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in case you didn't know today is Back to the Future day it's the date that Marty McFly travels to the future in Back to the Future Part two so to help celebrate it I wanted to give you guys a list of my top 5 favorite games that are about time travel they had to be clear I did leave a few games out of this list because I didn't want to have games where time travel is a big surprise spoiler bit so in a game where you know the antagonist is actually you from the future isn't on this list we're just gonna focus on games where time travel is right up front and present starting with the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time now chances are if you ask any Zelda fan which game is their favorite they'll probably list this one if not have it in their top three along with link to the past it was the first game in the series to make the move to 3d and it blew a lot of people away at the time with its use of time travel switching between a young link during a very idyllic and happy Hyrule and adult link after a whole bunch of shit hit the fan some of the game's quests and dungeons required you to do stuff as a young link so the repercussions of those actions could help you complete stuff as an adult it's also worth noting the game's direct sequel Majora's Mask also feature time travel but only has you reset time by three days rather than traveling between two different eras both games are excellent and definitely worth checking out if you've somehow missed out on them second up we've got an older game that admittedly the time travel is really just a backdrop and story bit and not something that's actually a mechanic but it's still a great game and that's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turtles in time now if you had a chance to play this game growing up either in the arcades or on the SNES and two-player it's pretty hard to deny that this is the best Ninja Turtles game ever made and quite possibly one of the best side-scrolling beat'em ups ever especially for its time taking you through all kinds of different time periods like fighting enemies in the Wild West while riding a train or riding hoverboards in the far future this game was just a ton of mindless beat-em-up fun now this game did get a full blown remake a few years ago but honestly it had a lot of trouble living up to the original so you've ever find one of the old-school arcade cabinets or you have an SNES and you can tract one of these down it is something you absolutely must experience playing with friends third up we're gonna go a little more recent but still older than a decade with time splitters - now this came out in a time when online multiplayer was just to get big on consoles so it's still focused on split-screen multiplayer and it was the best game to do it since goldeneye on the 64 allowing you to experience multiplayer levels in a storyline taking place over all kinds of different time periods and different genres building weapons varying from double-barreled shotguns from the Old West to futuristic plasma rifles now admittedly this is one of the games that hasn't aged quite as well as the others because so much has changed in the FPS genre since then but it's still stupid fun to play with a group of friends in split-screen just running around firing blindly forth up is prince of persia the sands of time now the entire trilogy is great but more specifically the first game is by far the best and while you don't do a ton of time travel within each game the entire overall plot focuses on the idea of constantly going back in time trying to fix different mistakes and really only thinking things worse for yourself in the long run and within each game you do have a limited degree of time control by being able to rewind things you do either to save yourself from a stupid mistake like jumping down a pit or saving yourself from a bunch of damage that enemies inflicted on you this game was a huge success when it came out and was by far one of the best action games of its time and while later games in the series didn't fully live up to this trilogy its influence can be felt across most 3d platformers and action games that have come out today now last but far from least is a game that is close to my heart because it is one of my top 3 games of all time and that's Chrono Trigger on the SNES this was one of the first games to successfully use time travel as a mechanic having you do things like travel past to make one decision that will have effects on the future that you're trying to save and along the way you recruit a whole party of people from different eras including a cave woman a robot from the future and a night curse to live in a frog's body it's one of the best games to have time travel as a mechanic it's one of the best RPGs ever made and is an absolute must play in my opinion for anyone that likes retro games no those were the five that I think were some of the best games to have time travel but there is one honorable mention I think we need to make especially for why I'm doing this list and that's the Back to the Future game from telltale now this isn't one of Telltale's best works but it was the first one to be really popular and began to really fine-tune the formula that we've seen across so many of they're now really successful games like The Walking Dead tales from the borderlands or the wolf among us not only that but it was a great unofficial continuation of the Back to the Future storyline basically acting as a fourth movie as well as featuring voice talents from the original cast if you're a fan of the franchise and you've never picked this up it's definitely a title you'd need to check out so those are some of my favorite games to have time travel like I said there were a couple more that were really great but I didn't want to include them here because how they use time travel is just a bit too spoilery as always if you guys enjoyed this video hit that thumbs up button to let me know as well subscribe if you haven't yet I'll be seeing you guys soon with more content but until then I'm Kevin Kenson and I'll see you guys later