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.
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.
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.
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?
.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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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
@@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.
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....
@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.
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
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.
Ha, this takes me back. Graphics back then were incredible and I was always drawn to this arcade playing at my closest cinema. Admittedly, part of me wishes still that we got a Robocop coat of paint for this franchise. It'd certainly be more believable with the headcount he'd wrack up!
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.
@@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!
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.
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.
I used to work up such a sweat playing this game lol. Between the adrenaline and physical activity (pulling the trigger then pointing off screen to reload every chance I got) it was a workout!
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.
@@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?" 🤣
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😔😢
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.
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.
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.
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"You can't kill me, copper!"
Player: "I reject your reality and substitute my own"
0:51
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.
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
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
Happy 30th anniversary lethal enforcers.
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!
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.
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.
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 ua-cam.com/video/09le4jyqqzc/v-deo.html
@@SolCresta3405 Thank you for the link.
Absolutely amazing game. A rite of passage for a kid in the city.
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
0:32 THE BANK ROBBERY
5:36 CHINATOWN ASSAULT
12:05 THE HIJACK
19:16 THE DRUG DEALER
27:35 THE CHEMICAL PLANT
5:03 18:43 SHOOTING RANGE
I really miss these days so much😭
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?
I had a fz1 in 94 but never could find this game back then
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....
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
For us kids In the 90s these were beyond badass ahead of the time graphics lol!!!
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!!!
"Don't shoot! They're crazy!"
"Don't shoot, they're plain loco!"
I guess the payout for each goon at the Bank Heist is like 5 dollars... there's like a hundred of them!!!
Imagine the PTSD you'd have if you went through all this as a cop
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
@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!!!
If you played this growing up, you knew you had to shoot the chicken in Chinatown
I used to love playing this when I was a 90's kid at the arcade that was at our old Allegheny mall.
Imagine being a foresic investigator for these crime scenes.
😂
Everyone had the best mustaches in this game
except at the chemical plant, they were clean shaven (hence the masks)
Man this game always kicks my ass
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 ☝🤓
Shooting the innocent people always cracked me up. The narrator would admonish me in a shocked and bewildered tone, “What are you doing?!”
"EAT LEAD, COPPER~!"
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!
I used to play this in the arcade and pretend I was RoboCop
I thought the guy in the coat was going to be a flasher
Shoot off his ween for extra points
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.
Ha, this takes me back. Graphics back then were incredible and I was always drawn to this arcade playing at my closest cinema.
Admittedly, part of me wishes still that we got a Robocop coat of paint for this franchise. It'd certainly be more believable with the headcount he'd wrack up!
12:10 Lower right; Minigun prop made out of toilet paper rolls. Awesome 🤣
Actually, that's a real gun. Manville 25mm Projectile Launcher. The real deal fires tear gas grenades.
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!
The good old days
Fun fact: this game was made in the same year as mortal kombat 1
Nice memory jog , I completely forgot about this , good times
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!
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.
Good positive way to lay down the proper law. In a turbulent and trying society.
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.
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 like that the default names for the high scores table is all gun names. Cute.
I can remember playing this with my bro on ps1. fun game, they should port it to the modern consoles.
Cómo sería un letal Enforcer al día de hoy. Con actores conocidos y las tecnicas de programación de hoy... Sin duda.. un real juegazo
0:23 lethal enforcers coin sound.
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.
“YOU CAN’T KILL ME, COPPER!”
*Gets shot
I swear the innocent bystanders are TRYING to get themselves killed! They pop up and then just go back down for WHAT reason now?
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.
10:38 What the hell is the train boss throwing at the player!? They look like artificial hips
I used to work up such a sweat playing this game lol. Between the adrenaline and physical activity (pulling the trigger then pointing off screen to reload every chance I got) it was a workout!
Great game. Would have been even greater if they had an outlaw biker level where you had to fight a heavily-armed motorcycle gang
These criminals were more ballsy and over the top than the ones from Battlefield Hardline
I miss light gun games
Wow, a gang of 300 bank robbers. They could easily clear $1000 each. So worth it!
I see those things in my highschool days in the arcade
After my intervention
every crime scene looked like Swiss cheese.
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?
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?" 🤣
Player 2: Oh shit. How do you reload?!!
Player 1: Shoot off screen!
Player 2: Oh! Got it!! 😂😂😂
"Eat lead, copper!"
*gets shot*
Very skilled player !
The most hilarious arcade game ever
that would be streets of rage
Before Virtua Cop and Time Crisis there was Lethal Enforcers
I played this arcade with my uncle when I was a kid.
i spent a lot of quarters on this, i always got a lot of love for this😍😍😍😍😍
This game was inspired by Harry Potter. The way you, as the player, wave your wand at these hoodlums with their lead expelling devices.
Were there ever arcade versions of Virtua Cop 1 and 2?
Wanted to like this but saw the number of likes and can't touch it. Grew up playing this game.
Que nostalgia...
Well I'm playing little bit i was 6 years old rookie level. 😅
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 😂
At 1:58 was she giving the finger with both hands to everybody?
@2:12 who is that officer shooting at?
6:00 Kill that oldman chinese because he walks fresh in front of fire.
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😔😢
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.
sadly, Unit 5 went on to plant the evidence against poor OJ
30 year old game!! My god! 😆
😧 Wow. That went fast.
Who else used to kill the bum?
Go ahead, make my day.
Such nostalgia!
It's funny how you make this game over a weekend nowadays
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.
My first shooter in 1st person
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.
They only had so many molds for goons back then
like why didn't you take this weapon right away? 15:27
FINALLY 16:04
A god amongst men
200 people to rob a bank.
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.
Was there a game like this released for the Mac in the mid to late 90s?
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.