T2: The Arcade Game
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Arena Entertainment (US/EU) Acclaim Japan (JP) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Probe Software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: Midway Manufacturing, Carolco | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original system(s): Arcade boards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: Krisalis sound driver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peripherals supported: Sega Menacer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Shooting[1][2][3][4], Action[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-2, 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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T2: The Arcade Game (T2 ジ・アーケードゲーム), is a light gun arcade game originally released by Midway Manufacturing in 1991. In its original form, it was simply known as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, being inspired by the film of the same name. When brought to the home the following year, it was renamed, and should not to be confused with different Terminator 2: Judgment Day games released around the same period. Despite the change in title, this game is often referred simply as "T2", which prone to cause confusion.
T2: The Arcade Game was ported to the Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear. The Mega Drive version of the game is compatible with the Sega Menacer.
A Sega Mega-CD version appears to have been planned (with a US release of August 1993[13]), but was cancelled for unknown reasons.
Contents
Story
The story of the game falls in line with the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day: to save the leader of the Human Resistance, John Connor, and his mother Sarah from the T-1000, an advanced prototype Terminator bent on killing them both. The player takes the role of a T-800 Terminator cyborg, already captured and reprogrammed by the human resistance, and fights alongside them against Skynet in the year 2029. Eventually, the T-800 and John Connor penetrate Skynet's headquarters and destroy the system CPU. Discovering the time displacement equipment, the T-800 is sent back through time to John's childhood, with the mission to protect him from the T-1000 that Skynet has already sent back. In the past, John, Sarah, and the T-800 launch an attack on Cyberdyne Systems in order to prevent the development and creation of Skynet. The T-1000 catches up to the group and pursues them in a police helicopter and a liquid nitrogen truck. The T-800 is able to freeze and shatter the T-1000 with the liquid nitrogen, but it quickly melts and reforms in order to continue its pursuit of John. Ultimately, the T-800 must stop the T-1000 from killing John and blast it into a vat of molten steel to destroy it.
Two endings are possible, depending on the outcome of the Cyberdyne raid. If all equipment is destroyed, the player receives a message that Judgment Day has been averted; otherwise, the company's research will continue and Judgment Day remains a possibility.
Gameplay
The game is a first-person rail shooter. The first half of the game takes place during the human/machine war in 2029, and the second half takes place during John Connor's childhood in the 1990s. Stages scroll automatically. Sometimes a certain amount of enemies or locks have to be taken out to proceed. Various items are hidden that provide benefits such as increased firepower or extra credits. Unlike most light gun games, players are equipped with machine guns that can be fired continuously by holding the trigger on the Menacer or on a control pad. While the gun has unlimited ammunition, it gradually overheats and loses efficiency, so players must let it cool off occasionally by not firing for a duration. Each player has a gunpower gauge that indicates this and decreases as the gun is fired. Players also have a secondary weapon, a rocket launcher in the stages set in 2029 and a shotgun in the stages set in the 1990s, which is fired by pressing the top button on the Menacer or
on a control pad.
Each player has energy gauges that indicate their health. If the energy gauge is depleted, the player is defeated and can only continue playing at the cost of one credit. The score does not reset upon continuing. The quantity and positioning of enemies sometimes makes it impossible to avoid damage, meaning the game cannot be cleared without using continues.
The game supports two-player simultaneous play, with both players using control pads or with one player using the Menacer and the other player using a control pad. Players share credits.
Stages
The Battlefield | |
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The Human Hideout | |
Trip to Skynet | |
Skynet | |
Cyberdyne Systems | |
The game has two endings depending on how much equipment is destroyed in this stage. Only 100% destruction triggers the good ending, which differs only by the text displayed on screen. | |
The Freeway | |
The Steel Mill | |
Items
Items are collected by shooting them.
Extended Rapid Fire Coolant | |
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Recharges the gunpower gauge and allows the gun to fire for a duration at full efficiency without overheating. | |
Rapid Fire Recharge | |
Recharges the gunpower gauge. | |
Body Shield | |
Temporarily reduces damage done by enemies. | |
Smart Bomb | |
Destroys all enemies on screen. | |
Full Recharge | |
Fully replenishes the energy gauge. | |
Plasma Pulse Energizer | |
Temporarily increases the power of the machine gun. | |
Rocket | |
Each rocket increases the supply of rockets by 3. | |
Credit | |
Gives the player an extra continue. | |
Shotgun Shell | |
Increases the supply of shotgun shells by 3. | |
Minigun | |
Temporarily changes the main weapon into a six-barrel minigun. | |
M-79 Grenade Launcher | |
Temporarily changes the secondary weapon into a grenade launcher. |
Versions
The game is not region locked and thus runs on any region system.
