
* SmartBomb: One with the symbol of a nuke painted on it's side, which can be used to clear the screen of enemies.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** By default, characters killed in the film (like the foster parents, and Miles Dyson) doesn't die in the game, due to being AdaptedOut.
** While the game ends with the T-1000 getting melted alive, [[spoiler:there's no indication that the T-800 decides to follow suit in order to complete his mission. The game just ends at that point]].
* StockFootage: The game uses footage from the movie as cutscenes between levels.
* AWinnerIsYou:
--> '''MISSION COMPLETE'''.\\
John Connr is alive.\\
Cyberdyne has been destroyed.\\
Your future is what you make of it.\\
[''credits'']
----
[[caption-width-right:350:Nice, a Terminator playing a Terminator game.]]
''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', also released as '''T2: The Arcade Game''', is a 1991 arcade RailShooter developed by Creator/MidwayGames and an official tie-in to the film, ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
Like in the film, players assume the role of the T-800, re-programmed after it's capture by the resistance and sent to the past by the human's resistance leader, John Connor, to protect his younger self from the T-1000, an advanced Terminator prototype made of liquid metal and impervious to all damage.
Seven stages are available, spanning from the futuristic warzones of 2029 to present-day (1995) Los Angeles. Oddly enough, a two-player mode is available - the resistance probably sent a backup T-800 alongside the original.
Not to be confused with ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' for the Sega Genesis.
The franchise will release another arcade shooter almost two decades later with ''VideoGame/TerminatorSalvationArcade''.
----
!! Hasta la Vista, player:
* AdaptationalBadass:
** The T-1000 can take far more punishment than it's cinematic counterpart. For instance, in the film seven shotgun blasts from Sarah sends it staggering backwards, followed by a grenade to the stomach from the T-800 is enough to send it plummeting into the pool of molten steel. In the game it absorbs ''hundreds'' of rounds and multiple explosions, shrugs off multiple grenade blasts and ''keeps on coming'' until you pushed it over a railing by way of MoreDakka.
** John and Sarah in the game is almost as durable as Terminators themselves, where they keep moving after getting hit by bullets or explosions. Somehow.
* AdaptationExpansion: The game adds a few additional elements absent in the movie:
** The first half is set in the future war of 2029, and depicts the player(s) T-800 fighting other enemy robots alongside resistance fighters. As well as the process of them teleporting to the future.
** There's a massive shootout inside Cyberdyne labs with the player T-800 shooting policemen left and right, unlike the film where they're spooked by the T-800 and sent packing.
** The steel mill finale has numerous SWAT officers actually making it into the area and trying to arrest John, unlike in the film. And you'll need to gun down everyone.
* AdaptedOut: After time-traveling from 2029 to 1995, the next stage skips directly to the Cyberdyne infiltration, completely leaving out John's interactions with the T-800 as seen in the film. Key characters in the movie like Dr. Silberman, John's bestie Tim, the foster parents, Sarah's weapons supplier Enrique, and even Miles Dyson are absent as a result - the last one rather glaring because of his HeroicSacrifice in the film being such a big deal.
* AirborneMooks: Hunter Killers and robotic drones, who have a habit of swooping all over the place to take potshots either at you or other resistance fighters.
* CarFu: Of stage set in 2029 have the T-800 defending a truck moving across the futuristic wastelands from enemy robots. Many of them who gets run over into scrap for getting into the vehicle's way.
* ChildSoldiers: At one point in the Human Hideout, you can see a young prepubescent boy among the resistance fighters (listed in the credits as "Hideout Kid"). Who actually tries fending off hostile robots with a pistol. He can't be killed or injured because of ImprobableInfantSurvival though.
* CrateExpectations: You'll repeatedly come across crates in seevral stages (helpfully marked with the words, "WEAPONS"). And recover their contents by shooting those crates.
* DestructibleProjectiles: Enemies regularly throws bombs and launch projectile weapons at you. You can shoot and detonate them before they hit.
* GasMaskMooks: Another element made up just for the game; while infiltrating Cyberdyne there are scientists in hazmat suits and gasmasks who valiantly tries defending themselves by throwing exploding chemicals.
* ImplacableMan: The T-1000, just like in the film itself. Fighting it as the FinalBoss is a lengthy MarathonBoss battle where it tanks bullets and explosions like no tomorrow and keeps on coming.
* InvulnerableCivilians:
** Accidentally shooting resistance fighters in the 2029 stages won't harm them in any way.
** The kid in the Hideout can't be killed, as mentioned above.
** Sarah and John Connor can be seen running around in a few stages. They couldn't be killed by bullets either (yours, or the police), should they be gunned down they'll fall over for a second before getting back up.
* MechaMooks: The first few stages set in the future war of 2029 have the players aiding the resistance in battling Skynet's robot army.
* AMoltenDateWithDeath: The T-1000 is killed by getting dropped into a vat of molten steel, just like in the movie.
* RoboticReveal: The second stage (before the TImeTravel sending the players to 1995) have un-modified T-800 robots (with Schwarzenegger's likeness) as enemies. Shooting them reveals their robotic interiors.
* SetSwordsToStun: The player's T-800 presumably had a ThouShallNotKill order from John, just like in the film. And yet the 1995 stages have them shooting at human mooks regularly, where they're presumably just maimed by bullets and explosions (somehow?).
* SmartBomb: One with the symbol of a nuke painted on it's side, which can be used to clear the screen of enemies.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** By default, characters killed in the film (like the foster parents, and Miles Dyson) doesn't die in the game, due to being AdaptedOut.
** While the game ends with the T-1000 getting melted alive, [[spoiler:there's no indication that the T-800 decides to follow suit in order to complete his mission. The game just ends at that point]].
* StockFootage: The game uses footage from the movie as cutscenes between levels.
* AWinnerIsYou:
--> '''MISSION COMPLETE'''.\\
John Connr is alive.\\
Cyberdyne has been destroyed.\\
Your future is what you make of it.\\
[''credits'']
----
