Both a movie tie-in game and a demonstration of Midway's video capture tech, Terminator 2: Judgment Day brought the excitement of the movie to arcades as a rail shooter in 1991. The game puts you in the flesh-covered endoskeleton of a T-800, battling through a series of stages modeled after the movie, grabbing weapon powerups and shields along the way. The game starts in the future, as you battle Terminators across a devastated landscape through several levels, before transporting you through time to wreak havoc at Cyberdyne Systems alongside Edward Furlong and finally shoot Robert Patrick's T-1000 repeatedly in the face. The game's realistic graphics and challenging gameplay made it an arcade hit and paved the way for even more intense shooters to come.

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