The blonde guy who can not take his hands off his hair is hilariously. This was one of the games that i manage to finish with one token at mid 90s. That was quite the demonstration by the way. Beating all bosses in end game special mission while KO in at the same time using the timer. Bravo!
Me and my 3 friend use to spend a fortune playing this back in the day. I have the arcade pcb to this, Vendetta and Violent Storm as a souvenir of my youth..
This game was by far my favorite to play at the arcade. I used to team up with my brother and our friends and play all our quarters on this game. Nostalgic
Yeah but upside of U.S version than JP Version is your character deals more damage to opponent. The bad side is handgun has limited ammo but powerful shot can knock small fry in single shot.
I have been looking for this game a long time, I just couldnt recall what the title of it was, Im glad I can finally play this again and finish it this time
I definitely agree. The Sequel, Vendetta (or Crime Fighters 2 in Japan) is a thousand times better than this. Violent Storm is good, too. Almost everything in Crime Fighters is horrible. The graphics, the story, the characters, the music, etc. And the hit detection? Oh man, the hit detection. It's a VERY deal breaker for this game.
Absolutely agree, technically is a pain in the ass, you can damage some boss only in invincible mode after lose a life. Absolutely a piece of shit about this. However graphic, music and background looks amazing
....and at the end of the long bloody struggle, that one mohawk guy went on to rule the gangs with an iron fist by virtue of him being the only fighter left. Oh yes, it was a good day indeed. Fun stuff, and Merry Christmas.
I wish this game was on Xbox live. It is criminally underrated. Also, the 'final stage' music sounds kinda similar to the Technodrome level from the 'Ninja Turtles' arcade game.
This cabinet of Crime Fighters was the same design that was later reused and converted what would become into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Punk Shot, The Simpsons, Vendetta, Sunset Riders, X-Men, G.I. Joe, Bucky O'Hare, Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Metamorphic Force, and Run & Gun cabinets.
2:27 punker with spiked bat 7:19 masked axeman 10:58 Biker Gang leader 15:15 Buzzsaw Bravado 19:03 Krueger wannabe 23:16 retired boxing champion 26:14 green beret 31:26 bodyguard and crime lord
Finest beat 'em up from KONAMI about to punish above the enemies while to save the chicks away from the bad pimp, but also available on Arcade Archives for PS4, PS5 (probable) & Switch
What a nasty game this was to play - loved vendetta though although a bit short - violent storm was decent although it was still a poor mans final fight but better than snks attempt - oh undercover cops that was pretty good and just in a flash remembered robocop 2 as well!
Ah yes, the ol' "Time's running out- Put in another Quarter!" message. I hated those. Good to see you didn't give the machine enough spare change to send your kids to college.
Used to play this in the local bowling alley back in the day haha, sometimes randoms would join in or the regulars there would join in when i was playing lol
31:26 Nice Entrance! 33:42 Megaman Boss Rush? Geez. Wow chainsaws, Freddie Krueger, an Ivan Drago wannabe, Mohawks and Hockey Masks! This game has all the cliches covered! 😃
Yet Renegade was the game that inspired Double Dragon. Renegade was released around 85 & Double Dragon was released late 86 or early 87. Another awesome game inspired by the success of Double Dragon was P.O.W which involved 2 military trained soldiers beating up a terrorist army mercenaries.
I thought this game was awesome as a kid, not so much anymore. Nonetheless your play through was very impressive and the way the boss fight ended at the end of the game was epic
Even for the time there were much better beat-em-ups, the gameplay seems so dull and tedious and the art design is very generic with small sprites. I can't see many people putting a quarter into this machine if TMNT/Final Fight etc. were available.
@@yellowblanka6058 no this was Konami attempting a double dragon 🐉it released April of 89 while segas double dragon meets dungeons & dragons Golden Axe released in arcades months earlier in January of 89 Final Fight wouldn't arrive until November of 89
@@Eliburgo Well, I wasn't aware of the exact months those games released in 89, but if you were in an arcade in late 89 had any of those other games, it would be unlikely you'd put a quarter into this.
