Back to the Future - Commodore 64 - longplay & ALL ending phrases
8In Back To The Future you take over the role of Marty McFly, the main hero of the blockbuster with the same name from 1985. Marty travels into the year 1955 with a time machine, where he needs to keep -literally - unite his parents to ensure his existence in the future.
For the background music, two songs of the movie were arranged, even if both songs can barely be recognized.
If things are going rather bad for Marty, the hectical "Johnny B. Goode“ by Chuck Berry is played, if verything is going good, you hear "The Power Of Love“ by Huey Lewis And The News.
Gameplay is somewhat tricky: in the bottom part of the screen there's an image of Marty, divided into eight parts, that disappear or rebuild one after the other. When all eight parts have disappeared or all eight parts have built up to a complete image, Marty loses or respectively wins a part on the image with his sisters. This image consists of ten single parts. When all parts are gone, you have lost the game. When all parts are complete, then George and Lorraine are a couple and you can get on your way back to the future.
Ending is even more trickier! When you finish the game a phrase will appear; thanks to minotaurus (who also made the whole longplay), we discovered that phrase can change. How? well, we initially thought it was random, but after further tries we understand that every 10 seconds of the game timer you'll obtain a different one!
So, for example 1;00 has a certain phrase, 1;10 has another and so on. They are however the same for the next minute, so 1;10 phrase is identical to 2;10 phrase.
But there's more! You see in the title screen, you can choose beetween 5 different difficulty levels. well, every difficulty level has its own set of 6 different phrases!! That means there are 30 different epilogues....foolish :D
Many many many many many thanks again to minotaurus for discovering this cool feature (maybe this is the first video to collect every epilogue :O)!!
This video is part of the videogame endings database, whose goal is to catalogue and create the world's largest archive of videogame endings! (what an humble and not ambitious project :D)
If you want to contribute please let me know!