I played this and many other NES games as a kid and watching these videos as a adult I realize how annoying it must have been for my parents to listen to hours of this background music.
I never knew a hula-hoop girl could be so deadly. Why'd she wanna kill Marty anyway? "He's an a--hole!" Not to mention it doesn't even look like Marty. Just look at that black helmet head. Also, when did he ever wear that sleeveless black shirt?
this game was so hard, right up there with battletoads.. kept playing hoping it would get better. those bees were so frustrating. Thank goodness for youtube to finally see a walkthrough 35 years later.
You know what I only realized just now? After the school level ("break Loraine's heart") Marty does 4 more street levels to get to the dance. In the movies, the dance was at the school. Marty didn't have to waste his time with more more street levels to get there. Fucking LJN...
This Back to the Future game for the NES, from 1989, is based on the 1985 Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures theatrical movie of the same name. A sequel Back to the Future Part II & III, was released the following year, in 1990.
@@dallase1 every original game on NES (not homebrews) had that seal, but the game wasn't developed by them (neither was distributed by Nintendo, LJN did It). In fact It was developed by Beam Software, one of the worst NES developers
I really don't remember the part in the movie where bees continually bother Marty and girls in Hula Hoops randomly throw crap at him... director's cut?
I remember playing this with my brother when we were young. I remember we only made it to the dance, but the game was extremely frustrating. It seemed impossible to pass the milk shake part. I do not think we ever beat it. Thank you for showing all of us the ending. I am glad we did not because I would have been pissed with that lame ending.
Yeah, that ending was way weak! I actually did make it to the end once - do not need to do it again, especially since I can always watch it on RUclips!
well James from AVGN is wrong, ther eis a power of love but played too fast to make out on what your listening to. he should slow the play back speed to .5 before having a Buffalo take a direa dump in his ear.
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?
I'd love to see a spin off series for bttf where marty just walks around the streets of hill valley collecting clocks and throwing bowling balls at hula hooping girls
I remember seeing that they made a game for one of my favorite movies, as a kid in the late 80s; never got to play it, and that appears to be a good thing lol
As a new collector of NES games it’s so great to have youtube to see what games are crap to avoid without having to take a chance and hope the game doesn’t suck.
I was a little kid in the late 80s, absolutely loved Back to the Future, and always wanted to play the game, so much in fact, I remember visiting some family friends and seeing they had this, but not getting my chance to play. As an adult, I can finally see what I never even got to see game footage of as a kid, and while it sucks, I absolutely woulda loved it.
you can buy a USB NES controller and there are emulators for PC and the Entire NES game collection for download online all free, I have every single NES game from every region, look up nestopia
So glad this video is here for me to watch. I was thinking about reliving this experience when I saw it at a local Booksmans store. Now I remember how frustrating it was and how much I hated it
Wow. Holy crap. (Great Scott!). My brother and I got that game for Christmas when it came out and we used to get so mad at this game and thought it was impossible. So for the last 25 years I have never seen past the soda shop. Thank you so much for the video. (I had to watch the whole way through). And what is up with that timer speed?! Why don't they just make it more like regular seconds and have a less amount of numbers?!!
Right? I never got past that damn soda shop!!! So frustrating I saw the Delorean on the game box and that's what sold it for me. I tried so hard, but never made it. I almost want to buy an old NES and these games just for some closure. haha. Another impossible game was TMNT, I couldn't diffuse all the bombs at the damn.
Seems like that soda shop was the biggest pain in the ass for all us 90’s kids and couldn’t get past it. thanks for uploading this so we all can see how the game ends
@@jackiebrown6845 because it is. The music is actually composed correctly, but the programmer decided to speed up the music because they thought the nes was 3 times slower than it actually is
running? throwing bowling bowls? no red jacket? at a cafe throwing milkshakes? collecting clocks? shooting hearts at marty? playing a gitaur like a chair? wearing a boiler suit? no suit? no back to the future theme? no back in time? no power of love? no jonnie be good (sort of)? what a mess time lets have clocks about romance lets have hearts ljn can go wipe there butt on spikes
I remember seeing the cartridge for this game in my cousin's garage a long time ago. I looked at it and thought it looked pretty cool, but his NES was long gone somewhere. Thank God he didn't have that NES...I would have shattered it on the ground along with the game :D Although, I am very surprised on how well you actually did on this game.
It's just a version of Huey Lewis & the News' "The Power of Love" (a song actually used in the movie this game is based on), but it is remixed so horribly that it no longer resembles the original song.
