Terminator Time Travels to Save '90s Garbage Games
1/16/202647 min
At first, we thought Terminator 2D: No Fate looked and felt like a flawless recreation of the movie tie-ins for the SNES. Then we watched gameplay of the actual Terminator 2 SNES game. Time does not favor the cash grabs.
In hindsight, developers Bitmap Bureau performed a modest miracle, perfectly recreating how we remember trashy retro games — without actually becoming one of them. This is the game that Terminator fans should remember
We talk about this side-scrolling confection, our fading memories of movie-to-game adaptations, and more!
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First 90 secondsGriffin McElroy· Host0:00
Big confession time, guys, and it's embarrassing. We've been doing this for so long, I never talked about this with you guys, but I am a Terminator, s- uh, 1000, and I was sent from the future, because if this podcast doesn't exist, it's gonna be bad for humanity. I shouldn't spoil too much, but it's gonna be bad for humanity if this podcast ever stops. So I'm a liquid metal cyber guy, and I'm from the future, sent back to make besties. Um, yeah.
Russ Frushtick· Host0:29
When, when you say bad, uh, what, what, what, what do you possibly mean?
Justin McElroy· Host0:32
Yeah.
Griffin McElroy· Host0:33
Um, corpo- Mm.
Russ Frushtick· Host0:36
Oh!
Griffin McElroy· Host0:37
Uh, s- like- Yeah ... technolo- Corpo ... technology goes, like, crazy and- Oh, man, that sounds terrible.
Russ Frushtick· Host0:44
Mm-hmm.
Griffin McElroy· Host0:44
Yeah.
Russ Frushtick· Host0:46
Yeah.
Justin McElroy· Host0:46
Fuck!
Russ Frushtick· Host0:46
Griffin, it, it, uh, on the knife hands front, 'cause I know you have knife hands, and I figured it was just, like, a thing that you had, is that- I told you guys that was my...
Griffin McElroy· Host0:54
Yeah, I told you guys that was my rheumatoid arthritis. That's actually from being a liquid metal sorta cyber guy from the future.
Russ Frushtick· Host1:00
Right, so is that everyone in the future has knife hands, or is it just you?
Griffin McElroy· Host1:04
No, just us liquid metal cyber guys. The, I'm usually a bad dude.
Russ Frushtick· Host1:08
Yeah.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:08
Like, they usually use me for killing- Yeah ... um, men- Mm.
Justin McElroy· Host1:14
Okay ...
Griffin McElroy· Host1:14
who are in the s- in the laser war against us. But- Sure ... I have, I learned how to love- Yeah.
Justin McElroy· Host1:21
Yeah ...
Griffin McElroy· Host1:21
a child. I mean, I, like, I adopted as my son, and- Okay.
Justin McElroy· Host1:25
Gotcha.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:25
I- Okay. So then he sent me back in time to make this kick-ass video