LGR - Back to the Future II - Amiga Game Review

I love Back to the Future. But this game... RUN FOR IT, MARTY!
Covers the Commodore Amiga version by Image Works and touches on the MS-DOS port.
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Music used is from the Amiga and DOS version of the game.

[@Thanos6]

It's going to be weird knowing I'm officially in the future from now on.

[@balazs7235]

Not to freak you out, but I am from the semi-distant future. Nike Air Mags still haven’t had a general release. We have no hoverboards and an app called TikTok is ruining any and all hope for a better future.

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

That chain reaction in the space time continuum only ever seemed to make people pass out for awhile.

[@local-teen]

I love both the creative concept behind this video as well as the content within it. This had me laughing out loud a bunch and I'm not that risible. Thanks for the great content, Clint.

[@LGR]

Very happy to hear it :)

[@005AGIMA]

The intro was AMAZING. It was....with the eyes of a late teen, "As good as the movie"....and then the game began. My nephew had the screen gems pack A500+. God I wanted the hoverboarding to be good. Like any of the skateboarding, BMX or other games of the time. But no. Never got past the first level. Life was too short.

[@spiff2268]

What scares me is that some asshole in Hollywood is gonna want to make a remake of this movie.

[@KombatGod]

Wow, this game brings back memories of playing Terminator 2. That also was a movie tie-in consisting in like 5 levels, each one based on a specific scene and each one with completely different gameplay. It even included a sliding tile puzzle.

[@victorvance2573]

Yes it made me think of Terminator 2 too.

[@JazGalaxy]

Dos cutscene art is so funny in how it can be so good and so terrible at the same time. I've always found that fascinating. They can have really great composition and well rendered characters and then suddenly the perspective goes all wonky or something. Or a character's head is way too small. Or there's just some weird pixel choice where an artist chose a strange color to make a tooth.

[@dalekswartz2092]

I dressed as Marty McFly for school. I would go up to people and ask what year it was. Some people got it, and others thought I was a weirdo.

[@leanonka]

Awesome video Clint, makes me remember of old LGR style but with your modern production skills, keep in coming

[@benx4382]

3:40 - Of course, that's just the worst case scenario; the results could merely be localized to our own galaxy. Seriously, play Telltale's Back to the Future: The Game if you want a *good* BTF game. Hell, it's even been labeled as the official continuation of the story after the movies (and it's really good, in my opinion)!

[@LGR]

Played it on launch, it was pretty sweet!

[@sleaf6]

+Lazy Game Reviews I was hoping you would say, "it was pretty neat!"; anyway, opportunity lost I guess.

[@oz_jones]

+Ben x 1 week ago (edited) HOW? ARE YOU A TIME TRAVELLER?

[@Ogledalo79]

+Ben x I'm so glad that the creators at Telltale didn't mess up the original story. IMO game's storyline is quite on par with storyline of the trilogy. It was so surprising to see renditions of dystopian 1986 in episode 3.

[@darkmage07070777]

+Osmorosvo Well, today's the day for it, after all...

[@RetroGUY77]

My Uncle still has his Amiga 500! He told me he expanded the memory which had a whole megabyte!!! He also used to pirate games like Great Giana Sisters

[@LucasCunhaRocha]

I remember playing this on the Master System, I think I still have the cartridge somewhere

[@BlazeHedgehog]

Aaah! Non-square pixels! The shimmering!

[@LGR]

Yeah, my hardware scaler did NOT like this game!

[@tailsdolllll]

its my birthday today where's my god damn hover board :c

[@Larry]

+tails doll where's my upside down flying grandad?

[@kgh237]

I'm still waiting for for my self tying shoe laces. :/

[@ViktorKruger99]

+tails doll happy birthday

[@Greyspecies9999]

+tails doll Wait for 35 years.

[@kgh237]

+Rodney Farva would be nice, lol. I could've sworn that there was a Kickstarter awhile ago for something like this but it used gears it was werid.

[@NihilQuest]

Nice to see you reviewing Amiga game!

[@Larry]

The Master System version was a Woolworths bargain bin staple for years in the UK, could never get rid of the bloody thing!!! :D But in all fairness, most British developed movie licenses were just a collection of mini games in the '80s and early '90s. Still a better game than Back to the Future III tho.

[@mtndewhero]

+Larry Bundy Jr I remember having the BTTF3 demo on my Amiga as a nipper, but I only seem to remember shooting ducks - like at a fairground game - with a time limit

[@Larry]

+painey86 That was one of the games yeah. It was all mini games again, but somehow a lot more frustrating.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

I honestly think the Nes version was better. but the super famicom version is the best a shame we didn't get it in the states

[@TheRealKaiProton]

+Larry Bundy Jr Do you remember the instructions booklet, for Level 3 explained it was a beat em up and told you how to perform the moves, with a note to something like "You may want more, but remember, Marty is not Bruce Lee"

[@lwvmobile]

Meanwhile, in Japan, they're just silently making the best version of the game at the time that nobody knew about until years later. Until the Tale Tell games came out.

