Back to the Future Part III

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Description

Back to the Future III is a collection of four arcade games. Marty McFly and Doc Brown have traveled back through time to the year 1885 - and they're soon deep in trouble when they face "Mad Dog" Tannen's gang and have to find a way to return to the present. This game takes four scenes from the Hollywood movie Back to the Future III and turns them into arcade sequences:

• Buckboard Chase: Doc Brown goes horseback in an attempt to save Hill Valley's lovely school teacher Clara. This game of quick ducking, jumping and shooting alternates between a side-scrolling and a top-down perspective.


• Shooting Gallery: The name says it all. A classic game of aim-and-shoot, spiced up by hidden extras and bonus targets.


• Pie Throwing: Meet the Mad Dog gang. They have guns, and you have... cream pies. It's an isometric version of the shooting gallery, only with ammo. And the targets shoot back.


• The Train: Basically a side-scrolling beat-em-up on train wagons with some ducking and jumping. Get rid of the mechanics and collect speed logs to push the engine to a magic 88 mph.

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Alternate Titles

• "Paluu Tulevaisuuteen 3" -- Finnish title

Part of the Following Groups

• Back to the Future licensees
• Gameplay feature: Horse Riding
• Inspiration: Movies
• Setting: Western / Old West

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Critic Reviews

Crash!	ZX Spectrum	Mar, 1991	93 out of 100	93
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	May, 1991	85 out of 100	85
Play Time	Amiga	May, 1991	80 out of 100	80
neXGam	SEGA Master System	2002	6.3 out of 10	63
ST Format	Atari ST	Jun, 1991	52 out of 100	52
Power Play	Amiga	May, 1991	32 out of 100	32
16bit	Genesis	2004	30 out of 100	30
Player One	SEGA Master System	Sep, 1992	28 out of 100	28
Power Play	Genesis	Jan, 1993	21 out of 100	21
Defunct Games	Genesis	Feb 08, 2013	F	0

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Trivia

Genesis version

The Genesis/Mega Drive version of the game has a very dark and muddy color palette. This wasn't done by design, though; there's actually a bug in the palette handling code which causes one-third of all color data to be lost. This means that everything is much darker than it should be, and that there's detail in the graphics that doesn't show up at all! An illustration of the bug showing how the game should look can be found here.

Related Web Sites

• Crapshoot (A humorous review on PC Gamer)
• IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)