From the Definitely Didn’t See This One Coming department, Telltale games has picked up the rights to make games based on the Back to the Future and Jurassic Park franchises.

As appealing as a game where you must go faster, must go faster all the time sounds, I’m not sure I can quite picture how a game based on huge dinosaurs eating helpless civilians from the creators of the Sam & Max games will look.

On the other hand, this looks strangely intriguing...

From the press release:

“Our partnership with Universal is an exciting next step in our continued growth as a mass-market games publisher and developer,” said Dan Connors, CEO of Telltale Games. “We are all huge fans of both of these franchises. For Back to the Future and Jurassic Park, we will leverage Telltale’s expertise in story-telling and game design to deliver on the unique elements of each series, with our goal being to create compelling cinematic adventures paying homage to each franchise.”

I have every faith in Telltale, however. They’ve turned out nothing but quality products, so I’m interested to see what they do with these properties.

Jerod Jarvis is an independent gaming journalist and founder of Duality Games. He maintains gaming columns for The Washington Times Communities and for The Outpost. When not blogging madly about games, he freelances for the Spokesman-Review in his hometown of Spokane, Washington and attends school at Whitworth University. Check out his presence on Facebook and Twitter to stay up on Duality Games updates and the inside scoop on the gaming news you care about.