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Get rid of this back to the future garbage and make more tales from monkey island episodes!

Some of those scenarios sounded awesome. Can't wait to see what you guys do with this!

Um. Where were the questions? Was I too old to answer them? (Or too young?)

sounds cool but i can't wait for more monkey island

I was skeptical about even Telltale making a BttF game... But this incredibly detailed and fleshed out survey has eliminated any of my doubts.

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Always fun to help. DONE

…November 5th, 2010. Working together, Teen Marty, Doc, and Present Day Marty finally corner the man who made off with Doc’s Time Train. While they argue about what to do with the well-intentioned time-hopper, a scary black vehicle appears out of nowhere. A familiar bulky presence steps out and confronts them. ‘Detective Tannen, Temporal Preservation Squadron.’ I’m afraid you’re all under arrest’…

I love this plot the best of all...!
I'm a die-hard fan of Back To The Future and I would [b] EXTREMELY [b]
appreciate if this was made (for the Xbox 360)!!!
Also if you could [u] NOT [u] blow this off, that would be wonderful.

Why wasn't the Discworld Series in the books section?
And why, oh WHY the Twilight series was?!!!

Seems I am too old, too: I am just asked for age & gender, name & email. The next page states "Thank you for completing the survey." :(

You will have to apply Back to the Future in what movies you have seen page to do the longer survey

+1 !!

the 80s story is the best!!!

love to see marty in high school, interacting with kids from the future!

and because i'm a HUGE bttf fan :-D

Regarding the time cops, and the Doc losing interest in science, I wrote that I'd like the storylines as long as they make sure to justify them

We know from the movies that Doc actually has gone down the science path in his life before the movies began, and we know that they haven't been chased down by time cops in the movies.

If they're going to introduce these concepts in the games, they must occur due to some change in time, brought on by either the protagonists or the antagonists.

I could easily imagine the time train crash mentioned in their concepts leading to someone down the line developing their own time travel technology, so our heroes must find a way to deal with enemies with time travel of their own.

This is a good survey, those four possible stories are plausible, given that there is reasoning to back it up to make it worthwhile.

Done! Cannot wait to play a Telltale made Back to the Future (I assume) point-and-click adventure game!!!

I have the agree with thesporkman, I really think the dates should all end in 5.

If TTG gets the chance to add a Sam & Max reference to the BttF games, I think it would be awesome for one character to ask what Max is, and for Doc Brown to analyze him correctly as a "Hyperkinetic rabbity thing".

Solidarity with Lemmingsmeister! Obviously, people aged 40+ are not allowed to participate, so those who actually saw the first BTTF in a cinema have a dangerous tendency to not be consulted about the games. It's hard for me to believe (I'm 32).

Sorry, but it seems seriously stupid to put up a survey on a game based on a 25 year old movie and then not accept replies for people over 39.

Especially as the average age of gamers is about 32.

Seems like TTG is SO misinterpreting their target group. :D

Please no time cops, temporal scanners or other stuff that sounds like Star Trek. (It didn't work for Star Trek, either... Temporal Cold War anyone?)

Keep BTTF's time travel technology steampunky and make it about having trouble getting along in the wrong time rather than jumping around alout.

Done! Nice questions!

I'm 41. I'm pretty sure that I'm exactly the target market for BTTF content seeing as how the movie came out in 1985. Put simply, I'm younger than Marty.

And yet, my data isn't wanted in the survey.

Mary's Oedipal issues? Biff Tannen's mixed metaphors? Marty's vest? Time bandits as one of the other time travel movies? These guys know what they are talking about.

Really, the years ending in 5 wasn't actually dogma. In the alternate script for BTTF II, Bob Gale had no problem sending Marty to 1967.

Hey guy!
That idea is brilliant. I'm a fun of the BTTF. Firstly, you may create a game totally adventure game(Monkey Island) or action adventure ( indiana jones ). In adventure part you follow up the story. The action part we can drive the dolorian. I think this is the best part.
By the way, if you try to make this lagend become a game , dont bless up the game engine and graphics. This is the most important part of the game. Otherwise, it will become a garbage.

@Dangerzone

If the characters are not Marty, Doc or any of their relatives than I agree with you. But if it is them they definitly should have the DeLorean.

For me, Marty and Doc's roles as time explorers coming to terms with the implications of their actions with only their own perspectives to go by is fairly key to what Back to the Future is all about. To introduce some sort of external control (Temporal Preservation Squadron) would detract pretty heavily from that.

Plus the Tannen archetype could be seriously undermined if it had some sort of legitimate authority instead of just being a bully.

Yea Marty McFly and Emmet Brown are really cool so please make this game for all of us it will be legendary thanks a lot.

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Good luck you guys! I just completed your survey and I can't describe how excited I am to relive Back to the Future in a video game! Stay true to Back to the Future story elements and you will have a blockbuster game. You have my purchase already! (PS, nix the train, we fans want the delorean even though it was destroyed in BTTF 3)

I want to play this game really is superb in series

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yea back to the future video game is good idea!

bonus stages with marty macfly running with his van against others.

I didn't have a chance to mention this in the survey, but something very important to me is the voice acting.

I realize Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd (or even Dan Castalleneta), Lea Thompson, and Crispin Glover might be a little out of your price range, but it's very important to me that whoever fills their shoes gets the characters down right, not just an approximation of their voices. I generally trust Telltale in this regard--your versions of Sam and Max are now the definitive voices in my mind, and I wasn't completely convinced until I read the credits that your Wallace WASN'T Peter Sallis--but it was important enough to me to mention.

