Back to the Future: The Game

[Goodsport]

Anyone else here playing this graphic adventure game (available for Windows, Mac, PlayStation 3 and iPad)?

The story begins about seven months after the end of the third movie and the whole game is played over five "episodes", each episode having been released monthly. The fourth episode has just recently been released with the fifth and final episode due later this month.

I'm currently partway into the first episode. It's pretty good so far.


-G

 

[Relique du Madde]

I personally always wondered why Doc and MArty never got a severe case of cancer or radiation poisoning form all their exposure to the flux-time-capacitor's plutonium.

And did it say what happened to Clara and the time train? (Assuming she didn't die of Dysentery ).

 

[Goodsport]

I personally always wondered why Doc and MArty never got a severe case of cancer or radiation poisoning form all their exposure to the flux-time-capacitor's plutonium.

Throughout the first movie, I'd imagine that the plutonium was shielded well enough in its own compartment within the engine that it wasn't a problem, though it likely was a potential problem if that compartment had ever gotten punctured.

From Doc's return trip from 2015 in the last scene of the first movie onward, though, the flux-time-capacitor had been converted from running on plutonium to running on regular garbage via Mr. Fusion (although the DeLorean's engine still ran on gasoline even then, considering that the gas tank was punctured by an arrow upon arriving in 1885 in the third movie).

And did it say what happened to Clara and the time train? (Assuming she didn't die of Dysentery ).

It's possible that that's explained later in the overall game, though I don't yet know as I'm currently only partway into Episode 1.



-G

 

[Goodsport]

Oh, and I just remembered that the plutonium must've already been used up by the time Marty reached 1955 in the first movie, considering that he and Doc needed to then improvise and use the lightning strike to return Marty back to 1985.


-G

 

[TheWriterFantastic™]

There was actually a CBS cartoon in the early 90s that followed the continued adventures of Marty, Doc, Clara, and the kids. Each episode closed with a live action science experiment with Christopher Lloyd as Doc. One episode was loosely based on "A Sound of Thunder."

 

[Goodsport]

There was actually a CBS cartoon in the early 90s that followed the continued adventures of Marty, Doc, Clara, and the kids. Each episode closed with a live action science experiment with Christopher Lloyd as Doc.

Is the CBS cartoon considered part of the canon that went into the game (just curious)?

One episode was loosely based on "A Sound of Thunder."

That book was also made into a movie a few years back.



-G

 

[Relique du Madde]

I breezed though that first episode in a few hours last night. What was annoying was that in one scene I knew what I had to do, but it took me forever to do it cause it wasn't totally clear I was able to click on something.

 

[Goodsport]

The irony here is that 1985 (the "present time" in the Back to the Future trilogy) is just as much ancient history to all you young folk as 1955 was to Marty McFly.

And 2015 (the future setting in the second movie) is now only four years away.


-G

 

[Relique du Madde]

The irony here is that 1985 (the "present time" in the Back to the Future trilogy) is just as much ancient history to all you young folk as 1955 was to Marty McFly.

And 2015 (the future setting in the second movie) is now only four years away.

The sad thing is that Back to the Future 2 would have been more realistic if they visited Marty's grandkids. On the bright side at least half of the tech from that movie exists in some form today...

 

[RangerWickett]

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