====Description==== Terminator 2: Judgment Day or T2 is a light gun shooter based on the film of the same name, produced by Midway Manufacturing Company as an arcade video game in 1991. Developed in tandem with the movie, several actors from the film reprise their roles for the game and are featured as part of the game's photorealistic digitized graphics. The game's plot largely follows that of the film, casting up to two players as the T-800 "terminator" cyborg from the film, sent back in time to protect John Connor from assassination by the T-1000 terminator. A success in arcades, home conversions of the game were released by Acclaim Entertainment for various platforms under the title of T2: The Arcade Game in order to avoid confusion with the numerous tie-in games also based on the movie. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day_(arcade_game) Terminator-assisted superplay (TAS) of Terminator 2: Judgment Day Arcade What is a TAS? ruclips.net/user/Prog61about Goal: -Complete the game with one credit -Getting as little damage as possible (without taking weeks to optimize) Notes: -It's far from a perfect TAS. -This is my first TAS of this game. I hadn't planned ahead. I only reacted to what was happening on the screen. Now that I see the final video, it's easy to spot things I could do better. It will be for next time. -I lost a bit of energy here and there and more in battle with the T-1000. I think it's possible not to lose any, but it would be very hard for a human (but not for a terminator?). -I didn't get 100% accuracy in the stats, I think sometimes enemies spawn near the edge of the screen and disappear quickly without giving you time to shoot them. -But now seeing the finished video, I wonder why I let go of some of the robots in the 1st level. -And keep in mind that it is the T-800 that plays. Since it only has a 6502 processor in its head (as in the Apple ][, as clearly shown in the first movie at 37:29) he doesn't have enough processing power to keep up with the game 😀😀😀 -The rng depends among other things on the position of the crosshair, so it is easy to abuse it in a TAS. -I abuse it in the 'Trip to Skynet' section. I move the position of the crosshair before a flying enemy enters the screen until they don't shoot at me or the truck. -But it's easy to make a mistake, I had to redo some parts 2-3 times because of me moving the crosshair too soon. -I'm used to pointing at a target a few frames before it enters the screen, but if I did that in this game, the fact that I moved the crosshairs makes the enemy appear somewhere else. And sometimes I only see that when I replay the whole TAS, so I have to redo the last part that I did. Maybe there is also a small problem with the "save state". -I was surprised to see that I hadn't shot enough things in Cyberdyne's office, I had the impression that we didn't have to shoot all the things but I was wrong. Now that I see the video, I can see what I didn't shoot. I should have used the shotgun more often at this point. -But since it's the T-800 that plays, he largely preferred that Cyberdyne not be destroyed since without them he wouldn't exist. 😀 - In the steel mill, punching a hole in the liquid nitrogen tank is sometimes difficult to do. Sometimes a shotgun blast does the trick, but other times you have to shoot 3 times. I do not know why. -From the steel mill, I didn't try not to get hit, as long as I didn't die that was fine with me. -The last battle with the T-1000 has 4 phases: -To start you have to shoot him so that he falls on the bridge and disappears by liquefying -2nd phase is when he is close to you, shoot his head until his head splits in two. -3rd phase is to shoot him with the shogun to knock him back until he is about to fall into the molten steel -get the grenade launcher that will fall from the far left or right of the screen, shoot it 2 times. Maybe I should redo the 2nd part of the game from the desktop? You tell me. It took about 30 hours of work to make this TAS. Thanks for watching. For a good introduction to TASing: ruclips.net/video/Ietk1-Wb7oY/видео.html For more information visit tasvideos.org. 0:00 - Title screen 0:25 - Battlefield 5:15 - Human Hideout 7:49 - Trip to Skynet 10:38 - Skynet 18:12 - Cyberdyne 23:01 - Escape from Cyberdyne 24:25 - Steel Mill (T-1000) 27:53 - Credits 29:22 - Score and Title
@@ae86takumi It'll only be the same pattern if you follow the TAS movement frame by frame. Since humans don't usually follow perfectly and since game highly randomizes positions, you need to rely on reaction a lot.
man, that level with the swat truck is where most of us tapped out. Unless you and your buddies ALL teammed up on like one gun and just constantly continued, you probably weren't making it further than that.
Yeah, it was a tough game But the movie was so popular with me and my friends, 5hat we played alo6 more than average. The arcade owner must have really picked the toughest setting because nobody we knew, or watched. Ever made it past level 2
Uh oh, a few windows survived at Cyberdyne! The research continues! This game was bonkers in arcades. Glad I never invested enough quarters to grind out the win. This TAS will have to do.
The windows don't count toward the total, but just about everything else does, including the fire extinguishers, telephones, and the wall pipes in the cryo chamber. I think you can miss a maximum of like 6 pieces of equipment, total. It is *very* unforgiving.
@@hawaiidkw1 Knowing Midway, they made it impossible on purpose to try and keep people coming. They did something similar with the keys to the Pleasure Dome in Smash TV (prior to later ROM revisions that actually implemented the level) ...And Total Carnage. That one was just a exercise in masochism in general.
