History Videogame / BackToTheFuture

* LargeHam: Trixie Trotter, [[spoiler:as part of her scheme to help break up 30s!Brown and Edna,]] uses a scene from from a play she acted in. She's not bad, but the fact that she's quite obviously quoting the script word-for-word makes it seem like she's being overly poetic about the whole thing.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: "Speakeasy?? You're mistaken, officer! This is [[BlatantLies an ice cream parlor]]."

** Doc tells Marty that his inspiration for deciding to become a scientist was seeing ''{{Frankenstein}}'' for the first time. When he goes [[spoiler: on a date with Edna instead]] he sees ''The Virtuous Husband'' instead. This was a real movie released at the same time as Frankenstein about a man who decides to live life in accordance with principles his deceased mother gives him.

* PersonaNonGrata: Emmett's DieselPunk [=DeLorean=] gets him banned from the Science Expo for fifty years.

*** The ''[[Film/WeirdScience Weird Science]]'' poster on Marty's wall.

*** The ''[[{{Film/WeirdScience}} Weird Science]]'' poster on Marty's wall.
*** Marty also has a [[{{Game/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice}} "Greetings from the Moon"]] postcard on his wall.

*** Doc mentions having hidden the [=DeLorean=] in a [[Game/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice DeSoto]] lot, keeping it safe because no one is buying cars in the Depression-era economy.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Artie [=McFly=] looks and sounds just like George [=McFly=] (both being based on Crispin Glover's performance in the film). Artie's father, William, is once again played by Michael J. Fox, who had previously portrayed him in a photo shown in the third film (even though Marty himself is actually voiced by AJ [=LoCascio=]). This leads one to believe that if the pattern continues, Marty's son will end up looking like Michael J. Fox, while his grandson and great-grandson will look like Crispin Glover, and so on.

*** [[spoiler:The "Citizen Plus" program is eerily similar to the brainwashing in ''AClockworkOrange'', as seen with Biff (who becomes physically ill at the mere thought of "bad behavior") and Doc (who ends the episode strapped to a chair with his eyes pried open).]]

* Bagofholding: Marty is able to carry everything in his pocket, even a full sized guitar!

** It's also a Subversion of a Deconstruction: [[spoiler: After Marty does SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, 1986!Edna is shown to be still in contact with - and good friends with - Doc Brown, and ''married'' to "Mad Dog" Tannen, having met him in prison.]]

* CloseEnoughTimeline: After all is said and done, the only real changes to the timeline are that [[spoiler: Doc never went to the Speakeasy in 1931 because the Arsonist (Edna) was caught; has set up semi-permanent residence in Hill Valley in his lab, and Edna and "Mad Dog" Tannen, despite both being a BigBad of the adventure, are HappilyMarried.]]