IGN Article on the Best Terminator 2 Games

noodler

http://retro.ign.com/articles/979/979651p1.html

An absolute joke they forgot the classic and huge C64 version. I mean it was on of the first cartridges for the system, had 9 excellent levels and was the cover them for the C64 box for aagggeeesss.

That arcade gun one was ace though.

Retr0gamer

The C64 wasn't popular at all in America though. It was the NES over there or nothing so the editors probably never played a C64. The console T2 games were utter crap, don't know why they are listed and there were multiple Skynet games that should have made it on the list that were excellent and way ahead of their time.

John

Was "Terminator: Skynet" not called "Terminator: Future Shock"? It was ace anyway. Loved the arcade and the Game Boy T2 games too.

Retr0gamer

Future Shock was one of the sequels.

Mr E

I liked the T2 game when it came out on the C64, but if you say its great now you're looking through rose tinted glasses. The fighting levels were crap, and a 15-puzzle? Come on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aV2F9lbl2Y

noodler

Mr E wrote: »

I liked the T2 game when it came out on the C64, but if you say its great now you're looking through rose tinted glasses. The fighting levels were crap, and a 15-puzzle? Come on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aV2F9lbl2Y

Nothing rose-tinted about it. If I thought a game was great at the time then it is great for me. I am not going to change my opinion on a game simply due to the passage of time.

Watched that entire video there. Great stuff. Never completed it that fast.

Mr E

Maybe I had lower standards when I was 17.

I'm a big retro fan, and lots of games from back then stand the test of time.
T2 ain't one of them!

noodler

The game was great at the time I played it. Thats enough for me.

I am hardly going to go back and play it now.

Completely unfair to compare an 18 year old game with the standards of today.

Retr0gamer

Rose tinted glasses can make any game thats aged terribly seem good. Play Goldeneye now without the rose tinted specs and it's shockingly poor. There's plenty of other games like that, Kid Icarus, Mortal Kombat 2 etc.

Mr E

Yeah fair enough... I liked it back then too.

TinCool

noodler wrote: »

An absolute joke they forgot the classic and huge C64 version. I mean it was on of the first cartridges for the system.

I think you'll find that it was definitely not one of the first C64 cartridges released. The T2 cartridge for the C64 was circa 1991. There were plenty of other cartridge based games for the C64 released a lot earlier than that. Avenger (circa 1982), Jupiter Lander (circa 1982), International Soccer (circa 1983) to name but a few.

TC

noodler

TinCool wrote: »

I think you'll find that it was definitely not one of the first C64 cartridges released. The T2 cartridge for the C64 was circa 1991. There were plenty of other cartridge based games for the C64 released a lot earlier than that. Avenger (circa 1982), Jupiter Lander (circa 1982), International Soccer (circa 1983) to name but a few.

TC

Silly me so.

Retr0gamer

Mr E wrote: »

Yeah fair enough... I liked it back then too.

I'm probably as guilty as anyone else for the rose tinted specs effect

noodler

I don't like it now.

Still great though.