Arnie's deadpan compliments while the player displays superhuman reflexes and aiming kinda make me giggle Also, wow, the first boss goes down FAST with the plasma powerup
Its a good game but its definetly a coin globber with clunky mechanics and unforgiving difficulty both done on porpouse to make kids spend all their quarters. Other games that came out around the same time like house of the dead were hard but possible to beat on a 1cc run with human skill. T2 on the other hand MUST be beaten with A LOT of quarters!! Unless of course the player plays with tools such as shown here
"So how do you beat this game in 1 credit, man?" "Oh, just make your crosshairs instantly snap on to the bad guys as soon as they appear on screen, that'll do the trick." "But I can't even move the gun that fast!" "It should be possible, I seen it on a RUclips video once."
_BAD END:_ John Connor is found alive, but the research of Cyberdyne Systems always continued and Judgement Day is still possible… Remember to destroy everything, *not* just abuse and killed civilians at all...
I'll have to rework that end, possibly on a next revision of this TAS. But since it's the T-800 that plays, he largely preferred that Cyberdyne not be destroyed since without them he wouldn't exist. 😀
20 years ago I watched my brother dump ten bucks into one of these machines. He didn't quite beat Skynet. Most of that money was sacrificed to the red truck. Arnold shouldn't have been too worried about protecting young John Connor. John could apparently get blown up a dozen times and then appear again and get into another truck.
Wow, this is impressive! A machine playing as a machine killing machines that are manufactured by machines. This game looks incredibly hard, nice work! It’d be interesting to know what all the pickups/power ups do.
The rapid fire coolant let's you fire forever without main weapon overheating.aka gunpower. MIRV let's you fire multiple missiles at a time instead of one. Smart bomb destroys all on screen.pulse rifle is a limited upgrade to your main weapon. Auxiliary power gives replenishes health. All I can remember. Played this in Arcade and SNES long ago
Judging how relentless the difficulty is i wouldnt be surprised to know this game was "made" by machines. I mean the lighting fast snap targeting is IMPOSSIBLE for a human. The game was a total coin globber!! Also that truck... i cant get pass that damn truck level!!!
I remember playing this on the Gameboy as a kid and it was tough then and I could never complete it because for some reason I couldn't figure out how to get the rocket launcher to work to get him in the molten metal
I used to play the hell out of the Genesis/Mega Drive conversion of this game, _Terminator 2: The Arcade Game_ , in my youth. While that version had to make some compromises due to hardware limitations, not to mention was very hard on some levels (I'm looking at you, "adult John Connor in the truck" and "Escaping from Cyberdyne with the T-1000 being able to instantly kill you" levels), I still enjoyed it. Wonderful TAS playthrough.
I had a doubt on the possibilty of a tas 1cc of this, I tried setting one up myself since I didn't see any around, it must have been hard to do, man. I like your channel a lot because you cover games not usually seen in TAS, even if they aren't absolutely frame perfect, it's still really entertaining, thank you.
Many of my TAS aren't perfect, some are a first try with games I'm not familiar with, you can see them as my first draft. But I post them anyway because I find them fun to watch and it gives a base to start a more complete TAS. This TAS took me about 30 hours of work to do. I will do a 100% TAS of this game eventually but it will take a lot longer to do. But for now I prefer to work on other games like this since it seems like I'm the only one working on this type of games for now, but that will change when the driver for MAME in BizHawk will be more functional.
I own a T2 machine. It's the crown jewel of my Terminator collection, and the only arcade machine I own. I've played it... a lot. I mean, really. I've beaten it many times, both solo and two-player, and I've beaten the official world record for the game (as recorded by Twin Galaxies - I didn't record it. Oh well.). I say all that just so I can say this: Holy hell this is AWESOME!! Totally proves that cyborgs rule! 😄 The whole thing is great, and I'm especially impressed by the RNG manipulation on the truck level. I REALLY hope you do a run where you destroy everything at Cyberdyne! It's the thing I've never done in the game. The best we've been able to do is get close when playing two-player and ignoring self-preservation.
@@excaliber2010 I wish I had the money and space for one. It would look glorious next to the T2! I've played it all the way through, and it's a hell of a lot of fun.
The only way this could have been more awesome is a perfect cyberdyne. I'd imagine you can still get a 1CC by sacrificing some energy to get the additional 10-12 Cyberdyne components to get a good ending 1CC, as you had some to spare after the T - 1000 Fight.
Played this on the SEGA Genesis as a kid. Never and I mean NEVER beat it. You just couldn’t put out enough bullets man…. Finally, a TAS to seal this memory away finally
I was convinced that it was a scam to play it in the arcade, because the controller just couldn't keep up like the gun. So much rage-quitting ensued. Although Robocop vs Terminator made up for it. Loved that game.
If you do manage to destroy all the objects in the Cyberdine level, you do get a 1,000,000 point bonus, but at the end of the game, you're told that Cyberdine research will continue anyway.
2 things 1) On the first level, whenever a T-800 pops up in front of you shoot it in the head. This will give you a "get the CPU" bonus. 2) On the destroy everything Cyberdyne level you need to destroy the cop cars outside.
