Trivia
The original Arcade version of the game was not developed by Technos Japan, the developers of the first two Arcade games and their Famicom/NES counterparts. Instead, Technos contracted the game to an outside developer called East Technology and produced the game with the western market in mind. As a result, the Arcade version of DD3 bears little or no resemblance to the previous games.
In addition to a new graphical style and a world tour-theme, the Arcade version of DD3 featured a shopping system where player could purchase power-ups such as extra men (from one of four character types or "families"), weapons, special techniques, extra energy and speed by inserting additional tokens to the machine. The Arcade version bombed as a result of this feature and when the game was relocalized for the Japanese market, the shopping feature was removed and a player select feature (which was originally planned for the US version) was implemented to the game.
When the time came to develop a Famicom/NES version, Technos Japan decided to work on the game themselves. The result, while the first two NES games took a few liberties with their Arcade counterparts, they still retained the same gameplay and appearance as the original versions. NES version of Double Dragon III on the other hand is almost a completely different game from it's Arcade counterpart. The NES version is the only version made by Technos Japan.
The Adlib music in this game was converted to Adlib by the brilliant Adlib masters (and former C64 demogroup) Vibrants.
Found in the program executable: "Greetings to Naja. For support during the troubled times this program also gave me."
Contributed by
Trixter 
(8865) on Jun 29, 2000.
