Lethal Enforcers Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]
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Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Year of Release: 1992
Game Review & Impressions
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One of the more "realistic" lightgun shooters to hit the market, Lethal Enforcers eschews traditional pixel artwork for digitised imagery and actors, with levels set in a variety of real-world themed police operations. Players must take down armed gangs in a bonk robbery, defeating terrorists trying to hijack an airplane, and busting drug dealers inside a chemical plant.
Unlike Mad Dog McCree and earlier titles from American Laser Games, Lethal Enforcers uses a traditional ROM-based arcade PCB, rather than streaming footage off a laserdisc. The quality of the imagery and level of animation is significantly paired back, but the machine was much better suited to an arcade environment, unlike the temperamental laserdisc hardware.
Lethal Enforcers is, at its core, a very simple target shooter - simply shoot bad guys as they pop up on screen before they can shoot you, avoid innocent civilians, and grab power-ups when they appear. The game starts out relatively easily, giving you a couple of seconds to shoot bad guys, but the difficulty ramps up quickly from there on out. The third stage in particular is incredibly tough, owning to having to shoot terrorists through the tiny windows of a plane as it's taxiing along the runway. I think this would be a lot more fun on a lower difficulty/in coop with a friend than it is on single player.
During recording this playthrough I noticed certain nuances and behaviours in the game logic that were more than simply random occurrences. For example, the game program might give players a few seconds to reload if their weapon is empty by having enemies duck back into cover before shooting, whereas they'll open fire instantly if the player still has rounds in the chamber. I also noticed the final gunship boss at the end of stage 5 would fire its chaingun if I reloaded before firing all 6 rounds in the chamber, so I think there's more going on under the hood in this game than meets the eye.
One final discrepancy I found intriguing was, again, the final gunship boss. For example, a video on another channel ( • Lethal Enforcers 1 ARC... ) showing footage captured from a real PCB shows the pilot opening the canopy BEFORE all gunship armaments have been destroyed, and the player being able to stunlock the pilot, preventing him from returning fire and defeating him with ease. By contrast, in the version I played, the pilot only opened the canopy once the chopper weapons had been wrecked, and it was virtually impossible to interrupt him. I don't know whether this is down to differences in the ROM revisions, or some underlying logic in the actual game, but these differences are very real and fascinating to see in action.
Video Notes
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- Game set to "Arcade" mode
- Game set to default (medium) difficulty
Related Longplays & Videos
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Lethal Enforcers (real PCB Footage): • Lethal Enforcers 1 ARC...
Chapters
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00:00 Attract mode
00:27 Stage 1: Bank Robbery
04:59 Shooting Range
05:31 Stage 2: Chinatown Assault
12:00 Stage 3: The Hijack
18:38 Shooting Range
19:11 Stage 4: The Drug Dealer
27:30 Stage 5: The Chemical Plant
30:59 Final Boss
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"You can't kill me, copper!"
Player: "I reject your reality and substitute my own"
Before Time Crisis, there was Lethal Enforcers.
You mean Before Virtua Cop.
And before Lethal Enforcers, there was Freedom Force by Sunsoft
@@fransuke12 Virtua Cop was in 94 bud Lethal Enforcers was in 92
Don't forget Area 51.
Lethal enforcers our generations fps, at the arcade.
If a cop actually went through what this player did, he'd get one hell of a commendation from the Mayor of that town or even the President
With some serious PTSD...
@@matthewschrier6260 oh no doubt. I sense therapy sessions will be lined up
To be fair, the city was literally taken over by a massive gang that hit a bunch of places even worse than all of those rioters over police brutality a few years ago, so you are literally like one of the few people that were a part of the Chicago Police Department that was not a. in the hospital, or b. dead due to being in shootouts with the gang. Honestly, Konami could have had a spiritual sequel to this game that took place in Los Angeles and was based upon the classic cop show that is called Hunter.
Just watched this whole video again and I forgotten about the helicopters. Yeah, if a cop went through this in real life and survived, his mind won’t ever be same ever again.
@@paxhumana2015 About that... You do know there's a spin-off by the name of Police 911, right? Although that game has more in common with Black Rain than Hunter or Dirty Harry.
Happy 30th anniversary lethal enforcers.
Alongside Mortal Kombat, this game also ticked off angry parents and politicians!
Just because this was an arcade machine with two guns used to go full-on Clint Eastwood towards photo-realistic bad guys.
I personally wouldn't say the two games are comparable at all, mainly because Mortal Kombat featured extremely graphical violence and fatalities (heads being severed, hearts ripped out, etc). In this game, shooting the villains doesn't really result in any gore at all, they simply blink and disappear.
Man, that airplane was carrying more goons and a tougher general than in Die Hard 2!