I can't tell you how many times I've played a frustrating arcade rail shooter and thought, man, what I wouldn't give to have perfect laserlike accuracy. I don't even care if I still have to continue, I just want to be able to make some damn progress! Well, once again you came through, and I get to see deadly juggernauts taken apart like Lego, that fragile red truck making it through without a scratch, orbs never knowing what hit them, and an evil world-threatening computer being reduced to a piffling annoyance. You don't see many games like this on TASVideos. Most arcade games from the 90's either ramp up the punishment on exceptional players or are punishing to begin with, and shooters have a harsh kill-or-be-killed ethos, neither of which is very appealing to the TASVideos community. They want to take shortcuts, optimize weaponry, take damage to save time, and make perfect maneuvers, not shovel in somewhat fewer theoretical tokens than normal. No one speedrunner or website is going to cover everything, which is why it's great that you're here to cover games like this. Deeply satisfying video. Congrats, you have a new subscriber! :-D I do think that someday you should do a 2-Player TAS. One of the things you've no doubt noticed (and which a lot of players in my arcades learned pretty quickly) is that this game was designed for two players. A lone Terminator _struggles._ Too many targets, too many ways to take damage, too many things to keep track of. I'm not surprised that you weren't able to destroy Cyberdyne Systems... you just didn't have the firepower!
It's definitely beatable solo (if you're willing to pump credits into it and stock up on shotgun shells in the liquid nitrogen tanker level), but I don't know if it's possible to destroy everything at Cyberdyne with just one player. Maybe TAS?
@@Datan0de You can let a VERY FEW objects remain standing and still get credit for total destruction, but you absolutely _have_ to make smashing stuff priority #1... which means eating a lot of machine gun fire. Looking at it again, prog61 took the "1 credit" part very seriously, which meant that taking one for the team just wasn't an option. This is a TAS, BTW.
True statement. If Terminator were real, humanity's only how would be to find a bug or hack to exploit. Going toe to toe on the battlefield would be complete suicide. Humans would never even get a shot off.
Real talk, this game Obliterated my Allowance. Even Now with a TAS Run I can't help but wonder aloud. How in the name of all that is Merciful and Mechanical was a Human being meant to Play this game?! The Snap Re-actions, Accuracy and near Perfect Shot count necessary to Actually Target Everything thrown at you at once is Entirely Absurd! Edit, seeing levels I Never made it too back in the day, the game is total BS with how often it sets you up to friendly Fire too.
I dunno if it helps but only the enemies on your side of the screen can hit you so its possible to focus on that and mitigate the pressure. But the truck... damn thats some tough $hit idk what to do there!!!
I tried playing through the Genesis version of this game a *lot* as a kid and could just never get past the part in the beginning with the pickup truck.
I got past the truck once in my life on the Genesis version using a Menacer. Once you get past it, the rest of the game isn’t that bad. You’ll still die, but it’s beatable.
To be honest that helicopter and truck take a LOT more damage before going down on mine and the helicopter got a lot closer in this video than my arcade allows without failing the mission. In addition, obtaining the grenade launcher THAT early on the final T-1000 battle? I've had to go 10 rounds of pushing him back before and never less than 5 before it appears. Not to mention it takes bullet stream plus close to 10 consecutive shotgun blasts to push him back on mine. In the final battle before the last one, in front of the truck, my arcade requires numerous shotgun blasts to drop him. The bullets are next to useless and I've never seen then drop him the way you did in the video. Either way, love the run through. Better than anything I've done or could do. The truck with john connor would have 100% been destroyed with how many airships flew by lighting it up without being shot by you.
Agreed, and speaking from the Genesis/Mega Drive port. Along with the later chase level in which the T-1000 can instantly kill you, that level was the bane of my childhood existence. Fortunately, I found out the level-skip code and didn't bother to play through them.
The "trick" to getting past the truck scene is to either do it two-player and both be really focused with a bunch of missiles in reserve and get it on the first go (Super Truck Bonus!), or let John die a few times and just stock up on missiles at the beginning of the round. Either way, mostly ignore the endoskeletons. The aerial HKs have to be the top priority, and you have to hose them down with missiles the moment they're on screen!
@@Datan0de: Well, from the version of the game I've played (the Genesis/MD version), when playing by yourself, you actually CAN'T ignore the Endoskeletons because they'll take your lifebar down quickly.
@@Loader2K1 Oh sure, they'll mess you up. But to get past the level in the arcade version you need to always hit the HKs first, then you can take a moment to deal with the endos (shoot 'em in the legs!) before going back to the ready position for the next HK. If playing solo, I'll keep the crosshair either right where the HKs come out on the left side and be ready to snap to the right side, or in the middle between the two entry points. If you're playing two-player, each pick a side to wait, but both players should focus on pumping missiles into every HK that comes on screen.
This is a TAS, see the definition: ruclips.net/user/Prog61about I did not play the game myself but edited the movement of the crosshair frame by frame. It took me about 30 hours of work to do this video. You could say that it is a robot (Terminator 😀) that is playing.
OMG. Lol. Who in the hell can actually beat this. This was fun to watch though. Now I'm going to pull my SNES out of the attic. I have this game somewhere. Thank you for this.
