The Terminator for PC DOS

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The Terminator

Online version of The Terminator for PC DOS. The Terminator is a first-person action game developed and published for PC DOS by Bethesda Softworks in 1991 and the first officially licensed game based on the Terminator films. The player chooses between Kyle Reese, who has to protect Sarah Connor, and the terminator itself, which has to reach her first. Central Los Angeles is one continuous three-dimensional city of roughly 10 by 6 miles, laid out along the real street grid and holding landmarks such as Dodger Stadium and Griffith Park. Weapons and equipment can be bought or stolen from shops, money withdrawn or robbed from a bank, and stolen cars driven across town, all of it watched by the police. The whole game was written in assembly by Julian LeFay, later the programmer and designer of the first Elder Scrolls games.

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The Terminator logo on black background

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Nuclear blast over the city skyline

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Ruins of the future war with skulls in the rubble

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Intro text about the war against the machines

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Main menu with side, detail and difficulty options

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Copy protection symbol check

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Heads-up display in the open countryside

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Passer-by spotted next to a suburban house

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Mountain range on the horizon behind the lake

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Driving a stolen car from the dashboard view

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Mission statistics and high score table

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Prompt to get into a parked car

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Ingame map of Central Los Angeles

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Damage status screen with repair options

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Street corner in the built-up part of the city

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Released in

1991

Publisher

Bethesda Softworks

Developer

Bethesda Softworks

Platforms

PC DOS

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IBM PC with MS-DOS

Online emulated version of The Terminator was originally developed for the IBM PC and compatible computers, with MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System. It is an OS for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft and released in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0.
MS-DOS was targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software and user data as well. Progressive version releases delivered support for other mass storage media in ever greater sizes and formats, along with added feature support for newer processors and rapidly evolving computer architectures. Ultimately, it was the key product in Microsoft's development from a programming language company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.