[@OurMagicalNature]

In the future therapists and zen masters will recommend playing these games to develop willpower and patience.

[@DelrueMadden]

That's pretty cool how the tile-puzzle is animated, I don't think I have ever seen that before.

[@tcranend]

Epic timing dude! You made my day :D

[@ksp1278]

I had about 50 copies of this game! My Dad got them at an auction because they came with a bulk load of computer parts that he wanted. He gave the games to me, as he didn't want them and I just reformatted the disks for storing my own files! Lol. The boxes were good too for storing little items. Quite a strong little box! Haha.

[@mendyc158]

I´ve always said, I´m the chosen one... my Birthday is on October 21st (Don´t know why but I´m rewatching almost every video of you hahaha, acutally you are in part, the reason why I started my channel in Spanish, cheers)

[@EclipseforWebTutorials]

The funniest review in months for me. Thank you! :)

[@LGR]

Quite welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@KasumiKenshirou]

At least in the C-64 version, you don't have to complete either the "get Jennifer out of the house" or the puzzle level. When it asks you if you want to try again, you can select "No" and go to the next level, which is what I usually did with the puzzle. (If you beat these levels, you get an extra life or something.) There's one point in the "bad 1985" level where if you pick up the newspaper from Strickland's porch he starts shooting you immediately. If you don't pick up the paper, he waits until you walk by him and THEN starts shooting. I could never figure out how to get by without getting shot.

[@TheIsolatedGamerz]

Love your reviews! Keep it retro! :D

[@chrisvorhees6677]

Loved seeing the Amiga disk drive. Memories..

[@nottiredofwinning3736]

Played a pirated copy of this on my Atari 5200 back in the day. Memories, sweet memories.

[@1xWertzui]

+Bartolomeo Vanzetti Atari ST 520 you mean?

[@nottiredofwinning3736]

Dazzy Dizzy Yes, I meant 520 ST.

[@elway41177]

Thanks for the review. Very entertaining.

[@jublywubly]

Man, I hate those sliding tile puzzles! Great review. Thanks for making it! :-D

[@gamesessions]

I remember playing through the first level a few times at my friends house on his Amiga, but we'd always fail miserably and put on Shufflepuck Cafe instead!

[@davebeat]

He does change direction in the tunnel in the film too.

[@Moonfreeze]

So happy you returned to the Amiga. Hope the game didn't discourage you from doing other A500 games.

[@AlexTechVideo]

“It could be worse, a lot worse” - Clint, 2015 Me: *laughs in 2022*

[@k001daddy]

Loving all the references!

[@darrenjkendall]

"Make like a tree and leave. Dumb a$$." Great film, great review, i didn't really take to these types of games on the Amiga during the day, more into simulators and programming.

[@TheVideoGamesHistorian]

I had this very bad game on the superb Amiga 500 with a half meg ram upgrade. Good job i had 8 other games i bought along with it.. my first pay packet bought me this and i still have it.. great review again.

[@NSG_UK]

One of first games I ever bought as a kid.

[@jeremyb4493]

I had this game on an 8086/co processor powered Amstrad 6400 when it came out. I was early teens

[@NightOfTheLiving8bit]

To my knowledge, the only good Back To The Future game was released on the SNES...in Japan only. Yeah it's kind of odd seeing that it was such an "American" thing, however Japan was still having their huge "we love western culture!" kick that was in the 80's and early 90's. So I could see how they saw the appeal of releasing it there...but given the nature of the movie and it's pop culture impact, it seems rather odd that we never got it. One thing to note about LJN, did you know that the Friday The 13th NES game was made by Atlus? Yup, that Atlus. Demon Souls Atlus.

[@thatguyontheright1]

+Eric Durant What about the Telltale one?

[@VicGeorge2K6]

+TGOTR The Telltale one worked not just because it was a point-and-click adventure, but also because it had an entirely new story that might as well could have been a whole new Back To The Future movie or two.

[@RushValentine]

+Eric Durant More like Atlus who made Persona. Because that is the only most recognized series from Atlus.

[@RushValentine]

Net Spectre Honestly, while i do like Persona, yeah, it is sad to know that SMT is not well known and it's all because Persona's popularity. Well at least i have played some SMT games like Devil Summoner, Devil Survivor the main series.

[@DracXBelmont]

+Eric Durant Atlus published it, From Software created it.

[@2Scribble]

4:27 - GOD!!! That jumping animation!!!!!!!!!!

[@ShadowNinja452]

You ever played the BTTF 2 Super Famicom game or checked out the show, known as Rick and Morty? If not for either one, then I highly suggest you should, LGR. Quick compliment for you: You're one of the best computer geeks I've ever seen on the 'Net! Keep it up!