Err... I'm not sure blasting everybody in the knees technically guarantees their survival if local triage and medivac proves unable to properly handle nearly 300 single/multiple gunshot wounded in a single night.
This is how a real terminator would play the game 😄 How come you did not get for the CPU chips off the endoskulls? May I ask (to anyone) is there a trick to beating the truck level without taking damage?
I use what we call "rng manipulation", a trick that can only be used in a TAS. In this game, the rng can be changed by changing the position of the crosshair. The HK can fire at 3 angles: at you, at the truck or in front of them. I just have to move the crosshair somewhere before an HK enters the screen and see what happens. If the result is not what I want, I move the crosshair somewhere else and try again until the HKs fire in front of them missing me and the truck.
I watched your Roadblasters TAS, then I noticed this TAS. I immediately knew the same situation would occur. The AI never had a chance. EDIT: Question to the author. How does the truck scene work. Why isn't the truck taking damage even though you're not shooting the Flying HKs.
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====Description====
Terminator 2: Judgment Day or T2 is a light gun shooter based on the film of the same name, produced by Midway Manufacturing Company as an arcade video game in 1991. Developed in tandem with the movie, several actors from the film reprise their roles for the game and are featured as part of the game's photorealistic digitized graphics. The game's plot largely follows that of the film, casting up to two players as the T-800 "terminator" cyborg from the film, sent back in time to protect John Connor from assassination by the T-1000 terminator. A success in arcades, home conversions of the game were released by Acclaim Entertainment for various platforms under the title of T2: The Arcade Game in order to avoid confusion with the numerous tie-in games also based on the movie.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day_(arcade_game)
Terminator-assisted superplay (TAS) of Terminator 2: Judgment Day Arcade
What is a TAS? ruclips.net/user/Prog61about
Goal:
-Complete the game with one credit
-Getting as little damage as possible (without taking weeks to optimize)
Notes:
-It's far from a perfect TAS.
-This is my first TAS of this game. I hadn't planned ahead. I only reacted to what was happening on the screen. Now that I see the final video, it's easy to spot things I could do better. It will be for next time.
-I lost a bit of energy here and there and more in battle with the T-1000. I think it's possible not to lose any, but it would be very hard for a human (but not for a terminator?).
-I didn't get 100% accuracy in the stats, I think sometimes enemies spawn near the edge of the screen and disappear quickly without giving you time to shoot them.
-But now seeing the finished video, I wonder why I let go of some of the robots in the 1st level.
-And keep in mind that it is the T-800 that plays. Since it only has a 6502 processor in its head (as in the Apple ][, as clearly shown in the first movie at 37:29) he doesn't have enough processing power to keep up with the game 😀😀😀
-The rng depends among other things on the position of the crosshair, so it is easy to abuse it in a TAS.
-I abuse it in the 'Trip to Skynet' section. I move the position of the crosshair before a flying enemy enters the screen until they don't shoot at me or the truck.
-But it's easy to make a mistake, I had to redo some parts 2-3 times because of me moving the crosshair too soon.
-I'm used to pointing at a target a few frames before it enters the screen, but if I did that in this game, the fact that I moved the crosshairs makes the enemy appear somewhere else. And sometimes I only see that when I replay the whole TAS, so I have to redo the last part that I did. Maybe there is also a small problem with the "save state".
-I was surprised to see that I hadn't shot enough things in Cyberdyne's office, I had the impression that we didn't have to shoot all the things but I was wrong. Now that I see the video, I can see what I didn't shoot. I should have used the shotgun more often at this point.
-But since it's the T-800 that plays, he largely preferred that Cyberdyne not be destroyed since without them he wouldn't exist. 😀
- In the steel mill, punching a hole in the liquid nitrogen tank is sometimes difficult to do. Sometimes a shotgun blast does the trick, but other times you have to shoot 3 times. I do not know why.
-From the steel mill, I didn't try not to get hit, as long as I didn't die that was fine with me.
-The last battle with the T-1000 has 4 phases:
-To start you have to shoot him so that he falls on the bridge and disappears by liquefying
-2nd phase is when he is close to you, shoot his head until his head splits in two.
-3rd phase is to shoot him with the shogun to knock him back until he is about to fall into the molten steel
-get the grenade launcher that will fall from the far left or right of the screen, shoot it 2 times.
Maybe I should redo the 2nd part of the game from the desktop? You tell me.
It took about 30 hours of work to make this TAS. Thanks for watching.
For a good introduction to TASing: ruclips.net/video/Ietk1-Wb7oY/видео.html
For more information visit tasvideos.org.
0:00 - Title screen
0:25 - Battlefield
5:15 - Human Hideout
7:49 - Trip to Skynet
10:38 - Skynet
18:12 - Cyberdyne
23:01 - Escape from Cyberdyne
24:25 - Steel Mill (T-1000)
27:53 - Credits
29:22 - Score and Title
Hey Prog! If you ever get a chance, possibly do a TAS of "Alien 3: The Gun" on arcade. Would love to see how many unavoidable hits that game dealt.
