Terminator 2 (console)

Terminator 2[1][2] (Chinese: 终结者二; pinyin: Zhōngjié zhě èr) or Super Design Ending-Man BS-500 AS[3] is a video game console sold throughout countries of the former Eastern Bloc,[a] Italy (as Top Console), Greece, Spain, Finland (as Ending Man S-700),[5] Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Malaysia, South Korea (as K-007 and Batman/Family Computer II),[6] Kenya, India and Pakistan.

This particular Famiclone was hugely popular in Poland, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Pakistan, India, Kenya, Iran and Bosnia, throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Due to political and economical restraints, the fourth and the fifth generation consoles such as the Sega Mega Drive, SNES, or PlayStation were not immediately available, and after their release, some of them were expensive for the average individual.

It left a mark in pop culture and 1990s-2000s youth, establishing itself as antonomasia for 8-bit video gaming, to the point of being more popular than the original NES in these regions.

Games for the Terminator 2 were still widely available in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the 2000s, mostly on street markets and in small toy stores.

Within the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Atlantida Enterprise LTD company sold a Dendy competitor, the Jippy game console, which was a clone of Ending Man.

[4] In South Korea, Kuk Je Academy sold this console as K-007 starting from 1991 and year later, Mega System released its version called Batman/Family Computer II.

It is difficult to determine an exact price for the system, but in places like Gabrovo, Bulgaria in the mid 90s, one could buy it for the rough equivalent of €10.

Design-wise, the number of changes introduced with the new console includes the size of the blue buttons, being slightly bigger and less taller than the originals, the "Ending Man" logo is smaller and spells "Terminator®" with 3 Chinese characters below (in some variations the logo is non-existent), the cartridge removal lever is now non-functional and is only present for aesthetic purposes, the power LED was moved from next to the power button to the front center of the console, and the controller plug was changed from the 15-pin connection of the original Famicom and Terminator 2 to a 9-pin connection similar to that used in the Atari 2600 and the Sega Mega Drive.

Other minor differences include the cover having a (sometimes black or blue) hinge while the original model had a black slider, the console now using a USB-to-MicroUSB cable with a USB power adaptor for power instead of an AC/DC adapter with a DC plug, 2 RCA connectors (yellow and white) instead of 3 (red, yellow and white) connectors (coinciding with the elimination of a built-in RF modulator from the original), the number of vent holes in the back decreased from 20 to 12, and the text in the circle around the top of the console was changed or removed.

Inside of the Terminator 2