At least he fought the players unlike Die Hard 2.
A part of me suspects that entire level used DH2 as inspiration.
If I remember correctly, the main influence for the game was Dirty Harry, and the second movie Magnum Force had a hijack sequence.@@AchtungBaby77
Definitely a '90s throwback. But some of these bosses are ridiculous, like fighting a hijacker armed with an automatic grenade launcher, or an attack helicopter with nothing but your basic .38 special
I gotta respect the Triad boss who can hack through a train. Also can we get a game that doesn't punish you if a hostage jumps out waving his arms and you shoot him by accident? Like a 'clean out the gene pool' bonus?
How could it be basic...if it's special?
I don't know looks more like a .44 mag so it should take that chopper down!
.44 magnum is one of the weapons you can get, but that bullet is a lot bigger than your default gun, definitely a .38 special. Not every cop acts like Dirty Harry and carries something so high caliber
@Jacky Lee the opening gun at about 18 seconds definitely looks to be a .44. A .38 special tends to be snub nosed and judging by the ribbing across the top of the gun in the game I think it's a .44. And they claim this game was modeled off Dirty Harry so that lends more to the .44, so do ya feel lucky? Well do ya...punk!! J/K have a good one!
Love the 44 Magnum sounds. The "you missed me Big" is hilarious. That music is badass. Its a pretty impressive game for its time.
The line is supposed to be "Missed me, pig!", but it does sound exactly like "Missed me big!" - Konami had to cut the line "Die, pig!" from the US release, so I wonder if the reason for it sounding like "big" is purely down to some sketchy recording, or a deliberate attempt to make it ambiguous so censors wouldn't kick off about it...
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Beautiful I love seeing an artist at work, had this on SNES loved it played it all the time I didn’t have a game genie for it and would have loved to use one with it.
My @@BelmontClanmy brother told me about it
@@marioiacolucci I did indeed
An absolute classic. Did you know this game was inspired by the Dirty Harry film series? With the title screen resembling the opening to Magnum Force and the default gunshot taken right from Dirty Harry.
I do have my suspition it was inspired on Dirty Harry and thankfully it wasn't just me
@@WanArk86 There’s an interesting video which covers the history of this game. It outright says that Dirty Harry was the biggest inspiration for the game and the creator of the game was a fan of the entire series.
@@SolCresta3405 Do you have link to that video?
@@happyeastwood czcams.com/video/09le4jyqqzc/video.html
@@SolCresta3405 Thank you for the link.
I guess the payout for each goon at the Bank Heist is like 5 dollars... there's like a hundred of them!!!
Absolutely amazing game. A rite of passage for a kid in the city.
An army of criminals with automatic weapons, rocket launchers, and an Apache helicopter! Get taken down by a single police officer on his lunch break.
Obviously that officer is Chuck Norris
this game was at like every arcade in the world. didn't matter where I was, I would always see this game. it definitely looked cool but I'm not really a fan of rail shooters
I really miss these days so much😭
For us kids In the 90s these were beyond badass ahead of the time graphics lol!!!
0:32 THE BANK ROBBERY
5:36 CHINATOWN ASSAULT
12:05 THE HIJACK
19:16 THE DRUG DEALER
27:35 THE CHEMICAL PLANT
In the Eighties and early Nineties, everytime the fairground came to my town in the summer, their arcade set ups would include Operation Wolf and eventually, Lethal Enforcers. The amount of pennies I put in to finish this game off. Loved playing it. Nowadays the fairground set ups today have no arcade building setups anymore, just the rides.
I used to play this on my 3do around 1994 or so. Totally forgot about this game. Thanks for making this! Awesome!
Daaang you had a 3do in 94. Must have been nice.
@@besotoxicomusic Yeah I took everything I had saved up as a kid from working during the summer and any gift money I received and just bought it. I think it was something ridiculous like $700 but MAN was it cool. Had some really cool games at the time like Crash 'N Burn and Way of the Warrior. Nothing else had discs really at the time other than Sega CD. I even liked the Pebble Beach Golf game a lot lol. Good times.
Sorry but Lethal Enforcers doesn't exist for 3DO.
@@jpm2641 Shit I wonder what it was. Sega cd?
man this hits a nostalgia nerve. I loved this game and my mom owned an White 87 Chevy Caprice Classic like the ones you see here. This was before CD players so you either listened to music through the radio or used the built in tape deck..... there were also no airbags....
"Don't shoot! They're crazy!"
"Don't shoot, they're plain loco!"
@23:24 thru 23:27: A _Terminator_ reference for no apparent reason! Man, Konami loved the HELL out of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the late '80s/early '90s.