Actually it was the part where Marty was on the floor is what the music playing Johnny b. good. and they are all staring at him. That is what the music is. You can turn it off by pressing left on keypad and B on the controller I think.
omg this game was so exhaustingly hard for me at 8 yrs old...that diner part was tough, took me forever to beat that, I gave up a little bit afterwards.
"Don't want bullies. Bees are lame. Guys walking back and forth with a glass pane. My bowling ball's a-coming, which is cruel sometimes, but I need to pick up clocks..." 🙂
0:00 Plot: You Are Marty McFly, You Travel Far Back In Time To 1955 Where Your Parents Are Actually Teenagers Since They First Met, and the Time Machine Has Run Out Of Power. You Must Outsmart The Bullies at Lou’s Diner, Win Your Mother’s Heart For Your Dad at The School Dance, and Find The Way to Power Up the Time Machine To Go Back to 1985 Before your picture of your family fades away. Hurry, Marty! Get Back To The Future Before The Time Runs Out!
I love this game. after you pick the clocks you can pick up the black spots and throw it the obstacles, then you can collect the skate board, and jump over the walls. So fun.
@@CosmicGoku529 I think it is mud because it was supposed to have beeen raining the day before , the lighting was suppose have struck the clock tower and it stopped running the day before. it you noticed there was mud puddles. He is supposed to pick up so many clock images to get certain objects. The rain han't dried up yet. To send him back though they had reinvent another lightening hit to the clock tower. He gets his skate broard after he collects more clock images. But whatever he has to make it back home.
@@CosmicGoku529 You see waht I saying about the mud puddles. i thinnk they are the bowls in there for extra feature. they are the storm and the rain altogether because he has to get back.
What a crap game this was. We got suckered in by the box cover. This was the time before you could access reviews on pretty much anything so everyone who bought it got taken.
I never really understood why they would put 8-bit versions of the songs: "The Power of Love" and: "Johnny B. Goode" (both featured in the film) in the game but render it sped up. 🤔
Remember when Marty had to run through town when there were lots of girls hula hooping, weird guys running in circles, and some men moving glass windows for whatever reason? That had to have been my favorite part of the movie.
Holy shit, they tried recreating the Power of Love-riff with that music. Switch the speed to 0.5 and you kinda hear it in it. But barely, as it's reaaaaaally botched.
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I always loved the part of the movie when Marty runs around the streets of Hill Valley collecting clocks and dodge obstacles.
don't forget throwing bowling balls
while wearing a black muscle shirt
It definitely matches the source material.
Bomberman Kenny
This was all that footage of Eric Stoltz that they cut out and didn't have time to reshoot.
Chris Sawyer bahahahahahahhaa
The CIA should use that music for interrogating communists.
I played this and many other NES games as a kid and watching these videos as a adult I realize how annoying it must have been for my parents to listen to hours of this background music.
According to some sites, the background music is supposed to be a reworking of "The Power Of Love". I have no idea how anyone can tell.
@@Larry_Ibarra I just watched a video of it slowed down and it actually is The Power of Love sped up. No one would have known back then tho
This was a much welcome relief in comparison to the sound of my brother and I fighting constantly.😂
It's Hill Valley, although I can't imagine Hell being much worse.
I never knew a hula-hoop girl could be so deadly. Why'd she wanna kill Marty anyway?
"He's an a--hole!"
Not to mention it doesn't even look like Marty. Just look at that black helmet head. Also, when did he ever wear that sleeveless black shirt?
@@d.t.simonbelmont AVGN 😆
Man. That's a half hour that lasted a month.
this game was so hard, right up there with battletoads.. kept playing hoping it would get better. those bees were so frustrating. Thank goodness for youtube to finally see a walkthrough 35 years later.
this game is torture
nesman1985 ? Your a kid are you not?
James Alino you’re*
THIS GAME IS COMPETE TORTURE, I HATE YOU LOU'S CAFE!!!
@@jamesalino383 no but i was a kid when this fucking pile of shit game came out
@@thenerddirector
Score at least 50 points to proceed
You know what I only realized just now? After the school level ("break Loraine's heart") Marty does 4 more street levels to get to the dance. In the movies, the dance was at the school. Marty didn't have to waste his time with more more street levels to get there.
Fucking LJN...
Well, producer Bob Gale advised fans not to buy this game.
Sounds like an Angry Video Game Nerd statement
This Back to the Future game for the NES, from 1989, is based on the 1985 Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures theatrical movie of the same name. A sequel Back to the Future Part II & III, was released the following year, in 1990.
