Telltale Games have put up a survey so you can give them feedback on the sorts of things you would want in to see in their Back To The Future games, including four potential plot summaries.
You can read the guff and find the survey link on Telltale's latest blog "What Do You Want to See in a Back to the Future Game? Tell Us!".
Source: Telltale Games
Plus a few jokes could be had. It doesn't have to start in the 80's. They could travel back there, even have incidental scenes from the movies happening in the background. I think since the first were set in the 80's, you could poke a few jokes there.
I think just set the game primarily n the 80s
1938 idea didn't make much sense to me... I thought Emmet Brown read Jules Verne as a kid.
clone2727
2010 plot all the way!
Yep, my favourite too!