Several years have passed since then and the Terminator has become a cult movie favorite, especially popular within the video rental market.
The movie ends with the Terminator biting the dust and Sarah Connor being victorious.
The first movie was an action packed, gun blasting pyrotechnically filled picture with Arnold Schwarzenegger playing the part of the ruthless, unemotional robot relentlessly tracking Sarah Connor. However, the machines are aware of this possibility and have developed a time machine to send a robot, known as a Terminator, back in time to eliminate John's mother, Sarah Connor, before she can even give birth to this savior. As explained in the first Terminator movie, a savior named John Connor has the power to destroy the rule of machines and set the enslaved, continually massacred human race free. Terminator 2 continues the story of a desolate future where machines rule the earth and hunt down any human who gets in their way. Acclaim/LJN are now busy at work with another movie to game conversion with possibly one of the most expensive, action packed pictures to corns from Hollywood: Terminator 2! I'll Be Back. Beetlejuice, Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure, Back to the Future and Total Recall are just some of the games that Acclaim/LJN have converted into Nintendo games from those movie counterparts. And one of the biggest video game companies has taken this idea of using movies as a basis for their games and have released a number of popular NES game titles based on blockbuster motion pictures. Where do video games come from? More importantly, where do creative ideas for video games come from? Some of them come from the movies. LJN Brings The Terminator To The Nintendo Save the world with a Terminator in T2: Judgment Day, or face a nuclear fate. There are also plenty of weapons to find needing ammunition, like shotguns and machine guns, so find the ammo to keep them reloaded! If John Connor is killed anywhere during the game, you will be transported back to the future and the game will end. Give your power meter a boost by finding some of the recharger items hidden in the levels. Once that is explored, there is a backup power supply that gives you 50 percent more power. You start with your power at 100 percent. However, the T-800 has a limited power supply that gets diminished with each hit it takes. There are several vertical- and horizontally-scrolling levels, including some overhead perspective driving sequences to take you from place to place. You control the T-800, and you must protect John Connor from the menacing T-1000 that can melt itself into any form. If you're that hard-up for fun, this is the last action-hero cart you'd want to see.įirst there was T2: The Arcade Game with the Menacer, now there is T2: Judgment Day! This game is more along the plot of the movie, with each level based on a scene from the hit flick. We've seen this side-scrolling run-and-shoot countless times before. It's not very imaginative, but that shouldn't be a problem, since because your brain will be bored into numbness by the end of the first level. The basic theme here is to walk through levels and to shoot anything that twitches. There's nothing familiar or even mood-enhancing here. The music and sounds in this cart should have been terminated. Telling the Cyberdyne labs apart from the hospital is pretty hard. You can't see any detail in the characters, and very few in the backgrounds. The graphics in T2 are small and poorly defined. You'll look for the Connors at the Hospital, and travel through Cyberdyne and the Steel Mill, as well as fight past security guards, hospital orderlies, and the deadly T-1000. There are also no driving sequences, and the Connors don't follow you around after you find them. Unfortunately, there's only one gun, unlike T2 for the SNES or Genesis where you power up different guns. You start by swinging your fists, but you eventually trade up to a gun. Sounds like your social calender is filled for the day. You must also destroy the Cyberdyne building, which houses the memory chips for the Terminators, all while trying to avoid the T-1000, who's trying to kill John. In T2: Judgment Day, your mission is to find and locate John Connor and his mother, Sarah.
He said he'd be back and he is! He's the Terminator, and he wants to help John and Sarah Connor, although you may not want to help him.