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Terminator II (T2): The Arcade Game

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About ten years ago when Terminator 2 was a blockbuster smash hit at the movies, Midway released a light gun shooter in arcades, later on it made it's way to 16-bit home systems. Terminator 2: The Arcade Game is still as fun as it was all those years ago, I still own it and play it now and then and still get a kick out of it. You get to blast away hordes of Terminator endoskeletons in the first few levels as you play as a resistance fighter in the future, than you get to play as the T-800 in the present where you get to protect the young John Connor, destroy all of Cyberdyne Systems, and eventually face off with the T-1000. All in all, if you still own this game hold onto it, it is still as fun as it was yesterday, and is a better game than the recently released Terminator: Dawn of Fate.

T2: The Arcade Game was based off of the Terminator 2 movie. In the arcades, it was played with video game guns. The home ports for the Super Nintendo and the Genesis are compatible with the Super Scope and the Sega Menacer game guns. However, you may also use the controllers, but the result of that is moving a cursor around shooting things. It isn't a bad way to play, though.

The game tries to follow the movie's storyline by telling it in between certain levels. After waiting for the first part of the story to end, you will end up shooting everything in sight! There are robots coming from both sides of the screen, and enemy planes flying in the sky. Kill them all!! That sums up the whole game pretty much, but the awesome action would obviously keep you playing.

One downside I must point out is that the level where you have to protect John Konner is too difficult. There are several robots and planes attacking the pickup truck. However, there is a way I know to beat this level: Only bomb the planes. Don't concentrate on the robots. And bomb them RIGHT AWAY! Having another player help out would be nice, I guess.

Thankfully, there's a 2-Player mode that adds to the game's replay value. As both of you Terminators get your controllers prepared, you'll be ready for the greatness of shooting mindlessly.

I don't know why I'm rating this since the person who was suppose to send this to me sent me the nintendo version of this instead of the sega genesis version that I wanted. So yeahhhhhh.....pretty sure you have to use a light gun for this game...instead of a regular controller, since it's basically like the arcade game. Word.