At least kids didn’t expect to enjoy that. Even the Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Slot Game wasn’t worse than this. The Super Nintendo’s Terminator 2 game was unworthy of every adjective and noun in the first half of this sentence. If there’s ever a Second Coming, the Lord will have to return on a hover-bike that explodes oil tankers to even approach this level of upgrade. Terminator 2 is the greatest sequel anything ever had. And if you’ll excuse us, we’ve just had the greatest idea for a mod in the history of everything. It’s nice to know that Skyrim has somehow descended from time-travelling Terminators. The immense and interactive environment of the game makes sense when you realize it was an early Bethesda work. If it had been any more detailed, John Connor would have used it to train Kyle before sending him. The city is stuffed with banks, gun ranges, surgical centers, everything a time-traveler on an action mission could ever want. It made a mockery of every lazy cash-in by rendering an immense area of Los Angeles and allowing the player to be Kyle Reese or the Terminator.

This first title really did represent the first Terminator: it was far cooler than many of the technically more advanced Terminator games which would follow it. It wasn’t just a great game, it incarnated both the plot AND the making of the movie, creating something far cooler than the technology should have allowed.

The DOS version of Terminatorwas a complex effort to create a sophisticated simulation using primitive technology.

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