My colleague just pointed out to me today that the background music is just a really sped-up version of Power of Love.
Proof that that Nintendo seal of quality means NOTHING
I feel so dissapointed with this game in my childhood, sad memories ha ha
Nintendo didn't make this.
Yes they did It has the Nintendo seal of Quality on it so they manufactured the cartridges.
@@dallase1 every original game on NES (not homebrews) had that seal, but the game wasn't developed by them (neither was distributed by Nintendo, LJN did It). In fact It was developed by Beam Software, one of the worst NES developers
Guys! What Nintendo did is just to license this game, but this game was déveloped by beam software (as saaanntttiii said) and was published by LJN
I really don't remember the part in the movie where bees continually bother Marty and girls in Hula Hoops randomly throw crap at him... director's cut?
Deleted scene.
But to justify the randomness. Hula hoops was a fad in 1955 which of course that game sets in.
@@cattyfang4289 Which deleted scene?
Same for home alone game right ?
@@okamijubei The hula hoops were fun. It was kind of game to see how long you keep it going without it falling to the ground. We ll had one.
World of Longplays-- Making Ljn games look playable since 2011.
I’ve given up trying to find a logical explanation of this game.
Whats back to the future about?
Oh it’s about time-
Ah time okay we’ll put clocks in and it’ll be ready to ship this Christmas
i think i'd actually want something like that
i could use all the exercise marty gets in this game
“Just leave me alone. I’m trying to collect clocks.”
I remember playing this with my brother when we were young. I remember we only made it to the dance, but the game was extremely frustrating. It seemed impossible to pass the milk shake part. I do not think we ever beat it. Thank you for showing all of us the ending. I am glad we did not because I would have been pissed with that lame ending.
Yeah, that ending was way weak! I actually did make it to the end once - do not need to do it again, especially since I can always watch it on RUclips!
Well, @@jackiebrown6845, Bob Gale did advise fans of the movie not to buy this game.
Looks like you didn't miss much on the ending.
The mystery of the music is solved
It's Power of Love sped up by 200%
You're right. I haven't ever noticed that.
It's only Sped up by 34%
It’s annoying
well James from AVGN is wrong, ther eis a power of love but played too fast to make out on what your listening to. he should slow the play back speed to .5 before having a Buffalo take a direa dump in his ear.
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?
Marty mcfly attack enemies with bowling ball!
Cue the scene from Better Call Saul where Jimmy throws bowling balls onto Howard's car
You play as John Travolta?
I'd love to see a spin off series for bttf where marty just walks around the streets of hill valley collecting clocks and throwing bowling balls at hula hooping girls
Oh look! I got a bowling ball! Remember that from the movie? Remember when Marty goes around throwing bowling balls?!
I remember seeing that they made a game for one of my favorite movies, as a kid in the late 80s; never got to play it, and that appears to be a good thing lol
The entire purpose of this game is if you can survive listening to this music while attempting to beat it. Good lord.
As a new collector of NES games it’s so great to have youtube to see what games are crap to avoid without having to take a chance and hope the game doesn’t suck.
I was a little kid in the late 80s, absolutely loved Back to the Future, and always wanted to play the game, so much in fact, I remember visiting some family friends and seeing they had this, but not getting my chance to play.
As an adult, I can finally see what I never even got to see game footage of as a kid, and while it sucks, I absolutely woulda loved it.
you can buy a USB NES controller and there are emulators for PC and the Entire NES game collection for download online all free, I have every single NES game from every region, look up nestopia
For those who haven't seen the movie, don't worry. There's no spoilers in this game. In fact, it barley has anything to do with the movie at all.
So glad this video is here for me to watch. I was thinking about reliving this experience when I saw it at a local Booksmans store. Now I remember how frustrating it was and how much I hated it
Love that classic Back to the Future theme.
In the deleted scenes in back to the future Marty throw bowling balls
me: (walks into LJN)
Head developer: "Have you played BTTF?"
me: (slams his head into the desk)
Speedruns for charity USA you mean Beam Software
@@jacefiore6203 grew up with ljn, hate beam software as well
I like how the rest of the band at the dance blend in with the background.
17:13 Nice boiler suit, Marty. Did you borrow it from Michael Myers?
my ears weren't bleeding, until i heard that wonderful, mesmeric music...
Someone actually gave me this - as a Christmas present.... .... ....
You have my sympathy
owwww poor thing
Do you still have it? I saw a new one on Amazon for $200 from Nintendo.
