Best viewed in 60 fps. I'm player 1 and Mark is player 2. Note that the number of bombs per continue was set at 99. I edited out one death each at the two parts in the game where you restart if you fail.
If you haven't played the arcade game, seeing like this really doesn't do it justice. The Uzi's violently vibrating combined with the intensity of the cab made you feel completely involved.
Agreed. the lack of a CRT screen makes all sorts of jaggies and pixels show that you wouldn't see in the original. the glass over the screen and the feel of the gun in your hands (mounted on a joystick so you don't get tired holding it for an hour)
Some of my youngest memories are playing this at a arcade in golden ring mall with my dad. Sadly the mall and my dad are no more but I will always have the memories. Thank you for posting this
That's awesome, same with me, I played this with my dad when I was very young. I'm 29 he 59. Last week we went to see Terminator: dark fate. The movie wasnt that great but it was still amazing to go see a terminator movie with my dad.
My father is still with me, and it wasn't this game we played - but I totally have those nostalgic feelings as well. Going to the arcade together was our thing when I was a kid. It's sad that your father has passed, but hold on to those happy memories.
To be honest this the first time me seeing this after all these years and I'm telling you right now, im 37 now and if I was in my adult years back then I would have spent my rent and car insurance trying to beat that ending. No wonder I never competed this game. MY LORD LOL.
As many of us. That was the coolest game in the Arcade and I still remember as it were yesterday shooting that uzi with the build in recoil, man that was so cool.
This game turned 30 years old this year. Unbelievable how time flies. This is by far the best mounted gun arcade of all time. Given how big the movie was back then and this arcade game just added to it. The console version don't come close to the arcade version at all. I fed this arcade game a lot of my money. Revolution X, Terminator 2 Judgement Day, Lethal Enforcers 1 and 2, Time Crisis I and II, Space Gun, Alien 3 The Gun, Crime Patrol, Area 51, Maximum Force, Mad Dog McGree, Steel Gunner, so many great legendary gun arcade games from the 90s. I'm going to hook up the MAME later and play this classic.
Watching this made me remember the scent of popcorn and the game itself being 10x louder than what i'm actually listening it to. 90's Movie-theater/gaming arcades man...those were the days.
@@shutdown8947 Feels like a clone of Operation Thunderbolt; Midway started a trend of coping Japanese arcade games during days of Bevis and Butthead's edginess in 90s America, continuing with coping Street Fighter II as Mortal Kombat.
@@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher Do you own an Occulus Quest 2? Dude, I played Operation Wolf.... YOURE INSIDE OPERATION WOLF as if you’re the dude (which is a very very similar shooting game.) Its wild. A very, very surreal experience when combined with the nostalgia.
I played this very game on my Amiga instead on the Arcade. Just had to buy the game normaly, without the need of inserting a coin every now and then. But aye, i do get, what you mean.
@@Sentinel82 true. the arcade operator bought the game, they are just letting you use it for 25-50 cents a pop ($1-2 towards the end of the arcade's lifespan in the early 2000s... nowadays you can go to a barcade and pay less than a quarter per game though these are retro games we're talking about, and because they assume you are buying drinks/food too).
@@nocturnalrecluse1216 The NES console are based around 8-bit processors, which generally store and process data 8 bits at a time. That's why it also refeared to the 8-bits at times. You might also understand why it was called the Nintendo 64 now.
I played this game to death as a kid and poured countless quarters into it. A lot of video games based on movies suck but this game was a manual on how to do it right. It expanded the universe giving us more future war lore. And it built on the present day sequences. God I loved this game.
What an experience as a kid to be able to walk into an arcade and practically be guaranteed an awesome gameplay experience and amazing graphics. It seems the 'A' teams were always programming the arcade games back then. It's crazy to be given this experience of T2, with it's spot on likeness in many areas, and then play half-baked film-based games on 8 bit and 16 bit consoles...sometimes with very little to do with the movies they were based on. It was like night and day. However, this difference in quality only helped give the arcade a godlike level of gaming status at the time.
I was able to go to a Dave and Buster's for my company's Christmas party 2 years ago. When I saw the Alien Covenant arcade game (and other titles, including an Ace Combat one) there, I was literally blown away by it because of just how realistic and impressive the arcade cabinet was set up. No triple A-title of the modern era was able to replicate that same feeling for me.
@@SoldierOfFate Arcade machines can still cost thousands to manufacture a one time immersive experience. There will always be an advantage to having a physical machine running top hardware and an immersive control/cabinet to give the best experience intended. When you consider how much cheaper, higher quality and infinitely customisable home peripherals and PCs have become though it's a game changer, just look at how good VR has become in the last few years and everyone has huge screens and quality speakers/headphones in their home now.
Thank you for posting this. Brings back great memories from my brother's birthday party when I was a kid. No telling how many quarters we spent trying to get past that damned truck stage. Never could pull it off.
I remember when this arcade machine was everywhere when I was a kid. Those heavy duty guns were not easy to handle. Such great memories of the old arcade days.
