Back in 1991 and 1992, Terminator 2: Judgement Day was a pop culture force to be reckoned with. T2 broke box office records and won awards, pioneered computer effects in movie-making and tells an incredible story. It was also masterfully marketed, sweeping across the interests of a rather wide audience.

Each home gaming platform had a Terminator 2 game, some sort of scroll-screen game that basically follows the scenes of the movie, but didn’t really stand apart from other action games. But one mark of a true 90s youth is the tale of when they first set eyes on the T2 shooting game in their local arcade.

TJ joined me to talk T2 at Banded Brewing in Biddeford, Maine a few weeks ago, but we focused on the Sega Genesis version of the arcade hit, which honestly didn’t pack the same punch as the cabinet version. However, it still stands as a noticeable landmark on 1990s pop culture horizon.