Waiting for Good Ending when Cyberdyne is fully destroyed.
when you spend $235.50 just to find out you only completed mission 1…
Holy crap, it is actually possible on 1 credit, even if via TAS. Incredible stuff.
how the fuck is it possible with the Truck mission is my question
From what I can see , the enemies are always in the same pattern. It just takes time to learn to pre-fire
TAS
@@ae86takumi It'll only be the same pattern if you follow the TAS movement frame by frame. Since humans don't usually follow perfectly and since game highly randomizes positions, you need to rely on reaction a lot.
As a kid I always thought the game just randomly depletes your health - spent so much of my allowance on this
this is like childhood frustration ASMR. watching these enemies go down so quickly is remarkably satisfying
Same, pal 😂 😂 😂
"Arcade tries to beat Player 1"
TASed Player 1: "No way, Jose"
Lol, I know it's a TAS, but not even a fcking scratch on the truck and the tail gunner is still alive!!!
This was at my local arcade. I had only once seen anyone get past level 1. I had never seen any of the game after that until now.
man, that level with the swat truck is where most of us tapped out. Unless you and your buddies ALL teammed up on like one gun and just constantly continued, you probably weren't making it further than that.
I did... but it took $4-5 in tokens to do so lol
Yeah, it was a tough game
But the movie was so popular with me and my friends, 5hat we played alo6 more than average.
The arcade owner must have really picked the toughest setting because nobody we knew, or watched. Ever made it past level 2
I've always heard that this game was literally impossible to 1cc, even with a tas. Neat to see that isn't true.
Never know 'till you try. ;-) TASing is all about pushing the limits, and that's definitely on display in every level here.
@@hawaiidkw1 yeah you are right but still how is human supposed to play this normally and get a 1cc? Also that damn truck level!!
Same way when was kids too.
You can't even beat Revolution X by TAS without taking damage.
When a Terminator plays a Terminator game. 🤣
Correction : a Terminator got reprogrammed by Future John Connor to stop Skynet and put the end of the Terminator.
Also protect young John Connor
"Play with me if you want to win."
Hacked/reprogrammed Terminator wow, weird, but very rare, controlling defective 🤖 robots from the future
Yeah, that's on the thumbnail.
Uh oh, a few windows survived at Cyberdyne! The research continues!
This game was bonkers in arcades. Glad I never invested enough quarters to grind out the win. This TAS will have to do.
The windows don't count toward the total, but just about everything else does, including the fire extinguishers, telephones, and the wall pipes in the cryo chamber. I think you can miss a maximum of like 6 pieces of equipment, total. It is *very* unforgiving.
@@hawaiidkw1 Knowing Midway, they made it impossible on purpose to try and keep people coming. They did something similar with the keys to the Pleasure Dome in Smash TV (prior to later ROM revisions that actually implemented the level)
...And Total Carnage. That one was just a exercise in masochism in general.
Microsoft Windows Vs Cybernet/Skynet
@@hawaiidkw1 And it looked like he missed a couple computer mainframes.
Arnie's deadpan compliments while the player displays superhuman reflexes and aiming kinda make me giggle
Also, wow, the first boss goes down FAST with the plasma powerup
hardest arcade and the best arcade game during the 90s, you don’t see games like these anymore
For a good reason
Its a good game but its definetly a coin globber with clunky mechanics and unforgiving difficulty both done on porpouse to make kids spend all their quarters. Other games that came out around the same time like house of the dead were hard but possible to beat on a 1cc run with human skill. T2 on the other hand MUST be beaten with A LOT of quarters!! Unless of course the player plays with tools such as shown here
this game recreates all my fav parts from the movie, like when guys in welding masks rappel from the ceiling to shoot at john conner in the steel mill
Or the scene at Cyberdyne when the scientists in the clean room all donned hazmat suits and threw flasks of yellow goo at John and Sarah!
Way to go!
Now you gotta do one for Revolution X.
I could never find all of Aerosmith in that game
Missed opportunity to call this a T-800-Assisted Superplay.
I don't remember the angry steel workers trying to kill JC in the movie. Must have missed that part.
It was fine if you got the bad ending, i friggin' salute you for TASing one of my Favorite Arcade games!
You still did an amaizing job!
6:32 Just watching this thing take out the egg drones with such precision is carthartic. Few things irk me more in this game than those bastards.
"So how do you beat this game in 1 credit, man?"
"Oh, just make your crosshairs instantly snap on to the bad guys as soon as they appear on screen, that'll do the trick."
"But I can't even move the gun that fast!"
"It should be possible, I seen it on a RUclips video once."
"Sounds like a skill issue."
Dude I wanted to see a tas of this for years ty
Great to see more than the 2nd level, I could never pass it back in the 90s.
So even a theoretically perfect computer cannot get everything in the cyberdyne level. That makes me feel better for missing a lot of things back then
_BAD END:_ John Connor is found alive, but the research of Cyberdyne Systems always continued and Judgement Day is still possible…
Remember to destroy everything, *not* just abuse and killed civilians at all...
I'll have to rework that end, possibly on a next revision of this TAS.
