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Great Scott!! Back to the Future is one/ if not the greatest film trilogy ever yet it has never been made into a game, which is as understandable as an ostrich not being able to fly…completely barmy!
It's one of the simplest films that could ever be made into a game as the game script is all there, it just needs someone to use their noggin and turn it into the game of the future, or is that past?
If we look at the trilogy it and break it down, you don't have to be Einstein to work out it consists of three films…If you didn't know that, go put your head in the fridge door and open and close the door on your head to see if the light goes on and off…go on…done? Good then I'll continue…
…A Back to the Future game can be broken into three smaller games in one game, remember Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1? And for the whole game to be completed, each Back to the Future will have to be completed. So here’s the format each of the Back to the Futures will take:
Back to the Future: Part I (BTTF1)
You take control of Marty McFly in the year 1955, in the whole 3D world of Hill Valley. First up is you're in the Delorean trying to race away from the Libyans who Doc Brown stole the plutonium from. Once you get a clear run away from them and don't get caught by their bazooka and machine guns, you need to take the car up to 88mph to go back to 1955.
You have just arrived after travelling through time in Doc Browns time travelling, plutonium powered DeLorean. In a cross between Broken Sword (how your character interacts with others) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (how your character can move about the city) you have to locate the Doc to help him rig up a device to help send you back to the year 1985, and after catching your father being a peeping tom and ruining his and your mothers first meeting, you have to strategically get you mother and father back together by at latest at the 'Enchantment Under the Sea Dance'. Once these have been completed you will have completed the first part of the game.
Back to the Future: Part II (BTTF2)
For your first challenge on BTTF2 (As Doc Brown) your task is to travel through the highway in the sky in the year 2015 above Hill Valley in your now flying DeLorean. You'll have to avoid other flying cars and make sure that you don't get caught speeding by the police otherwise your whole mission is in jeopardy.
For the second level of BTTF2 you take control of Marty McFly on a hoverboard, where you have to avoid Griff (Biff's Grandson) after telling him no to the bank job. You'll have to race around Hill Valley’s park and shopping precent avoiding cars, pedestrians, and water…"McFly you idiot…D'ose boards don't work on water…unless you got power".
After escaping Griff and his bully buddies you'll be whisked to Hill Valley high where you have to find Griff to try and get the Allamack back to prevent Biff becoming a billionaire in the future. Once you've found him you need to keep on his tail and beat-up he's mates in a Vice City/Streets of Rage stylie. If you successfully keep on Biff's toes the game will move to the Hoverboard/tunnel incident where you'll have to pump that X button real fast as so not to get caught by Biff in his car….oh and watch out for the manure.
For your final task, once Biff has hopefully ploughed into the manure, you have to find the signpost to where Hill Valley is going to be built so that you can find the Doc and burn the Allamack. If successfully done BTTF2 will have been completed.
Back to the Future: Part III (BTTF3)
Only once BTTF1 and BTTF2 have been completed will BTTF3 be unlocked (due to the way the story lines from 1 & 2 link into 3). The first level of BTTF3 will be you in the DeLorean again but this time you'll be trying to escape the Cowboys and Indians who after spotting you are intent on chasing you. If you manage to outrun them without and hide in a cave somewhere without them seeing you'll be taken onto the second level.
The second level involves you walking around the Wild West of Hill Valley trying to find the Doc, and then try and get him introduced to his 'beloved Clara'. This be the main section of BTTF3 which will include the Dance where you'll have a chance to take part in the gun shooting stall where you have to shoot at least 80% of the targets to win the gun that'll later lead to the gun fight will Mad Dog. Before the gunfight you'll have to find the Doc, and then it's up to you if you want to use the boiler door to help defeat Mad Dog or if you want to just use your gun skills.
Finally you'll have to hijack the train to then help get the DeLorean up to 88mph which you'll have full control over as well, remember this is your only chance otherwise you'll be stuck in 1885 forever.
Once all three have been completed, you would have finished the game and be safely back in 1985 where you'll be reunited with your parents, Jennifer and Biff (who'll be waxing your 4x4).
Oh and one last thing 'I ain't yella'
It's one of the simplest films that could ever be made into a game as the game script is all there, it just needs someone to use their noggin and turn it into the game of the future, or is that past?