[@jasonz7788]

Great work Sir thank you

[@DLiberator78]

Great review you were bang on the money with this one, what a wasted opportunity. I still have this game for my Amiga and when I saw the intro with the Delorean along with the theme tune pumping out I high hopes. Then I started playing the game and thought WTF? It was the same thing with the Amiga version of Clive Barker's game "Nightbreed". It like they just didn't what to do with movie licence tie-ins.

[@Daehawk]

Maybe its just me but I really miss 3.5" floppy disks. I loved opening a BIG box and getting 5 or 6 disk in it and installing each of them. I remember Star Trek 25th Anniversary said it would take 45 minutes to install and I was so proud that my system installed it in 20 min :)

[@LGR]

You're definitely not the only one :)

[@RetroGamePlayers]

Great Scott!

[@plan7a]

:D - Great review as always Clint. Two words spring to mind with regards the first level upon seeing it, Paper Boy. Okay, so I know there are differences, but there also seems to be some similarities also.

[@StuBiddyBop]

This is so funny! I still love the game for nostalgic reasons though... I got the screen gems pack for my 12th birthday

[@Ritchurection]

15/20, perfect review, for the date...

[@Sleszak]

My requests for an Amiga game review has been listened! So there is a God after all! :D More more more. In your free time look at the bizarre game called "Street Hassle", where you are pissed guy, who goes on the street to beat up dogs and old people.

[@sambeckettcat]

the best we got for "hoverboards" is boards with wheels that automatically move about as you lean.

[@RobotCrafter1]

LGR! We have to go back! Back to our sofas and watch Back to the Future!

[@AndrewTyler]

Marty does turn around in the movie, right after he scoops the almanac off biffs car.

[@IncapableLP]

TODAY (Oct 21st 2015) I WILL BE IN MY LOCAL CINEMA, BECAUSE THEY SHOW ALL THREE MOVIES IN A ROW! FUCK YEAH!!!!!

[@buggsyspam]

That is an adorably tiny game box.

[@LGR]

Haha, isn't it? Many Amiga games had tiny boxes to go with the relatively tiny diskettes.

[@AdriftForWeeks]

Amiga is love, Amiga is life

[@mattglad]

man this looks so much better than the DOS version. Wish i would have kept the neon green hat that came with it.

[@numbers111222]

What version of the theme song is that at 7:40? Is that from the Amiga?

[@devjock]

Great Scott that's some amazing music, AND some horrible music O_o It 's like the game was made by two completely separate gamedev teams, and slapped together at the very last second. Like colliding timelines ;)

[@DynamixWarePro]

I had a version of BTTF II for the Amstrad 6128+ CPC when I was a kid, which is essentially the same game as this, but a bit slower with slightly worse graphics. The HIll valley levels are in black and white, not color as they are here, and color would have helped as I would have understood what some of objects in the level were, a bit better. I often found it hard to complete the first level as I kept getting stuck on the stairs of the courthouse and not being able to move and having to restart the game, not that Marty ever got as far as the courthouse on the hoverboard in the movie. I always thought those letters you collected did something but can't remember. I was never able to complete that 1955 puzzle either, no matter how many times I tried. As non faithful to the movie as it is, it was better than the BTTF III game which was just used the wild west setting and just used the movie as a tie in to make a western game which bared little resemblance to the movie. Heck, even the music didn't sound anything like what you hear in the movie. Also in no time in the third movie, do I remember the doc riding a horse while shooting people and trying to avoid people shooting at him. It wasn't a bad game though, just should never have been called a Back to the Future game.

[@infesticon]

Damm that amiga looks pristine !

[@dorpth]

2015- "The future could be worse. A lot worse." LGR just had to jinx it.

[@renbymon]

As soon as I saw that you were reviewing this I thought "Oh gosh, not this game!" I thought it was terrible even when I was a child, having got it with the Screen Gems pack too. Actually thinking about it, the only GOOD things in the Screen Gems pack was Shadow of the Beast II and Deluxe Paint II.

[@CarloNassar]

Were one of the versions you checked the Master System version?

[@sirfirewolfe5647]

Doc: LGR, you've gotta come back with me! LGR: where? Doc: Back to a time when Commodore computers were still a thing!

[@starlightfisher]

You should check out BTTF III on the Amiga. After that you will love Part II :) Thanks for sharing!

[@Gr8Dane78]

Fantastic to see a BTTF game review on here and an Amiga version at that. This made me hungry for some reviews of good Amiga games.

[@mattcruise]

I had this game as a kid. Never got passed the first level

[@Pipurinn]

lol i love your channel so much!

[@Yosikuma]

I'm kind of curious what you thought of part III, which was made by the same people for the same systems. I had the C64 version of this and was lost as to all the praise that version seemed to get.

