DAY 112 / GAME 112
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
I've said it before, I never really did spend very much time in the arcade. The times that I did primarily consisted of myself, my brother and my dad pumping quarters into the Terminator 2 arcade game. This was the on-rails light gun shooter with two gun controllers mounted on the cabinet with a pivot.
I think most people my age remember this game. It seems to me that it was in pretty much every arcade around and of course, T2 was still fairly new at the time so it was pretty relevant. My brother especially loved this game, so I found that it was usually my brother and my dad playing it while I watched, which was fine because it was pretty much impossible anyway.
Seriously though. This game was designed to eat quarters. Even with two people going at it there was no getting past the first level. The only reason I knew any other levels existed is because the demo screen showed them when no one was playing. Which is too bad because all of the other levels looked way more interesting than the first level. The first level was simply the introductory level where you have to escort the T-800 Terminator to the time machine and send him to the future. This is part of what made it so tough. Escort missions are always overly difficult in past games and this one was no exception. There was a portion of the game early on where you have to protect a pickup truck while trying to stay alive yourself and the whole ordeal was almost impossible.
Still, each time we tried. There's a good chance that in total, we spent the cost of a console game in quarters on this one. All in the hopes we could make it to the later levels; which included the labs at Cyberdyne Systems, an escort level where the T-1000 is chasing the police van in a helicopter and the final levels in the steel mill. Graphics on the arcade version were pretty good too. They even shot footage for this game during the making of the movie. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eddie Furlong and Robert Patrick all appear in this game as sprites based on this footage and end up looking pretty awesome.
When the Sega Menacer was released for the Sega Genesis, which was a light gun unit made to compete with Nintendo's Super Scope; there was only a handful of games available to use with it. 6 of them came as a bundle in one cartridge and there were about 7 more, one was an adaptation of the Terminator 2 arcade game. With how much we played this in the arcade, you can be sure we picked this up to go with our Menacer. It looked pretty close to the arcade cabinet graphically, but it was equally as impossible. In fact, even though we owned it, we still never beat that first level.
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
I've said it before, I never really did spend very much time in the arcade. The times that I did primarily consisted of myself, my brother and my dad pumping quarters into the Terminator 2 arcade game. This was the on-rails light gun shooter with two gun controllers mounted on the cabinet with a pivot.I think most people my age remember this game. It seems to me that it was in pretty much every arcade around and of course, T2 was still fairly new at the time so it was pretty relevant. My brother especially loved this game, so I found that it was usually my brother and my dad playing it while I watched, which was fine because it was pretty much impossible anyway.
Seriously though. This game was designed to eat quarters. Even with two people going at it there was no getting past the first level. The only reason I knew any other levels existed is because the demo screen showed them when no one was playing. Which is too bad because all of the other levels looked way more interesting than the first level. The first level was simply the introductory level where you have to escort the T-800 Terminator to the time machine and send him to the future. This is part of what made it so tough. Escort missions are always overly difficult in past games and this one was no exception. There was a portion of the game early on where you have to protect a pickup truck while trying to stay alive yourself and the whole ordeal was almost impossible. When the Sega Menacer was released for the Sega Genesis, which was a light gun unit made to compete with Nintendo's Super Scope; there was only a handful of games available to use with it. 6 of them came as a bundle in one cartridge and there were about 7 more, one was an adaptation of the Terminator 2 arcade game. With how much we played this in the arcade, you can be sure we picked this up to go with our Menacer. It looked pretty close to the arcade cabinet graphically, but it was equally as impossible. In fact, even though we owned it, we still never beat that first level.
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