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In the "7th Gamest Awards" (1993) run in the game magazine Gamest (Shinseisha), it placed 19th among the hit games of the year.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 8, 6, 8, and 6, for a total of 28 out of 40.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 7, 5, 7, and 6, for a total of 25 out of 40.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 7, 7, 8, and 6, for a total of 28 out of 40.
In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the magazine Family Computer Magazine,it scored 23.0 out of 30, as shown below.
In addition, like Night Trap, the Mega Drive version of this game became the first title to be rated MA-17 by the VRC, Sega's self-regulatory body.
A second-player Justifier light gun, pink in color, was available only by mail order from Konami.
Along with Night Trap and Mortal Kombat, which were also part of the hearings, the Genesis version was one of the first video games to be rated MA-17 by Sega's Videogame Rating Council.
In addition, like Night Trap, the Mega Drive version of this game became the first title to be rated MA-17 by the VRC, Sega's self-regulatory body.
The Super NES version features traditional Nintendo censorship; no blood is shown when a player or criminal dies.
Lethal Enforcers gained controversy for its use of photorealistic imagery and was one of the video games that was part of the 1993 United States Senate hearings on video games, led by senators Joe Lieberman and Herb Kohl.
GamePro gave rave reviews for the Sega CD, Genesis, and SNES versions; for the SNES version, they cited the accuracy of the Konami Justifier, the realistic graphics, and the "appropriately hyper music".
In 1995, Flux magazine listed the arcade version 43rd on their "Top 100 Video Games".
Lieberman, during C-SPAN's coverage of the hearings, showed Nintendo and Sega the Konami Justifier that was bundled with the game and stated that it looked too much like a real revolver.
Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Chicago, the subtitle of 2 is the one from the overseas version, and unlike the arcade version it has not been localised into Japanese.
The game book Mega Drive Daizen (2004, Ota Shuppan) pointed out that this game has the same content as the Mega CD version, noting that "only the sound was changed from CD-DA to the internal sound chip, and beyond that there is nothing in particular". It argued that, because the cartridge reproduces the arcade version, doubt arises over the reason for the Mega CD version to exist.
The game book Mega Drive Daizen (2004, Ota Shuppan) pointed out that this game has the same content as the Mega CD version, noting that "only the sound was changed from CD-DA to the internal sound chip, and beyond that there is nothing in particular". It argued that, because the cartridge reproduces the arcade version, doubt arises over the reason for the Mega CD version to exist.
Digitized sprites also became the most popular graphical representation for light gun shooters up until the mid-1990s, with the arrival of Sega AM2's Virtua Cop (1994) which replaced them with 3D polygon graphics.
Titles using live action were thought not to go down well in Japan, so there were initially no plans to sell it there, but it was a big hit not only in the United States but also in Japan, and a sequel was made.
A Sega Saturn version of the compilation was also announced but cancelled.
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