As a result, Biff alters 1985, now ruling Hill Valley as a rich man. In this game the old Biff Tannen steals the 1950–2000 sports almanac and takes the Delorean time machine to 1955 and gives it to his younger self. This NES game is based on the Back to the Future II and III movies. He also has to fight bullies at the malt shop, prevent Lorraine from kissing him by breaking her heart, play the electric guitar by catching music notes and attempt to drive up to 88 MPH in his Delorean time machine car to get back to 1985. Marty now has to run up the street in a Paperboy game style and collect alarm clocks in order to prevent him and his brothers and sisters from being erased from the photograph. In this game Marty Mcfly travels from 1985 to the year 1955 by mistake. This NES game is based on the Back to the Future movie. The player must travel through time and recapture the apes. This ape, Specter, uses a time machine to conquer different time periods and establish the apes as the most dominant race. In this 3D platform game, when a curious ape tries on a special helmet, his intelligence is boosted. Players can also send units through time.Ī text adventure in which the player pursues Nostradamus through time in order to prevent the creation of a world destroying weapon. Players can play at different points in time simultaneously and can stop, slow, and fast forward through the flow of time. This real-time strategy game offers single-player and multi-player free-form time travel. There in the past the player must explore and walk all the way to the island of Melenam, explore the ice cave and go to Gorsia's castle to defeat Gorsia. One of the seven players can time travel from the present-day Ticondera to 5000 years into the past Ticondera right after defeating a resurrected Gariso and collecting all seven runes. TitleĪ chess video game where the pieces move backward or forward in time. The manipulation of time as an aspect of gameplay entered the mainstream following the release of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in 2003, though earlier titles such as 2000's The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask have employed it. Time travel as a plot device has been employed in video games since early arcade games. Unlike films and literature, video games allow the player to interact directly, opening up different forms of gameplay. Indeed, the character, after having harvested a vaccine and faced the second wave of Covid-19, can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and says to himself that the year 2021 will be better! However, the year 2021 seems to be even more WTF, with a zombie invasion, an extraterrestrial visit and the ravages of a giant Godzilla! Let’s hope that these apocalyptic predictions are not premonitory.Time travel has been used and explored by both film, literature, and video games. So if something goes wrong, such as a virus or a flood, you don’t have to start from scratch. Some positive references are also present, such as nature taking over during the quarantine, or the price of a barrel of oil dropping.Īs in any good game, there are save points, and they are automatic. The game’s designer has also inserted a tribute to George Floyd. When you emerge from isolation, classic telework lines (“Can you see my screen?”, “The connection is bad”, “Can you hear me?”) are used as bridges to cross a mountain of bacteria. Incidentally, just after the stock market crash, he finds himself in quarantine. In addition, the character has to collect masks, which serve as his ‘life’ when he faces the virus. There is no shortage of references, such as the compulsive purchase of toilet paper or the Zoom telework calls. The Covid-19 pandemic is the next catastrophe to be faced.