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Terminator 2: Judgment Day backglass

Also known as T2

1991 · Williams

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Known for Skull, Cannon, Database and Escape Loops. Pure black void with no horizon or landscape, two enormous blue-white starburst light flares flaring outward from behind the figures, narrow vertical blue light shaft near the centre and smoky blue haze around the flares.

Year
1991
Maker
Williams
Type
Solid state
Display
Dot matrix
Players
4

Known for

  • Toy

    Skull

  • cannon

    Cannon

  • Lane

    Database

  • Orbit

    Escape Loops

  • Mode

    Payback Time

  • Multiball

    Skull multiball

On the playfield

  • red
  • black
  • silver
  • blue
Terminator 2: Judgment Day playfield
Spotted in this photo
  • 2 flippers
  • 3 pop bumpers
  • 2 slingshots

Full vision analysis

Toys 2

  • Skull
  • Cannon cannon

Orbit 1

  • Escape Loops

Drop target 1

  • Skull drop target

Targets 2

  • White targets
  • Center standup targets

Lane 1

  • Database

Lights 1

  • Security Clearance inserts

On the backglass

Who and what

  • man Centre, chest-up, three-quarter view, young to middle-aged, dark swept-back hair, stubbled jaw, neutral grim expression. left half of face torn open to reveal a chrome robot skull: exposed metal, glowing red eye socket, red cable, ragged peeling flesh. wears a black leather biker jacket with silver snaps and zips over a dark grey t-shirt.
  • robot Far left, behind the man's shoulder - chest-up chrome endoskeleton with a segmented metal skull, dark eye sockets and a raised gun-barrel forearm, dark blue-grey metal.
  • robot Right side - larger bare-headed chrome endoskeleton face with a smooth metal dome, deep-set sockets holding pale glowing eyes, exposed jaw mechanisms and cable bundles, dark shoulder harness.
  • robot Distant background, centre - small full-body silver endoskeleton figure standing in the gap between the two light bursts.

Setting

  • Pure black void with no horizon or landscape
  • Two enormous blue-white starburst light flares flaring outward from behind the figures
  • Narrow vertical blue light shaft near the centre
  • Smoky blue haze around the flares

Text on it

  • TERMINATOR 2
  • JUDGMENT DAY

How it plays

  1. Modes 2

    • Payback Time
    • Video Mode
  2. Multiballs 2

    • Skull multiball
    • Instant Multiball
  3. Awards 3

    • Security Pass
    • Millions-Plus
    • Hurry-Up

Made by

Design
Steve Ritchie
Art
Doug Watson
Mechanics
Carl Biagi
Software
Dwight Sullivan
Sound & Music
Chris Granner
Display animation
John Vogel
Display animation
Scott Slomiany

The cast

  • Terminator

Reference

Linked terms
  • Skull also called Skull lock
  • Database also called Database lock also called Database saucer
  • Escape Loops also called Chase Loop also called right orbit
  • Center standup targets also called Escape Route targets
  • Security Clearance also called Security
Playfield vision analysis

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day playfield

Playfield

  • red
  • black
  • silver
  • blue

Fingerprint: Terminator 2 Judgment Day, huge chrome grinning skull with glowing red eyes wreathed in blue-white electricity dominating center, flanking columns of red oval targets lettered REBOOT, chrome robotic skull head and oversized chrome gripping hand at upper-left, three red pop-bumper caps glowing in triangle at upper center, STAY IN THE FAST LANE TO START THE MISSION panel, wedge playfield, blue-electric-arc framing

Distinctive

A huge chrome grinning skull with glowing red eyes dominates the centre of the playfield, wreathed in blue-white electricity. Flanking it are two tall symmetrical columns of red oval targets, every one of them lettered REBOOT, running from the pop bumpers down to the skull. Above them a bright yellow-on-red panel reads STAY IN THE FAST LANE TO START THE MISSION. A chrome robotic skull head and an oversized chrome gripping hand jut up from the upper-left apron near the word CAPTURE, and three pop-bumper caps glow bright red in a triangle at the upper centre.

