Back to the Future II - SMS - hardest game of all time?

I actually owned this "gem" as a kid, and by "gem", i mean "festering tumor".
I forced my dear friend Subarashii to play this game and record his first try - I feel truly sorry for the pain I caused you, but the world has a right to know about this!

Note: no, the player isn't drunk, the controls ARE that terrible. I can't believe the angry video game nerd hasn't reviewed this yet, only the harmless-looking nes version (jump n run).

In case you wonder why it is so hard - the game only has 3 levels, so bitmap brothers tried their best to make it take forever to play the game through. I NEVER beat the first level, and don't know anyone who did without cheating. I once used an emulator to get to level 2, which i completed on my first try.

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[grgar]

I finished this game when I was 7, without cheating, just skipped the levels when i died, there was a option for that, starting at level 2, the game asks you if you want to retry =P

and it's not just 3 levels, its 5

[AtTheGates]

skipping levels? probably the atari or another version of the game. this is the SMS version. afaik the 2 other levels in between the 5 are just the puzzle stages, i don't really count those ^^

[MazeleyFanClub]

Probably not that bad if you learned it. Looks easier than Silver Surfer.

[AtTheGates]

just try and play it, i challenge you to complete the first level at all ^^

[0mistaja]

im sorry... it's not hard! it's impossible...

[Alemme01]

I don't like the music in the game.

[RetroGamer10]

this is so simple its the easiest game of all time. even though when i first played it it was so fusterating

[supermariogalaxian]

The Amiga version is way better.

[paulelms]

i may be imagining this but i also seem to rememer in the last level grabbing hold of biffs ford and getting pulled along by it.

[paulelms]

@grgar i completed too. the rope is supposed to be the bunting that is hanging off the delorean like at the end of the movie that marty grabs hold of and gets lifted to safety. i did not skip any levels. the first level s really hard but the others are easy in comparison.

[ChurKirby]

Totlly agree with you on this. My brother owned this on his master system years ago. Me and both of my brothers played in countless times, never getting past even the first level. Honestly, it's ridiculously difficult to go even 10 seconds without dying.

Even today, all these years later, my brother tried playing the game on an emulator - even with access to savestates and what ever other crazy advantages, he still couldn't complete it XD

[katakisLives]

@grgar Thats roughy what happened in the movie! Biff is chasing you in his car and you are on the Hover board then doc who is in the Delorean above drops a rope down and hoists mcfly to saftey