KyuuA4 They sure didn't like you much! lol
I received this "game" as a Christmas present back when I was 11... I wish I had received another gift...
Wow. Holy crap. (Great Scott!). My brother and I got that game for Christmas when it came out and we used to get so mad at this game and thought it was impossible. So for the last 25 years I have never seen past the soda shop. Thank you so much for the video. (I had to watch the whole way through). And what is up with that timer speed?! Why don't they just make it more like regular seconds and have a less amount of numbers?!!
Same with my brother and me. I couldnt wait to see what was past the soda shop. What a POS game. Up there with Bill and Ted, which we also had....
Right? I never got past that damn soda shop!!! So frustrating I saw the Delorean on the game box and that's what sold it for me. I tried so hard, but never made it. I almost want to buy an old NES and these games just for some closure. haha. Another impossible game was TMNT, I couldn't diffuse all the bombs at the damn.
Me too! eff that soda shop
Seems like that soda shop was the biggest pain in the ass for all us 90’s kids and couldn’t get past it. thanks for uploading this so we all can see how the game ends
I could never get past the school!
I could never pass the milkshake part
"Hey, shouldn't you be collecting clocks?"
-Gamer Kid
That music has been know to invoke suicides and mass shootings.
A half an hour of menial grinding to earn literally 30 seconds in the DeLorean. I'm kind of glad I never made it past the soda shop.
i love this game music to my ears
what it sucks
Marie Belfond today is opposite day
I rather have, a buffalo, take a direa dump in my ear.
Buhh nuuh nuh nuuh nuh nuh nuh nauuh!
First music so cool
I use to play this game all the time. I still think it's fun. Pretty tough game none the less.
i was never able to make it past level 1 as a kid. The struggle was real with Nintendo games. Kids today have NO idea!
The music sounds a LOT better if played at 0.5 speed.
Yep - has almost exactly the same tempo as "The Power Of Love".
@@jackiebrown6845 because it is. The music is actually composed correctly, but the programmer decided to speed up the music because they thought the nes was 3 times slower than it actually is
running? throwing bowling bowls? no red jacket? at a cafe throwing milkshakes? collecting clocks? shooting hearts at marty? playing a gitaur like a chair? wearing a boiler suit? no suit? no back to the future theme? no back in time? no power of love? no jonnie be good (sort of)? what a mess time lets have clocks about romance lets have hearts ljn can go wipe there butt on spikes
I remember seeing the cartridge for this game in my cousin's garage a long time ago. I looked at it and thought it looked pretty cool, but his NES was long gone somewhere. Thank God he didn't have that NES...I would have shattered it on the ground along with the game :D
Although, I am very surprised on how well you actually did on this game.
I now remember why I used to beat my NES mercilessly.
Welcome to Hell Valley
My favorite part is when he plays Johnny B. Goode and moves his guitar all over the place to collect notes to fill up a love meter.
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Ah yes, we all remember this theme from the movie. Classic!
@ValisHD
that's an awesome idea. I can just smell the NES Back to the Future 2 game around the corner.
It's just a version of Huey Lewis & the News' "The Power of Love" (a song actually used in the movie this game is based on), but it is remixed so horribly that it no longer resembles the original song.
Actually it was the part where Marty was on the floor is what the music playing Johnny b. good. and they are all staring at him. That is what the music is. You can turn it off by pressing left on keypad and B on the controller I think.
can someone please explain to me how to beat the last level. i understand you gotta avoid the lightning but how do you speed up?
No Back To The Future Theme
No Power Of Love
No Back In Time
No Johnny B. Goode
We’ll Forget This
(James Drink His IBC Root Beer)
Oh thank god the cafe has no music.
I just figured out the music is actually the instrumental of The Power Of Love sped up like 4 times or so. WHO WOULD USE THIS FOR THE BGM?
Slow the game speed down to .5 and listen to the song! It's the Power of love! How the hell did I never notice that before???
Style reminds me a little of the Paperboy game. Man that was a rough game! Especially in the arcade.
I love "Power Of Love" but this sped up version used for the soundtrack to this game makes me feel like going deaf isn't that bad of an idea.
Can't believe I played this as a kid and thought Oh My Gosh the graphics will never get any better LOL
wtfs going on with the music ??????????????
When was there a bowling ball in in Back to the Future??!!
How did he do the cafe? That's super hard.
Fuck you
Back to the future always reminded me of paperboy... We need a proper BttF game.
Was there ever a game made for BTTF 3?
omg this game was so exhaustingly hard for me at 8 yrs old...that diner part was tough, took me forever to beat that, I gave up a little bit afterwards.
