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Telltale adapting Back to the Future, Jurassic Park

Episodic game studio signs with NBC Universal for adventure series based on cult Michael J. Fox time traveler, Michael Crichton classic.

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Prehistoric creatures and time-traveling teens will fall under the same roof when Jurassic Park and Back to the Future are reworked for the small screen by Telltale Games. The episodic adventure game studio today announced a partnership with NBC Universal that will bring video games based on the popular film franchises to market beginning this winter.

Another island?
Another island?

The two-title development deal debuts with a season of Back to the Future this winter, followed "shortly" by Jurassic Park. Telltale did not specify how many installments each season will be composed of, but previous series Sam & Max, Strong Bad, and Tales of Monkey Island each spanned five episodes. Details surrounding the movie-based games remain under wraps. However, Telltale did note the partnership with NBC Universal will allow it to broaden its offerings "into new genres and new styles of gameplay."

According to an Associated Press report, the two seasons will appear on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC, and Mac. Additionally, the report states the games are in early stages of development and will extend the Back to the Future and Jurassic Park narratives. As of press time, Telltale Games has not responded for comment on the matter.

Telltale Games develops episodic adventure games for the PC, Mac, WiiWare, Xbox Live, and other digital destinations. The studio's ongoing effort is the third season of the Sam & Max series, and in the past, it has released episodic adventures based on Aardman Animations' Wallace and Gromit series and the Tales of Monkey Island series.

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I'ts been a long time since they made a jurassic patk game, i really really hope they don't ruin it.

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Couldn't wait for it, hopes it ll be success :)

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i hope the BTTF game has more future in it, in the second movie we only see it for like, 15 minutes.

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Well, the good news is they can't do any worse on Back to the Future than what's been done already.

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please make a sandbox style game,for example for BTTF let the player go and explore the various time periods

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have you guys seen or played bttf vice city if it had alot of missons and a controller instead of haveing to use keyboard (i hate) i would pay 100.00 the game is awsome has the clock tower run bttf ride where you have to bump biff at 88mph the car and the sound is the best ive seen and thats a mod check it out on utube or better yet buy gta vice city and download the mod i have the game if they can make a mod for bttf for free these guys should do the game just fine

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The first two back 2 the future movies are some of my favorite movies of all time. but adapting it into a game sound horrible

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Wonder how the hell they'll manage a Back to the Future game...

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This is possibly the best gaming news in the history of mankind! Hopefully this will move along any plans to release the Megadrive Jurassic park games to XBLA or PSN, The Lost World on Megadrive was one of My First and Favourite games.

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Jurassic Park for the NES was a pretty good game !!!

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I can imagine the Back To The Future ... but Jurrasic Park ....

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What's the big deal? We all know that Jurassic Park was a cheap knockoff of Dinocrisis.

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Something in the air tells me these movie games'll be poor I'll pass unless by some miracle they'll beetting good reviews.

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watch the avgn review of the nes back to the future and tell me a new game is a good idea...well, atleast watch it; that guys funny sometimes :P

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FPS Jurassic Park please!!!! Ive always loved JP ever since i was a kid, i even got Dino Defender when i was really little and then Operation Genesis a few years later, haha i loved those games.

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I wonder what kind of game engine that Telltale would develop for these games? I am hoping it would not be the one used for the Sam & Max and Tales of Monkey Island series (that would be dreadfully inappropriate), and certainly not the ones used for its CSI games (this one has too much 'bad-game' stigma stuck to it).

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I most def agree the books were great and if they do it right those games will be great too. the SNES version of the game was creepy before the survival horror became big like Dino Crisis. mix in all those elements and we could have some bad -a$$ games. heres to hoping they get it right!

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Back to the Future 2 can't happen and thus by default Back to the Future 3 couldn't happen. That is all.

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The Jurassic Park books were always amazing. Maybe they will develop a game based on the books instead of the movies. That would be incredible.

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This sounds like it could be cool. I played that Jurassic Park game for the SNES a lot when I was little, even though the first-person parts in the buildings scared me. lol Hopefully they'll do a good job on both of them.

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No. Boo. Bad Jurassic Park. Go away. Give me a next-gen sequel to JP: Operation Genesis instead.

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@strayfies Fail for spelling error

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Um. Are you telling me they've made a time machine... out of a Delorian!?

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More! Give them more!

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I don't know......Back To The Future is the greatest trilogy ever made, Each installment kept the story going without having any gaps between them, at the time that had never been done before. Jurassic Park on the other hand......the first film was the best, they really should have left it at that. There has only been one game based on Jurassic Park that was any good, that park editor game on XBOX a few years ago. I could be wrong and these guys could surprise everyone with 2 sleeper hits or they could flop, I'll reserve my judgment until they actually do something with them......

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Nice. Great movies + great game developer studio! Can't wait to hear more about this...

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jurassic park sounds cool to me ...course ive always like dinos :P

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yes lets unearth this awsome archaic franchises *no sarcasm*

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I would love a new Jurassic Park game, if it was really well made.

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Yes, lets unearth both of these archaic franchises. *sarcasm*

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Cool. I love the Sam & Max and Monkey Island games, so I'm looking forward to this.

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Yay, I love Telltale.

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well to do it right they could use there voices but if you played bttf vice city you don't need voices that games great with or without it but i think they could get these guys this to me would be the games of thr decade al least bttf since we havrnt had a bttf game since the old nintindo and they sucked bad telltale pls dont stop the bttf game i love jurassic park very much but if i had my choice in any game it would be bttf plssssssssssssss. i could go on forever on this and i will be back when more people post your friend in time

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The fact that Telltale is making them is enough to sell me.

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interesting....

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I've been thinking about a back to the future game for the last couple of weeks and now there gonna make one? i prayed for it thanks jesus you answered my prayer , I hope the back to the future game is free roaming i'd like to take my hoverboard with me to the wild west luvdisc

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This immediately caught my interest, but if they're gonna do Back to the Future right, they better get Micheal J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd! If they don't, I will be incredibly disappointed.

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yay jurassic park.

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First, :) I loved Jurassic Park, and I loved Back to the Future, but it seems that these movies are fairly removed and if you're under thirty, which the average gamer isn't then you may miss out on the possible inside jokes that may be in the games or not know who some of these characters are. It's too bad Michael Chriton Died, as it ended the talks of a Jurassic Park IV, which I was hoping would go back to the original island and find that oh so mysterious cannister. :)

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