People gettin' all riled up over another Hollywood cash grab, and I'm over here getting PTSD flashbacks from that damn truck segment. I hate that damn truck....
And how America was Great compared to now. I'm glad I was born in 80 and got to see what this country was before it lost its moral foundation and sold out to Globalist and China. Yeah the good old days of being naive.
You had to be there to see how awesome this machine was. Two big ass machine guns and a big CRT monitor tucked all the way inside a dark cabinet. The game reeked atmosphere just from the construction of the cabinet alone.
I used to watch people play this as a very young kid in my local swimming center. You would always hear the sounds of the game walking through the cafeteria to the changing rooms. I was too small to reach the fixed gun controls so I could never play. One of my first memories playing a videogame was my dad lifting me up so I could reach the controls. Thanks dad :)
@@ark7204 Idiots! I wanted to share the optimism but in the back of my mind I was like 'this ain't gonna work leave it alone'. I guess I may give it a watch, when its on the telly but Im not paying for it.
@@carl5192 Well, to give you a more direct answer, John Conner is dead, the T-800 now lives a mediocre, ordinary life and he only appears only a short time and SkyNet no longer exist. John Conner is replaced by some mexican girl, the T-800 is replaced by some LBGTQ- 1000, and SkyNet is replaced by a thing called, Legion. All the hard work from Terminator 1, protecting Sarah Conner, through Terminator 2 Judgement Day, protecting John is meaningless.... ...Just flat out dead. No more John Conner, no more SkyNet, No more War Against The Machines.
@@carl5192 Either you watch it on television, for free or go to a theater and give them your hard earned dollar for a sorry, excuse for a movie or don't watch it at all and look forward to watching Godzilla vs King Kong.
I can beat the game around five dollar. Don’t have Internet on the time, this is why most people don’t know the boss has weak point and don’t know how to save the bullet correctly😅 for me most hard part are protect the pick up truck and the van attack by T-1000 using helicopter, Final battle is not that hard but tricky, need the M79(?)(I am not sure the model)to finish the boss just like the movie.
@@MrAaronjt1981 Imagine being a construction worker and having to use the jackhammer. The vibrating Uzi is probably about 5% as tough and it still wears you out.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 I don't need to imagine that I've used them, and after a few hours my hands would tingle for at least 30 mins after ward. As a kid playing this game and remembering the feeling of that gun in the arcade. I can only imagine what 30+ mins straight would be like lol
To avoid taking damage as a solo player (Player 1 side), make sure you shoot any Terminators on your side but ignore the ones on the right (or if you're Player 2 only, ignore the left side), they are just targeting the other player side. Halo Fireteam Raven has this type of health system but acts like the one from Terminator Salvation.
@@WillScarlet1991 It's a tough game, especially considering it was mostly kids who wanted to play it. They'd last a minute at best on a lot of occasions and then die, they complain to their parents, parents complain to the management.
This was so hard! My dad tried to help me beat it in 1994 and it took us FOREVER. The part that always got us was the part with the giant skynet thing attacking the pick up truck! Once we beat it we were so happy...only to discover there is almost an identical fight towards the end lol. Man this really takes me back...i was 9 in 1994 playing with my dad. We used to bond over shooting games as a kid...that and Dick Tracy for NES lol. To this day that is one of the only games my dad beat but I never did. He used to play it while I was at school in Kindergarten (1990)...man I feel old saying all of this. Edit: oh my god I forgot about the random factory workers shooting at you in the last level LOL. I was so baffled by this as a child I recall...now of course I realize they needed canon fodder.
Same here I was born in 86 me and my dad would play the shit out of this every time we went to the mall because the arcade had it. This and Dr. Mario on the original Nintendo were his favorite games. Great memories
There were home versions of it... Amiga, Mega-Drive, I believe the SNES also got a port. But of course they all pale in front of the real arcade machine.
I like how the guy at the beginning gives you compliments. It’s like you know you were bad at one point, and need the positive affirmation of the humans
Remember when you spent $20 in the arcade to beat this game, keeping John Connor alive and preventing Judgement Day? Dark Fate tells us you should have just saved your money, shot John yourself, and started up a drapery business.
This game was the absolute bane of my existence back when I was a child. Even more so than that damn Revolution X. Even so, I wish they still made games like this. Ah, man...the '90s were such a magical time to be a kid.
Even if Terminator 3 was okayish, for me it ended in T2. Especially with the alternative ending where we get to see not the rebel leader John, but the senator John and old Sarah is playing with her grand child. ^^
When I was a kid I had an emulater, it only gave you 3 lives. Never got passed the car part. I never thought it was so long. Nice game. Good old times.
This was everywhere back in the day. Remember first playing it in the Arcade at Liseberg amusement park in Sweden. People aren't kidding when they say it's hard as balls.
Wow, I forgot just how brutal this game is. It uses a lot of the "your useless allies stand in your line of fire" trick too. But I still have very fond memories of this. Great sound design and sprites made everything so satisfying to blow up
My dad and I used to play this at a gas station sometimes. Man it kicked our backsides but it was soooo satisfying shooting and blowing up evil robots.