It was made by LJN, what did you expect?
My favorite part of the movie is when biff clones himself a bunch of times in lou's cafe
The song that plays throughout this video game is just *The Power
of Love* sped up.
“F*** that music.” - James Rolfe as the Angry Video Game Nerd
Thank goodness it was only released in the US.... none of the LJN games made it over in the UK.
I am sure that many Cinemassacre fans envy you.
Thousands of times better than its fucking sequel BTTF II&III
2:07 perfectly timed to the music
"Don't want bullies. Bees are lame. Guys walking back and forth with a glass pane. My bowling ball's a-coming, which is cruel sometimes, but I need to pick up clocks..." 🙂
I see what you did here.
I'm actually glad I never beat this as a kid, because I would have been so mad at that ending after going through all that nonsense
@ValisHD
oh right, he didn't review that until a few years later.
0:00 Plot: You Are Marty McFly, You Travel Far Back In Time To 1955 Where Your Parents Are Actually Teenagers Since They First Met, and the Time Machine Has Run Out Of Power. You Must Outsmart The Bullies at Lou’s Diner, Win Your Mother’s Heart For Your Dad at The School Dance, and Find The Way to Power Up the Time Machine To Go Back to 1985 Before your picture of your family fades away. Hurry, Marty! Get Back To The Future Before The Time Runs Out!
where the hell is the glass the men are supposed to be holding ?????????
Hard to see, unless you crash into them.
Since when there's over 100 Biffs I the movie?
I love this game. after you pick the clocks you can pick up the black spots and throw it the obstacles, then you can collect the skate board, and jump over the walls. So fun.
The black spots are bowling balls. You are throwing bowling balls at people and animals on the street.
@@CosmicGoku529 I think it is mud because it was supposed to have beeen raining the day before , the lighting was suppose have struck the clock tower and it stopped running the day before. it you noticed there was mud puddles. He is supposed to pick up so many clock images to get certain objects. The rain han't dried up yet. To send him back though they had reinvent another lightening hit to the clock tower. He gets his skate broard after he collects more clock images. But whatever he has to make it back home.
@@CosmicGoku529 You see waht I saying about the mud puddles. i thinnk they are the bowls in there for extra feature. they are the storm and the rain altogether because he has to get back.
They should make this for Switch.
What a crap game this was. We got suckered in by the box cover. This was the time before you could access reviews on pretty much anything so everyone who bought it got taken.
Ok guys, the Guitar level (Under the sea dance ) is IDENTICAL to Ik+ (International Karate Plus) bonus level with the balls :D
this is basically Pepsiman for NES
2 people couldn't get past the cafe level
8-bit Johnny B. Goode is just too much!
Why the music has to be so fast? 😐
(In response to the description.) No, this is Hill Valley, although I would not imagine Hell being much worse! *Oh, I HATE myself for what I said.*
Now,seeing this just makes me wonder...
Why the bees in this representation of hell are larger than Marty's head?
I never really understood why they would put 8-bit versions of the songs: "The Power of Love" and: "Johnny B. Goode" (both featured in the film) in the game but render it sped up. 🤔
Probably because they didn't have the license to play them normally.
@@CosmicGoku529 The reason its sped up is due to a programming error
Back to the future the game on nes is came out September 1989!
this is a sequel to "beat em & eat em"
Nice AVGN reference
A 750 you'll be there Gloria lmao
No back to the future theme
Incredibly repetitive
No Johnny be good
Repetitive graphics
Horrible character designs
Final verdict
1/10
I disagree with your rating
0/10 nothing positive
There is Johnny B Good. 17:00
@@Theartfuldoodlerio Perhaps he meant "No 'Earth Angel', as that's the song playing when George and Lorraine kiss for the first time.
@@Theartfuldoodlerio is Johnny be good ... ON CRACK!
"The Power Of Love" is in there, albeit Incredibly fast and looping constantly. That's got to be worth something.
@htdmc2010 I have indeed played it myself and finished up to the bar stage without seeing the game over screen.
Remember when Marty had to run through town when there were lots of girls hula hooping, weird guys running in circles, and some men moving glass windows for whatever reason? That had to have been my favorite part of the movie.
Holy shit, they tried recreating the Power of Love-riff with that music. Switch the speed to 0.5 and you kinda hear it in it. But barely, as it's reaaaaaally botched.
WOW you can actually make out a decent version of Johnny be good during the dance scene if you put it to .5 haha
@@TEBerrigan Great Scott! 😁😁😁😁