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Telltale Games and Universal have announced Back To The Future: The Game, a series of five interactive adventures that takes place shortly after the events of the third Back to the Future film, will be available in December for the PC and Mac, followed by Apple iPad and PlayStation Network versions soon thereafter.
Telltale Games' take on the world of Back to the Future has been dated and priced as its revealed it's to hit PC and Mac this December. Much of the talent behind the adored '80s trilogy is on board for the adventure game, including writer and co-creator Bob Gale and Christopher Lloyd who reprises his role as Doc Emmett Brown. Back to the Future: The Game takes place shortly after the original trilogy and is being released over five episodes. It's also slated for iPad and PlayStation 3, and release dates for those platforms will be announced shortly. Telltale also revealed a number of incentives for those pre-ordering all five episodes #x2013; which weigh in at $24.95 e#x2013; with bonuses including a free copy of Puzzle Agent and a $1.00 donation to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
While the Back to the Future film trilogy can be considered successful by many measures, thrilling fans and critics while standing the test of time, the franchise hasn't seen the same level of success in video game form. Over the last two-and-a-half decades, over a dozen Back to the Future video games have been released, and none of them have been met with serious adulation from fans. Franchise co-creator Bob Gale summarized the franchise's poor showing on consoles and computers, stating in an interview on Telltale Games' blog that the previous BTTF video games have all sucked eggs. From mid-80s atrocities to modern-day disappointments, we've plumbed the depths of poor movie adaptations to exhume the entirety of what may be the worst movie-to-game series of all time.
The first (and most popular) movie in the trilogy suffered from extremely poor timing in regards to receiving a video game adaptation. Releasing mere months before the NES and Sega Master System debuted in the U.S., Back to the Future did not land on either of the era's dominant consoles for quite a few years. Instead, the first Back to the Future game, which released in 1986, landed on the home computer systems that enjoyed moderate success during that era -- the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.
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