

Except that somehow, in the transition from arcade to home system, somebody made a stink about the violence in the game. That’s the arcade version anyway, and the Genesis port retains the same ideas.
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Either way, a modern-day update to the FBI’s Hogan’s Alley only made good sense, and Lethal Enforcers is sort of the amped-up commercial version of that. I know it existed, I know it used lightguns, I’m just not sure if it was before or after LE. The officer would stand in front of a screen, get a piece of video setting up the situation, and would shoot or not shoot. I’m fairly to almost certain that another company besides Konami had made a video training system to sell to police departments before this game came out. You are to shoot anyone who brandishes a gun and announces their presence with “You Can’t Shoot Me!”, and not to shoot anyone who has no gun and says “Helllpp Meeee!” Proper justice dispensing will earn you promotions at the end of each level, along with the expected demotions for killing innocents. You have infinite ammo with which to dispatch them, and can occasionally find improved weapons to pick up and increase your chances of dispensing justice. They appear from strategic places about the level such as behind the teller counter, from the doorway, around the corner, and take potshots at you. Your enemies mostly come in either “stiff grey suit”, “ski mask”, or “bulky coat and sunglasses” varieties (all Konami employees, as I recall). 38 special in middle of a bank robbery, airport hijacking, drug bust, etc.

However you want to explain it, you’ll be standing with a. You’re either tracking down an organized crime syndicate, or responding to a large number of coincidences take your pick. LE has you playing a detective of some sort, though you ultimately cause more homicides than you solve.
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So if you’ve seen a Dirty Harry or Lethal Weapon movie ever – any one of them will do – then you know what to expect from this game. You’ll pass the National Rubber Stamp Co about eight million times in the course of this chase. Regardless, I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been standing in line, looking around at all the glass and places to hide, and drifted off into their own little mental action sequence. Lethal Enforcers is such an obvious spawn of 70’s – 80’s’s crime drama cinema that I remember standing in the arcade, looking at the cabinet for the first time, and thinking “It’s about time!” The first scene in the game is the robbery of a bank that looks exactly like the one from Heat – though, to be fair, I suppose all banks really look the same.
