

If you haven't seen the movie - well, just try to follow along. But be careful because contact with any enemy or stationary object causes the teenage time traveler to lose everything: skateboard, bowling balls and, of course, several seconds of precious time.Ī family photograph at the bottom of the display indicates how much time Marty has left before he screws up his own future by changing the past. Occasionally a skateboard appears in the street jumping on it will enable Marty to zip right past his opponents.

Try to avoid the bad guys, pick up the bowling balls, kill the bad guys with the bowling balls - sure, you get the idea. The screen scrolls vertically in these street scenes, not unlike Xevious or a number of other shoot-'em-up titles.

Picture windows must be in big demand there. Oddly enough, there is no traffic, although you'll find a pair of workmen lugging a plate-glass window on just about every other corner. Unlike the film, the idyllic little town seems to have transformed into quite a strange place: in addition to the aforementioned killer bees, bimbos and bullies, the streets through which Marty races are littered with barrels, overstuffed garbage cans and inexplicable groups of perfectly positioned bowling pins. He's got to get to the clock tower in the town square before lightning strikes the spire, which will generate the enormous amount of energy necessary to power his time machine and send him back to the.er, present. Well, neither do I - but LJN's Back to the Future cartridge for the NES includes these and other outrageous scenarios.Īs in the film it's derived from, Marty is trapped in the year 1955, in the fictional town of Hill Valley. Fox) was attacked by mutant, football-sized killer bees? Remember the way Marty would throw bowling balls at any girl he saw twirling a hula hoop? Or what about that famous sequence when a hundred identical thugs attacked Marty at Lou's cafe, and he fought them off by hitting each and every one of them in the face with a flying milk shake? Remember all that? Ah, Back to the Future.wasn't that a great movie? Remember the scene when Marty McFly (played by Michael J.
