212 · Back to the Future
In Back to the Future, 80s teen Marty McFly is mistakenly send 30 years into the past where he disrupts his own parents from meeting. Faced with extinction at the hands of a temporal paradox, Marty must find a way to reunite his future parents and make it back to his own time.
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SHOW NOTES
Back to the Future Gameplay
Back to the Future MSX (before NES)
Universal Studios on GameCube
Back to the Future: The Game
Simpsons' Larry the Looter Game
Show notes
- Help Marty McFly fix the past to save the future
- NES Longplay
- Introductions
- One of the most fun movies of all time.
- The classic chase scene between Marty and the killer bees
- The looney tunes hijinx when Marty threw a bowling bowl at that girl with the hula hoop
- Or when Marty fought off 100 thugs at a diner
- One of the most fun movies of all time.
- Overview
- The player controls Marty McFly through various stages set in 1955 in which he collects various clock icons in order to advance to the next level
- Gameplay
- The idea of Buying time wasn’t a theme in the movie.
- Two power-ups can help improve Marty's control
- bowling balls that can destroy enemies
- and a skateboard which can speed up gameplay.
- The “Bonus Games”
- Marty repelling Biff Tannen's gang of bullies from a cafe
- blocking all the kisses Lorraine sends Marty (in the shape of little hearts)
- Ah, I can’t get kissed by my mom
- She is shooting her love rapidly and in constant zig zags
- Why does this look just like the diner?
- and having to position his guitar properly to stay in tune at the dance in order for George and Lorraine to kiss.
- The music coming to the guitar instead of out of it
- The guitar is like a net and you have to catch the notes
- In the final stage, Marty gets to control the DeLorean time machine on the street at night, dodging lightning bolts and obstacles while accelerating in such a way as to reach 88 miles per hour (142 km/h) precisely at the end of the stage, enabling the time machine to bring Marty home to 1985.
- Thankfully you can’t exceed 88mph and it’s actually a pretty short stage
- Music
- The game only contains two songs from the film. One is a sped up version of "The Power of Love" which plays throughout most of the game; the other is "Johnny B. Goode," which plays in the guitar level.
- "Tough luck Marty! It looks like you are stuck here."
- Who got it worse? BttF or Ghostbusters?
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- 3 Back to the Future games before this that all actually look more jank
- We will play BttF Part 2 and 3 on the NES as well but only as one game
- Deep Cut - Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure
- a game where you explore the theme park and go on the rides. The BttF ride was a very interesting fun arcade adaptation on the GameCube
- The most recent adaptation - Back to the Future The Game. A Telltale game
- EGL
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