Terminator 2: Judgment Day (pinball)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 pinball machine designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams Electronics. It is based on the motion picture of the same name

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
ManufacturerWilliams[1]
Release dateJuly 1991
SystemWilliams WPC (Dot Matrix)
DesignSteve Ritchie
ProgrammingDwight Sullivan
ArtworkDoug Watson
MechanicsCarl Biagi
MusicChris Granner
SoundChris Granner
VoicesArnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator)
Production run15,202

Overview
A restored Terminator 2 custom pinball machine

The table is the first Williams WPC machine designed to feature a dot-matrix display. But due to the long design phase, Gilligan's Island is the first manufactured with a DMD. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the first game to feature an autoplunger (replacing the traditional plunger), as well as a ball-firing cannon (dubbed, "Gun Grip Ball Launcher"). Finally, T2 is the first game to feature a video mode, a mini video game featured on the DMD. Arnold Schwarzenegger provided voices for the game. Some playfield design elements were based on Ritchie's 1980 classic, Firepower. The T-1000 is not in the artwork, with the exception of a small image of actor Robert Patrick because of pre-release secrecy of the movie. The character is only in the display animation because when the DMD programming was finalizing the liquid metal character was already public knowledge.[2]

A score award is given for each extra ball awarded after hitting the max extra balls.

Legacy

2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines from Stern has a very similar playfield design and rulesheet.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day was formerly available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for any platform until June 30, 2018 due to the WMS license's expiration and made this table disappear from every digital store.

Design team
  • Concept: Steve Ritchie
  • Design: Steve Ritchie
  • Mechanics: Carl Biagi
  • Software: Dwight Sullivan
  • Artwork: Doug Watson
  • Animation: John Vogel
  • Sound and Music: Chris Granner
  • Video FX: John Vogel

References
  1. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". The International Arcade Museum. Retrieved 13 Oct 2013.
  2. "Internet Pinball Machine Database: Terminator 2: Judgment Day". August 24, 2013.
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