Back to the Future (4)
I think we all remember Back to the Future, the late 80's blockbuster starring Christopher "Never mention Suburban Commando again" Lloyd and Michael J. "If this van's arockin, it's probably the Parkinsons" Fox. (Yea, I know I'm going to hell for that one. Just wait till I get to a Superman game)
I have no idea what the difference between the original and the hack are, so they get lumped together here, by the way. Now, as I remember from the last time I swam out of a drunken haze to watch the movie, as it was being foist upon me by a rather overeager friend who collects DVDs like some people collect toenail clippings, here's the story. Michael J Fox goes back in time and, like some bizarre Oedipan fantasy, accidentally causes his mother to fall in love with him, thus negating his existence. He then has to convince his mother to fall in love with his father. Things happen, there is a depressing lack of gratuitous nudity and violence, and he saves the day or something.
How do you translate that to a video game? No, wait, check that. How do you translate that to a video game if you've got a budget of $14.52 and a programmer who's stuck one too many forks in the electrical socket? I'll tell you, since you asked (and I know you did). You have your hero run down a street, collecting clocks, while being assaulted by girls with hula hoops, bees, and an ambiguously gay man who throws bowling balls at you.
At some point, you have to beat people away by hitting them with ice cream sodas or something, but that was boring, so I didn't take a screenshot. A little while later, though, you're faced with a challenge where you have to deflect the incestuous love of your mother with a book. That was boring too, but here, take a look.
I think I found Amelia Earhart.
I have no idea what the difference between the original and the hack are, so they get lumped together here, by the way. Now, as I remember from the last time I swam out of a drunken haze to watch the movie, as it was being foist upon me by a rather overeager friend who collects DVDs like some people collect toenail clippings, here's the story. Michael J Fox goes back in time and, like some bizarre Oedipan fantasy, accidentally causes his mother to fall in love with him, thus negating his existence. He then has to convince his mother to fall in love with his father. Things happen, there is a depressing lack of gratuitous nudity and violence, and he saves the day or something. How do you translate that to a video game? No, wait, check that. How do you translate that to a video game if you've got a budget of $14.52 and a programmer who's stuck one too many forks in the electrical socket? I'll tell you, since you asked (and I know you did). You have your hero run down a street, collecting clocks, while being assaulted by girls with hula hoops, bees, and an ambiguously gay man who throws bowling balls at you.
At some point, you have to beat people away by hitting them with ice cream sodas or something, but that was boring, so I didn't take a screenshot. A little while later, though, you're faced with a challenge where you have to deflect the incestuous love of your mother with a book. That was boring too, but here, take a look. 
I think I found Amelia Earhart.
posted by network_failure at 6:10 PM
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Once again, the reviewer didn't look deep enough in "Back to the Future 4" to realize that the changes were only to the text. Hint: All my ROM hacks change only the text in order to eradicate the Nintendo censorship factor. I have provided a much better self-review on this following website that you can access by clicking on my l33t ROM hacking name.
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