OFFICER RAZZLE'S COWBOY SHOOTOUT || Lethal Enforcers || Arcade Appreciation #3 (Arcade/MAME)
12Today we've got Konami's classic Lightgun shooter Lethal Enforcers. The plot is...rather hard to believe as EVERY cop except you and your pal (Player 2, if they decide to join you) have been incapacitated or is busy fighting crime. So naturally, you solve this crime wave by shooting *everyone*! Well, except good police guys and innocent people. You start off with the ever-classic six-shooter revolver but can pick up different guns by uncovering them and shooting them in the stage. However, losing the gun seems all to easy, as a single shot landed on you results in you defaulting back to the six-shooter. Lives are lost for either getting hit or shooting innocent civilians. Ugh. Why do they gotta pop their heads up? Keep 'em down dagnabbit! Not only that but shooting innocents can cause your police rank to go down, which is never good. However, careful shooting and high accuracy can get you promoted and get that rank up.
The gun was unique, in that it was a six-shooter, and the gun controller was a plastic six-shooter that you would have to actually point *down* off the screen and fire in order to reload (unlike most games where you could point in any general direction off-screen and fire). This gun controller would later be brought home to various home consoles, six-shooter and all, as the "Konami Justifier". The PlayStation version, however, looked more like a generic sci-fi gun.
Believe it or not, the game actually managed to cause some mild controversy as the player was busting caps in photorealistic characters. Yes, it seems like people don't care if you're a cop shooting bad guys; merely just shooting someone seems to stir up some controversy. Said controversy is actually supposedly one of the reasons why the PlayStation port of the game had the sci-fi looking gun rather than a proper Konami Justifier. The game also managed to get featured in the infamous Video Game Violence controversies of the 1990s, and led in the game is one of the first to get a MA-17 rating for Sega's home ports.
As mentioned before, the game did get several home releases, namely on the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, and Sega CD. The PlayStation version was included with the sequel, Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters, in a two-in-one pack called Lethal Enforcers I & II.
The sequel, Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (Lethal Enforcers II: The Western in Japan) would be released in 1994, and years later Police 911 would be released; though it doesn't bear the "Lethal Enforcers" name it does continue somewhat off of this game.
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