Another Terminator nod comes in the opening for Chinatown Assault in which the exploding cop car is taken from Terminator 2 in the scene where the Cyberdyne destruction takes place.
@@figment1988 wow!!!
Cops and their six shooters vs. military attack helicopters.
Seems legit
Don't you forget it either!😤
First rule of late '80s/early '90s gaming: F*** LOGIC!!!
Imagine the PTSD you'd have if you went through all this as a cop
I used to love playing this when I was a 90's kid at the arcade that was at our old Allegheny mall.
I thought the guy in the coat was going to be a flasher
Shoot off his ween for extra points
I had a lot of fun playing this in my local arcade back in the day. It was more fun when you used both guns
Imagine being a foresic investigator for these crime scenes.
😂
I used to play this in the arcade and pretend I was RoboCop
I always loved watching my cousins play this game. I wasn't good enough and didn't have the endless supply of quarters they had.
Spent many coin back in the day in the amusements...wow the memories!
In the cover and Stage Hijack Boeing 757-200 for the defunct American Trans Air the model is equipped with the Pratt & Whitney PW-2040 digitalized original photo in the Chicago Airport 12:40
Min 17:12 Logo of Pratt & Whitney Aero Engines in the cover of the engine PW-2040
The Boeing 757 is finished of the production in the year 2004 the ultimate airplane is develop for Shangai Airlines, the model used two models of engines ( Rolls Royce RB-211 and Pratt & Whitney PW-2040) and two versions and different passenger capacity (200 and 300)
Konami have a permission of the airport ant the airline for photography the original airplane in the Chicago Airport for create the stage
You forgot the ☝🤓
Cómo sería un letal Enforcer al día de hoy. Con actores conocidos y las tecnicas de programación de hoy... Sin duda.. un real juegazo
For the car chase sequences, you could also shoot near the gas tank of the cars and it would create a fire effect like seen on the helicopter boss. Like shooting the tires, it has no effect, but it seemed like the player was going for a max environment interaction run and didn't go for that.
Fun fact: this game was made in the same year as mortal kombat 1
Arcade Archives needs to release this on current consoles. This and the second one, classics.
Yes. And hopefully get those justifier pistols with the Lethal Enforcers 1 and 2 remastered.
There actually is a third entry in the series, but it is in full 3D and it also behaves somewhat different than its predecessors.
It plays more like its spin-off series, Police 911.@@paxhumana2015
I have this classic arcade light gun game for the Snes and Sony Playstation which are my favorite ports. Never played it in the arcades.
Damn…that was a lot of goons that went to rob that one bank. What was gonna be the split? $1.75 per person?
I have this and Lethal Enforcers 2 for my ps1 with Justifiers. It's always a joy and stress reliever (after a long days work) to play this. Also this game reminds of Dirty Harry.
Lethal Enforcers was actually inspired by the Dirty Harry series!
@@NebulaMXC I know! I love those movies to death, gives me the feeling of being Harry Callahan every time I play especially while holding the Justifier. I assume Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters was inspired by The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!
Nice memory jog , I completely forgot about this , good times
I swear the innocent bystanders are TRYING to get themselves killed! They pop up and then just go back down for WHAT reason now?
If you played this growing up, you knew you had to shoot the chicken in Chinatown
Okay, once this game dropped in price and you could drop 2 quarters to just double-gun your way through the game it was even better!
I can remember playing this with my bro on ps1. fun game, they should port it to the modern consoles.
"EAT LEAD, COPPER~!"
I like that the default names for the high scores table is all gun names. Cute.
i spent a lot of quarters on this, i always got a lot of love for this😍😍😍😍😍
12:10 Lower right; Minigun prop made out of toilet paper rolls. Awesome 🤣
Night vision with all that open flame would blind you. Lol
Man this game always kicks my ass
Wow! Super game, so fun, creative, good planned levels. I think if I saw it in my childhood in Soviet Union, I must be fain away. I very like how boss threw kitchen knifes from moving train 😊 I never saw nothing like it, very original idea. And I like how objects moved on decorations. Brilliant game! 👍Thank you very much for video, I get a lot of pleasure to watch, You shoots perfect, it hard game so much enemies, all very quick and needed to reload gun in time. I not sure that I be able to complete one level of this mad action.
Um... Wasn't this game out by the time the Cold War was over?
The Sega CD Version has the best soundtrack from Lethal Enforcers, new arranged in best cd audio quality. The PS1 collection has this soundtrack too, but only with streamed audio in lower quality.
Shooting the innocent people always cracked me up. The narrator would admonish me in a shocked and bewildered tone, “What are you doing?!”
Everyone had the best mustaches in this game
except at the chemical plant, they were clean shaven (hence the masks)
I see those things in my highschool days in the arcade
The car level (24min). For the background, I know for a fact, of the city backdrop is Denver, Colorado. But, I don't know the other city skyline. Anyone?