But since it's the T-800 that plays, he largely preferred that Cyberdyne not be destroyed since without them he wouldn't exist. 😀
@@Prog61 I think you can also destroy the police cars in the background outside the facility.
@Mylstar Electronics: The SWAT guys were not killed; they were "immobilized."
Bad... or good?
@@fromlefttoright130 Affirmative.
20 years ago I watched my brother dump ten bucks into one of these machines. He didn't quite beat Skynet. Most of that money was sacrificed to the red truck. Arnold shouldn't have been too worried about protecting young John Connor. John could apparently get blown up a dozen times and then appear again and get into another truck.
TAS has made the Terminator an even more efficient killer.
30:01 John Connor is alive
*Hold my Terminator: Dark Fate*
To defeat the robots, you must become a robot.
Wow, this is impressive! A machine playing as a machine killing machines that are manufactured by machines. This game looks incredibly hard, nice work! It’d be interesting to know what all the pickups/power ups do.
The rapid fire coolant let's you fire forever without main weapon overheating.aka gunpower. MIRV let's you fire multiple missiles at a time instead of one. Smart bomb destroys all on screen.pulse rifle is a limited upgrade to your main weapon. Auxiliary power gives replenishes health. All I can remember. Played this in Arcade and SNES long ago
@@179107199999this game is 1000 times harder in the arcade without cheating
Judging how relentless the difficulty is i wouldnt be surprised to know this game was "made" by machines. I mean the lighting fast snap targeting is IMPOSSIBLE for a human. The game was a total coin globber!! Also that truck... i cant get pass that damn truck level!!!
Lovely gameplay, nicely done.
You did it, you achieved the impossible, not a single soul before has the guts to tas this game, congratulations for such amazing feat
I remember playing this on the Gameboy as a kid and it was tough then and I could never complete it because for some reason I couldn't figure out how to get the rocket launcher to work to get him in the molten metal
this is friggin awesome way better than any of the games these days
I used to play the hell out of the Genesis/Mega Drive conversion of this game, _Terminator 2: The Arcade Game_ , in my youth. While that version had to make some compromises due to hardware limitations, not to mention was very hard on some levels (I'm looking at you, "adult John Connor in the truck" and "Escaping from Cyberdyne with the T-1000 being able to instantly kill you" levels), I still enjoyed it. Wonderful TAS playthrough.
I had a doubt on the possibilty of a tas 1cc of this, I tried setting one up myself since I didn't see any around, it must have been hard to do, man.
I like your channel a lot because you cover games not usually seen in TAS, even if they aren't absolutely frame perfect, it's still really entertaining, thank you.
Many of my TAS aren't perfect, some are a first try with games I'm not familiar with, you can see them as my first draft. But I post them anyway because I find them fun to watch and it gives a base to start a more complete TAS.
This TAS took me about 30 hours of work to do. I will do a 100% TAS of this game eventually but it will take a lot longer to do. But for now I prefer to work on other games like this since it seems like I'm the only one working on this type of games for now, but that will change when the driver for MAME in BizHawk will be more functional.
That red pickup truck has to be the toughest in the galaxy.
Why don't we ever see any T-1000's in these future battle scenes?
I own a T2 machine. It's the crown jewel of my Terminator collection, and the only arcade machine I own. I've played it... a lot. I mean, really. I've beaten it many times, both solo and two-player, and I've beaten the official world record for the game (as recorded by Twin Galaxies - I didn't record it. Oh well.).
I say all that just so I can say this: Holy hell this is AWESOME!! Totally proves that cyborgs rule! 😄 The whole thing is great, and I'm especially impressed by the RNG manipulation on the truck level.
I REALLY hope you do a run where you destroy everything at Cyberdyne! It's the thing I've never done in the game. The best we've been able to do is get close when playing two-player and ignoring self-preservation.
Do you have the Terminator Salvation arcade cabinet?
@@excaliber2010 I wish I had the money and space for one. It would look glorious next to the T2! I've played it all the way through, and it's a hell of a lot of fun.
Revolution X next maybe possible to TAS and finish on 1 credit
I like that old school arcade 1990.s
I’m assuming that John forgot to tell him not to kill humans.
The only way this could have been more awesome is a perfect cyberdyne. I'd imagine you can still get a 1CC by sacrificing some energy to get the additional 10-12 Cyberdyne components to get a good ending 1CC, as you had some to spare after the T - 1000 Fight.
Played this on the SEGA Genesis as a kid. Never and I mean NEVER beat it. You just couldn’t put out enough bullets man…. Finally, a TAS to seal this memory away finally
I was convinced that it was a scam to play it in the arcade, because the controller just couldn't keep up like the gun. So much rage-quitting ensued. Although Robocop vs Terminator made up for it. Loved that game.
As a kid, same. As an adult, it was so satisfying to finally beat it, even if it was on an emulator.
I've been looking forever! Who is this TAS guy? He's incredible!
In case you don't know, read the definition of TAS here: ruclips.net/user/Prog61about
This was amazing. I could never do this on one quarter back in the day.
He's cheating, as well as not playing on a T2 arcade machine.