+L-Y3T that's what i have heard about this game being an experiment by Konami to test a game engine which would end up being used for TMNT. and this was also their 2nd arcade brawler (with S.P.Y. Special Project Y being the first side scrolling brawler by Konami which tinkered with other genres such as 3rd person shooters a-la Space Harrier)
It came out the same year so I would surprised if it was the prototype. The high quality and composition of the music though is very good though just like TMNT, even though the composers were different.
For some weird reason, no Konami game after '87 (with the exception of Contra) has been re-released in any compilation. They always put the same old stuff such as Pooyan and Circus Charlie.
I used to love this in the arcades. Knock fools down with the jump kick, then work 'em over on the ground. Classic. I feel like those guys in the kung fu outfits starting in Stage 5 might be reused assets from another game, but it may just be that a lot of beat-em ups used that basic design for "martial artist bad guy" characters.
and it's not the only boss to be based on a film. Of course, you have the hockey mask wearing thug like Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th and the rooftop boss who looks like Freddy Krueger.
Big question, though, why you didn't play the lifebar version of the game? The countdown version is always so annoying and broken (though enemies look slightly easier, I remember they used to be lot more aggressive in the lifebar version and the gun didn't knock down and had unlimited ammo, lol) and... IIRC, the Japanese uncensored version had the Hardgay enemies and the horny dogs as well, no?
Don Vecta that's what I exactly remember too. A 4 squares for your life and unlimited gun, plus so beautiful sound or music. I dnt knw wher I can find it
you can shoot the enemies while they're on the ground too. the gay dudes who hump you were too much lol. they was no rainbow mafia back then. I wonder why they took them out. it was about as tame as police academy.
Much like Konami's arcade version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (released during the same year), the game was available in a four-player dedicated cabinet, as well as a conversion kit that was available in 2-player and 4-player versions (meant for either Atari Games' Gauntlet, Gauntlet II or Konami's own The Main Event). Unlike Ninja Turtles, each player character is identical, save for each one sporting a different palette swapped color.
Zulu swashbuckler. Damn I come across this game back in the day and miss the past up the chance now every time I look this long play video and see it in action I want to kick myself in the ass for passing up such an opportunity🗣‼️🤦🏿♂️😔
That's the 2 player world version as well. Only difference with the Japanese version is that the Japanese version has a stereotypical gay character who will grope your character and i think the dogs also try to hump you.
I said it before, and I'll say it again: For as much as this is supposed to be New York, I am amused that the subway map runs East-West instead of North-South, like it should
I USE 2 ALWAYS PLAY THIS IN ARCADES OR AT A LAUNDRY MAT I ALWAYS WANT THIS 2COME 2 SEGA GENESIS....I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT A UPDATED VERSION OF THIS WOULD BE LIKE.
Jesus! Fighting all those bad dudes at the end make it look like a joke now compared how hard (lots of quarters spended) it was when playing this game as a kid back then. I mean, these guys do nothing but let the good guy beat them up. LMAO
Classic KONAMI beat em' up. Not as good as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons, among the others but it is what it is. And playing with more friends is 10 times more the awesomeness.
funny ending! I used to beat up this entire game with one single life without respawning. The trick was to keep some enemies alive so as to keep everyone from ganging on you. Besides getting this game on an actual bulky arcade how else can I get to play it? Also, how were you able to stream it from the game onto recording it and then uploading it? Please tell me. Thank you so much.
I love how the player here is basically doing a perfect play and still her barely manages to beat some of the levels, because of the constant life dropping the game uses. If you get punched just ONCE, just forget about beating the game without continues, you won't be able to do it. The japanese version wasn't like that. I understand home games were made harder on USA market because north-americans could rent the game, but why the fuck make arcade games harder? Haunted Castle, also from Konami, is way harder on the USA version too!
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