1st June 1986
Back To The Future
As an erstwhile colleague of mine once said, whilst reviewing this game for a Commodore magazine - rather more like Back To The Drawing Board.
In a feeble attempt to cash in on the success of the film Back To The Future, this game has been rushed out, onto an unsuspecting audience - rumour has it that the game was designed and written in four weeks flat, and it looks it!
Basically the game is a five location arcade adventure and follows the plot of the film to a small degree. You have to find and use objects in order to unite your parents to be. The other characters wander about aimlessly and will either help or hinder you as they see fit.
The graphics are uninspiring and the gameplay tedious. This is the classic reason behind the thinking that licensing films to promote games is to prop up a game that wouldn't stand up in its own right. If this game didn't have the name plastered on it, I probably wouldn't even bother wasting the space reviewing it.
Buy this at your peril...
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