Back to the Future Part II & III (1990). Play online

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Not rated

Platform
NES
Genres
Action · Puzzle · Adventure
Player Perspective
Top-down
Developer Companies
Beam Software
Publishers
LJN
Release date
1 September 1990
Languages
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English

Summary

Back to the Future Part II & III takes the player on a chaotic triple‑timeline dash with Marty hopping, throwing projectiles and stockpiling fuel for the DeLorean. Scattered across 1955, 1985 and 2015 are hidden Object Rooms, unlocked by keys dropped from certain enemies, where a quick‑draw stopwatch minigame forces you to evade cacti, quicksand and falling pellets to claim Biff‑lost artifacts. Puzzle rooms tucked inside manholes scramble the item names; matching the right object completes a picture fragment, while a mistake temporarily robs you of your inventory piece. The game even lets you plant an acorn in the past and harvest a grown tree in a later year to reach otherwise unreachable platforms.

Controls feel tight enough to echo a Super Mario Bros. platformer, and the graphics hold up as "passable" for the era, but the lack of any save or password system turns a six‑hour slog into a notorious endurance test. Despite these quirks, the mix of side‑scrolling action, hidden rooms and time‑travel mechanics still offers a quirky, challenge‑filled retro experience.

Storyline

Back to the Future Part II & III on the NES follows the movies’ tangled timeline. Marty jumps to 2015 to stop his future son’s crime, then chases Biff, who stole the Gray’s Sports Almanac and rewrote history by betting on sports events, becoming the world’s richest man by 1985. To undo Biff’s meddling, Marty must travel to three different eras, locate the items Biff hid behind locked doors, and return each to its original spot so the almanac can be destroyed.

After the Part II mission ends, Marty is stranded in 1955 and receives a letter from Doc, written in 1885, pleading for rescue. Using a repaired DeLorean, Marty heads back to the Old West, where he must again find and replace ten misplaced objects before he can bring Doc home and restore the space‑time continuum.

Edited by Maya Carter

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Alternative Titles

  • Back to the Future Part 2 & 3 Alternative