/pic5240569.png)
"Wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean?"
The photo of the McFly family is slowly fading... It's 1955, and you're wrapped up in a time paradox with Biff, Lorraine, George, and Doc Brown! Cooperate to move around Hill Valley to get the DeLorean ready, avoid Biff and his gang, help George and Lorraine fall in love, and crank the DeLorean up to 88 MPH — all just in time for the lightning to strike the Clock Tower, sending you back to the future!
In the fully co-operative game Back to the Future: Back in Time, each player takes on the role of a major character from the movie: Marty McFly, Doc Brown, Jennifer Parker, or Einstein the dog. The objective of the game is to have the characters move around 1955 Hill Valley, collecting certain items in an effort to fix Doc's famous DeLorean time machine, defeat Biff Tannen and his gang of trouble-making friends, while ensuring that Marty's parents fall in love. Only when that is accomplished can players then accelerate the DeLorean to 88 MPH down Main Street before the clock tower strikes 10:04 pm!
—description from the publisher
- cooperative and family-friendly feel
- charming aesthetic and components
- appeals to movie fans
- some players may want heavier Euro depth
- license-dependent availability can impact resale
- cooperative time-travel and romance subplots
- Hill Valley, time-travel scenarios around 1950s-1980s
- whimsical, cartoonish, family-friendly
- Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle
- Groundhog Day
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative Game — players work together to achieve mutually beneficial objectives across time
- cooperative play — players work together to achieve mutually beneficial objectives across time
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- one of the cutest games i've ever seen
- it's a great time for a movie nerd to cross those streams and get into board games
- the thing infection outpost 31 or everything epic's awesome big trouble in little china aren't on here
- the back in time is also one of the hardest games i've ever played
- this is a license to print money but a hell of a game
- it's not just the art style which is super evocative and cool
References (from this video)
- co-operative feel
- strong IP
- two-player expectations may vary
- cooperative time-travel adventure to restore parents' romance
- Back to the Future universe, past to future time travel
- movie-licensed narrative
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — players work together to achieve goals
- theme-licensing and puzzle-solving — coordinate actions to move through time
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- "we're going to go through all the games that we bought"
- "we acquired them"
- "we made it"