This game and its 1993 SNES counterpart, once again called The Terminator, both received mixed reviews, criticized for their sub-par graphics and unoriginal gameplay. The game received largely positive reviews despite not adhering to the lead programmer’s original vision, which once again was to have the player play as the Terminator itself.Ī DOS-based game entitled The Terminator 2029 was also released in the same year, as well as The Terminator for the NES, a side-scrolling action game featuring platforming and driving segments. 1992 saw more releases, including The Terminator, a platform shoot ’em up developed by Probe Software and released on Sega Genesis and other Sega consoles. That year also saw the release of a Terminator 2 game on the archaic ZX Spectrum, alongside an arcade game, a pinball machine, and a Game Boy title also based upon the second movie. The game was broadly praised, although its complicated control system received some criticism. This innovative title allowed players to play as either Kyle Reese, tasked as in the movie with protecting Sarah Connor, or as the Terminator itself, whose job it is to kill her. The first true Terminator tie-in didn’t arrive until 1991 with Bethesda’s DOS-based action-adventure game, The Terminator.
Gaming adaptations were surprisingly slow to follow after years of development problems, cancellations, and rights wrangling, with Sunsoft’s Terminator game eventually published as Journey to Silius in 1990 after it lost the license. The Terminator was released in 1984 and immediately became a box office hit, introducing the world to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the prospect of nuclear annihilation at the hands of a sinister neural network called Skynet.
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