If we look at the trilogy it and break it down, you don't have to be Einstein to work out it consists of three films…If you didn't know that, go put your head in the fridge door and open and close the door on your head to see if the light goes on and off…go on…done? Good then I'll continue…
…A Back to the Future game can be broken into three smaller games in one game, remember Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1? And for the whole game to be completed, each Back to the Future will have to be completed. So here’s the format each of the Back to the Futures will take:
Back to the Future: Part I (BTTF1)
You take control of Marty McFly in the year 1955, in the whole 3D world of Hill Valley. First up is you're in the Delorean trying to race away from the Libyans who Doc Brown stole the plutonium from. Once you get a clear run away from them and don't get caught by their bazooka and machine guns, you need to take the car up to 88mph to go back to 1955.
You have just arrived after travelling through time in Doc Browns time travelling, plutonium powered DeLorean. In a cross between Broken Sword (how your character interacts with others) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (how your character can move about the city) you have to locate the Doc to help him rig up a device to help send you back to the year 1985, and after catching your father being a peeping tom and ruining his and your mothers first meeting, you have to strategically get you mother and father back together by at latest at the 'Enchantment Under the Sea Dance'. Once these have been completed you will have completed the first part of the game.
Back to the Future: Part II (BTTF2)
For your first challenge on BTTF2 (As Doc Brown) your task is to travel through the highway in the sky in the year 2015 above Hill Valley in your now flying DeLorean. You'll have to avoid other flying cars and make sure that you don't get caught speeding by the police otherwise your whole mission is in jeopardy.
For the second level of BTTF2 you take control of Marty McFly on a hoverboard, where you have to avoid Griff (Biff's Grandson) after telling him no to the bank job. You'll have to race around Hill Valley’s park and shopping precent avoiding cars, pedestrians, and water…"McFly you idiot…D'ose boards don't work on water…unless you got power".
After escaping Griff and his bully buddies you'll be whisked to Hill Valley high where you have to find Griff to try and get the Allamack back to prevent Biff becoming a billionaire in the future. Once you've found him you need to keep on his tail and beat-up he's mates in a Vice City/Streets of Rage stylie. If you successfully keep on Biff's toes the game will move to the Hoverboard/tunnel incident where you'll have to pump that X button real fast as so not to get caught by Biff in his car….oh and watch out for the manure.
For your final task, once Biff has hopefully ploughed into the manure, you have to find the signpost to where Hill Valley is going to be built so that you can find the Doc and burn the Allamack. If successfully done BTTF2 will have been completed.
Back to the Future: Part III (BTTF3)
Only once BTTF1 and BTTF2 have been completed will BTTF3 be unlocked (due to the way the story lines from 1 & 2 link into 3). The first level of BTTF3 will be you in the DeLorean again but this time you'll be trying to escape the Cowboys and Indians who after spotting you are intent on chasing you. If you manage to outrun them without and hide in a cave somewhere without them seeing you'll be taken onto the second level.
The second level involves you walking around the Wild West of Hill Valley trying to find the Doc, and then try and get him introduced to his 'beloved Clara'. This be the main section of BTTF3 which will include the Dance where you'll have a chance to take part in the gun shooting stall where you have to shoot at least 80% of the targets to win the gun that'll later lead to the gun fight will Mad Dog. Before the gunfight you'll have to find the Doc, and then it's up to you if you want to use the boiler door to help defeat Mad Dog or if you want to just use your gun skills.
Finally you'll have to hijack the train to then help get the DeLorean up to 88mph which you'll have full control over as well, remember this is your only chance otherwise you'll be stuck in 1885 forever.
Once all three have been completed, you would have finished the game and be safely back in 1985 where you'll be reunited with your parents, Jennifer and Biff (who'll be waxing your 4x4).
Oh and one last thing 'I ain't yella'
VenomByte wrote:
> Picure, if you will, the vision of an eight year old boy unfamiliar
> with any of the films
If this were the case, Social Services would have to be brought in to the equation
> Picure, if you will, the vision of an eight year old boy unfamiliar
> with any of the films
If this were the case, Social Services would have to be brought in to the equation
I had 'Back To The Future 2' for the Spectrum once. It was an RPG/adventure style game involving picking up objects, and using them in the right places.
Picure, if you will, the vision of an eight year old boy unfamiliar with any of the films, attempting to figure out what to do with strange family photos, skateboards, and disco posters.
The level of confusion I experienced would have been the equivalent of watching the Matrix whilst simultaneously stoned and drunk.
Picure, if you will, the vision of an eight year old boy unfamiliar with any of the films, attempting to figure out what to do with strange family photos, skateboards, and disco posters.
The level of confusion I experienced would have been the equivalent of watching the Matrix whilst simultaneously stoned and drunk.