Midway made the best arcade games in the 90’s. This game, the Mortal Kombat series, Revolution X, NFL blitz, NBA Jam series & the Grid... Such awesome devs at the time!
@@RoueArzhur Absolute garbage and an abomination. Worst of the franchise. prepare to be utterly disgusted if you appreciated the lore of T1 and T2. Fair warning!
@@Frychacha Not of it's true. The movie was an abomination. It failed at the box office and killed the franchise. Now we'll get no more terminator movies thanks to Tim Miller.
I used to play this game with my brother back in the early 90s. We first discovered this game in an arcade room in Florida. Great times. Also, you gotta hand it to the T-1000. Even in this game, he's a persistent bastard.
Kyle Reese: "They sent a Terminator to the past to kill Sarah Connor!" Two random guys from the human rebellion: "Don't worry, we will kill thousands and thousands right now.."
@@animemangafan1987 I built 3 this week as gifts for friends. Scored them on ebay on the cheap side. 3b+ models. Didnt go fill arcade box though. I build them into arcade controllerd that you plug into the tv by hdmi
Khat Dragon Might sound like a dumb question but can you play these shooting games with joysticks & buttons? I see people can play these with a mouse but I also got a plug & play two player deck & was just curious if I can set this up to just use joysticks & buttons.
The memories of playing this as a kid when arcades were still a thing. What's sad though, is I don't remember ever getting off the first stage! This second stage I don't remember at all. Just an absolute quarter monster! lol
Videos like this (and arcades like Galloping Ghost) really show how little gameplay there was to a lot of arcade games. If you don't have to keep slamming in quarters, all you have is less than ten minutes of stuff.
For real, never saw anyone get past mission 1 in the arcades. And I didn't know you could blow up Skynet. Something that should have happened in the movies!
Holy cow this brings back memories. I was so mad when the restaurant that had this got rid of the cabinet. Also, notice how there were no designers? Just programmers and artists?
Imho 87-94 will always be the golden era of arcade. TMNT Turtles in time Golden axe Double dragon Terminator 2 Cadillacs and dinosaurs Final fight NBA jam Aliens Aliens vs predator The punisher Moonwalker Robocop GA revenge of death adder Man, the list is endless. We was truly blessed to be kids back then.
I always wanted to play this game since I was 11 years old, now I’m 23 and I get to finally play this arcade game in Akihabara which they actually got, ngl. It was breathtaking.
First played the arcade version of this game in the early 90's at a Putt Putt then again at a Main Event or Fun Spot in 2001 and haven't seen an arcade cab of it since. Classic game for sure. I am surprised the arcade version hasn't got a straight home port. I have the game for Genesis and SNES. Thank you for sharing this.
An entire allowance in quarters gone in 15 minutes, never got further than the part where you're shooting over your allies heads. Completely worth it to my 10 year old brain. I remember watching an older kid play until he reached the pickup truck sequence, and I was chilled and shocked to see the T800s running alongside it at speed. Good times.
An arcade near my school actually had this arcade along with some others classics like, Operation Wolf, Time Crisis 3 and Tekken 5. But the owners were assholes and got rid of all of them to place some of those stupid ticket games for the kids.
This is what is so sad about arcades, that most of them were just cynical money makers and when gambling machines for kids started showing up, they just replaced it with them because they were more lucrative and cheaper. Arcade machines deserved so much more respect than most of their owners gave them.
I miss this game. I dumped some many quarters into it. I actually got good at playing the game. Then the snes version came out and I would play that for hours on end. I miss this game so much.
Kids today will never understand the glory days of the arcade in the early 1990s. Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, NBA Jam, TMNT, X-Men, T2, The Simpsons. Such great times.
I remember being able to beat this game at Timezone in Australia one time when they had their $10 or $20 all you can play session where for 3 hours, all games were on freeplay.
long time favorite. But i can never forgive/forget the truck section. lol. /wish u 2 were more liberal with the missiles, but im still happy with the playthrough.
I had forgotten that when you switch to the shotgun, the game doesn't consider how many missiles you were holding. Still, I would agree that I should have used more missiles, especially at the Skynet boss. That truck part seems to be nearly impossible the first time you play it, before the difficulty reduces from dying, and the helicopter part is pretty terrible the first time too.
Yes!! I recall that being the worst fucking part of this game. I would play this on Genesis with my dad when I was in elementary school and with his help I couldn’t even beat it lol.
I remember seeing this in a bowling ally for the first time. Completely blown away and thought for sure this had a 32 bit color palette. Learned some years later that 16 bit color is imperceptible from 32 bit color to the human eye, and that "T2 - The Arcade Game" is indeed 16 bit color palette. Played the heck out this game on my Genesis system with Menacer light gun. I see the new Terminator Salvation game in my local movie theater all the time. Played it a few times. Still does not compare to the relentless action of "T2 - The Arcade Game".
