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Back to the Future
1989, LJN, NES/Famicom
Back to the Future was a 1985 movie with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd about a Delorean Time Machine that takes "Marty" back to 1955 where he interferes with his parents hooking up. Okay, I'm sure you already know the story, it's not like it's popular or anything. Anyway, in 1989, LJN, the infamous distributor of trash movie licenses on the 8-bit Nintendo, released this game.

In Back to the Future, you play as Marty McFly trying to get back to 1985 from 1955, and that's where the similiarities with the movie ends. You go through multiple rounds of an overhead view game where Marty collects clocks Paperboy style while avoiding obstacles. And then you get to play some kind of Tapper game with Milkshakes, and then some kind of classroom thing collecting hearts from your mom or something, and then probably the worst Guitar Hero type thing ever, before racing the Delorean to win the game. Phew, that was a mouth full.

This game was absolutley detestable, and was one of those that you saw on the shelf at Blockbuster, rented once, and then feel absolutley appalled that the studio would give it's okay to this mess.
This is the Power of Love (points at Huey Lewis and the News).....and this is the Power of Love on Crack! (Points at this Game) - My Experiences
I bought this sometime a long time ago on cartridge format from some Everett thrift shop sometime in the 2000's after having my childhood copy of Back to the Future II & III for almost 15 years to that point. I only really bought it as a completist collector. Oddly enough, because my life's stars align with pure negativity, AVGN - that's right, James Rolfes character, came out with a video on this the next week.

Let's just say this is indeed a Dookie Kookie Diarrhea Dump of a game. However, what's irritating about people on YouTube comments, is that they love to make a aggressive fight over the stupidest shit. So I point out that the main song that goes on on repeat is the first quarter of "The Power of Love" by "Huey Lewis and the News" played at 78 speed. Some dipshit decides to "Quantumcarl" my ass - whose Quantumcarl? Oh, my arch nemesis on YouTube from 10001 years ago - we got into a dumb fight about a violin that sounded like a Trumpet on a video. So now I had some other asshole bitching about me saying what the damn song is and of course it degenerated into an endless barriage of him calling me dumbf**k and fa**ot over it. Seriously, and people think I have a damn temper, this shitfuck would be eating his teeth if he had the balls to be face 2 face rather than on the internet.

Revisiting it in 2022 however, it was not nearly as bad as I remember, so maybe I'll do a let's play of it this time, especially since Susan Wojaski and the YouTube behavioral mafia will probably sterilize both of us if we get into a comment's section fight again over something as stupid as a half-baked chiptune cover of an iconic movie soundtrack song.


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