History VideoGame / JourneyToSilius

* SmashingHllwayTrapsOfDoom: Crushers make an appearance in the fourth stage and fifth stage.

%%* AutoScrollingLevel: The final stage.

%%* BottomlessPits: They're here and there.
%%* CoresAndTurretsBoss: The third boss.
%%* DownTheDrain: Stage 2.
%%* EternalEngine: The last two stages, which include most of the [[EverythingTryingToKillYou stock deathtraps]].

%%* FlashOfPain: Pink ones in this case.

%%* NoOSHACompliance: The final stage is a factory.
%%* PersonalSpaceInvader: "[=HumpBot=]".
%%* RatchetScrolling: One of the last NES games to have this.

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%%* SentryGun: Some of the turrets.

* FakeDifficulty: Part of the reason the game is so difficult is because it's so ''stingy'' with health powerups. Not to mention they hardly restore any health at all.

* GainaxEnding / NoEnding: Justified: The full ending was cut before the game was released.

%%* FlashOfPain: Pink ones in this case.

* ExcusePlot: The game has an opening about Jay taking revenge on terrorists for the death of his father in their plans to stop a space colony from being made, but gets no more development beyond that, not even in the manual. With the first stage being a clear leftover of the ''Film/TheTerminator'''s opening war prologue between the Resistance and Skynet, and Jay looking like a pastiche of Kyle Reese in a space suit, plus all of those "terrorists" being androids and occasionally ''{{VideoGame/Contra}}''-looking aliens, it becomes obvious the story was a last-minute addition to cover the loss of the license.

* ExcusePlot: The game attempts to set up a plot about Jay's father coming across the plans of evil terrorists trying to stop a space colony from being made, and that the terrorists murdered him with an explosion, causing Jay to take up arms in revenge and stop them for good. Then no cutscenes appear for the entire rest of the game until the ending, which just implies the space colony was successfully made. Not even the manual explains the apocalyptic Earth and the terrorists looking like robotic and alien monstrosities, though they could be leftovers of the ''Terminator'' license.

%%* ExcusePlot: Cyber-terrorists have killed Jay's father and want to sabotage the colony project, [[ItsPersonal they must be stopped]]!%%Why is this an Excuse Plot?

%%* ChainReactionDestruction: Bosses tend to do that.

* AutoScrollingLevel: The final stage.
* BattleshipRaid: The penultimate boss.

* BottomlessPits: They're here and there.
* ChainReactionDestruction: Bosses tend to do that.
* CoresAndTurretsBoss: Third boss.
* DownTheDrain: Stage 2.
* EternalEngine: The last two stages, which include most of the [[EverythingTryingToKillYou stock deathtraps]].
* ExcusePlot: Cyber-terrorists have killed Jay's father and want to sabotage the colony project, [[ItsPersonal they must be stopped]]!
* FlashOfPain: Pink ones in this case.
* JapaneseRanguage: You were most likely supposed to be journeying to Si'''r'''ius.

* MagicFloppyDisk: They're in the future too.

* NoOSHACompliance: The final stage is a factory.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: "[=HumpBot=]".
* RatchetScrolling: One of the last NES games to have this.
* SentryGun: Some of the turrets.

''Journey to Silius'' is a side-scrolling action game by Creator/{{Sunsoft}} released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem in 1990. It was originally slated to be based on the Creator/JamesCameron film ''Film/TheTerminator'', but Sunsoft lost the license before its scheduled release date. Sunsoft decided to continue development rather than canceling their hard work. As it turned out, ''Journey to Silius'' became a cult-classic, while later NES games that carried the ''Terminator'' license [[VindicatedByHistory are all but forgotten]].

* BossOnlyLevel: Played with in the final stage; the final battle is preceded by a somewhat brief auto-scrolling segment with no enemies.