The first Back to the Future game was for the NES in 1989, it got 1/10 in most of its reviews (it didn't even have a DeLorean in it) and since then no developer really wanted to touch it, especially with the John DeLorean cocaine trafficking scandal. (He was acquitted in the end, but not many people remember that fact).
It WOULD make a great game for today's platforms, there's no doubt about it. So would a lot of movies that were released in the 80s, but the problem is it seems that only the more recent movies are having their licences snapped up by games developers, not the older ones, it's all 90s and onwards, which I suppose from a publisher's point of view makes sense, most kids today have seen more films from that decade than the one preceeding it.
It would be nice to be able to do ollies and grinds on a hoverboard though, although Namco already did that recently with 'Airblade'.
It WOULD make a great game for today's platforms, there's no doubt about it. So would a lot of movies that were released in the 80s, but the problem is it seems that only the more recent movies are having their licences snapped up by games developers, not the older ones, it's all 90s and onwards, which I suppose from a publisher's point of view makes sense, most kids today have seen more films from that decade than the one preceeding it.
It would be nice to be able to do ollies and grinds on a hoverboard though, although Namco already did that recently with 'Airblade'.
Great Scott!! Back to the Future is one/ if not the greatest film trilogy ever yet it has never been made into a game, which is as understandable as an ostrich not being able to fly…completely barmy!
It's one of the simplest films that could ever be made into a game as the game script is all there, it just needs someone to use their noggin and turn it into the game of the future, or is that past?
If we look at the trilogy it and break it down, you don't have to be Einstein to work out it consists of three films…If you didn't know that, go put your head in the fridge door and open and close the door on your head to see if the light goes on and off…go on…done? Good then I'll continue…
…A Back to the Future game can be broken into three smaller games in one game, remember Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1? And for the whole game to be completed, each Back to the Future will have to be completed. So here’s the format each of the Back to the Futures will take:
Back to the Future: Part I (BTTF1)
You take control of Marty McFly in the year 1955, in the whole 3D world of Hill Valley. First up is you're in the Delorean trying to race away from the Libyans who Doc Brown stole the plutonium from. Once you get a clear run away from them and don't get caught by their bazooka and machine guns, you need to take the car up to 88mph to go back to 1955.
You have just arrived after travelling through time in Doc Browns time travelling, plutonium powered DeLorean. In a cross between Broken Sword (how your character interacts with others) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (how your character can move about the city) you have to locate the Doc to help him rig up a device to help send you back to the year 1985, and after catching your father being a peeping tom and ruining his and your mothers first meeting, you have to strategically get you mother and father back together by at latest at the 'Enchantment Under the Sea Dance'. Once these have been completed you will have completed the first part of the game.
Back to the Future: Part II (BTTF2)
For your first challenge on BTTF2 (As Doc Brown) your task is to travel through the highway in the sky in the year 2015 above Hill Valley in your now flying DeLorean. You'll have to avoid other flying cars and make sure that you don't get caught speeding by the police otherwise your whole mission is in jeopardy.
For the second level of BTTF2 you take control of Marty McFly on a hoverboard, where you have to avoid Griff (Biff's Grandson) after telling him no to the bank job. You'll have to race around Hill Valley’s park and shopping precent avoiding cars, pedestrians, and water…"McFly you idiot…D'ose boards don't work on water…unless you got power".
After escaping Griff and his bully buddies you'll be whisked to Hill Valley high where you have to find Griff to try and get the Allamack back to prevent Biff becoming a billionaire in the future. Once you've found him you need to keep on his tail and beat-up he's mates in a Vice City/Streets of Rage stylie. If you successfully keep on Biff's toes the game will move to the Hoverboard/tunnel incident where you'll have to pump that X button real fast as so not to get caught by Biff in his car….oh and watch out for the manure.
For your final task, once Biff has hopefully ploughed into the manure, you have to find the signpost to where Hill Valley is going to be built so that you can find the Doc and burn the Allamack. If successfully done BTTF2 will have been completed.
Back to the Future: Part III (BTTF3)
Only once BTTF1 and BTTF2 have been completed will BTTF3 be unlocked (due to the way the story lines from 1 & 2 link into 3). The first level of BTTF3 will be you in the DeLorean again but this time you'll be trying to escape the Cowboys and Indians who after spotting you are intent on chasing you. If you manage to outrun them without and hide in a cave somewhere without them seeing you'll be taken onto the second level.
The second level involves you walking around the Wild West of Hill Valley trying to find the Doc, and then try and get him introduced to his 'beloved Clara'. This be the main section of BTTF3 which will include the Dance where you'll have a chance to take part in the gun shooting stall where you have to shoot at least 80% of the targets to win the gun that'll later lead to the gun fight will Mad Dog. Before the gunfight you'll have to find the Doc, and then it's up to you if you want to use the boiler door to help defeat Mad Dog or if you want to just use your gun skills.
