Trivia / Revolution X

• Creator-Driven Successor: To the Terminator 2: Judgment Day shooter by the same developer. Several missions are identical, including the chopper shootout and the bus chase (both lifted from the HK battles in T2's ruined future). Midway produced a conversion kit that made it easy for operators to swap the game inside their existing T2 cabinets for Revolution X.
• Easter Egg:
  • Sometimes, after getting the "skull" item (which explodes all on-screen enemies to bits), Steven can be heard saying Toasty! in a high-pitched voice.
  • If you hit the cat on the wall outside Club X enough times and set the nearby palm tree on fire, a Trog will jump out and start walking across the wall instead. You can hit him the same way you did with the cat and if you hit him enough, you'll gain access to a secret area.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The game was originally conceived as a Jurassic Park game. However, Sega ended up getting the Jurassic Park license to make their own arcade game, prompting Midway to switch to a game based on a band.
  • Aerosmith was actually the third choice for a featured band. Before Aerosmith, they had approached Guns N' Roses and Public Enemy, the latter of whom had also been considered for a sequel to this game that never got made.

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