We take a look back at Lethal Enforcers on this week's episode of Shack's Arcade Corner. Lethal Enforcers is a 1992 shooting game released for the arcades by Konami. The in-game graphics consist entirely of digitized photographs, similar to Mortal Kombat. This caused controversy as it allowed players to shoot photorealistic representations of enemies. It was one of the games at the center of the congressional debate regarding violence in video games. The game had two light guns and a dip switch that allowed cabinet owners to enable a level select function. This arcade cabinet was everywhere in the 1990s and you can find them for sale on eBay for less than $2000.
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My in-laws have the arcade cabinet for the sequel. Loved it on the Sega CD.
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Operation Wolf was a superior game IMO, but wasn't digitized for extra controversy. NARC was the digitized game I liked. Well, kinda liked. Then there was Pit Fighter.
Ha! Better comment on "Root Beer" Tapper. Also, where's Mr. Do? And Mr. Do's Wild Ride? You could earn extra GAMES in those, not just extra lives. -
Cool, was a cool game for sure I played it quiet a bit. For some reason it remind me of Virtua Cop 1 and 2 in many ways. Considering it came out first I am sure Sega was a fan of it.
I still loved Area 51 and House Of The Dead 2 better out of all the light gun games, probably House Of The Dead 2 is still my #1.
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Wait.. there was a Lethal Enforcers 3?
