Wes's take — coming soonPlayed? Beaten? 100%? Rating, tier and a Pocket log line will live here.

Instruction booklet · January 1992

Ys III: Wanderers from Ys

PlatformRole-playing (RPG)Adventure1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Adol Christin's long-time friend, Dogi, wishes to return to his home town of Redmont after hearing about strange disturbances that are happening there. Always looking for an adventure, Adol joins him and soon finds out the cause of this new evil.

Specifications

Released: January 1992
Developer: Advance Communication Company
Publisher: American Sammy
Players: 1
Genre: Platform · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Series: Ys
Themes: Action · Fantasy
View: Side view

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Nintendo Power: 15.2/20
GameRankings: 64%
GamePro: 20/25
RPGFan: 81%
VGS: 66%
Entertainment Weekly: C+

BE KIND, REWINDJanuary 1992

#1 song

Black or WhiteMichael Jackson #1 album

DangerousMichael Jackson Admit one · #1 movie

Hook$11,472,860 weekend

Vol. 2 · No. 20Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of January 3, 1992

Jan. 5

Seventeen-year-old Kelly Dae Wilson disappears in Gilmer, Texas. Her case became one of the biggest unsolved missing-persons cases in Texas.

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