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Back to the Future

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This NES game is nothing like the movie. You ride a skateboard through a street and dodge very deadly objects, such as soda cans, bannana peels, kidney beans, etc.. That's it... the whole game is you on a skateboard, a side-scrolling screen, trying to avoid objects being thrown at you. Why are objects flying at you? who the ---- knows????

Back to the Future is one of the more popular movie franchises in...the movie industry. The game based off of the movie.....was a bombshell. It isn't even based off of the movie, since there's barely anything that relates to it.

You play as a guy who's supposed to be Marty, but doesn't look like him. You walk through streets, collecting clocks and shooting bowling balls. That already sounds nothing like the movie. The music is as annoying as the game itself. It loops until you turn off the game.

There is this one scene, however, where you play the guitar (In an awkward way), and different music plays. However, it's not Johnny Be Good. Instead, it's a garbled 8-bit mess.

Could the game be any stupider? Yes, it can.

LJN has a bad reputation of medicore or terrible games but they made some decent or good games but this is one of their worst yet to come.

Loosely based on the 1985 masterpiece "Back to the Future", it seems your in Hill Valley 1955 as you must try everything to collect clocks to save the time and your life from being erased from existence.

In this game everything is out to get you from bullies, girls with hula-hoops, men with glass plates, bees and darts. Here Marty is all dressed up in black like a punk instead of wearing his red jacket like in the movies and the music in this game loops over and over again like it makes you a bit crazy. There's some good things in the game that help fight enemies such as bowling balls you can use to throw at them and bad things like the skateboard which makes you go fast but you can't stop as this game goes in a bit of "Paperboy"-esque route of racing. There's even some hard mini-games which is a breath of air from the horrible music playing such as the hit the bullies game which you have to kill 60 of them with milkshakes, a game where you have to avoid being seen by Marty's past mother and the hardest one where you play at the high school prom.

All in all, it's a real piece of junk from LJN that should be avoided even if you are a fan of the movies.

This game is so horrible. I loved the movies but this game is just horrible. It's not even worth a penny plus free shipping! Some of the atrocious things are the jumps, you can't jump over anything but you can jump even though you will never make it over anything. LJN just decided to put Marty McFly in a game and one of your weapons is throwing bowling balls!? When did Marty go around throwing bowling balls at people in the movie? Just stay away from this game at all costs.

This game has nothing to do with the movie. The only thing famileur is the logo and the clock tower that arnt anything more then the start screens.

You run through the streets and have to collect a bunch of clocks while avoiding running into the hooler hoops girls and killer bee's and the ever so deadly park bench.

This game has nothing to do with the movie at all. It's more like a run and dodge 'em game like Frogger only on a scrolling screen that seem's to go absolutly no where.

The next game was a little better, but still only 1 stars, but least that game had the deloreon in it.

Even if this game costs a quarter, stay away!! NES produces crappy games from exciting movies on purpose and LJN is guilty for that! Its a cruel marketing tool to get kids to spend their hard earn money on crappy games! I played it once on a website that allows you to play NES games and boy the controls suck! Its horrible!! Why? I'll tell you!

-1 When did Marty sport a black shirt? It would'nt hurt if these game developers make it red!
-2 Creativity is horrible! Throwing milkshakes at bullies, dodging hulla hoop girls, park benches, bumble bees, clumsy moving crews holding pieces of glass (that you can't see until you knock into them).......what more can I say!! What kind of deadline was LJN tryin to reach! No excuse!!
-3 Graphics were horrible (even for 1989 NES game)!
-4 Music score was horrible (same song loops over and over and it was'nt even in the movie)
-5 Overhead view of game in play gives me a headace and jump button is worthless if you can't jump over anything! Like I said, controls are akward!
-6 Ending is short and it sucks! After all that work, trying to beat this difficult and horrible game, you get a crappy ending. Many LJN games for NES have these so beware!

Don't buy this game!! Also, stay away from the "Mario Bros" rip off sequel (II and III)!

Seeing all the negative reviews for this game motivated me to write this review considering I enjoy this game a lot. Sure I know a lot of people do not like the fact that it's contains non-BTTF elements such as a bowling ball weapon and enemies such as Bee's and girls with hula hoops. But there is a semi-reference to Biff in the form of bully enemies as well as the skateboard and the photo of Marty that slowly disappears. To those that are not familiar with the game but are BTTF fans I would say give it a chance considering the used price being low and that fact that once you get good at it you can beat it in less than an hour which is a nice trip via `8 Bit' back to the first movie.

Pros:
-Fun games at every checkpoint that are simple and are directly related to the movie
-Skateboard is fast paced and seeing how many level times of "116" you can get with the skateboard through a single walkthough of the game is a mini-challenge.
-Learning curve hard at first but as you learn the game you do improve.
-Music is a version of the famous Huey Lewis song.

Cons:
-Music and gameplay is repetitive.
-Bee's can be cheap.
-Game is short-even for a NES game.

This game sucks. I love Back to the Future, and the always classic NES, but THIS is terrible! You're running down the street as Marty Mcfly, wearing a black muscle shirt for some reason,collecting clocks. JUST like the movie! But wait,there's more! You have to avoid hoola hoop girls,clones of Biff, hornets, two guys holding a plate of glass running back and forth, and trash cans. God writing this is painfull. All of this you do while hearing the awful sound of "Power of Love" 3x fast in 8-bit, on at LEAST one illegal substance. You can jump, but there's an obsticle everywhere, so don't try that. Or this "game",for that matter. After four levels, you are sent to Lou's Cafe, the perfect place to get enraged. YOU THROW MILKSHAKES AT MORE CLONES OF BIFF TANNEN. I must have missed THAT part of the film. You need to hit 50 of them to move on, and if you fail,back to level 4 with ya!

I hate this game. Bad controls, bad gameplay, bad music, nothing like the movie, it's an LJN game. Need I say more?

I'm 33, and at the moment have brought out my NES for my son(and for me)and now I'm grabbing all of my favorite games of my childhood, and among the many of them is "BTTF". The many negative reviews and other people saying "this game sucks",hated it for the simple fact of it's extreme difficulty. You have your basic simple premise to dodge bully's,hoola hoop girls, pits, and oil, ridiculous I know, but fun. The controls are basic and easy and are are smoothly done for it's time. At the end of a few blocks of skating,dodging and throwing bowling balls at your enemies, your first mission awaits, and it's the mini games that frustrate so many gamers, yes it's difficult and it can be done and therefore it has a good game-play value, not simply a game you beat and put in the dust-pile of old games. There's four mini-games(the cafe,the school of blocking hearts,the dance and the finale in the Delorion.) Maybe for me it's just the nostalgia factor but I'm playing this on break and still cant put it down. Your a true gamer if you beat this one.

Let's face it; anyone who played the NES a lot knows that most of the games based off of a movie were completely lame, like Total Recall, Terminator, Alien, you name it. This one, however, combined action with the plot of the movie very well including: The scrum with Biff and his buddies, the saga with his mom liking him, the guitar playing at the dance, and the driving in the thunderstorm to get...Back to the Future...