T2: The Arcade Game

As the title suggests, this is the home version of the arcade rail shooter based on the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Up to two players shoot through future and present levels as robot killers reprogrammed to serve the human resistance. Both players have a machine gun with infinite ammunition that decreases its rate of fire (overheats) when fired continuously. A secondary weapon (rocket launcher in the future, shotguns in the present) has limited ammo but does a lot of damage. Powerups in the game world include ammo for the secondary weapons and coolant for the machine guns, which must be picked up. T2: The Arcade Game includes seven levels based on specific scenes or general concepts from the movie. The first four levels serve as a prelude, in which the player shoots down waves of metal Terminators on a post-apocalyptic battlefield, in a besieged human hideout, and through the security checkpoints of the enemy supercomputer SkyNet. After destroying the computer, players travel back in time to protect John and Sarah Connor while destroying every shred of SkyNet research at the manufacturer's headquarters. From there, players must fend off the indestructible T-1000 until the final showdown at the steel mill. Assets from the movie are used where possible, such as voice clips of Arnold Schwarzenegger and digital close-ups of Robert Patrick for the final battle against the T-1000. The Genesis and SNES versions also support light guns (the Menacer and Super Scope, respectively).