I was reading this thread on really hard video games, and I remembered something.
Remember the old terminator 2 game with the plastic mounted guns, that probably came out in maybe 1993-4, where you had to shoot various things from various scenes from T2? It opened up on a future battlefield against the robots, and eventually went through various scenes in the movie.
Anyway, I remember playing that game with someone all the way through to the end, to the final scene, where you have to shoot the T1000 off the platform into the molten steel pit, just like in the movie. Except, we spent maybe 20 minutes, and quite a few dollars at that part, trying everything we possibly could, to finally win it. We couldn’t, after a long time and quite a few dollars.
Was that game made to be purposefully impossible to finish so that you’d throw in those extra few dollars trying to beat it, since you already made it to the end? Did anyone ever beat that? If so, how?
I know, sort of a lame question, but I forgot about this particular childhood annoyance until now.
Remember how in the end of the movie, Arnie comes up at the last second with the grenade launcher and gives the T-1000 a grenade to the chest? Well, when you are fighting the T-1000 in the arcade version, a grenade launcher appears when you are about to knock him off. After you get it, you shoot him with it, he turns into metal scrambled eggs, and topples off himself. I too was confused about this. You have to be quick, since if you miss it you have to have the T-1000 go through his cycle of attacks (assuming you still have shotgun shells left from the cryo truck part)
While you’re hammering away at the T-1000 to keep him off John, the Grenade Launcher will appear and fall like the ammo. You have to grab it, but you only get one shot!
What we did was one of us would keep poking the T1K 'til the launcher popped up. The other would grab it and blast 'im.
Hmm. It was so long ago that I can’t remember details, but I think I did hit him with the grenade launcher. Maybe I hit him when he wasn’t close enough to the edge, and blew my chance.
I have seen arcade games that have a switch inside to set how easy it is to play the game. One time I saw tech at the fair actually raising it on one machine.
Yeah handy that’s pretty common. For example, in Namco’s Crisis gun games, the arcade owner can set how many lives you get per credit, etc., which can make the game harder or easier. I also have seen our local Percussion Freaks game go from giving you a two-song maximum to three per credit.
Its usually a “test mode” switch that allows a variety of settings to be viewed and adjusted. IME video games have a skill level range of 1-10 or a easy/medium/hard setting. This is usually completely separate from the coin/credit settings. By varying the skill level and coins/credit you can create the desired revenue balance for the machine.
Where I worked we would start many of our fighting games on hard skill levels, we found that people liked playing better against a human opponent since the games lasted a bit longer…while generating twice as much revenue for the arcade.
I did beat it, but not in an arcade. I had it for my Sega. It was reallllllllly hard, took forever to get past the truck chase. Then again, I was a kid.
