A very short entry of a Thor/Odin game which was to be based on the Terminator licence, after a potential licence deal fell through. Zzap did a small feature and news snippet with the game, which mentioned a story which sounded very familiar!
In an interview with Stuart Fotheringham and Colin Grunes, they said the following about the potential licence:
“We tried to get movie licences for the film The Terminator and Dune (that coincidentally were out at the cinema then), but both film studios seemed to think video-games were too trivia and would demean their product; how times change.”
Thanks to JazzGhostrider, it has been established that in The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels book, Marc Wilding explains that the game turned into Mission AD, and said the following:
“Mission AD — This one was only produced for the Commodore 64, by myself with artwork again by Stuart Fotheringham. It started life as Terminator as we tried to get the license for the game, but was changed to a completely different game when we did not succeed in getting it. I think the source code I have is still in a box with Terminator written on it.”
So, the game did sneak out in the end – but what of the original version when it was Terminator or The Liquidator? We hope that some day in the future, Marc will allow us to preserve the source code.
Contributions: Max Mirini, JazzGhostrider, Marc Wilding, Chris Wilkins (Fusion Retro Books)
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