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703: Episode 703 Preview: Back to the Future: The Game

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Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:09.4

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0:16.7

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0:26.2

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1:15.2

Thank you. of one of the three movies.

1:20.1

And in those three episodes, we talk about every possible Back to the Future game, except for this one.

1:25.5

And those episodes are 304, 336, and 372, and they were all recorded during the pandemic.

1:27.4

So we're in a great mood. But I think I was retreating to the things I really love during that time period. And I was watching all the movies again, watching all the commentaries, all the extras. So those are full of information. And I think they're a lot of fun in those episodes. And now that you're happy and fulfilled and living with me, now you're returning to the things that you were lukewarm on.

1:44.5

Yes.

1:45.0

Like this video game? Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is on the books for a very long time in terms of me wanting to cover it. And I think I've been talking with you about it for a few years. But it just so happens that this is going live like right around the 40th anniversary of the original Back to the Future film. Yeah. And 2025 is reference in this movie, not movie, this game.

1:44.1

It is?

1:44.9

Yeah. Okay. I mean, we can go into the story later, but there is like a temporal duplicate delurion that was sent to the year 2025. Okay. And I think probably they had the 40th anniversary in mind. And basically any year that ends in a 5 or a 0 is going to be back to the future anniversary.

2:20.9

Yeah, well, by he, I mean Doc, he says it was sent 70 years into the future to 2025, like within the universe of the game.

2:29.3

And we haven't covered this fact already, but this game, erased from existence, it's been delisted.

2:36.3

The remastered version is oddly expensive. If you can find a loose disc, if you can find a box

2:42.0

copy, it's like hundreds of dollars. I found a copy on eBay that I bought for this for like

2:46.4

$65 or $70. So they're really upcharging because this has been delisted. And the good news is that if you bought it from Steam or Telltale, you can download those all over again. And Telltale has been nice enough to honor all of the old purchases made through the old system. With something like this, if they won't let you buy it, I feel like it's within your rights to just go ahead and find it and play it.

3:12.6

And then like donate money to Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's Foundation if you want to. Do it anyways.

3:17.6

I mean, it's a good thing to donate to. But seek it out and you can find it somewhere.

3:23.6

But as far as this day and time, you cannot actually buy it from any place unless you have purchased it before.

3:29.0

They should include it with like a, a Blu-ray set of the movies.

3:33.0

You know, weirdly enough, I don't think there's going to be a 40th anniversary Blu-ray or 4K. There has not been one announced, and it really would have been announced

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