The Terminator (SCD)

The Terminator

Platform: Sega CD Year: 1993 Developer: Virgin Games

The Terminator is a 1993 platform shoot 'em up game developed and published by Virgin Games for the Sega CD. It is based on the 1984 film of the same name, and includes full motion video from the film. The game was praised for its graphics and its soundtrack performed by Tommy Tallarico, although the film footage was considered low quality. In this version player controls Kyle Reese, who travels back in time from the year 2029 to protect Sarah Connor from the unstoppable killing machine known as the Terminator.

Screenshots

Opening epigraph from original movie. Gameplay 1. Gameplay 2. Gameplay 3. The 1st boss battle. T-800 boss battle.

Music

The soundtrack was composed and recorded by Tommy Tallarico, with additional songs contributed by Bijan Shaheer ("Future Shock"), Joey Kuras ("Visions") and TeknoMan of Teknologic ("CyberTek"). It includes hard rock, pop and techno music. Game begins with original recording of opening theme from original movie soundtrack. Tommy Tallarico said:

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The graphics were still very much 16-bit-looking and the music you'd hear would be like music on the radio or on an album – and it was a bit jarring. So I would get into screaming matches with the producers because they told me they didn't want that proper music in the game. They said it doesn't sound like a videogame and I said exactly – it doesn't have to any more!

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Recording

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#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
01	The Terminator Theme	Brad Fiedel	2:37		Download
02	Taking to the Air	Tommy Tallarico	3:27		Download
03	Future Shock	Bijan Shaheer	4:05		Download
04	Destinationz Unknown	Tommy Tallarico	5:12		Download
05	This Way	Tommy Tallarico	4:11		Download
06	Visions	Joey Kuras	4:19		Download
07	On Your Side	Tommy Tallarico	3:29		Download
08	CyberTek	TeknoMan	1:37		Download
09	Metamorphosis	Tommy Tallarico	3:38		Download

Credits

• Ripper: N/A
• Recorder: IgoreshaZhu
• Terminator CD Music Credits:
  • Director of Music & FX: Tommy Tallarico
  • FX Technician: Steve Henifin
  • All songs written, arranged, performed, recorded and produced by: Tommy Tallarico
  • The Terminator Theme written by: Brad Fiedel
  • Visions written by: Joey Kuras
  • Future Shock written by: Bijan Shaheer
  • CyberTek written by: TeknoMan credited as TeknoMan of Teknologic
  • Keyboards, Guitars, Drums, Bass, etc.: Tommy Tallarico
  • Additional Rhythm Guitars: Bijan Shaheer, Michael A. Field credited as Mike Fields, Joey Kuras
  • Mixed in QSound by: Buzz Burrowes
  • Second Engineer: Ed Korengo
  • Digitally Recorded at: The Virgin Music Factory, Irvine
  • Mixed at: A+M Studios, Hollywood & The Enterprise, Burbank
  • Mastered at: FlyWheel Digital Studios, Virgin Games, Irvine

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Audio Devices

The game has support for CD Audio which would be used in the form of Tracks by CUE/BIN in WAV format. The game utilized QSound.

Releases

USA Title: The Terminator Platform: Sega CD Released: 1993-03-08 Publisher: Virgin Games     EU Title: The Terminator Platform: Mega CD Released: 1993-12-?? Publisher: Virgin Games

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator_(Sega_CD_video_game) - Wikipedia.
• mobygames.com/game/39412/the-terminator - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/segacd/924183-the-terminator - GameFAQs.