I'm thinking of watching it, wondering if it's worth a look?
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The T2 arcade game?
The T2 arcade game where you have to protect that black van from the T-1000-piloted helicopter trying to crash into it to kill Sarah and John Connor?
The T2 arcade game where that helicopter appears onscreen way too quickly to reasonably react to it, and its location is random so you can't predict it?
That T2 arcade game?
Someone unlocked some PTSD.
Not exactly.
I'm old enough to have played the arcade machine, yes, but this was in MAME, with cheats on, and I STILL couldn't get past that level.
I recall barely surviving the earlier similar level with the truck!
What the hell did I miss? I feel like I'm missing something glaringly obvious about this level here!
Maybe it's just because I always was a sucker for light gun and positional gun games, but playing it on the actual hardware was a blast. Even if it kept stealing my quarters.
You have to position your cursor at the top left centermost part of the corner, because the helicopter typically only comes from the top or the left side of the screen.
Once you hear it you start holding down your fire button and move to wherever you first see the pixel of the helicopter. Once you understand the pattern and maintain that position, it's pretty easy. Though, admittedly due to its randomness it's still harder than the truck sequence where you can at least memorise the position of the HKs that come into the screen.
I found it easier on the original Genesis due to the low framerate. The original arcade machines were a heck of a lot harder because they played faster and it was just a lot more difficult in some sense (but being able to freely move the light gun around did make it a LOT easier to react when the helicopter came into the screen).