The Nerd and Sam Beddoes in “Unfinished Business”

(The Nerd begins playing the prototype game. Marty is jumping through obstacles, collecting clocks, and stomping on enemies.)

Sam Beddoes: Uh you know, time! Isn’t it?

The Nerd: I- Okay, we need to change the clocks. We can’t have clocks in the game.

Sam Beddoes: Got it, got it, right, changing the clocks. No clocks.

The Nerd: You didn’t get the licensing, did you?

Sam Beddoes: Uh… the hoverboard… uh, that we got that. It’s it’s pink and yellow.

The Nerd: How are you supposed to control this?

Sam Beddoes: Yes, so there’s like an acceleration, deceleration thing going on there so it feels kind of like uh… actually hovering on a hoverboard. I’m still working on getting it to be actually playable.

The Nerd: Yeah, playable! That would be… something.

Sam Beddoes: Yeah yeah, it’ll get there.

The Nerd: The holographic shark. W-what is going on with it?

Sam Beddoes: Okay, so the-the NES couldn’t actually do like transparencies so to make something look kind of transparent, you had a frame where you could see it and a frame where you couldn’t see it. See? You can see it’s like flashing on and off and if you put on a really old CRT TV, it kind of looks transparent and you only get a tiny little bit of a headache!

The Nerd: A tiny bit of a headache. Okay, t-this really needs to get fixed. How much time do we have to finish this again?

Sam Beddoes: (checks his watch) Uh… Ah! Um… plenty of time. We're good.

(The Nerd turns off his C64 system)