YMMV / Back to the Future (1989)

• Common Knowledge:
  • Many people mistakenly believe the background music has nothing to do with the movie. This is actually not the case — it's a take on "The Power of Love" with the tempo mistakenly cranked way up high to the point of being nearly unrecognizable. For that reason, it's pretty easy to see why so many consider this a forgivable assumption. It doesn't help that it's a riff on the bass line of "The Power of Love", so even if played at the proper speed, many people wouldn't recognize it on first listen.
  • It's commonly said that the Lou's Cafe requires pixel-perfect precision to land a hit on incoming enemies. In fact, the bar is divided into "lanes", with Marty moving up and down a lane with each button press and enemies only approaching in the individual lanes. The section is still That One Level, but it's not that obnoxious.
• Fan-Preferred Cut Content: Once it was discovered that the background music is actually "The Power of Love" sped up, many fans take it upon themselves to slow the tempo down in various YouTube videos. Many agree that the slowed down NES music is a more faithful and pleasant sounding 8-bit rendition of "The Power of Love" and wish that the final game didn't speed the tempo up to begin with. The increased tempo was apparently a result of Beam Software, the developers, only having access to an NES software engine that locked all music played through it at 150 BPM.
• Nintendo Hard: The game lacks any continues to deal with its length and difficulty.
• That One Level: Lou's Cafe, the first mini-game level. You have to ward off incoming bullies by chucking projectiles at them. The problem is that it's in an isometric perspective, and because there are no guiding lines to show which lane the bullies are coming from, it becomes a frustrating exercise in Depth Deception. It's hard enough to get to 10, but the required passing score is an extremely high 50. The whole section feels like an amateur Flash game that mandates you get on the high score table to proceed.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: A very infamous example of the NES era, with very little connection to the source material, obnoxiously repetitive gameplay, irritating music, and loaded to the brim with Fake Difficulty. Being based on one of the most beloved movies of the 80s doesn't exactly help it. Astoundingly, it's still generally considered to be better than all the subsequent games based on the franchise — with the exception of Super Back to the Future Part II and the Telltale game — mostly on account of how monumentally awful the games based on the second and third films are.