22:22 T-1000 so close to John Connor!!
このゲームマジでむずかしいのにすごすぎるノーミス
TAS + Terminator = Tasminator. The new biggest threat that SKYnet is afraid of.
If you do manage to destroy all the objects in the Cyberdine level, you do get a 1,000,000 point bonus, but at the end of the game, you're told that Cyberdine research will continue anyway.
I'm taking great pleasure in watching this quarter-sucking deathtrap of a game get decimated.
You know that Cyberdyne level is such bad design on purpose when even the *TAS* fails the Good Ending on it.
2 things
1) On the first level, whenever a T-800 pops up in front of you shoot it in the head. This will give you a "get the CPU" bonus.
2) On the destroy everything Cyberdyne level you need to destroy the cop cars outside.
I can't tell you how many times I've played a frustrating arcade rail shooter and thought, man, what I wouldn't give to have perfect laserlike accuracy. I don't even care if I still have to continue, I just want to be able to make some damn progress! Well, once again you came through, and I get to see deadly juggernauts taken apart like Lego, that fragile red truck making it through without a scratch, orbs never knowing what hit them, and an evil world-threatening computer being reduced to a piffling annoyance.
You don't see many games like this on TASVideos. Most arcade games from the 90's either ramp up the punishment on exceptional players or are punishing to begin with, and shooters have a harsh kill-or-be-killed ethos, neither of which is very appealing to the TASVideos community. They want to take shortcuts, optimize weaponry, take damage to save time, and make perfect maneuvers, not shovel in somewhat fewer theoretical tokens than normal. No one speedrunner or website is going to cover everything, which is why it's great that you're here to cover games like this.
Deeply satisfying video. Congrats, you have a new subscriber! :-D
I do think that someday you should do a 2-Player TAS. One of the things you've no doubt noticed (and which a lot of players in my arcades learned pretty quickly) is that this game was designed for two players. A lone Terminator _struggles._ Too many targets, too many ways to take damage, too many things to keep track of. I'm not surprised that you weren't able to destroy Cyberdyne Systems... you just didn't have the firepower!
Yeah, it is quite clear the game was designed to be for 2 players.
It's definitely beatable solo (if you're willing to pump credits into it and stock up on shotgun shells in the liquid nitrogen tanker level), but I don't know if it's possible to destroy everything at Cyberdyne with just one player. Maybe TAS?
@@Datan0de You can let a VERY FEW objects remain standing and still get credit for total destruction, but you absolutely _have_ to make smashing stuff priority #1... which means eating a lot of machine gun fire. Looking at it again, prog61 took the "1 credit" part very seriously, which meant that taking one for the team just wasn't an option.
This is a TAS, BTW.
@@hawaiidkw1 I know it's a TAS. Do you know how many items you can let survive and still stop Judgment Day?
@@Datan0de I don't have an exact number. It's _very_ few.
makes me realize what humanity would be up against if A.I. does go rogue.....welp....we're boned
True statement. If Terminator were real, humanity's only how would be to find a bug or hack to exploit. Going toe to toe on the battlefield would be complete suicide. Humans would never even get a shot off.
Always died at that truck part as a kid.
That damn truck stage!!! What are you supposed to do there??!!
人間に1コインクリアはほぼ無理なゲームだったのでこの動画は貴重。他にもSNKのガンシューティングゲームとか人間には無理なゲームをTASでやって欲しい。
分かります
São gráficos que até hoje nos surpreende.
This thing was such a quarter eater. I never saw anyone finish level 1.
goddam dude this was my favorite game as a kid.
my asrenaline was pumping so hard
Real talk, this game Obliterated my Allowance.
Even Now with a TAS Run I can't help but wonder aloud.
How in the name of all that is Merciful and Mechanical was a Human being meant to Play this game?!
The Snap Re-actions, Accuracy and near Perfect Shot count necessary to Actually Target Everything thrown at you at once is Entirely Absurd!
Edit, seeing levels I Never made it too back in the day, the game is total BS with how often it sets you up to friendly Fire too.
Oh yeah this is one of the most unfair BS arcade games of the era. And even TAS he "didn't destroy enough" in the cyberdine stage.
I dunno if it helps but only the enemies on your side of the screen can hit you so its possible to focus on that and mitigate the pressure. But the truck... damn thats some tough $hit idk what to do there!!!
Great shooting man. You rock !
Truly a masterpiece
The "Hasta la Vista Baby" phrase was optional💀
Shooting T800s midair as they fall is actually kind of funny. Like the sky’s just raining Terminators.
EXCELLENT 😎👍
Cyberdyne research will continue.
6:40, "7 seconds of Forever Alone" or "Where did everyone gone?"
17:41 Jesus mission 1? I remember playing this as a kid but damn lol
*Terminator:* _AWESOME._
Even watching TAS, I felt that the game was too hard to force people to spend more. There are better games than this
my brother and I once put 10 bucks each into one of these machines, and didn't get past the Truck level. awesome to see Terminator beaten by a robot.
