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Back to the Future: The Game (2010)

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Back to the Future: The Game

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Continuity

In the 1931 town square, the police car parked in front of the station and the car parked in front of the Majestic Arms Inn both have the exact same license plate number.
When Marty first talks to young Emmett in 1931 in front of the barbershop, the car parked in front of the barbershop and the car parked in front of the courthouse have the same license plate number.
The Brown residence phone number in this episode (KL-4385) differs from the one in Back to the Future: The Game (2010) (KL5-1038). In Back to the Future (1985), Doc's 1955 phone number is KL5-4385.
In the 1986G time-line (Citizen Brown's Hill Valley) the McFly's driveway very distinctly features tyre marks from a vehicle with thick tyres and a wide drivetrain (such as a 1980's 4x4). However, in this time-line, the only vehicles used are golf caddy's, which are very narrow and have thinner tyres. Even Citizen Brown's limo is simply an elongated, boxed off caddy, meaning no one in Hill Valley owns a vehicle that could've made those tracks. Dialogue also indicates that the Brown's have been in power since at least 1955 so there is no overlap in which a vehicle with those specifications could have been present.

Factual errors

James Arnold Taylor mispronounces "learned" when the 17-year-old Emmett Brown describes his father as a "learned man."
During the episode 5 preview shown during the end credits, the title is misspelled as "Outtatime".

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

In her apartment, old Edna Strickland refers to her younger brother as Gerald. However, in the accompanying photo album that comes with the deluxe edition of the game, Edna's younger brother is named Stanford. However, Gerald could have been his middle name.

Revealing mistakes

On the Future diorama at the expo, a close-up of the clock face shows the reflection of walls, windows and a doorway of a room as seen from the interior, even though the clock is placed outdoors.

Miscellaneous

When Marty observes Ernie Philpott giving the password at El Kid's secret alley entrance, Ernie speaks with a different voice from the one performed by Roger Jackson in his other scenes.

Anachronisms

When Edna is approached in front of the school in 1931 and Marty tries to tell her about Emmett's theft of plutonium from Libyans, she reacts as if she has heard the term "plutonium" before. The element was first synthesized in 1940.
After travelling back to 1931 and being told his alias is Carl Sagan, Citizen Brown asks Marty if he is referring to "the billions and billions guy". Whilst Carl Sagan was known during the 1970's and 80's, the book 'billions and billions' was not published until 1997, whereas the present for Citizen Brown is 1986 and the book would not be published for another 11 years, meaning he should have no knowledge of the book as he is not a time traveler in that time-line.
At several points in the 1931 timeline, the DeLorean gets into pursuits with typical cars of the era, driven by gangsters and police. During these chases, the DeLorean goes fast enough to time travel (88 miles per hour).

Despite mass consumer cars of this period only being capable of reaching a maximum of 60-70 miles per hour, they have no trouble whatsoever in keeping up with the DeLorean, even going bumper to bumper when it reaches 88mph in some instances.

While there were some cars in the 1930s capable of reaching these speeds, they were either very expensive or simply prototypes and would not have been standard issue to any police force, nor affordable to a small time, Prohibition-era gangster.

Plot holes

There are two times in which Marty should have begun to fade from existence yet never does.

The first is in 1986F where Kid Tannen never gets arrested due to Arthur McFly's absence in Hill Valley in 1931. In this time-line he never breaks up with Trixie (Marty's grandmother) meaning she and Arthur never get together and have George McFly. Despite this, all the McFly's still exist

The second is in 1931B where Hill Valley never existed in the first place. Here, it is established that Arthur never met Trixie due to his inability to talk to girls. In both time-lines Marty doesn't fade from existence despite the fact that progression of events culminating in his grandparents getting together is very strict and the other deviations resulted in Marty fading from existence.

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