Compared to the Arcade version and the SNES port, the Sega Mega Drive differs greatly in terms of visuals and slightly in content.
- Visually, the game now mainly features pixel artwork instead of digitized graphics. The palette has also been considerably brightened for unknown reasons.
- In terms of content, enemy layout has been altered, there is no wall and no resistance soldiers before stage 1 boss, no elevator in stage 3 (also missing in the SNES port), some missing speech samples (most notably in the final stage after meeting the T-1000 for the first time the liquid nitrogen fight), no enemy helicopters in the Cyberdyne stage, no rope SWAT in the Cyberdyne stage and final stage. This list is incomplete.
- The ending cinematic has been replaced by a single picture of John Connor (also in the SNES version)
Magazine articles
- Main article: T2: The Arcade Game/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
- Main article: T2: The Arcade Game/Promotional material.
Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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Based on 33 reviews |
Master System version
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Based on 3 reviews |
Game Gear version
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71 | |
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Based on 9 reviews |
Technical information
ROM dump status
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1MB | 1992-10 | Cartridge (US/EU) | ||||||||||
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1MB | 1993-12 | Cartridge (JP) | ||||||||||
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1MB | 1992-08 | Page | ||||||||||
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512kB | Cartridge (EU) | |||||||||||
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512kB | Cartridge (JP) | |||||||||||
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512kB | Cartridge (US/EU) |
References
- ↑ File:T2tAG MD JP Box.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software_l.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-02 23:21)
- ↑ File:T2tAG GG JP Box Front.jpg
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/gg/soft_licensee.html (Wayback Machine: 2013-01-01 20:24)
- ↑ File:T2tAG GG EU Box Back.jpg
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "January 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 28
- ↑ GamePro, "March 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 45
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sega Pro, "Christmas 1992" (UK; 1992-12-10), page 24
- ↑ Sega Force, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-14), page 40
- ↑ GamePro, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 213
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Sega Power, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-02), page 47
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Computer & Video Games, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-15), page 112
- ↑ Sega Visions, "August/September 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 104
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 235
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 241
- ↑ Alaab Alcomputtar, "" (SA; 1995-06-xx), page 81
- ↑ Aktueller Software Markt, "März 1993" (DE; 1993-02-08), page 128
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "March 1994" (JP; 1994-02-08), page 20
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 222
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "March 1993" (UK; 1993-02-15), page 68
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "March 1993" (US; 1993-02-09), page 61
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 363
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 106
- ↑ Game Power, "Marzo 1993" (IT; 1993-0x-xx), page 46
- ↑ GamePro, "March 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 44
- ↑ GamesMaster, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-21), page 60
- ↑ Hippon Super, "March 1994" (JP; 1994-02-03), page 61
- ↑ Joypad, "Janvier 1993" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 56
- ↑ Joystick, "Février 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 192
- ↑ Mega, "January 1993" (UK; 1992-12-17), page 55
- ↑ MegaTech, "January 1993" (UK; 1992-12-20), page 42
- ↑ Micromanía (segunda época), "Marzo 1993" (ES; 1993-0x-xx), page 48
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "December 1992" (UK; 1992-11-xx), page 74
- ↑ Player One, "Janvier/Février 1993" (FR; 1993-01-10), page 90
- ↑ Play Time, "4/93" (DE; 1993-03-10), page 108
- ↑ Sega Power, "January 1993" (UK; 1992-12-03), page 48
- ↑ Sega Power, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-07), page 51
- ↑ Sega Pro, "Christmas 1992" (UK; 1992-12-10), page 22
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 68
- ↑ Sega Zone, "January 1993" (UK; 1992-12-xx), page 20
- ↑ Sega Force, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-14), page 38
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
- ↑ Supergame, "Novembro 1992" (BR; 1992-11-xx), page 24
- ↑ Supersonic, "Février 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 15
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 26
- ↑ Video Games, "2/93" (DE; 1993-01-27), page 85
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 Joypad, "Mars 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 122
- ↑ Score, "Cervenec 1994" (CZ; 1994-07-01), page 61
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "Juni 1994" (DE; 1994-05-11), page 24
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "March 1994" (JP; 1994-02-08), page 22
- ↑ Consoles +, "Mars 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 154
- ↑ Hippon Super, "April 1994" (JP; 1994-03-03), page 61
- ↑ Player One, "Février 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 112
- ↑ Power Unlimited, "Nummer 5, December 1993" (NL; 1993-12-01), page 51
- ↑ Sega Pro, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-14), page 74
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