Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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67K plays 1991 #Action

Terminator 2: Judgment Day or T2 is a 1991 light gun shooter video game based on the film of the same name, developed and published by Midway for arcades. Developed in tandem with the movie, several actors from the film reprise their roles for the game and are featured as part of the game's photorealistic digitized graphics. The game's plot largely follows that of the film, casting up to two players as the T-800 "terminator" cyborg, sent back in time to protect John Connor from assassination by the T-1000 terminator. A success in arcades, home conversions of the game were released by Acclaim Entertainment for various platforms under the title of T2: The Arcade Game to avoid confusion with the numerous tie-in games also based on the movie.

From Wikipedia's article Terminator 2: Judgment Day (arcade game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

SMSPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
Button 1ZN
Button 2XM
PauseEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

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Keyboard controls

SMSPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
Button 1ZN
Button 2XM
PauseEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Terminator 2: Judgment DaySMS

3.0 Good job

Critics 69 · 7 reviews

What the reviews talk about

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What the critics said

  • GamePro commented that the graphics in the SNES version "closely match the arcade version."

    — GamePro· about another version

  • They also praised the digitized voices and fun gameplay, and concluded that the game is "probably the only good excuse you have for getting a Super Scope", though they also commented that the SNES Mouse is the best control option for the game.

    — GamePro, 1994· about another version

  • Brett Alan Weiss of AllGame gave the SNES version three and a half stars and wrote, "The biggest drawback of T2: The Arcade Game is the controls. If you don't have a Super Scope (or at the very least a mouse), the game suffers quite a bit because you can't move the sight as fast or as precisely as you would like."

    — AllGame (Brett Alan Weiss)· about another version

  • Steve Bradley of Amiga Format gave the Amiga version a 73 percent rating and called it "a faithful conversion" of the arcade version, as well as, "A fast, furious and frantic, if rather limited, shoot-em-up with a barrowload of violence chucked in for good measure."

    — Amiga Format, 1994 (Steve Bradley)· about another version

  • CU Amiga gave the Amiga version a 90 percent rating and called it, "A pixel perfect recreation of the fantastic arcade experience."

    — CU Amiga· about another version

  • CU Amiga called its graphics "miles better than the Mega Drive conversion," and noted that it was easier than the arcade version because of its different speed levels.

    — CU Amiga, 1993· about another version

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Terminator 2: Judgment Day (arcade game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • AllGame 3.5/5
  • Amiga Format 1994 73%
  • Amiga Power 1994 57%
  • Computer and Video Games 1993 GB: 88/100 (other versions)
  • Famitsu SNES: 5/10, 4/10, 4/10, 4/10 (other versions)
  • GamePro SNES: 16.5/20 (other versions)
  • GameZone 1994 C
  • Nintendo Power 1993 GB: 13.1/20 ; SNES: 12.8/20 (other versions)
  • Total! 1993 GB: 71% ; SNES: 81% (other versions)
  • CU Amiga 1993 90%
  • Entertainment Weekly 1993 D-
  • The One 1994 84%

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players on RetroGames.cz: 71/100 · 89 votes

Full reviews

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  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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