Go through the life of George Amberson, but don't get caught up on distractions like girls, your teaching profession, or root beer! Experience life back in the 50's and 60's, experience the old-school dances that we, living in 2015, could never experience, experience that really good bottle of root beer, 50's style, and most importantly, experience the day John F. Kennedy was SAVED, but if you fail...assassinated...But what you must realize is whatever happens/happened in the past, affects the future, and sometimes, devastatingly.
The objective of the game is rather tied together by other objectives. You must begin first at Derry, learn the basics of the past from the Yellow Card Man, then move on to Florida, obtaining a simple resume, then go to Jodie, Texas, you then will have choices, you can either prepare for Lee Harvey Oswald's coming (1a), become a teacher at a nearby high school, and be subjected to girls, a possible fiance, and other numerous distractions that may change your mind about preventing the assassination (1b).
After Jodie, Texas, you have two more options if you became a teacher, you can either follow your fiance to Reno (2a), and save her from her former lover, or ditch her and go to Dallas to await for the parade (2b). If you went to Reno, then you could have either saved her (3a), or do nothing and just go to Dallas from Reno (3b). But, if you prepared for the parade, then you have two options, back out (4a), or save JFK, complete the task you were put to do (4b). After both scenarios, that is, if you didn't back out, you now move to Dallas (5a), but if you went after your fiance, you would then, depending on whether you saved her or not, if so, then you and your fiance would go to Dallas together (5b).
You have arrived at Dallas, Texas. You now have more time to prepare, if you didn't go to Reno (6a). If you did, then you only have a few hours left until the parade to prepare. (6b). You see Lee Harvey Oswald about to shoot down JFK, you now have another choice, you can distract Oswald, changing history (7a), or not distract him, and let JFK die (7b). If you distracted him, you move on into the next part of the game (8a), if you didn't distract him, you go back to start at Derry (8b). Okay, you just changed history, now, if you came alone, you are severely injured from Oswald shooting you in the stomach (9a), but, if you went to Reno (9b), and saved your fiance (9c) then your fiance has been fatally wounded (part of 9c).
Congratulations on changing the course of history, but now, you must return home back to 2011 in Lisbon Falls, so you head back to the time machine, you arrive back at Al's Diner, no Al, but everything seems different, you look outside and you hear nuclear sirens ringing, and discover that the United States has been devoured by a nuclear apocalypse. Due to JFK not being assassinated, the Civil Rights Act was never passed due to the declining support of JFK, and then Alabama's George Wallace became President and escalated nuclear was in Vietnam, quickly creating devastating effects across the globe.
The Green Card Man, the replacement of the Yellow Card Man, tells you that you only have one chance to undo all of the catastrophic events that have been in place after JFK's failed assassination attempt. You can either go back in time one last time and change back the events (10a), or let the nuclear apocalypse continue (10b). If you chose 10b, you lose the game, and your character dies after a nuclear accident in the Northeast, but if you chose 10a, you win the game, and you go back to your life in 2011. You now have one more final option, you can go find your spouse from the past (11a) and live a happy ending, or live corrupted by the past (11b). Besides, you already knows what happens when you change history...
Good job of explaining how the game might work and how it try to emulate the nature of the time travel that the book is centered on. Good specifics from the novel!
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