513: Terminator 2D No Fate: The Inside Story – The Retro Hour Podcast EP513
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re joined by Mike Tucker and Quang DX from Bitmap Bureau to talk about the making of Terminator 2D: No Fate. We hear how their lifelong love of Terminator 2 turned into a three-year obsession, why so many classic T2 games missed the mark, and how this project set out to put that right. From painstakingly recreating iconic film moments in pixel art, to difficulty balancing, licensing hurdles, hidden Easter eggs, and expanding the Future War beyond the film, this is the story of how the Terminator game fans always wanted finally became reality. 
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
55:33 - Terminator 2D: No Fate Interview
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, Sonic is coming to the Amiga. |
| 0:04.0 | We look at retro gaming at CES. |
| 0:06.7 | And an iconic joystick returns for 2026. |
| 0:25.9 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our sponsor, our great friends, |
| 0:27.0 | at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:31.6 | Now, if you love the theme of today's episode, definitely check out their book, Run and Gun, |
| 0:34.5 | a History of On Foot Shooters. |
| 0:38.9 | Now, this is written by award-winning video games journalist and comic book author Dave Cook and weighs in at more than 490 pages. All the classics are in there, Contra, Gunstar Heroes, |
| 0:45.9 | Metal Slug, Mega Man and a few hidden gems that you might not have tried before. So if you love |
| 0:51.0 | your on foot shooters, check it out on the rest of their retrogaming collection. |
| 0:54.4 | It's in stock right now at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:58.0 | And with our friends at replay events who this year are bringing back the UK's longest running retro games event, |
| 1:03.7 | the Mighty Play Expo returns to Blackpool for 2026 at the No Olympia Exhibition Center |
| 1:09.4 | at the top of the promenade running on the weekend of Saturday |
| 1:12.4 | and Sunday the 3rd and 4th of November. Expect it all traders, al-K machines, pinball, consoles, |
| 1:18.6 | computers, competitions and of course the talk stage as well. You can get your tickets right now |
| 1:23.4 | at PlayExpo Blackpool.com. Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 513, your weekly dose of retro |
| 1:32.6 | gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:35.3 | Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. |
| 1:38.0 | And a very warm welcome to this week's show and a very happy new year as well, our first |
| 1:42.2 | one of 2026. |
| 1:44.0 | Hopefully not too out of practice. |
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