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Back to the Future (MSX)

In the MSX game Back to the Future, Marty McFly gets stuck in the past and must get his parents to dance together and fall in love nine times in order to get back home.

Unused Graphics#

At offset 0x4550 is the text "します!" (shimasu!). No Japanese text is displayed at any point during this game.
backtothefutureMSX-shimasu.png

Right after, at 0x47C0, is a set of placeholder hexadecimal graphics.
backtothefutureMSX-hex.png

(Source: tikal.)

Level Select#

backtothefutureMSX-levelselect.png

At the title screen, press Space while holding Up, Left and Select. The player will then be redirected to a level select menu that only goes up to Level 6.

(Source: ReyVGM)

References#


  1. Makoto Ichinoseki - GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute↩︎
  2. Pony Canyon ad - MSX Magazine, January 1986↩︎