Terminator 2: Judgment Day (pinball)

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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").{{Cite web |title=Internet Pinball Machine Database: Williams 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' |url=https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2524 |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=www.ipdb.org}} 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.{{Cite book |last=Shalhoub |first=Michael |title=The pinball compendium: 1982 to present |date=2012 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-7643-4107-6 |edition=2nd |location=Atglen, Pa |publication-date=2012 |pages=143-144}} 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.{{cite web| url=http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2524 | title=Internet Pinball Machine Database: Terminator 2: Judgment Day | date=August 24, 2013}}

A score award is given for each extra ball awarded after hitting the max extra balls.

Interestingly, the major features of this game are the same as the 4th and final table in the classic 1992 Commodore Amiga game Pinball Dreams, called Nightmare,{{cite magazine |last=Dillon |first=Tony |date=April 1992 |title=Pinball Dream review |url=https://www.amigareviews.leveluphost.com/pinballd.htm |access-date=May 9, 2025 |magazine=CU Amiga |publisher=EMAP |location=United Kingdom |pages=47 |issue=103 (April 1992)}} or Graveyard on other platforms. These include the left and right runs which allow you to advance up the central ladder to activate huge scoring opportunities.

Sinclair User gave the pinball game a 91% score.{{cite magazine |last=Cook |first=John |title=Coin Ops |url=https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine-118/page/n61/mode/2up |magazine=Sinclair User |issue=118 (December 1991) |pages=62–3 |date=18 November 1991 |publisher=EMAP |location=United Kingdom}}

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{{Cite web |last=Farokhmanesh |first=Megan |date=2013-09-28 |title=The Pinball Arcade adding Terminator 2 table |url=https://www.polygon.com/2013/9/28/4779976/the-pinball-arcade-adding-terminator-2-table |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Polygon |language=en-US}} as a licensed table for The Pinball Arcade until June 30, 2018, but removed due to the WMS license expiration.

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2524 IPDB listing for Terminator 2: Judgment Day]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ByKyvpw4lM Terminator 2: Judgment Day promo video (part 1)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaQaHV-bBOE Terminator 2: Judgment Day promo video (part 2)]

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