Back to the Future

Does anybody here know whether there are any plans afoot to make a new BTTF game? As far as I know, there hasn't been any made in the last few years, but now that the BTTF trilogy is out on DVD I was wondering whether they might get around to making one.

It would really rock if you could race against time on the DeLorean, and maybe also have a few skateboard/hoverboard competitions.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

I have always thought that the BTTF franchise could provide some of the preeminent adventure gaming in the genre. Think of DoTT -- this could be better and funnier...

 

Great Scott!! What's DoTT?

Remember, I'm a newbie when it comes to gaming...

 

Day of the Tentacle, a funny old adventure game.

 

So how do we get Universal to develop a BTTF game? I mean, you'd expect they'd be thinking of every possible way to milk the franchise for all its worth, wouldn't you?

 

The closest thing you'll find to Back To The Future game is a Universal's Studios Theme Park game for gameCube. it featires a whole bunch of mini-games from the theme park. The BTTF one involves ramming that bully dude after he steals one of the time cars.

 

And no, don'y go out and buy that, it's crap.

 

No, I wouldn't buy a game based on a theme park... unless that theme park was Disneyworld

But seriously, does anyone know about any BTTF games being developed? Is it up to Universal or up to Zemeckis to get such a project going?

 

I'vwe always dreamed of a BTTF adventure game. It could be really good.

 

There was also a Genesis BTTF3 game. Not good, by the way.

 

that wouldnt be a very fun game but i guess they could make one.

 

I beg to differ with ya, Monkey. I think it could be a lot of fun. You could have land races and sky races with the flying DeLorean. You could have some fun with the skateboards and the hoverboards. You could even travel to other eras and race around in cars from that time. You could have missions were if you didn't get things just right, you ended up in some derranged, messed up alternate universe and then you had to go back and fix whatever you did to alter the space-time continuum.

I see a lot of possibilities, if only they get good writing going on there, not just good programming. It could really be awesome!!

 

A good BTTF game would be great. Those old NES games were some of the absolute worst video games I've ever played.

 

Yeah, we've never seen a good BTTF video game. For some reason, some of the older systems would go cheap on movie adaptation games. Seeing how the films are quite old now, though with the release of the DVD boxed set, that probably wouldn't merit gamecube to do one. Not unless a new film came out.

 

"Seeing how the films are quite old", huh?

So are the Indiana Jones movies...

BTTF is one of Universal's best franchises ever. They made the theme park ride, they put together a really nice DVD set spared no expense promoting it; they made an animated series... I don't see why they wouldn't think it makes sense to make a good game out of it. It's still one of the most popular film franchises from the late 20th century.

 

I don't think a BTTF game would be such a good idea if it follows the "Great movie-Crap game" rule.

 

Well, then let's hope it wouldn't!!

Maybe if they could have LucasArts involved...