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Games like Back to the Future

1989

An early NES tie-in that loosely adapts the film as a simple arcade-style action game with mini-game sections. It is mostly remembered for its steep, often frustrating difficulty.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
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In short: Games like Back to the Future

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Back to the Future special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Super Star Wars

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1992PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Back to the Future: jumping and platforming, a demanding difficulty as well as a sci-fi setting.

A classic 2D run-and-gun platformer based on the original Star Wars film, letting you fight as Luke, Han or Chewbacca from Tatooine to the Death Star. Vehicle stages add variety, and the difficulty is famously high.

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Jumping and platforming

A fast arcade action platformer where you play ninja Hiryu, slashing with a plasma blade and flipping, climbing and sliding through a futuristic dystopia. Short, brisk and demanding.

Mega Man 10

Jumping and platforming

A deliberately NES-style 8-bit run-and-gun platformer where you pick stages in any order, beat robot bosses and take their weapons. Tight controls and a demanding, old-school difficulty.

Blitz Breaker

Jumping and platforming

You guide the tiny robot Blitz through a hostile factory using nothing but jumps and four-directional air dashes. The minimal control scheme turns every stage into a satisfying test of precise timing.

Mutant Mudds

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A tight retro platformer where you hover with a jetpack and blast mutant mud monsters while hopping between three depth layers in each level. Its pixel art and precise controls evoke the 8- and 16-bit era.

Mega Man 9

Jumping and platforming

Mega Man 9 deliberately returns to the 8-bit classics: tight run-and-gun platforming, bosses with weaknesses, and a free choice of stage order. It is demanding and rewards precise timing and memorization.

Bzzzt

Jumping and platforming

A fast-paced, retro-inspired 2D platformer in which you play the AI ZX8000 in a robot body, mastering test chambers full of deadly traps.

Crashed Lander

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

An arcade skill game in the vein of Lunar Lander and Space Taxi: you fly your craft against gravity from pad to pad, chasing best times while balancing speed against control.

Meganoid: Chronicles

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A brutally tough retro platformer with 100 short levels packed with traps, spikes and fire, which you can then replay in reverse. Precise jumping and memorizing hazards are the core of the experience.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A classic 8-bit Sega platformer where Alex Kidd punches his way across Aries, rides vehicles and settles boss fights with rock-paper-scissors duels. Charming yet fairly tough, and an important piece of Sega history.

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