:Lethal Weapon 3 (pinball)

{{Short description|Pinball machine}}

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Lethal Weapon 3 (pinball)}}

{{Infobox Pinball | title = Lethal Weapon 3

|manufacturer = Data East Pinball

|system = DataEast/Sega (Version 3)

|image = Image:LW3 promo.jpg

|designer= Joe Kaminkow, Ed Cebula

|artwork=Markus Rothkranz

|programmer= Kristina Donofrio

|mechanics= John Lund

|music= Brian L. Schmidt

|sound= Brian L. Schmidt

|release = August 1992

|production = 10,000 (approximate)

}}

Lethal Weapon 3 is a pinball machine produced by Data East Pinball in 1992.{{cite journal |title=Data East's Lethal Weapon 3 |journal=Cash Box |date=July 4, 1992 |volume=LV |issue=45 |page=25 |url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox55unse_43/page/24/mode/2up |accessdate=1 September 2020}} It is based on the movie of the same name, which was the most popular film in summer 1992. The game featured a Generation 3 FullView dot matrix display, which was larger than the current industry standard, and displayed digitized movie clips. The game also featured a hidden leveling system, in which players "grab hold of the Data East gun handle and eliminate bad guys in one of three video crime simulator shoot outs". By 1994, it was Data East's all-time most successful pinball machine.{{cite journal |title=Data East Introduces New Dot Matrix Display |journal=Cash Box |date=November 12, 1994 |volume=LVIII |issue=11 |page=30 |url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox58unse_7/page/30/mode/2up |accessdate=1 September 2020}} The game was designed by Markus Rothkranz.{{cite book |last1=Fogelman |first1=Bea |title=The FilmMakers |date=1999 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=9781583485897 |page=6}}