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Instruction booklet · April 1993

The Terminator

ShooterPlatform1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

The SNES game based on James Cameron's classic 1984 film is an action game where the player takes the role of Kyle Reese, sent from the future to protect Sarah Connor from the Terminator. The game has two kinds of levels: in several scrolling platform levels, Reese runs and jumps, shooting at Terminators (in the future war level that begins the game), street punks or policemen.

Specifications

Released
April 1993
Developer
Gray Matter
Publisher
Mindscape
Players
1
Genre
Shooter · Platform
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
Terminator
Themes
Action · Science fiction
View
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What the magazines said

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BE KIND, REWINDApril 1993
#1 songInformerSnow
#1 albumThe BodyguardWhitney Houston / Soundtrack
Admit one · #1 movieCop and a Half$6,027,285 weekend
Vol. 3 · No. 85Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢
The Omaha World-Pixel
Week of April 2, 1993
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💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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