Terminator Time Travels to Save '90s Garbage Games

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

At first, we thought Terminator 2D: No Fate looked and felt like a flawless recreation of the movie tie-ins for the SNES. Then we watched gameplay of the actual Terminator 2 SNES game. Time does not favor the cash grabs. In hindsight, developers Bitmap Bureau performed a modest miracle, perfectly recreating how we remember trashy retro games — without actually becoming one of them. This is the game that Terminator fans should remember We talk about this side-scrolling confection, our fading memories of movie-to-game adaptations, and more!

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0:00.0	Big confession time, guys. And it is embarrassing. We've been doing this for so long. I never
0:05.6	talked about this with you guys, but I am a Terminator 1,000, and I was sent from the future
0:11.8	because if this podcast doesn't exist, it's going to be bad for human. I shouldn't spoil too much,
0:17.8	but it's going to be bad for humanity if this podcast ever stops.
0:20.8	So I am a liquid metal cyber guy, and I'm from the future sent back to make besties.
0:28.8	When you say bad, what do you possibly mean?
0:32.6	Yeah.
0:35.2	Corpo.
0:41.3	Like technology goes like crazy.
0:44.2	Oh, man, that sounds terrible.
0:45.1	Yeah.
0:46.7	Fuck.
0:52.9	On the knife hands front, because I know you have night hands and I figured it was just like a thing that you had.
0:56.8	I told you guys that was my, yeah, I told you guys that was my rheumatoid arthritis. That's actually from being a liquid metal sort of cyber guy.
1:00.6	Right.
1:00.9	So is that everyone in the future has knife hands, or is it just you?
1:04.1	No, just as liquid metal cyber guys.
1:06.6	I'm usually a bad dude.
1:08.7	Like, they usually use me for killing men who are in the laser war against us.
1:18.0	But I have, I learned how to love the child.
1:22.2	I mean, I adopted as my son.
1:24.7	Okay, gotcha.
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