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

Computer and Video Games (CVG)	ZX Spectrum	May, 1991	85 out of 100	85
Zzap!	Amiga	Apr, 1991	81 out of 100	81
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Apr, 1991	79 out of 100	79
Mean Machines	Genesis	Feb, 1992	77 out of 100	77
Amiga Power	Amiga	May, 1991	76 out of 100	76
Datormagazin	Amiga	Mar 27, 1991	75 out of 100	75
Mean Machines	SEGA Master System	Apr, 1992	68 out of 100	68
Dragon	DOS	Apr, 1992		40
16bit	Genesis	2004	30 out of 100	30
Player One	SEGA Master System	Sep, 1992	28 out of 100	28

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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.)