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Terminator

Judgment Day, on repeat

James Cameron's war between humans and Skynet reached games in 1991 with Bethesda's DOS shooter, and has since covered arcades, film tie-ins and new stories.

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1991
First game: 1
Series: James Cameron
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In the frameTerminator: Resistance

One world. Many eras.

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Early skirmishes. The licence opened on DOS with Bethesda Softworks, which kept returning to it with Future Shock and SkyNet. Midway's T2 cabinet took the war to the arcades.

Start with T2: The Arcade Game

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Terminator: Resistance

Teyon2019

Terminator 2D: No Fate

Bitmap Bureau2025

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Humans against SkynetTerminatorThe core Terminator game line runs from Bethesda's DOS shooters of the 1990s through the film tie-ins to Teyon's Resistance and Bitmap Bureau's No Fate.

A legacy worth revisiting

It absolutely will not stop.

Terminator games have tried nearly every genre, from Midway's light-gun arcade cabinet to Bethesda's early first-person worlds. The film tie-ins of the 2000s came and went, then Teyon's Resistance went back to the Future War and Bitmap Bureau returned to pixels with Terminator 2D: No Fate.

1991 to 1996
Early skirmishes: 2002 to 2009
Film tie-ins: 2019 to 2025
The Future War

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