[@LGR]

It is not much of an improvement on the Amiga, though I don't know about the C64 game.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

+Lazy Game Reviews The C64 version looks the same as the one shown in this video, but with worse graphics.

[@MrNateSPF]

Data "Hey McFly, you bojo! Those boards don't work on water!" Whitey "Unless you got power!" Seems the water has nothing to do with it not working.

[@sydneymeanstreet]

I've played Image Works' BTTF 3 and well, consider yourself lucky that 1885 isn't coming back around any time soon.

[@ToTaLShaFF]

i am impressed by the graphics of this device for the time

[@5bananas1]

i think that the graphics are very detailed even if the levels are a bit irritating. i think it's great.

[@lukeowen4989]

Holy shit I played this game as a kid and sucked so hard at it I never even found out that the Jennifer's home level or anything else after that existed..!

[@Jex2112]

I played this game as a kid on my Amiga 500, and since I was only about 7 years old I could never get past the first Hover board level.... doesn't look like I missed much...

[@Jex2112]

+P Ferreira Winners never cheat...

[@ccricers]

This game looks and sounds closer to the movies than the NES game.

[@dph49]

Did anyone notice the Billboard of Future Biff on the building looked a lot like Ron Jeremy!?

[@michealjackson3525]

I'm back from the past for this day.

[@retropirate1]

Oh my god, Clint. I just had a nightmare, what if our future turns into a huge sliding puzzle?!

[@chrismaggs]

Loved this game!

[@chrismaggs]

The sliding puzzle was my favourite level!!

[@barryvids536]

Sweden, Denmark and Norway in the background at 6.50

[@unperrier5998]

Wondering how long he has waited for the right date to release this video :)

[@DuckAvenger]

Man I would have loved to have this game for dos back in the day because all I had were crappy games anyways. At one point as a kid I thought Commander Keen was the only game that existed on Dos that wasn't Edutainment so no matter how bad this was I would have welcomed it.

[@robin888official]

Controllable weather? Where did you get that from? :-) It's established in Part II that weather is more *predictable*.

[@Octamed]

Movie tie in games were notoriously bad back then. At least on home computers.

[@lwvmobile]

I think the developer managed to sneak Adult Gohan in there at 2:51. Sure looks a lot like him anyways.

[@Vegeta9111]

Welcome to October 21th 2015 were we still have cars and roads XD

[@MagusMarquillin]

Is the hoverboard section as hard to play as paperboy? Looks like that game was inspiration for this one, but I always suck at it. At least you can go over the curbs in this.

[@LGR]

Way harder.

[@MagusMarquillin]

_Daaaaaammmmmmn._

[@maximuscesar]

At least it has a lot more from the movie than the NES game. I rented the Master System version a lot for some reason even never passing the first screen.

[@NERDmNERDf]

Gonna go to watch the movie at the theater today. :)

[@LGR]

Me too, I can't wait!

[@NERDmNERDf]

Dressed up as future Marty, Shoes, Hoverboard and all, and everyone loved it! All the kids wanted picture with me, haha. Gotta love how the movie reaches literally all ages.

[@joestradamus75]

i bought the U.S version of this game back when it came out. i don't remember anything about it, just that it had a lot of still images from the movie. I don't remember if it was this game or the Konami version that you mentioned. Also I thing the U.S version had the theatrical movie poster art on the box cover, but i can't remember. I do still have the game complete somewhere at my parents house. By the way, do you or anybody here know how to clean floppy discs. My Amiga Drive doesn't read disks anymore. It just shows a black screen with an error message. I did buy a used disc drive along with workbench discs. It worked, but as soon as I put one of my original disks in the new drive, it started to give error messages.

[@damonkatumaru]

You're better off with the Japan exclusive SNES game or Telltale's game of it.

[@ethanmarley5396]

Damon Katumaru Its at least still better than LJNS BTTF games or the part iii genesis game

[@Jorendo]

Welcome to the Future LGR!

[@RRW359]

I almost forgot about tomorrow!

[@sushibar2000]

I had this game when i was a kid and the first level was practically unbeatable. I only beat it on my amiga many, many years later. All the other levels were easy compared to the first one. No cheats and it wasn't worth it.

[@PEACEWALKER1992]

5:28 Jonny be Eh xD Good one!

[@TreyDissolution]

Who the hell could actually dislike your videos?

[@ivyssauro123]

It looks waaay better than the LJN counterpart, And I Actually like that kind of puzzle, looks good to me.

[@Uncle-Jay]

That first stage of the game would have been fine if it was designed like a proper auto-scrolling shoot em' up. T his still seems a million times better than the NES version.

[@catriona_drummond]

Now waiting for you to review a good Amiga game.

[@leehaden1]

3:28 I need a Hotline Miami recreation of this level, stat!

[@cpufreak101]

what better to play for back to the future day?