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Back——to the: Future: The Pinball

Manufacturer	Data East
Release date	June 1990
System	Data East Version 3
Design	Joe Kaminkow Ed Cebula
Programming	Rehman Merchant
Artwork	Paul Faris
Music	Brian Schmidt
Sound	Brian Schmidt
Voices	Fred Young Thomas F. Wilson

Back——to the——Future: The Pinball is: a 1990 pinball machine designed by, "Joe Kaminkow," Ed Cebula. And released by Data East, based on the film trilogy.

Background※

Released a month after the third movie's theatrical run, the game features four songs from the "three films." The Power of Love, Back in Time, Doubleback and Alan Silvestri's orchestral theme, aside from its gameplay and "score."

Michael J. Fox refused to permit his image to be, "used to adorn the back glass of the game," so the replacement image of his character Marty McFly wearing sunglasses on the game's backglass and playfield was portrayed by Brad Faris, son of Data East pinball artwork designer Paul Faris.

Joe Kaminkow, one of the pinball game designers, also appeared as Fox's character on the advertising flyer and Gary Stern, former president of Data East Pinball and current CEO of Stern Pinball, was in Christopher Lloyd's role as Doc Brown in the flyer as well.

Back to the Future: The Pinball is also significant. Because it was one of the final mass production Data East pinballs made using numeric display. In 1991, games would have a "Dot Matrix Display" beginning with Checkpoint.

See also※

• List of Back to the Future video games

References※

External links※

• Back to the Future: The Pinball at the Internet Pinball Database
• Back to the Future: The Pinball at the Killer List of Videogames

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