Finally you'll have to hijack the train to then help get the DeLorean up to 88mph which you'll have full control over as well, remember this is your only chance otherwise you'll be stuck in 1885 forever.
Once all three have been completed, you would have finished the game and be safely back in 1985 where you'll be reunited with your parents, Jennifer and Biff (who'll be waxing your 4x4).
Oh and one last thing 'I ain't yella'
It's one of the simplest films that could ever be made into a game as the game script is all there, it just needs someone to use their noggin and turn it into the game of the future, or is that past?
If we look at the trilogy it and break it down, you don't have to be Einstein to work out it consists of three films…If you didn't know that, go put your head in the fridge door and open and close the door on your head to see if the light goes on and off…go on…done? Good then I'll continue…
…A Back to the Future game can be broken into three smaller games in one game, remember Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1? And for the whole game to be completed, each Back to the Future will have to be completed. So here’s the format each of the Back to the Futures will take:
Back to the Future: Part I (BTTF1)
You take control of Marty McFly in the year 1955, in the whole 3D world of Hill Valley. First up is you're in the Delorean trying to race away from the Libyans who Doc Brown stole the plutonium from. Once you get a clear run away from them and don't get caught by their bazooka and machine guns, you need to take the car up to 88mph to go back to 1955.
You have just arrived after travelling through time in Doc Browns time travelling, plutonium powered DeLorean. In a cross between Broken Sword (how your character interacts with others) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (how your character can move about the city) you have to locate the Doc to help him rig up a device to help send you back to the year 1985, and after catching your father being a peeping tom and ruining his and your mothers first meeting, you have to strategically get you mother and father back together by at latest at the 'Enchantment Under the Sea Dance'. Once these have been completed you will have completed the first part of the game.
Back to the Future: Part II (BTTF2)
For your first challenge on BTTF2 (As Doc Brown) your task is to travel through the highway in the sky in the year 2015 above Hill Valley in your now flying DeLorean. You'll have to avoid other flying cars and make sure that you don't get caught speeding by the police otherwise your whole mission is in jeopardy.
For the second level of BTTF2 you take control of Marty McFly on a hoverboard, where you have to avoid Griff (Biff's Grandson) after telling him no to the bank job. You'll have to race around Hill Valley’s park and shopping precent avoiding cars, pedestrians, and water…"McFly you idiot…D'ose boards don't work on water…unless you got power".
After escaping Griff and his bully buddies you'll be whisked to Hill Valley high where you have to find Griff to try and get the Allamack back to prevent Biff becoming a billionaire in the future. Once you've found him you need to keep on his tail and beat-up he's mates in a Vice City/Streets of Rage stylie. If you successfully keep on Biff's toes the game will move to the Hoverboard/tunnel incident where you'll have to pump that X button real fast as so not to get caught by Biff in his car….oh and watch out for the manure.
For your final task, once Biff has hopefully ploughed into the manure, you have to find the signpost to where Hill Valley is going to be built so that you can find the Doc and burn the Allamack. If successfully done BTTF2 will have been completed.
Back to the Future: Part III (BTTF3)
Only once BTTF1 and BTTF2 have been completed will BTTF3 be unlocked (due to the way the story lines from 1 & 2 link into 3). The first level of BTTF3 will be you in the DeLorean again but this time you'll be trying to escape the Cowboys and Indians who after spotting you are intent on chasing you. If you manage to outrun them without and hide in a cave somewhere without them seeing you'll be taken onto the second level.
The second level involves you walking around the Wild West of Hill Valley trying to find the Doc, and then try and get him introduced to his 'beloved Clara'. This be the main section of BTTF3 which will include the Dance where you'll have a chance to take part in the gun shooting stall where you have to shoot at least 80% of the targets to win the gun that'll later lead to the gun fight will Mad Dog. Before the gunfight you'll have to find the Doc, and then it's up to you if you want to use the boiler door to help defeat Mad Dog or if you want to just use your gun skills.
Finally you'll have to hijack the train to then help get the DeLorean up to 88mph which you'll have full control over as well, remember this is your only chance otherwise you'll be stuck in 1885 forever.
Once all three have been completed, you would have finished the game and be safely back in 1985 where you'll be reunited with your parents, Jennifer and Biff (who'll be waxing your 4x4).
Oh and one last thing 'I ain't yella'