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The Terminator

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…

1 April 1993

The Terminator is a platform developed by Gray Matter, released 1 April 1993 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What The Terminator is

The Terminator is a platform game developed by Gray Matter and released in 1993. It was published by Mindscape. It is available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins in the future, where the hero Kyle Reese must battle through a post-apocalyptic future in order to go back in time to 1984 Los Angeles. Once there, he must progress through various checkpoints as outlined by the main movie plot: find Sarah Connor, shootout at the police station, and the climax in the factory.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Terminator series

The Terminator is the 15th of 50 entries we hold in the Terminator series. The next entry was T2: The Arcade Game in 1993.

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When did The Terminator come out?
The Terminator was released on 1 April 1993 for Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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