Lethal Enforcers

Lethal Enforcers
North American arcade flyer
DeveloperKonami
PublisherKonami
DirectorYoshiaki Hatano
DesignerYoshiaki Hatano
ProgrammersYoshiaki Hatano
Hiroshi Matsuura
H. Ueno
ArtistsSteve Johnson
Jun Narita
D. Marshall
K. Hale
ComposerKenichiro Fukui
SeriesLethal Enforcers
PlatformsArcade, Genesis/Mega Drive, Sega CD, Super NES, PlayStation (as Lethal Enforcers I & II)
Release
September 1992
  • Arcade
    • NA: September 1992
    • JP: October 8, 1992
    • PAL: October 14, 1992
    Genesis/Mega Drive
    • NA: 1993
    • JP: December 10, 1993
    • PAL: February 1994
    Sega CD
    • JP: October 29, 1993
    • NA: November 1993
    • PAL: December 1993
    Super NES
    • NA: January 1994
    • JP: March 11, 1994
    • PAL: 1994
    PlayStation
    • NA: November 17, 1997
    • JP: November 20, 1997
    • PAL: November 1997
GenreLight gun shooter
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Lethal Enforcers is a 1992 light gun shooter video game developed and published by Konami for arcades. The graphics consist entirely of digitized photographs and digitized sprites. Home console versions were released for the Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Sega CD, and include a revolver-shaped light gun known as the Justifier.

The game was a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the top five highest-grossing dedicated arcade games of 1993 in the United States. However, it also caused controversy as it allowed players to shoot photorealistic representations of enemies. Lethal Enforcers was followed by Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters. Both games would later be released in the two-in-one compilation Lethal Enforcers I & II (Lethal Enforcers Deluxe Pack in Japan) for the PlayStation. Years later, Konami released the Police 911 series as a Japan-themed sequel to the original plot. This was also followed by the arcade game Heroes of Justice, which was localized and renamed as Lethal Enforcers 3 for Western audiences.