Setting

  • Dark studio/black void surrounding the tilted cabinet
  • Industrial metal and circuit-board motif printed across the playfield
  • Dark room interior at the bottom of the frame with the wooden cabinet front and lockdown bar

Symbols

  • Red oval insert targets
  • Glowing red eye sockets
  • Electrical arc bolts
  • Chrome gears and cogs
  • Circuit-board traces
  • Triangular arrow inserts
  • Star/asterisk inserts
  • Curved lane-change arrows
  • Skulls and crossbones motifs
  • Silhouetted running figure on the right apron area

Notable shapes

  • Narrow wedge/trapezoid playfield narrowing sharply toward the top
  • Large oval auto-fire plaque centred between the flippers
  • Circular shoot again button directly below the drain
  • Tall central column of identical red oval targets, mirrored either side of the skull
  • Staircase of turquoise, orange and yellow triangular inserts down the left ramp lane
  • Large rectangular cream cards let into the apron

Art motifs

  • Cyborg chrome skull faces
  • Electricity and wiring
  • Black and red geometric arrow banding
  • Turquoise/cyan triangular lane inserts
  • Chrome metal shading with red rim lighting

Themes

  • Science-fiction
  • Cybernetic
  • Chrome android
  • Electrical circuitry
  • Horror skull

Text on it

  • REBOOT
  • CAPTURE
  • STAGE
  • STAY IN THE FAST LANE TO START THE MISSION
  • INCREASE MULTIPLIER
  • ADVANCE LVL
  • EXIT
  • AUTO-FIRE
  • BALL IN SERVICE
  • SHOOT AGAIN
  • LANE CHANGE
  • HOLD FLIPPER BUTTON FOR STATUS REPORT
  • Williams
  • TERMINATOR 2
  • JUDGEMENT DAY
  • FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY
  • 1 Play
  • 50c
  • 2 Plays
  • 75c
  • 3 Plays
  • $1.00
  • 3 Balls Per Play
  • SKILL SHOT: Pull down on left sling for Skill Shot.
  • (C)1991 Williams Electronics, Inc. A Bally/Midway Company
Pop bumpers
Three pop bumpers in a triangular cluster at the upper centre, caps glowing red through the glass.
Ramps
Two chrome wireform ramps in the upper playfield: a long looping ramp sweeping from lower-left up the left side and over, and a second looping wire ramp on the upper-right that returns down beside the inlane. both are raised on metal posts with the chrome hand mechanism at upper-left.
Slingshots
Two triangular fan-shaped slings below the outlanes, each with three red inserts and chrome rubber, mirrored left and right.
Upper playfield
Yes - a raised upper section occupying the top third, holding the three pop bumpers, the wire ramps, the chrome skull head and chrome hand toy cluster.
Apron and lower playfield
Cream rectangular rules card on the left apron headed terminator 2 / judgement day with bulleted rule text; cream pricing card on the right reading for amusement only with 1 play 50c, 2 plays 75c, 3 plays $1.00 and 3 balls per play; black coin door with lock and coin lettering between them; dark steel lockdown bar across the bottom.
Who and what
Kind Description
Skeleton Large central chrome human skull, roughly one flipper-width across, with two deep glowing red eye sockets, a dark nasal cavity and a wide jagged-toothed grin; painted with blue-white electric arcs running off both temples
Robot Chrome robotic skull/mechanical head mounted on the upper-left playfield, ringed with bolts and metal panels, angled down toward the lower right
Other Oversized chrome mechanical gripping hand with articulated metal fingers, mounted at upper-left beside the capture area, part of a wireform ramp structure
Skeleton A vertical stack of eight small red oval targets each lettered reboot, down the centre-left and mirrored centre-right of the skull
Other Three large round pop-bumper caps glowing bright red in a tight triangle at the upper centre, between the ramps and the skull
Other Small printed skulls, gears and electrical components scattered through the circuit-board background art
Full description

