BubbleBack: The Story of Forward to the Past 2
A downloadable game
The long awaited sequel to Forward to the Past, featuring music by the award winning Lee Bee!
Following Dave's botched attempt at time travel in 2021, a hole has appeared in the space time continuum. This has allowed an evil Baron to enter our realm, kidnap Dave and turn Nate into a bubble dragon, as that's the sort of messed up thing the Baron likes to do.
It's up to you, as Nate's bubble dragon alter ego, to collect 86 bubbles to break the Baron's spell. This will turn Nate back into a human kid, banish the Baron & remove Dave's cage, enabling you to go find and SAVE DAVE!
Download the .tap file and load through a ZX Spectrum emulator, or on a real Spectrum (48k & above) via a device like a divMMC or through one of those .tap converters such as Play ZX. If you're playing it on a ZX Spectrum Next, don't forget to set it to 50Hz. ;-).
Tips:
Cyan baddies can be caught in bubbles, flashing baddies cannot.
You can use the bubbles to float, by jumping on them and holding "up"
Special thanks:
This game would not have been possible if it wasn't for these lovely people:
Lee Bee, Nucleos, Joefish, Jonathan Cauldwell, Bruce Groves, Kevin McGrorty, Simon Gambin and the utter genius behind the legendary Bubble Bobble, Fukio Mitsuji.
...and tonnes of other unsung heroes, I love you all! ❤️
The reviews are in and people have been very kind about our game!
Planeta Sinclair: "BubbleBack: The Story of Forward to the Past 2 is a captivating work, undoubtedly the best Dave and Nate have ever done. It grabs us from the very first screen."
http://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2025/10/bubbleback-story-of-forward-to-past-...
Break Space magazine: "This game is wonderful…Playing it put a big, fat grin on my face”
https://breakspace.itch.io/breakspace-issue-3
Retro Gamer "another fantastic Sloanysoft release"
Download
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Development log
- v1.02 Next fire button & scoring system39 days ago
- Very slight update v1.0148 days ago
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Nice one, thanks!
Excellent game with good music and fun to play. I have also added it to my new video along with other recently released games. Hope you like it.
Nice one, cheers. 👍
Love the music and game here - I know you've already seen this in Discord, but here is my video from anyone else that may wish to view...
Phenomenal viewing, thank you so much Sir!
I never liked Bubble Bobble, but this game is on another level...congratulations to everyone who worked on this beautiful game, greetings from distant Uruguayan lands.
Thanks so much, that's really appreciated. Although it's crazy to me that someone doesn't like Bubble Bobble, I love it. 😆😆
Haha...yeah, I must be a weirdo, but I always found it to be a repetitive, boring, and unfun game...one of those games where you have more fun watching someone else play it.
Heh, well as my Grandma used to say, "if everyone liked the same thing, they'd all be after your Grandad." 😄
Hehe very nice. I got a real sense of nostalgia playing this.
Of course playing on keys, just like the old days on my old rubber keyed Speccy. I always prefer playing Speccy games with keys.
Nice job matey.
Thank you so much! And you were totally correct about Jimmy Cricket's boots, I don't know what I was thinking!! 😆
Absolutely wonderful, Sloany! Nice one!
Cheers buddy!
Hi there, I hope you don't mind, but I put this awesome release in with this months best homebrew releases.
That's great, thanks.
My pleasure :)
very good
Thanks!
Awesome game!
Thank you very much!
Fantastic game
Nice one, thanks for playing!
Excited to sit down and give this a go! HYPE!
Awesome, thank you!
Really fun game. Love the excellent Back to the Future soundtrack
Hehe nice one, cheers!