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Forward to the Past

Owing to a misunderstanding relating to the metric system or something, on the first test run Dave & Nate get sucked into the time vortex. For reasons unknown the only thing that will save the father & son…

6 August 2021

Forward to the Past is a shooter developed by Sloanysoft, released 6 August 2021 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Forward to the Past is

Forward to the Past is a shooter game developed by Sloanysoft and released in 2021. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"The year is 2021 and thanks to AGD; lots of really helpful folk on the internet and his son Nate, Dave Sloan has fulfilled a decades long dream of making a game on the ZX Spectrum, Manic Mulholland. After some supportive comments and general good feeling about the game, Dave longs to go back to the 80s, to a time when he was more creative, imaginative and had way more free time, so he can give his younger self the tools to make some fun little Speccy platform games. Dave being Dave however, gets a little bit obsessive about this notion & sets about building a time machine, once again with the help of Nate & some useful online guides. The fabric of time is not something to be trifled with…
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What it launched against

Forward to the Past launched on 6 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and The Forgotten City.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City.

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When did Forward to the Past come out?
Forward to the Past was released on 6 August 2021 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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