Trivia / Back to the Future: The Game

• Acting for Two:
  • In addition to playing Marty, AJ LoCascio also plays Leech in Episode 3.
  • George McFly and his father Arthur are both played by Michael Sommers.
  • In addition to voicing Biff Tannen prior to the 30th anniversary edition, Andrew "Kid Beyond" Chaikin voiced Cliff and Riff Tannen.
  • Daniel Parker and his son Danny are voiced by Mark Barbolak.
  • Roger L. Jackson voices Judge Erhardt Brown, Ernie Philpott, Hampton and Cueball Donnely.
  • Kid Tannen and his ancestor Beauregard Tannen are voiced by Owen Thomas.
  • Michael J. Fox voices William McFly as well as the three future versions of Marty.
  • In addition to reprising Doc and his alternate self Citizen Brown, Christopher Lloyd also voices the French diver whom Citizen Brown impersonates.
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: Voice actors from both the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles area were used for the game.
• Dawson Casting: Claudia Wells, who was in her mid 40s at the time, reprises her role from the original movie as teenage Jennifer.
• Development Gag:
  • Not a gag relating to the development of the game, but to Back to the Future Part III. In Episode 1, Marty can find an old photograph of Marshall Strickland in Edna Strickland's home. Edna states that he had been shot and killed by Buford Tannen. Marty (who, of course, had been to 1885 when Strickland was alive and who was instrumental in Buford being sent to prison) states that he doesn't remember that occurrence. While there's an in-story reason for this (he wasn't there when it happened nor informed of the events), the line is actually a meta-reference about how the scene depicting Strickland's death was cut from the film. You get a trophy in the PS4 version for finding this out.
  • Episode 1 references a gag from the aborted Number Two script, wherein Marty is arrested, and chooses the alias "Marty DeLorean" to get Doc's attention through the newspapers. In the video game, however, it's the other way around: Doc is arrested, and chooses the alias "Carl Sagan" to get Marty's attention through the newspapers.
  • In Episode 3, George has a box of peanut brittle on his desk by the monitors. This refers to a deleted scene in the original Back To the Future where George displays what a wimp and Extreme Doormat he is by being bullied into buying tons of peanut brittle. The only remnant of this in the final film is a shot of him pouring some into a bowl.
• The Original Darrin:
  • After she was replaced by Elisabeth Shue for the last two movies in the original trilogy and Cathy Cavadini in the animated series, Claudia Wells reprises the role of Jennifer Parker from the first movie for the game.
  • Thomas F. Wilson returns as Biff Tannen for the 30th anniversary edition of the game, replacing Andrew "Kid Beyond" Chaikin's recordings.
  • While Christopher Lloyd portrayed Doc in live-action segments on Back to the Future, his voice was provided by Dan Castellaneta. Here, Lloyd once again voices Doc.
  • A.J. LoCascio voices the main teenaged Marty for the majority of the game, but Michael J. Fox returns as three alternate timeline middle-aged Martys at the end of episode 5, which marks the first time he played Marty since the movies, as David Kaufman took over for the animated series.
• The Other Marty: The PS4/Xbox One version has Tom Wilson reprise his role as Biff Tannen from the movies, having been Darrin'd by Andrew Chaikin in the original release of the game. Chaikan's recordings for Cliff and Riff Tannen were retained however.
• Refitted for Sequel: Gale suggested the Prohibition era and the young Doc Brown story for the first episode, proposed elements Gale and Robert Zemeckis tried but ultimately discarded while drafting Back to the Future Part II.
• Role Reprise: Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown and Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker. In the last episode, Michael J. Fox plays the three future versions of Marty that appear at the end. Thomas F. Wilson also comes back as Biff Tannen, for the 30th anniversary rerelease.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Biff's daughter Tiff was originally going to appear in Episode 3, but with Punk Jennifer there it was decided she was redundant. There is artwork of her here◊, and she eventually showed up in the comic book adaptation of the game.
  • There were plans to give Doc and Edna a kid, but they decided against it, due to the ethical ramifications of erasing a person from the timestream.
• You Sound Familiar: Willie McFly is voiced by Michael J. Fox, who played Marty as well as his ancestors and descendants (including Willie in a photograph) in all three Back to the Future films.