THe shooters of today are no matach against this jewel of a game
poor Rob the Robot wasn't ready
nice play
I tried playing through the Genesis version of this game a *lot* as a kid and could just never get past the part in the beginning with the pickup truck.
I got past the truck once in my life on the Genesis version using a Menacer. Once you get past it, the rest of the game isn’t that bad. You’ll still die, but it’s beatable.
Been looking for a TAS for this game for years. I want to see one that all headshots.
Excellent
Nice gameplay
Ooh, only seven more years until Judgement Day!
Uh... In T2, Judgement Day was Aug 29, 1997.
Oh, right. I got confused because the first stage took place in 2029.
I remember back when I was a kid wanting to play this game , I didn’t have any money back then 🤷🏻
I remember thinking that 2 dollars would be enough. That's all I had.
To be honest that helicopter and truck take a LOT more damage before going down on mine and the helicopter got a lot closer in this video than my arcade allows without failing the mission. In addition, obtaining the grenade launcher THAT early on the final T-1000 battle? I've had to go 10 rounds of pushing him back before and never less than 5 before it appears. Not to mention it takes bullet stream plus close to 10 consecutive shotgun blasts to push him back on mine. In the final battle before the last one, in front of the truck, my arcade requires numerous shotgun blasts to drop him. The bullets are next to useless and I've never seen then drop him the way you did in the video. Either way, love the run through. Better than anything I've done or could do.
The truck with john connor would have 100% been destroyed with how many airships flew by lighting it up without being shot by you.
A cool idea, thanks for the video
Played as T-800 AI Bots
If you go to slider controls and adjust the mono volume up more you can hear the terminators raising up to the screen it's pretty cool.
10:50 The heads of the Terminators just flying straight up in the air will never not be funny.
I've got one thing to say about this game: FUCK THE RED TRUCK SCENE.
Agreed, and speaking from the Genesis/Mega Drive port. Along with the later chase level in which the T-1000 can instantly kill you, that level was the bane of my childhood existence. Fortunately, I found out the level-skip code and didn't bother to play through them.
The "trick" to getting past the truck scene is to either do it two-player and both be really focused with a bunch of missiles in reserve and get it on the first go (Super Truck Bonus!), or let John die a few times and just stock up on missiles at the beginning of the round.
Either way, mostly ignore the endoskeletons. The aerial HKs have to be the top priority, and you have to hose them down with missiles the moment they're on screen!
@@Datan0de: Well, from the version of the game I've played (the Genesis/MD version), when playing by yourself, you actually CAN'T ignore the Endoskeletons because they'll take your lifebar down quickly.
@@Loader2K1 Oh sure, they'll mess you up. But to get past the level in the arcade version you need to always hit the HKs first, then you can take a moment to deal with the endos (shoot 'em in the legs!) before going back to the ready position for the next HK.
If playing solo, I'll keep the crosshair either right where the HKs come out on the left side and be ready to snap to the right side, or in the middle between the two entry points. If you're playing two-player, each pick a side to wait, but both players should focus on pumping missiles into every HK that comes on screen.
been playing this game since it came ot im 36 today..still have trouble getting past 1
Hasta la vista, baby!!!
I love that Google offered to translate your comment. LOL!
Does anyone else realize that 2029 is dangerously close?
3:26 is a miss by the TAS and didn’t explode off screen
Instead enjoying the vid you chose to point out the mistakes, sad
I had forgotten the richness of color and depth in this arcade classic.
why the "sight" keeps on instant teleport to the target, I don't see it moves to the targets, it just appears on them.
This is a TAS, see the definition: ruclips.net/user/Prog61about
I did not play the game myself but edited the movement of the crosshair frame by frame.
It took me about 30 hours of work to do this video.
You could say that it is a robot (Terminator 😀) that is playing.
Is this the part in the movie in which Conner said "MURDER EVERYONE!"
OMG. Lol. Who in the hell can actually beat this. This was fun to watch though. Now I'm going to pull my SNES out of the attic. I have this game somewhere. Thank you for this.
That's why I didn't manage to get to school countless times. My food money didn't end up in the buffet either :D
Err... I'm not sure blasting everybody in the knees technically guarantees their survival if local triage and medivac proves unable to properly handle nearly 300 single/multiple gunshot wounded in a single night.
This is how a real terminator would play the game 😄 How come you did not get for the CPU chips off the endoskulls? May I ask (to anyone) is there a trick to beating the truck level without taking damage?
I dont get it, so on the truck chase you concentrate on the terminators and not the HKs?
I use what we call "rng manipulation", a trick that can only be used in a TAS.
In this game, the rng can be changed by changing the position of the crosshair.
The HK can fire at 3 angles: at you, at the truck or in front of them.
I just have to move the crosshair somewhere before an HK enters the screen and see what happens. If the result is not what I want, I move the crosshair somewhere else and try again until the HKs fire in front of them missing me and the truck.
Wait there's more than one level in this game???
Good job. Tough game!!
I watched your Roadblasters TAS, then I noticed this TAS. I immediately knew the same situation would occur. The AI never had a chance.
EDIT: Question to the author. How does the truck scene work. Why isn't the truck taking damage even though you're not shooting the Flying HKs.