Time Zone Translation

Yeah! It's my first title screen hack!
Game Title: Time Zone
Published by Sigma in 1991.
Game Format: 2 megabit (256KB) Famicom cartridge.
This is a sweet little NES/FC platform. I saw this game, and it looked just silly. Silly enough to warrant a translation. I was going to suggest this to someone else, but when I saw how little text there was, I decided I'd do it, if someone translated the text.
You play as some kid off to save his girlfriend Haruka from a mad doctor, Professor Time. He takes your girlfriend through time. You naturally follow to save her. Some of the enemies are just so wacky, like the first boss, which is a possessed car. It reminded me of what EarthBound might've been like as a platformer.
As for the text, I did have to trim some bit, but I think I did okay with the very limited space. I didn't find the pointers for the text, but I don't know if it would help much if I did find them, as I'm limited to the space in the windows (there is no control code to add multi-page text, otherwise I would've searched for the pointers and expanded the text). As for the bonus games, I did use squished tiles to fit in the text, otherwise some of the answers wouldn't have made any sense. And I shortened Prof. Time to just "Time". Little things like that.
I forgot the first time around, but thanks to Tomato for the translation!
Thanks to Chris Covell for the title screen fix, and some spelling corrections!
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| First, he throws rocks at you, now he steals your girlfriend! That Professor Time! | What kid doesn't like roller coasters? |
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| This car just won't be going to the junkyard anytime soon! | Get in that space rift, and save Haruka! No sleeping on the job! |
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| Even Bullet Bills made it to this game! | Robots of the future can repair themselves! Don't worry, only nine years until you can own one! |
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| Collect Bells to become an invincible skateboarder. | Here's an example of the quiz game. |
Enjoy the game.
Download the patch, version 1.0. DOWN.
New, updated! version 1.1, with title screen fixed, and some spelling corrections. DOWN
Version 1.2, even newer.