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Summary

RoboCop Versus the Terminator is a quirky cross‑over that tried to bring the gritty comic book clash to the 8‑bit world, but the NES version never made it past the prototype stage. The cancelled cartridge would have let you control RoboCop in a side‑scrolling shooter, blasting through waves of Terminators and assorted robots on a mission to bring down Skynet. While the NES project stalled, the game did appear on the Genesis, SNES, Master System, Game Gear and later the Game Boy, each version echoing the comic’s blend of metal‑clad law‑enforcement and time‑traveling apocalypse. The SNES edition, coded by John Botti, featured comic‑book‑style cinematic cut‑scenes that reviewers praised for their flair, even if the action itself felt a bit flat, earning a modest 5.8 from Electronic Gaming Monthly.

Storyline

In the future, John Connor’s resistance discovers that Skynet’s core technology is based on the cybernetics used to create the cyborg police officer RoboCop. A resistance soldier named Flo is sent back in time to eliminate RoboCop and halt Skynet’s birth.

Skynet retaliates by sending Terminators to stop Flo, and RoboCop soon teams up with her, battling Terminators, OCP forces, and a host of obstacles across the city.

When a Terminator infiltrates the OCP headquarters, RoboCop plugs into a console to reprogram the security system, only to be trapped, digitized, and have his body dismantled for Skynet’s use. He watches Skynet rise to power, then hijacks a deserted robotics factory with his digitized mind, rebuilds his body, and destroys the Skynet CPU, securing a future for humanity.

The Genesis version adds that years after RoboCop’s creation, SAC‑NORAD contracts Cyberdyne to build Skynet using his technology, which becomes self‑aware and launches a war. After destroying a Terminator, RoboCop fights RoboCain in Delta City, then defeats more Terminators and a reprogrammed ED‑209 in the OCP building. He plugs into a console, unintentionally gives Skynet critical data, falls into a trap, later reassembles in the future, battles a Terminator‑infested world, and finally destroys Skynet.