At any rate, you might be able to afford Tom Wilson, although I don't know if he'll want to do the role given his "I'm-not-Biff" persona from his standup. Still, it couldn't hurt to ask him, and he's appeared in nearly every incarnation of the franchise so far, including the ride and animated series. It's because of his hilarious yet terrifying performances that the Tannen Family is my favorite collection of movie villains.

Dude, I'm a realy a huge fan of the trilogy!! the 50's scenario spills the romantic idea of that period and the future scenario, the idea of it during the 80's, is just amazing. Ah... the De Lorian, of course!!! I love it, piloting by control, flying, driving, on the rail..

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Please, please, please - for the sake of all that is fine, pure, funny and right in this world - please, please, please, please, PLEASE try and set up a meeting with Bob Gale and have him talk about the various critical aspects to think of in writing for the BTTF universe. Much like you did with Ron Gilbert for Tales.

Please?

There used to be a GREAT article/interview with him about the "rules" of the BTTF universe (how the "ripple effect" was imagined and more) - but sadly I can't find it anymore.

One thing to check out his talk here: http://www.screenwritingsuccess.com/screenwriter-bob-gale-on-writing-back-to-the-future-and-more/

A few comments I have that didn't make it into the survey.

1. I didn't list the Time Train as one of the necessary elements of Back to the Future, but it is important. I've been hearing some people hate on the train, but It is at least as badass as the DeLorean, and it kind of has to be a part of future installments. The Delorean was smashed (though that could be fixed without too much trouble), and heck, I think the Brown family lives in that Train sometimes.

2. Why do none of those four scenarios take place in the future? One of my favorite scenes in BttF was the depiction of the future, and in a game I'd look forward to exploring later dates in the timeline.

Here is a handy resource to keep track of the various timelines that the films' instances of time travel caused:

http://bttf.wikia.com/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_timeline

Perhaps it could serve as inspiration for "side chapters" - but also as a guide to "keep track" of the potential effects any time travel adventures might have.

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pick a number between 1-10 .. were confusing..
in some .. 1 was low and in some 1 was highest..

id watch out on that for the future.. im not sure if i gave my best options the worst scores .. well until the end when it does its summary.

anyway now im keenly interested.. though only one plot line seemed fun out of all of them
bring the 30's back.. bring the 30's back!

i wanna fu*k Jenifer from BTFII. Thx.

The guitar scene is epic. Put that in the game

I think going back to all 4 environments, 1885, 1955, 1985, 2015 is something to keep in mind purely because they are what we know!

key features are definately

music
marty (obviously) , Doc Brown (obviously), the other characters, Lorraine, George, Strickland and definately Biff!
Skateboard chases!! dont leave them out! HOVERBOARD counts!!!
Johnny B Goode!! Marvin Berry (just classic)
Lightening is fairly dominant in the first 2 films
I can't stress this enough...... The Time Machine ALWAYS BREAKS!!!
No one can know about the time machine
keep it contained within Hill Valley
Docs Various Dogs
Getting Stuck in time is always there, its also a good feature to prolong the games playability
adding new characters is not a good idea.
Flying cars are cool and you know it! lol
wandering the same environment in a different time (we all know marty walks and crosses his feet whilst taking everything in)
Detail is everything!
Docs offscale models!! so good!!!
Something to keep in mind is that its not all about action its about the characters and what journey they are on, sounds kinda cheesy but its the truth.
As chronologically true as it is the train is not really as cool as the delorean. the delorean is very important to the series.

There is more but it's mostly been said already.

theres alot of possibilities for the game, free roam, puzzles, "races" against time, alternate endings depending on the actions we take (take a page outta heavy rains book)


really hope this game works out well!

coloque a cena final do back to the future part 3(a quela que o trem empurra o delorean)

Ok. I have a good idea for an 3 part episode series. Since Marty never broke his hand and gave up music, he had enough money to be able to support 3 children. He has a third son named Scott (in remembrence of Doc) who is 15 . Marty has written stories of his time travel adventures with doc on his computer. Scott looks on his dads computer (without him knowing it), reads these stories, and finds out about the time machine. On the day that Marty and Doc come to 2015, Scott "borrows" the time machine and goes back to "October 27th 1985". He sees some sights and then gets ready to bring the time machine back. He goes on a road and starts driving up to 88 mph. He hits 88, just as he hits his teenage dad's car that just went into reverse from the race that didn't break his hand. He crashes into his dad , but is sent back to 1925 (because it damaged the time circuts) and is stuck with a broke delorean without help. But luckily, Doc Brown and Clara are still alive.(they went back in the time train back to 1885 with Julles and Verne). Because he hit his dad and broke his hand, scott begins to be erased from existence. Its up to Him and Doc to fix the delorean and stop him from hitting his dad, before he doesn't exist.
Pretty good huh. leave me a comment to let me know what you think.
P.S. That was just Part 1!

It has been almost 25 years, and there is no any sequel for this awsome movie. No merchandises, games or toys. Almost forgotten.

When Telltale mentioned a game, I didn,t believe it. A game after all these years? There was one pc dos game and a snes game which is awsome by the way. I am a HUGE fan of this and I,d kill for Back to the future game,but what kind of a game can you make for thise movie? Like old ones -platform. Jurassic Park is easier becasue there are millions of JP games. Many references.

Whatever it is. I still can,t believe and I can,t wait. It is a game that has already been to late to be designed. Thx to telltale it is here at last after all those years.

I am a huge fan that I made an illustration of Back to the future last year. Check it out here:
http://tunaertutar.blogspot.com/2009/06/marty-you-have-to-come-back-with-me.html