DeLorean in games

[bunni]

I am not a big video game player, but I do end up playing some current PC and console games. There has been a large push for "retro" games recently and on more than one occasion the mark of the 80s "retro" game is the DeLorean. This is in no way intended to be advertising, just funny how DeLoreans are slowly getting bigger in the media.

First off, the easy one, the Back to the Future game. A point-and-click style RPG where you are Marty McFly and go on crazy adventures with Doc. The story is meant to be an alternate to the original BttF movies, splitting off fairly early on. http://www.telltalegames.com/bttf Should be obvious how the DeLorean is involved.

Hotline Miami is meant to be a GTA style game. I personally did not like it, spent maybe 5 minutes playing. However, your main mode of travel is a top-down view of a DeLorean: http://hotline-miami.wikia.com/wiki/Car Although, the headlights are wrong, but its very much a D.

Game Dev Tycoon is a Tycoon style game set in the 80s and moving forward of running a game development studio. I have never actually played this game, but the images of it look like you start out working in your garage. In said garage is a mostly covered up car that is unmistakably a DeLorean; it even has oil spots, albeit on the wrong side of the car: http://www.greenheartgames.com/app/game-dev-tycoon/ (scroll down a bit to get the picture I am talking about).

[aipri]

Yes the D has been popping up in games more recently. A few I can think of are:

Project Gotham Racing: http://achievementhunter.com/members/images/image.php?id=2532468
Gran Turismo & Forza Motorsport (both covered in this article):http://www.onlineracedriver.com/2011/01/13/gt5-vs-fm3-the-back-to-the-future-delorean-battle/
Grand Theft Auto IV had a mod done for the BTTF Car that can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m3-xw_BOwo
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which was based in the 80s (and one of my all time favorite games!) had a Delorean-like car called the Deluxo:http://www.gamemodding.net/en/gta-san-andreas/gta-sa-cars/11346-deluxo-hd.html

I'm sure there are more but that is what I can think of off the top of my head

[Kenny_Z]

The kids that grew up with BTTF are now producers and writers. This is why we're getting blockbusters like Avengers and they're done well. I think we're going to see the DMC-12 popping up in more places and games.

[OverlandMan]

I remember my friend bought this game when it came out and I was so disappointed that there wasn't a DeLorean in the game.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6J_xFS_n4s

[ccurzio]

Jesus, that looks like the most utterly useless "trying to capitalize on a movie" video game ever created. The gameplay is so generic and has ZERO to do with the films. What a fucking joke.


I was so disappointed that there wasn't a DeLorean in the game.

There is. It's at the very end.

[OverlandMan]

Jesus, that looks like the most utterly useless "trying to capitalize on a movie" video game ever created. The gameplay is so generic and has ZERO to do with the films. What a fucking joke.

It really was a terrible game. It reminds me a lot of this one on the Atari 2600:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRVPnhHPPK8




There is. It's at the very end.
Oh I must have missed it. We never got very far in it and moved on to Tecmo Bowl.

[Squall67584]

The Telltale game was more of a sequel to the movie trilogy cause it made references to Clara and Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. I played it, it was pretty cool.

I bought GT5 for the DeLorean, and after realizing that you simply can't purchase the car but have to win it via completing all the license tests, I stopped playing. Instead, I got Forza 3 and bought the car. I got 2 of them, one to about 200hp, and the other to around 450hp or so for grins. My only complaint is that the game doesn't render the stainless right, but instead it looks like a light gray. understandable though.

[Starglider]

'Retro City Rampage' is another retro-styled parody open world crime game. The main NPC ally is almost a direct copy of Doc Brown and you drive his DeLorean on many of the missions.

[DashEight]

GT6 will have the Delorean "S2" return with 1000+ other cars that were part of GT5. Im dying for them to include the E30 M3 though.

[aipri]

I remember my friend bought this game when it came out and I was so disappointed that there wasn't a DeLorean in the game.

It was an awful game, I was so disappointed as kid being such a big fan of BTTF and the Delorean. It is at the very end. If you guys have never seen the "Angry video game nerd" videos, look at his reviews of the games below, they are hilarious, especially if you played these games as a kid like I did, NSFW as there is a lot of cursing, as there should be because these games were so frustrating


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y306cWw98a4

[aipri]

One More


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz92prJ3XlM

[TTait]

A Delorean (perhaps with a different name?) was featured in Interstate '82 - a somewhat lackluster sequel to a more popular Interstate '76. The car was definetely in the game, drivable and playable etc, but not the sole car as the artwork would suggest...

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/141513-interstate-82/images/box-41549

Tom

[bunni]

A Delorean (perhaps with a different name?) was featured in Interstate '82 - a somewhat lackluster sequel to a more popular Interstate '76. The car was definetely in the game, drivable and playable etc, but not the sole car as the artwork would suggest...

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/141513-interstate-82/images/box-41549

Tom

Whoa! I had never seen that before. I will have to look that one up some more.

[RammJaeger]

People have added the BTTF Delorean to the game Garry's Mod. You can actually convert it to hover mode and fly around and everything. Check out this video (skip to 2:30 to get to the good parts, and warning there are some died in the wool nerds narrating this video):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkUs1I7WeEI

[DMC81]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrBh8ygcqdE&feature=player_detailpage

Love this one, great game too!

[bunni]

Love this one, great game too!

I actually just started playing Burnout the other day, had no idea they had that car in there, I will surely keep an eye out for it!

[Dmc10398]

There's always a possibility a Delorean will show up in the up coming GTA V.

[bunni]

I just came across this gem while watching Retsupurae[1] videos on youtube. The link below jumps right to the relevant part of the video, but I will give you some background on it first. Tattoo Assassins is an arcade game was never publicly released, to be published by Data East as an answer to Mortal Kombat. The game itself boasted 2196 various "Fatality" finishes (hence the title of the video) a few of them being little easter eggs. Bob Gale (screenwriter of BttF, duh) was the director of this game, and used that opportunity to slip in his own flair.

*NOTE* Since this is a Mortal Kombat style game, the video does have animated violence! *NOTE*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEXioTdscc&t=10m46s


[1] Retsupurae is a group of people who parody, usually by dubbing over, "Let's Play" videos. "Let's Play" videos usually consist of people recording themselves playing games, sometimes providing their own commentary on top. Retsupurae does an excellent job of finding the really bad ones, be it bad games, game play, commentary, video quality, etc. and turning them in to something hilarious.

[wrkey]

If I recall correctly there is a DeLorean in the orignal 1994 version of Need For Speed. I think there is a special one in the 'Most Wanted' version. I may be mistaken.