Photograph of a wide, wedge-shaped electro-mechanical playfield seen through glass at a steep angle, the whole cabinet tilted so the top narrows away into darkness. The surface is crowded with lit inserts: a tall column of red oval REBOOT targets running down the centre, red rectangular labels flanking it reading INCREASE MULTIPLIER and ADVANCE LVL, and a small red panel in the middle carrying the yellow instruction STAY IN THE FAST LANE TO START THE MISSION. At the exact centre sits a large painted chrome skull with glowing red eye sockets and a jagged grinning mouth, framed by blue-white electrical arcs and small skull-and-bolt motifs. Three round red pop-bumper caps glow in the upper-centre, with wireform ramps looping over the upper-right and a chrome skull/mech head plus a big chrome gripping hand mounted at the upper-left near CAPTURE lettering. Curving down the left side are stacked triangular arrow inserts labelled STAGE, coloured turquoise, orange and yellow, beside a dark REBOOT arrow. The lower third is symmetric: two red-tipped flippers, two fan-shaped slings with red inserts, a central blue AUTO-FIRE plaque with BALL IN SERVICE beneath and a round SHOOT AGAIN button below it. A cream rules card and a cream pricing card are screwed to the apron, with black LOCK/COIN doors and a dark metal lockdown bar at the very bottom. White Williams script sits at lower-left, LANE CHANGE arrows at both lower corners.

Backglass vision analysis

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day backglass

Backglass

  • black
  • blue
  • grey
  • red

Fingerprint: TERMINATOR 2 JUDGMENT DAY, man's face split between living flesh and chrome robot skull with glowing red eye, two further chrome skeletons flanking, blue-white starburst searchlight flares, pure black background, steel and red colors

Distinctive

A man's face split down the middle - living flesh on one side, shattered chrome robot skull with a glowing red eye on the other - and he is not alone: two further chrome skeletal robots crowd in behind his shoulders, so three chrome skulls stare out from black. Two huge blue-white starburst searchlight flares erupt behind the group against an otherwise pure black background. The whole top is eaten by enormous red block capitals with a grey drop shadow, with a second smaller red line of title text tucked under. One small silver robot stands in the gap between the two flares in the far background.

Setting

  • Pure black void with no horizon or landscape
  • Two enormous blue-white starburst light flares flaring outward from behind the figures
  • Narrow vertical blue light shaft near the centre
  • Smoky blue haze around the flares

Symbols

  • Chrome skull face
  • Red glowing eye socket
  • Starburst searchlight flares
  • Leather jacket snaps and zips
  • Gun-barrel forearm
  • Cable bundles
  • Circular emblem beside the corner logo

Lettering

  • Large condensed extruded sans-serif capitals in saturated red with a pale grey drop shadow across the upper third; second title line in the same red capitals at roughly half size, centred beneath

Themes

  • Android/robot
  • Dystopian future
  • Cyborg
  • Apocalypse
  • Science fiction
  • Chase scene

Title on it

  • Terminator 2 judgment day

Text on it

  • TERMINATOR 2
  • JUDGMENT DAY
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Centre, chest-up, three-quarter view, young to middle-aged, dark swept-back hair, stubbled jaw, neutral grim expression. left half of face torn open to reveal a chrome robot skull: exposed metal, glowing red eye socket, red cable, ragged peeling flesh. wears a black leather biker jacket with silver snaps and zips over a dark grey t-shirt.
Robot Far left, behind the man's shoulder - chest-up chrome endoskeleton with a segmented metal skull, dark eye sockets and a raised gun-barrel forearm, dark blue-grey metal.
Robot Right side - larger bare-headed chrome endoskeleton face with a smooth metal dome, deep-set sockets holding pale glowing eyes, exposed jaw mechanisms and cable bundles, dark shoulder harness.
Robot Distant background, centre - small full-body silver endoskeleton figure standing in the gap between the two light bursts.
Full description

Wide landscape backglass with a three-quarter, chest-up painted portrait of a dark-haired man in a black leather jacket filling the centre. His face is deliberately half-destroyed: the left half is a shattered chrome robot skull with exposed metal, a glowing red eye socket, a red cable and torn flesh. Two further chrome skeletal machines flank him - one behind his left shoulder at the left edge, a bulky endoskeleton with a raised gun-barrel forearm, and one at the right, a larger bare-headed endoskeleton with pale glowing eyes and cable bundles. A small distant silver endoskeleton figure stands in the background between the two light bursts. The background is pure black with two enormous blue-white starburst searchlight flares flaring out from behind the figures, plus a thin vertical blue shaft of light. Across the top, large blocky red extruded capitals with a pale grey drop shadow read TERMINATOR 2, and beneath it in smaller matching red capitals, JUDGMENT DAY. A small cursive maker logo with a circular emblem sits at the lower left over the jacket. A faint artist signature and year sit at bottom right. Palette: black, steel blue, chrome silver-grey, red.