Time Lord

About

Time Lord is a side-scrolling platformer where you fight alien invaders across four time periods to prevent them from rewriting history. Play as a time-traveling hero armed with futuristic weapons and tasked with collecting Orbs that control temporal energy. Navigate hazards and enemy Drakkons in each era, balancing exploration with a strict time limit. Combat and puzzle-solving are straightforward but demand quick reflexes and careful planning as you hop between centuries. The game’s time-based challenge stands out, especially for 90s-era gaming. Its blend of platforming and historical settings feels inventive, though the NES hardware keeps visuals and complexity modest. Fans of Rare’s later work might recognize early design DNA here. The urgency of the countdown and the stakes of your self-destructing time machine add a tense layer to the action. Short but thematically varied levels keep the gameplay from feeling repetitive.

Storyline

In the year 2999, Earth is under siege by aliens from the planet Drakkon. Using time travel technology, they have sent armies to four periods in human history, with the intention of altering history to make humankind easier to conquer in the present. The player assumes control of the "Time Lord", who has until January 1, 3000 AD to vanquish the enemy in the past, or else he will self-destruct along with the time machine.