The SNES was to publish a Return to the Future in the style of Zelda -apkrig
The Back to the Future trilogy is one of my favorite films. It’s a great comedy and clever sci-fi with a number of elaborate time paradoxes. Its big fan was also the American astronomer, astrophysicist, writer and popularizer of science Carl Sagan, who wrote the original film Contact. He shot Robert Zemeckis, as well as the Return to the Future trilogy. According to Sagan, the second part was the best film about time travel. Sagan especially appreciated the accuracy with which filmmakers work with different timelines and their interactions.
The forgotten Zelda from the future
But back to the point. The title Back to the Future is carried by many video games, which were released from the mid-1980s until recently. In addition to those implemented, however, a few projects also ended up in the abyss of history. As now found in the older issues of the Japanese magazine Famitsu, the SNES was originally supposed to release an RPG in the style of the series The Legend of Zelda, inspired by the second part of Back to the Future.
The article appeared in the May issue of 1992. It was “tracked down” by a magazine Gaming Alexandria and was pointed out by a popular game historian and archiver Frank Cifaldi. Unfortunately, we don’t get any further details if someone is encouraged by this impulse again in the following days.
In the end, a completely different version of Return to the Future II was released on the SNES. She arrived on the counters under the name Super Back to the Future Part II in 1993, but only in Japan, ie technically for Super Famicom. It was a platform game in which the player controlled Marty on a hoverboard. The game was released by Toshiba, and the fact that it was a Japanese act also greatly influenced the overall styling, which resembled anime characters.
Back to the future in games
Games inspired by this series have been released on 15 different platforms and have a total of 27 titles. The first one dates back to 1985, when the first film premiered. We probably have the best-known episodic adventure series from the Telltale Games studio, which has been released since 2010 and in 2015 underwent an improved complete reissue. The original actors also took part in the play, although Marty was not dubbed by Michael J. Fox and only later will it sound like a cameo. Marty was dubbed by AJ Locascio. But the main characters took the form of their original representatives. A return to the future also appeared in Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure from 2001 and Lego Dimensions from 2015. There are also pinballs and slot machines inspired by this series.