_Lethal Enforcers_ takes place in Chicago. Ironically, Konami of America was based in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove (which probably played a part in the game being made) for a long time before moving to California.
These criminals were more ballsy and over the top than the ones from Battlefield Hardline
Such nostalgia!
I remember playing this game every time I used to go to bowling alleys and arcades back in the 90s!!!!!!!! It was f@$king awesome!!!!!!!! Nowadays I’m kinda too old for gaming since I have a serious bad brain😔😢
Very skilled player !
After my intervention
every crime scene looked like Swiss cheese.
Wow, a gang of 300 bank robbers. They could easily clear $1000 each. So worth it!
One of my favorites with Virtua Cops, House Of The Dead and Time Crisis. Can you please play these games as well and play any sequels that are only available in arcades, that become video games for video game machines for home play? 👍
I miss light gun games
I played this arcade with my uncle when I was a kid.
You killed so many people.
Don't forget all of the property damage - that airliner won't have been cheap to repair...
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays I particularly like that you shot out the CCTV in the bank so they couldn't record your killing spree.
Hell, they must have had 60 people plus just to rob the bank.
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays And I'm sure the people who were waiting for a plane won't be happy with the condition of their luggage. "Why do my pants have a bullet hole in them?" 🤣
"Eat lead, copper!"
*gets shot*
The good old days
Wanted to like this but saw the number of likes and can't touch it. Grew up playing this game.
A god amongst men
“YOU CAN’T KILL ME, COPPER!”
*Gets shot
I miss these games but if you want to play light gun games now you have to own a vr headset shame if you don't have the old consoles and games
If you're prepared to pay, the Sinden Lightgun is probably the closest/best alternative these days.
Before Virtua Cop and Time Crisis there was Lethal Enforcers
Great game!
It's funny how you make this game over a weekend nowadays
懐かしい‼️
Were there ever arcade versions of Virtua Cop 1 and 2?
Player 2: Oh shit. How do you reload?!!
Player 1: Shoot off screen!
Player 2: Oh! Got it!! 😂😂😂
It annoyed me that behind the bank, the player only shot the bell and not Grey exit sign or the car tire. It was always fun to find the bonus stuff to shoot.
Ese juego me gustó yo ví muchas veces en videos gameplay me puse todos los suscriptores pero hablo el juego es muy complicado luego se dispara fino también es los gráficos con actores que parcipando esta empresa Konami el último no menos importante es que los escenarios que fue registrado en 1991 un principio se va hacer en Japón pero Konami lo va hacer en EEUU y para terminar los actores japonés no los chinos claro también las consolas que fue Port varios ese último segundo juego ambientado en lejano de oeste esto después más adelante.
How did you play the game? I presume you were emulating, but do you have a lightgun setup or did you use a mouse?
Yes it's emulation, played with mouse :)
No wonder you were smokin’ dudes like John Wick 😂
I liked this for its realist ammo loads
Was there a game like this released for the Mac in the mid to late 90s?
This game was inspired by Harry Potter. The way you, as the player, wave your wand at these hoodlums with their lead expelling devices.
I just noticed - names in High Score are gun references
Part of me wants to believe this game was influenced by Death wish 3
Actually, the game as a whole was influenced by the Dirty Harry movies.
30 year old game!! My god! 😆
😧 Wow. That went fast.
200 people to rob a bank.
👏👏
best
Assy McGee's back story
Well I'm playing little bit i was 6 years old rookie level. 😅
A VR version with 4k images would be cool
would look silly
@Das_Werk No, It would look real because it would be reallife footage.
I don't get what's the purpose of the Assault rifle?
Automatic is basically an upgrade of the revolver
Magnum bullet's deals more damage
Shotgun has bigger hit scan than standard revolver
Machine is fully automatic (spray and pray)
Grenade gun goes kaboom
So whats the purpose of the rifle besides 3round burst?
If you're quick enough, and they aren't too far apart, you can hit two enemies with the same burst. That same trick can also come in handy during boss fights, for intercepting missiles.
Where those hollow point bullets at?
Atira no bocal do tanque dos carros!
This game 🎮 looks awesome yo 😎👍👍 they should put it on the Nintendo switch that would be awesome 😎 yo 👍👍 even part 2
The most hilarious arcade game ever
that would be streets of rage
At 1:58 was she giving the finger with both hands to everybody?
I've never been able to hold onto the shotgun for THAT long! Then again, I've never had the fourth level boss shoot THAT many missiles at me all at once, nor had any motorcycle guys come at me during that boss battle, either.
Ich mußte dabei an "Moorhuhn" denken😄