Terminator 2: Judgment Day (pinball)
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Manufacturer | Williams[1] |
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Release date | July 1991 |
System | Williams WPC (Dot Matrix) |
Design | Steve Ritchie |
Programming | Dwight Sullivan |
Artwork | Doug Watson |
Mechanics | Carl Biagi |
Music | Chris Granner |
Sound | Chris Granner |
Voices | Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator) |
Production run | 15,202 |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 pinball machine designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams Electronics. It is based on the motion picture of the same name.
Overview[]
The table is the first Williams WPC machine designed to feature a dot-matrix display. But due to the long design phase, Gilligan's Island is the first manufactured with a DMD. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the first game to feature an autoplunger (replacing the traditional plunger), as well as a ball-firing cannon (dubbed, "Gun Grip Ball Launcher"). Finally, T2 is the first game to feature a video mode, a mini video game featured on the DMD. Arnold Schwarzenegger provided voices for the game. Some playfield design elements were based on Ritchie's 1980 classic, Firepower. The T-1000 is not in the artwork, with the exception of a small image of actor Robert Patrick because of pre-release secrecy of the movie. The character is only in the display animation because when the DMD programming was finalizing the liquid metal character was already public knowledge.[2]
A score award is given for each extra ball awarded after hitting the max extra balls.
Reception[]
Sinclair User gave the pinball game a 91% score.[3]
Legacy[]
2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines from Stern has a very similar playfield design and rulesheet.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day was formerly available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for any platform until June 30, 2018 due to the WMS license's expiration and made this table disappear from every digital store.
References[]
- ^ "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". The International Arcade Museum. Retrieved 13 Oct 2013.
- ^ "Internet Pinball Machine Database: Terminator 2: Judgment Day". August 24, 2013.
- ^ Cook, John (18 November 1991). "Coin Ops". Sinclair User. No. 118 (December 1991). United Kingdom: EMAP. pp. 62–3.
External links[]
- 1991 pinball machines
- Williams pinball machines
- Pinball machines based on films
- Terminator (franchise) video games