RoboCop Versus The Terminator feels like a ’90s fever dream

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We’re a lot closer to living in the future that RoboCop predicted than we are to the one in The Terminator. Sure, some smart, rich people say that we have to watch out for AI killing us all, but I’m pretty sure they’re just trying to make their new tech seem more impressive. All we’ve seen it do is put together some bad prose, resurrect dead celebrities, and give us pictures that invariably look uncomfortably off. Humans can’t build a printer that can reliably put ink on a page, and we don’t need a machine’s help to wipe ourselves out of existence. We’ve got that covered.

RoboCop basically thought we’d flush ourselves down the toilet with our own greed. We’d gradually become less and less human the more we pursue our own hedonism. Profit and status before people were one of its big themes. It was extrapolating on a trend, and 35 years later, it’s only gotten more accurate.

Speaking of profit, in 1992, Dark Horse published a comic book miniseries that combined the two extremely marketable cyborgs above. RoboCop Versus The Terminator was a concept every kid in the schoolyard dreamed about, bringing together two protagonists from their favorite R-Rated movies. While a movie based on the concept never materialized, there was a game released for popular consoles at the time. Three games, actually, as the SNES, Game Boy, and Genesis/Mega Drive versions were all different. You lucky duck, I’m going to look at all of them.

But first, let’s talk about the comics. If the stories I’ve heard are accurate, Dark Horse was about to lose the RoboCop license, so they decided to go out with a bang by creating a dream crossover. They tapped Frank Miller to write it.

While Miller is perhaps best known for The Dark Knight Returns and Sin